His focus on looking and his contemplation of the public engaged in looking — the ultimate purpose of visual art — holds the movie viewer in a state of intense and pleasurable concentration, aided by insights from a remarkably lively group of docents (mostly English and Irish women) about Rembrandt, Leonardo, Vermeer, Rubens, Turner, and other Old Masters.
Happiness: a state of contentment; a pleasurable or satisfying experience.
In the second place, when he insists that welfare consists in the experiencing of pleasurable states, he argues, in contrast to what Bentham implied, that quality, not simply the amount of pleasure, is to be taken into account.
In Wheaton, she quietly worked the crowd into a pleasurable state of shared outrage.
For Hitchcock the moment is a supreme example of one of his favorite devices: the sudden reversal that shakes the viewer out of a state of passive, perhaps even pleasurable voyeurism, and into a realization of our moral position as spectators.
Yet some researchers point out these drugs may not be enhancing cognition directly, but simply improving the user's state of mind – making work more pleasurable and enhancing focus.
These sickness responses are characterized by an acute reorientation of motivational state; pleasurable activities are avoided, and sensitivity to negative stimuli is enhanced.
Platinum Dunes chose to film in Illinois because of pleasurable filming experiences in the state when the company produced The Amityville Horror and The Unborn.
The terms PA and NA are not considered as opposites, but as distinctive dimensions with high PA a state of high energy, full concentration and pleasurable engagement and low NA a state of calmness and serenity [ 6].
The gothic, with all its buried secrets and untimely returns, has a strong tradition of swooning, and the figure of the vampire is particularly associated with immobility: the vampire mesmerises his victims into a semi-pleasurable, half-conscious state of semi-consciousness.
