Sentence examples for producing pleasure from inspiring English sources

"We're using orgasm as a way of producing pleasure.

Socrates's polemic here is intended to apply to them both, as both are (alleged) to amount to a knack for persuasion of the ignorant by the ignorant with a view to producing pleasure in the audience and the pleasures of power for the speaker.

Wolff defines beauty as the perfection of an object insofar it can be perceived by us with and through the feeling of pleasure: "Beauty consists in the perfection of a thing, insofar as it is suitable for producing pleasure in us" (Psychologia Empirica, §544, p. 420).

Knowing that your body is capable of producing pleasure on its own (regardless of your relationship status) is powerful.

How then does tragedy produce pleasure?

Each person has to determine which strategy is easiest to live with and most likely to produce pleasure without pain.

Emotions move us toward things and ideas that produce pleasure and away from things and ideas that produce pain.

Even construing pleasure and pain widely, however, it is implausible to think that all acts successfully produce pleasure or reduce pain.

Similarly, dopamine blockers don't stop drug-induced highs and only certain sorts of dopamine boosting drugs, when taken in a certain way, produce pleasure.

If by classic we mean a song that created its own aesthetic and which will always produce pleasure, no matter what the context, then Missy Elliott's "Work It" is as classic as it gets.

Even works that were seemingly unrelated to any aesthetic ambition — Machiavelli's analysis of political strategy, Walter Raleigh's description of Guiana, Robert Burton's encyclopedic account of mental illness — were crafted in such a way as to produce pleasure.