Sentence examples for was pleasurable in from inspiring English sources

But Lewis enjoyed a "wonderful, hilarious book", which was pleasurable in part because of "Turner's contempt for politicians, who are 'perverts, liars and conmen', on the whole".

These criteria were implemented to decrease extra-musical associations [3], and ensure that the music was pleasurable in itself and not acting as a trigger for emotional memories.

For others, the brief high is pleasurable in itself.

Pleasing us Let's start with a couple of familiar objects whose design is pleasurable in a traditional way.

They celebrate what Bertrand Russell called "useless knowledge"; whimsical titbits that are pleasurable in and of themselves, without having to present themselves as in any way useful.

The very best series in this wonderful TV age are pleasurable, in part, because we learn to trust their creators; we know that we are in good hands, and that, in the long run, our questions will be answered.

But the latest show they have wrought (with the assistance of the composer Robert Lopez and the director Casey Nicholaw) is pleasurable in ways that musicals of the so-called Golden Age used to be.

Like other ICDs, kleptomania is characterized by an anxiety-driven urge to perform an act that is pleasurable in the moment but causes significant distress and dysfunction [ 62].