Sentence examples for pleasurable pain from inspiring English sources

Kiril felt a pleasurable pain move up his spine.

To a considerable extent his book is more about the pleasure than the pain that people have found in ruins -- or at least the pleasurable pain.

Loosely adapted by Schrader and Mardik Martin from the memoir of former middleweight boxing champ Jake La Motta, this vitriolic essay on the pleasurable pain of violence is immediately impressive for its stunning black-and-white cinematography by Michael Chapman and for its meticulous re-creation of 1940s New York City.

It may conjure up images of bondage, discipline, sadomasochism, dominance, and submission, but many BDSM practictioners attribute the pleasurable pain of their fetish to the endorphin rush that accompanies the acting out of their fantasies.

Instead, recent evidence points to a pleasurable and pain-killing firing of the endocannabinoid system: the psychoactive receptor of cannabis.

Hutcheson takes simple perceptions of pleasure and pain to be located in the external sense, but many other affections of the senses seem intrinsically pleasurable or painful.

Sometimes this is because we underestimate how pleasurable future pleasures will be (relative to present pleasures) or overestimate how painful present pains are (relative to future pains); and sometimes this is because we just make simple mistakes of fact, thinking, for example, that bloodletting will ease the pain of gout.

They are known to increase the circulation of endorphins, the body's own natural painkillers, and of dopamine, a neurotransmitter associated both with pleasurable activities and perceptions of pain.

But interestingly, participants rated the moderate pain as actually pleasurable in the second setup, when the alternative was the intense pain.

For instance, if a cat previously had her pelvis kicked and broken, she won't know being stroked over her hips is a pleasurable thing, but associate it with pain.

That finding alone wasn't surprising; after all, prior studies had shown that cues previously associated with distress enhance pain, while those linked with pleasurable experience enhance pleasure.