I don't want to be a party pooper althouth that role is often understated in its potential pleasurableness and psychological rewards but do people think that this resolution will do anything, except to make people more entrenched in their own positions? ❋ As'ad (2007)
I am not forgetting the Master of Ballantrae, but that lacked all pleasurableness, and hence was imperfect in essence. ❋ Unknown (2005)
This still leaves out pleasurableness, even as it requires pleasure to be directed at something pleasurable. ❋ Moore, Andrew (2004)
To cancel out the pleasurableness of masturbating, associate something very distasteful with the act. ❋ Absentia (2001)
For {112} want of the contrasted background, its pleasurableness would cease to exist ... ❋ Joseph Warschauer (N/A)
The distinguishing characteristics of aesthetic expression observed by us -- the pleasurableness of the medium, the enhanced unity -- serve intuition as that has been described by us. ❋ Dewitt H. Parker (N/A)
Friendship, because the pleasurableness in them is small, and no one can spend his days in company with that which is positively painful or even not pleasurable; since to avoid the painful and aim at the pleasurable is one of the most obvious tendencies of human nature. ❋ 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle (N/A)
Character, consisting of individual dispositions and habits, is either inherited from ancestors or acquired by past activity; motives arise from the pleasurableness or unpleasurableness of the action and its object, or from the external environment. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
We hear of the little joys and adventures of those days, so faithfully and long remembered, with a pathetic pleasurableness. ❋ Unknown (1900)
It is noteworthy, however, that even when the pleasurableness of pain in love is denied it is still admitted that, under some circumstances, pain, or the idea of pain, is felt as pleasurable. ❋ Havelock Ellis (1899)
And knowing this, we are content that the act of garnering, of preparing, for such future enjoyment, should lack any steady or deep pleasurableness about itself. ❋ Vernon Lee (1895)
The contemplation of beautiful shape is, on the other hand, favoured by its pleasurableness, and such contemplation of beautiful shape lifts our perceptive and empathic activities, that is to say a large part of our intellectual and emotional life, on to a level which can only be spiritually, organically, and in so far, morally beneficial. ❋ Vernon Lee (1895)
The older psychology would perhaps have explained this reiterative tendency by the pleasurableness of the sensory elements, the mere colours and sounds of which the easily perceived shape is made up. ❋ Vernon Lee (1895)
Without observation and experience, no design -- without peace and pleasurableness in occupation, no design -- and all the lecturings, and teachings, and prizes, and principles of art, in the world, are of no use, so long as you don't surround your men with happy influences and beautiful things. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)
It marks the tone which in health and security this power gives forth — just as pleasurableness, in the same case, is the proper expression of sensation. ❋ 1823-1886 (1855)
We judge of the origin of this love from its delights; for who in any case knows or has known the trace of any love except from its delight and pleasurableness? ❋ Emanuel Swedenborg (1730)
This wicked man has all the delights of sense wound up to the height of pleasurableness; but what real happiness can he enjoy when his bones are full of the sins of his youth (v. 11), that is, of the effects of those sins? ❋ Unknown (1721)
As if his power and wealth were given him for no other end than that he might have all the delights of the sense wound up to the height of pleasurableness, and exquisitely refined, though at the best they are but dross and dregs in comparison with divine and spiritual pleasures. ❋ Unknown (1721)
Note, It is an evidence of the dominion of the carnal mind when we are solicitous to have all the delights and satisfactions of sense wound up to the height of pleasurableness. ❋ Unknown (1721)
These trees, and their pleasurableness, do shew us the beauty of the truly godly, whom the Lord hath beautified with salvation. ❋ John Bunyan (1658)
