Pleasurable

Examples

• Her delicate organization and creative imagination rendered her peculiarly susceptible of pleasurable emotion. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Thus in aiming at the increase of his own private pleasurable states of consciousness, he contributes to the consciousness of others. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• How much share have the attractions of Nature ever had in the pleasurable or painful interests and emotions of ourselves or our friends? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• If they vex me it is a most pleasurable vexation. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I never had experienced such painful and pleasurable emotion at one time, and in my own heart I did not know which predominated. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Why should our dwelling place be so lovely, and why should the instincts of nature minister pleasurable sensations? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I do not quite know even now whether it was painful or pleasurable, whether it drew me towards her or made me shrink from her. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• She had her own reasons for being less sanguine than ever in hopeful views of the future, less indulgent to pleasurable retrospections of the past. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Good-bye to life, which nothing but a little kindness from you can ever make pleasurable to me again. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The educational equivalents of this doctrine in the uses made of pleasurable rewards and painful penalties are only too obvious. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Kind nature had gifted the supply of these wants with pleasurable sensations, so that I--even I! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• But a photograph on glass, which must be carefully shielded from the light and admired only in the dark room, would be neither pleasurable nor practical. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.

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