Sentence examples for typically pleasant from inspiring English sources

Many terms used for (1) inclusive or generic pleasure have related uses in which they denote (2) pleasant, or at least typically pleasant, experiences, sometimes especially sensory experiences or to (3) someone's being placated or pleased by, or pleased or satisfied with, someone or at least something.

Neither does pleasure easily fit the standard paradigms of sensation, whether of qualities of outward things or of those of either localized or diffuse bodily sensation, since it seems any typically pleasant sensory state or quality may be enjoyed less or even not at all on occasions, while its sensory quality and intensity remain much the same (Ryle 1949, p. 109; 1954a, p. 58; 1954b, p. 136).

He still called or emailed about once a week but, perhaps because he was in a combat zone, those conversations were typically pleasant.

But music lovers typically find pleasant places to hear these concerts sitting on benches in the nearby pathways and on the lawn.

Super Bowl week is typically a pleasant experience for the league's commissioner, who is ostensibly an honored guest in the host city.

The degree of genital congestion correlates poorly with women's subjective arousal, and is not typically the pleasant reassurance of and contributor to subjective arousal as it is for men.

On Sept. 21, at 11 30 a.m., on a typically bright and pleasant Nairobi morning, Islamist militants with military-grade weaponry stormed into Westgate, turning it into an abattoir.

Eyeblink startle reflexes to an acoustic probe are typically attenuated when pleasant images are viewed and potentiated by negative images (27).

An occupied house is typically associated with a pleasant experience whereas an empty house is typically associated with an unpleasant experience.

Given that pleasant emotions are typically rated with lower levels of arousal than unpleasant emotions (Almeida et al. 2016; Soares et al. 2015), overjoy is more appropriate than joy to match the emotional intensity of the other NE of the ESS.

Viewers could clearly see a softening of the typically hard-edged Cristina, a pleasant change for what had become something of a one-note character".