Sentence examples for rather pleasurable from inspiring English sources

A rather pleasurable painful feeling, like a dozen red ants descending in a troop.

There has been lots of silliness involving what is fundamentally a rather pleasurable contraction of genital muscles.

But estrogen loss is only an indirect factor; it can result in vaginal tightness and dryness that renders intercourse painful rather than pleasurable.

Taking on Spotify by offering a better design is a viable angle, as Spotify can feel more utilitarian at times, rather than pleasurable to use.

And it illuminated why, for Abigail, sex was something transactional rather than pleasurable or emotional.

But the overall effect is pleasurable rather than honkingly funny.

A potential pitfall of tutoring is that reading becomes a task that must be learned by the child, rather than a pleasurable activity.

It takes some time before Mrs. Daldry and Mrs. Givings, whose curiosity about her husband's methods leads to a session of mutual experimentation conducted with embarrassed giggles, can admit that the sensations aroused by the doctor's electrified implement are pleasurable rather than alarming.

It promotes the notion that "a more difficult and honest conversation needs to happen in America to face the realities of sexual violence, and to envision a world where sex is empowering and pleasurable rather than coercive and violent".

Indeed, for several years, Gainsbourg and Ms. Birkin were unassailably the coolest couple in international pop: a hipper Sonny and Cher, a John and Yoko who regarded a day spent in bed as a pleasurable activity rather than an occasion for a press conference.

The Cyrenaics and others, such as Cicero, maintained, in turn, that this condition is not pleasurable but rather neutral — neither pleasurable nor painful.