When Abigail was born, in the late sixties, and her parents were thus sentenced for a while to a wearing but oddly pleasurable form of house arrest, the closest we got to takeout was for me to go to an accommodating Italian restaurant across the street and have them pack food in plastic containers that looked as if they were designed for some other purpose.
Bicycle riding is common among children and adolescents in the USA, providing recreation, transportation, and a pleasurable form of aerobic activity (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 1999).
I missed the erotic clarity of commerce — I give you this, you give me that — and was glad when creative spunk started leeching back into unashamedly pleasurable forms.
As a history, The Missing Ink is patchy and too anecdotal for its own good, but its advocacy of one of the most humane and pleasurable forms of self-expression is pretty much irresistible.
Sex may be touted as one of the most effective (and pleasurable) forms of stress relief, but it can also be a major source of insecurity for women.
What the films do supply, bountifully, is good company: great actors speaking melodious lines pleasurable in form and substance.
Between the weather – this is a place, we are starkly reminded, where a bullied child wandering just yards from an open early-evening door can produce the most miserable of consequences – and the venality of adults (just what exactly is with the Danish ferry captain? Just… what?), there exudes the most terrific claustrophobic menace, in the most huggably pleasurable of forms.
For a new breed of teenage boys and young men, clothes shopping, once a chore, is now a pleasurable pastime, a form of recreation, self-expression, even fulfillment, motivations rarely acknowledged in their fathers' day, but that young men now share with female contemporaries.
Film historian Mariann Lewinsky argues, The end of silent film in the West and in Japan was imposed by the industry and the market, not by any inner need or natural evolution.... Silent cinema was a highly pleasurable and fully mature form.
Practiced daily, this exercise quickly forms intense, pleasurable memories that enrich our past and tempers its meddling in the present.
Nonetheless, a sociable smoker identity could be maintained with the introduction of beer gardens and other forms of pleasurable outdoor spaces where smoking is permitted (Brown et al., 2011; Hoek, Maubach et al., 2013; Johnson et al., 2003; Lennon et al., 2005; Rooke et al., 2013; Wiltshire et al., 2005).
