Sentence examples for which pleasure from inspiring English sources
Witherly has developed what he calls the food-pleasure equation, in which Pleasure = Sensation + Calories.
The world in which "pleasure" and "excellence" roared was less equitable than our world today.
Most Turks appear to have retained a hierarchy of values in which pleasure, tranquillity, respect, openhandedness and family loyalty are at least as prominent as money or career.
He not only refuses to joke; he appears to live in a universe in which pleasure and wit are punishable offenses.
The film recalls the wife-swapping sexploitation films of the 1960's in which pleasure is always paid for by shame and social disruption.
Bosanquet's ethical and social philosophy, particularly the practical work Some Suggestions in Ethics (1918), shows a similar desire to view reality coherently, as a concrete unity in which pleasure and duty, egoism and altruism are reconciled.
If Mill holds a preference or functional conception of pleasure, according to which pleasures are mental states that the subject prefers and other things being equal would prolong, then perhaps he could claim that pleasures categorically preferred by competent judges are more pleasurable pleasures.
On the pluralist interpretation of this passage we must take Mill as intending the role of the expert judges as a purely heuristic device thinking about what such people would prefer is a way of discovering which pleasures are higher and which are lower but the respective values of the pleasure is independent of the judges' judgment.
Eden is haunting, delicate: it's a vividly sensual movie about pleasure, which gives pleasure too.
Bunton and Coveney (2011) remind us that human beings are motivated by pleasure and categorise some of the ways in which the pleasure principle might apply in respect of 'drugs' like tobacco.
Such further conditions might concern the extent to which the pleasure is 'higher' rather than 'lower', whether its object exists, or whether its object merits pleasure.
