Sentence examples for pleasurable means from inspiring English sources

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Then comes her one solo, "Liaisons," in which her character thinks back on the art of love as a profession in a gilded age, when sex "was but a pleasurable means to a measurable end".

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He suggests there's no such thing as an objectively pleasurable or meaningful activity; rather, each individual defines what purpose and pleasure mean for themselves.

His works are pleasurable and meant to be surprising in the straightforward sense that hard materials are used to create soft, fluid, complex movement.

The open-question argument turns any proposed definition of good into a question (e.g., "Good means pleasurable" becomes "Is everything pleasurable good?")—Moore's point being that the proposed definition cannot be correct, because if it were the question would be meaningless.

Grooming is an important part of touch to a dog and can be a pleasurable and relaxing means of relating to it.

Some were intensely pleasurable, but by no means all.

Cynegeticus ("On Hunting") offers technical advice on hunting (on foot, with dogs and nets, the usual prey being a hare); Xenophon sees the pursuit as a pleasurable and divinely ordained means of promoting military, intellectual, and moral excellence (something neither sophists nor politicians can match).

They're not saying than what, but I'm assuming they mean "more pleasurable than the closest brand name competitor", not, "more pleasurable than unprotected sex", because that's another thing that goes unacknowledged during sex education lessons: lots of people don't like using them.

Mr. Arikha, a throwback at 73, reminds us what craft means and how pleasurable it is to see".

While our emotions and sympathies are sometimes pleasurable, this is by no means their essential feature; they may equally be painful or neutral.

However, it should be taken into consideration that separating bonded individuals means loss of pleasurable experiences, such as physical contact, grooming and nursing [ 1].

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