Sentence examples similar to they were pleasurable from inspiring English sources

We take pleasure in these activities because they are valuable; they are not valuable, because they are pleasurable.

Overdetermination: A significant body of psychological research on "intrinsic" motivations suggests that, when agents are offered financial incentives for actions for which they are already intrinsically motivated (e.g., because they are pleasurable), intrinsic motivation may decrease significantly [50] [54].

These scents were pleasurable.

Participants were able to motivate themselves through selecting activities that were pleasurable, however small.

Poppers are not psychoactive – unless you take the perverse view that the headaches they produce are pleasurable.

Here's my idea: A series of NBC News primetime specials featuring spectacular ambushes of big-time criminals lured into what they expect to be pleasurable surroundings.

Thus, we examined whether there were significant differences on each psychophysiological measure between the four rating conditions on the excerpts when they were considered pleasurable as compared with when they were considered neutral.

There's stigma here about condoms, too lots of people with access to condoms refuse to use them because they don't think it's pleasurable, and they don't like to buy them because they feel judged.

A survey released in June showed that 40% of households with a working latrine still had at least one person who regularly defecates in the open and that half of them said they did so because it was pleasurable, comfortable and convenient.

Eating may be pleasurable for them but they are ashamed to "admit" the need for this pleasure from food.

People like roller coasters just as they like horror movies, because under certain circumstances intense emotion can be pleasurable.