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Pleasure in sentence

1776 examples of Pleasure in a sentence

And yet, if he could’ve known how much pleasure and inspiration his writing would bring to generations of readers and writers alike, perhaps it may have brought a smile to that famously brooding visage.
And I will keep doing this for the hundreds of tapirs that I've had the pleasure to meet over the years and the many others I know I will encounter in the future.
On the table there are 76 objects for pleasure and for pain.
Imagine if you could plug your brain into a machine that would bring you ultimate pleasure for the rest of your life.
The experiment asks us to consider a world in which scientists have developed a machine that would simulate real life while guaranteeing experiences of only pleasure and never pain.
According to hedonists, maximizing net pleasure is the most important thing in life because pleasure is the greatest good that life has to offer.
For hedonists, the best choice that a person could make for himself is one that brings him the greatest possible amount of pleasure while bringing him no pain.
Limitless pleasure minus zero pain equals maximum net pleasure, or in other words, the exact scenario the Experience Machine offers.
But what if there's more to life than just pleasure?
Despite the machine's promise of maximum net pleasure, he still found reason not to plug in, as do many other experimenters who consider the proposition.
But what could possibly dissuade us from choosing a future of ultimate pleasure?
Since Betsy is in blissful ignorance about Xander's infidelity, hedonists would say she's better off remaining in the dark and maintaining her high level of net pleasure.
If the answer is yes, you'd be choosing an option that sharply decreases your net pleasure.
Perhaps, then, you believe that there are things in life with greater intrinsic value than pleasure.
Nozick's experiment may not provide all the answers, but it forces us to consider whether real life, though imperfect, holds some intrinsic value beyond the pleasure of plugging in.
These natural hormones, which control pain and pleasure responses in the cental nervous system, can lead to feelings of euphoria, or, what's often called, a runner's high.
Utility can apply to anything from the basic need for food to the pleasure of hearing a favorite song, and will naturally vary for different people and circumstances.
An amazing team, 40 data scientists and many, many more people, a pleasure to work with.
And then there are others where there's no one and there never has been, and so you go just for the pleasure of touching your foot to sand that no foot has ever touched before.
And beautiful mathematical explanations are not only for our pleasure.
They're more likely to say they feel pleasure when they learn new information or an itch to solve a puzzle.
We have the honor and pleasure of Jonathan and his father joining us here today.
When we tell women that sex isn't worth the risk during pregnancy, what we're telling her is that her sexual pleasure doesn't matter.
But the truth is, the real secret is, we tell all women that their sexual pleasure doesn't matter.
She is pushing back against society's insistence that she exist simply for men's pleasure or for reproduction.
If you're somebody who has sex with women, prioritize her pleasure.
If we truly want young people to engage safely, ethically, and yes, enjoyably, it's time to have open honest discussion about what happens after "yes," and that includes breaking the biggest taboo of all and talking to young people about women's capacity for and entitlement to sexual pleasure.
In her work, McClelland found that young women were more likely than young men to use their partner's pleasure as a measure of their satisfaction.
Girls' investment in their partner's pleasure remains regardless of the gender of the partner.
The Dutch girls said that their doctors, teachers and parents talked to them candidly, from an early age, about sex, pleasure and the importance of mutual trust.
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