At first mention of John Crondall's name my heart had warmed to its recollection of the man, and a pleasurable thought of meeting him again.
For the great majority, I believe it had been a day of more or less pleasurable excitement and amusement.
The implied intimacy and friendliness of the suggestion gave me a pleasurable thrill; it came as something of a reinstatement for me, and compensated for much.
As we might have foreseen, the peculiar Katharsis, or pleasurable disappearance or alleviation of emotion in tragedy, is based on just those elements in which the drama differs from other forms of art.
For the immediately pleasurable aesthetic effect of Tragedy, a certain kind of pity and fear, operating in a special way, are required.
The slight pity for a child's bruised finger is not more pleasurable because less keen; while our feeling, whatever it is, for Ophelia or Gretchen, becomes more pleasurable in proportion to its intensity.
Mesmerism, hypnotism, the facts of the alteration, the multiplicity, and the annihilation of personality have each brought us their moments of pleasurable terror, and passed thus into the field of general interest.
What is felt is rather pleasurable excitement, pleasure raised to the pitch of exaltation, with a fringe of emotional association.
What there is in the nature of tragic art capable of transforming painful to pleasurable emotion must be made clear.
Rhythm in music, abstracting from all other pleasure-giving factors, is then pleasurable because it is in every sense a favorable stimulation.
Then suddenly, as the shock of pleasurable surprise passed, the mockery of the gift struck her.
The idea had not roused him much, but it had been a pleasurable conclusion to arrive at; and now?
A pleasurable excitement possessed him, and he laughed to calm the fear he saw in Joyce's eyes.
Surely, our literary tastes or standards should be broad enough to admit into pleasurable companionship both those great early Victorian novelists.
She was quitting Omeo for ever, and she looked forward with pleasurable anticipation to the few days of wayfaring which the journey to Melbourne would necessitate.
She was very susceptible to pleasurable stimulus, took delight in details of form, color, and sound.
Margaret's love of beauty made her, of course, a votary of nature, but rather for pleasurable excitement than with a deep poetic feeling.
I see multitudes of examples of persons of genius, utterly deficient in grace and the power of pleasurable excitement.
And then he heard the cock crow from the rear, and his last fears vanished like evil spirits of the night, and a wave of pleasurable anticipation bore him to the porch.
Sophy, worn out, but with emotions far more pleasurable than she has long known, is fast asleep.
All had gone through a series of such pleasurable emotions that all had, as it were, wished a vent for their gratitude; and when the vent was found, it became an additional pleasure.
Within a certain restricted length of air-waves lies all of the pleasurable sensation which we call musical tone.
The obvious is never interesting; thepleasurable quest is pursuit of the elusive, the intangible.
Giacomo of the Spaniards, and innumerable small and large houses--it succeeds in conveying to the observer, who is susceptible to aesthetic impressions, sensations which are as purely pleasurable as anything can possibly be.
One can sail half round the globe without finding a locality from which such a store of historic information and pleasurable memories can be brought away, or whose present aspect is more inviting.
The average tourist has not been attracted hither, and little realizes the pleasurable experiences which await the intelligent and observant visitor.
What will determine him to think, unless it be the pleasant sensation thereby arising, and what can have procured for him the experience of this pleasurable sensation?
Even in the first perusal of a work in any foreign language which we understand, we are apt to attribute to it more excellence than it really possesses from our own pleasurable sense of difficulty overcome without effort.
Now it is the relation that these two opposite conceptions mutually bear which determines in an emotion if the prevailing impression shall be pleasurable or the reverse.
He had lost many pleasurablethings in life because he had doubted and faltered, not because he had reached out toward them and had then drawn back.
George then, as a slight diversion, spread the ancient Yhiordes over the trunk and stared at it in pleasurable contemplation.
While surprise was lost to her or under such control as to render it negligible, she still shivered with pleasurable excitement at the thought of entering a port.
Here, one might suppose, was a situation abounding with the mostpleasurable incidents.
And ere I could well reply, I found myself shaking hands with every one, and every one with me; nor was the least pleasurable part of this recognition the satisfaction displayed by the Rittmeister at the good issue of this event.
Some of these enactments were peculiarly offensive, not to say atrocious.
So they ceased not to live the most pleasurable life and the most delectable, till there came to them the Destroyer of all delights and the Sunderer of all societies, the Depopulator of palaces and the Garnerer for graves.
Suddenly she began to find a certain amusement in his confusion and penitence, she achieved a pleasurable sense of advantage, of power over him.
Why, then, in the name of that happiness, of the peace and sanity and pleasurable effort it had brought him, had he allowed and even encouraged the advent of a new element that threatened to destroy the equilibrium achieved?
She experienced a certain exultation, a renewed and pleasurable sense of power as she took down his words.
The question is not what we can imagine them to be, but what they always have been, will be, and must be, in such a world as this, to render them pleasurable to those who patronize them.
The reason why these sensations are pleasurable instead of painful is, in this state of moderate excitement the circulation is materially increased without being materially unbalanced.
I think we all drew pleasurable breath; so profound in man is the instinct of destruction, so engaging is the interest of the chase.
Here was a subject at last into which I could throw myself with pleasurable zeal.
Carthew breathed long; he had a strange, half-pleasurable sense of wading deeper in the tide of life.
The expression "almost glad" sounded curiously in her ears, and awakened in her feelings of a no very pleasurable character.
The moral tendencies are controlled; the emotions regulated; sympathy with mankind, or the opposite, generated; pleasurable excitement afforded.
An appetite would cease to move us, if its painful and pleasurable accompaniments were done away with.
Virtue becomes therefore peculiarly associated with the idea of pleasurable things.
For all answer the cheek of Zulma flushed, and her blue eyes gleamed with a strange light that was not defiance, but rather betokened the expectation of pleasurable excitement.
Had this little timid girl, after only a few hours' interview, so ingratiated herself into his affections, that the unexpected opportunity of communicating with her once more excited a flutter of pleasurable surprise.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pleasurable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
