Bernal is an outrageously pleasurable actor to watch, each performance rich, textured and dimensional. |
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Taking a walk for exercise, or to walk a dog for that matter, is thus no longer a pleasurable activity. |
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The advent of e-mail has made communication a far quicker and more pleasurable experience. |
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The afterglow of the pleasurable activity paled in comparison with the effects of the kind action. |
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He keeps the energy level high and the actors gay and carefree in a successful attempt to create a pleasurable musical. |
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It's a perfect amalgam of pleasurable celebration and cool-headed analysis. |
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The aforementioned findings suggest that immune activators produced anhedonia, or lack of interest in pleasurable stimuli. |
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She tangled her hands in his hair, loving the soft feel of it, reveling in the sheer pleasurable delights she was being swept up in. |
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This brilliant book helped turn my daily commute on the metro into an entirely pleasurable experience. |
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And, like many appetitive behaviours, smoking is inherently pleasurable and immediately rewarding. |
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To be honest I wanted something that would be pleasurable, that would fill up my time, that I could lose myself in. |
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Needless to say, there is nothing pleasurable about the ailments caused by muscle attrition or a lack of bone density. |
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My sincerest wishes for a salubriously beneficial and gratifyingly pleasurable period between sunset and dawn. |
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Thus this study shows the critical importance of the serotonin system as well as the dopamine system in mediating cocaine's pleasurable effects. |
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However welcome a few good showers might be, there is no doubt that getting drenched in a thundershower, is not a pleasurable experience. |
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This time last year I was living a life centred on myself, on things that would give me instant gratification and were sensually pleasurable. |
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And yet it's also just a part of a pleasurable little scene between two performers intent on topping one another with their jokes and gags. |
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Getting out onto a well-lit ski trail is one of the most pleasurable additions to cross-country skiing in recent years. |
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They range from singingly chivalric to the unaffected generous, pleasurable additions to the lighter repertoire. |
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The skunk cabbage's reputation for malodorousness has deprived generations of early-spring swamp explorers of a pleasurable experience. |
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This song is a promising opener, a dubby, narcotically blissed track that swirls and reverberates in a deeply pleasurable style. |
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With one exception, they are spoken texts and so have the spontaneity and naturalness that make for pleasurable reading. |
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This pleasurable disc enshrines 26 tracks of seventeenth century lute songs and dances. |
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To vilify the ancient and heavenly act of smoking is to belittle one of life's most wicked and pleasurable of indulgences. |
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The letter gives rise to a pleasurable squirm, somewhere deep in my stomach. |
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The rain turned from warm and pleasurable to cold and assaulting, and my teeth chattered, my words stammered, because of it. |
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The husband on the other hand belongs to an all-male stokvel, devoted to the pleasurable and good things in life. |
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If my future profession could involve such pleasurable antics I would jump in head first. |
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The words Britain's best young spellers found most difficult were rankle, caterwaul, pleasurable and totem. |
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On the road you know the engineers have done their homework because the driving experience is now pleasurable. |
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The reader has to allow for the age of the book and to permit it to be a pleasurable read. |
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An aesthetically pleasing city with clean air would make cycling and walking more pleasurable. |
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Still, this is certainly one of the most pleasurable new collections I've read this year. |
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Boating through this stretch was once a pleasurable experience for tourists. |
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It was a thoroughly enjoyable day and was made all the more pleasurable by the glorious warm sunny weather. |
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On a raining day, to sit in the bridge pavilion and chat with friends is one of the most pleasurable experiences. |
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I could not help but compare this brief encounter to an altogether less pleasurable experience earlier this year. |
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The fact that it was pleasurable, of course, offered the incentive to undertake the activity. |
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Apparently, for the true chocoholic, just thinking about chocolate can evoke a pleasurable response. |
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It's much more pleasurable to be the one who swans in and starts the party. |
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Thailand enjoys one of the world's most pleasurable climates with three distinct seasons. |
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But I find it's only a pleasurable experience if everyone sticks to the rules. |
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Because of the uniqueness of each individual, what is pleasurable for one person may not be for another. |
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We hope your stay among us in this lovely and unspoilt part of North Mayo will be pleasurable. |
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Angus, crouching over a keyboard in the corner, waited in pleasurable anticipation for his entry. |
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Envy is not a pleasurable emotion nor one that human beings will attempt to modulate. |
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There is even cruise control which makes motorway journeys all the more pleasurable. |
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We spent them and traded them and frittered them away on drink and food and pleasurable company. |
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Caressing, hugging, stroking, and cuddling all send a chain reaction of chemicals to signal your brain that this is pleasurable. |
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The experience offered here is a warm one, earthy and pleasurable, and eminently watchable. |
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It was also the most expensive player, which ensured quality and hours of pleasurable listening enjoyment. |
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For more than decade, flying has been made irksome rather than pleasurable by an ever-increasing fortress culture at airports. |
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Not only were all of the new positions physically possible, they were also eminently pleasurable. |
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The essential feature of this specifier is a loss of interest in most activities, or lack of reactivity to usually pleasurable stimuli, i.e., anhedonia. |
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His velvety-voiced villainy sent pleasurable shivers up the spine. |
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Some retail therapy may be extremely pleasurable, but dragging home the week's groceries or trudging around city-centres to the bank or building society can be no fun at all. |
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In fact, the motivations behind body modification are closely linked with those of smokers and skydivers, who get addicted to the pleasurable adrenaline buzz. |
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One of them directs you to search for extremely pleasurable food, notably high-energy bundles of fat and sugar like cream puffs and chocolate bars. |
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The trip is open to all and promises to be a very pleasurable experience. |
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What could be more shameful, or more pleasurable, in California today? |
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The urge develops because past pleasurable experience and related benefits from the substance or activity are expected to reoccur on the next occasion. |
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Unlike most avant-garde composers from the fifties, Boulez has always found the physical act of making music a pleasurable exercise for both the ears and the spirit. |
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Children who see literacy as a family value and learn early on that reading and writing are pleasurable, important and meaningful are more successful in school. |
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Early tolerance develops not only to the pleasurable euphoriant effects of heroin, but also to the analgesic, sedative, emetic, and respiratory depressant effects. |
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It was the first of many pleasurable sensations over the next 45 minutes. |
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He laughed softly, the sound more like a choke than a pleasurable noise. |
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You are likely to indulge in happy pastimes and pleasurable activity. |
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These endorphins are biochemically responsible for the pleasurable aspects of social interactions and social affect, and are related to attachment. |
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A moment in heaven is infinitely pleasurable, so even if heaven lasts no longer than that, that moment outweighs a lifetime of Epicurean pleasures. |
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It can be savage, unpredictable, ecstactic, indestructibly powerful, pleasurable, a kind of primordial music that is beyond the mere phenomenology of representation. |
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Like Pale Fire, Lolita begins with an immoderate conceit that allows its author and reader to explore the extravagant, pleasurable, and disturbing fringes of the language. |
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Losing oneself in the movie is not figured as pleasurable, but sets up, rather, a mode of helplessness in the face of an opaque and fragmented story line. |
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I actually found it quite pleasurable, and it prepared me for this strange, gypsy lifestyle of an actor. |
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That attitude has no doubt influenced whether these experiences are pleasurable or aversive. |
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Having just bulleted through his new, supremely pleasurable novel Nobody Move, I hereby nominate Denis Johnson. |
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Commit to exercise every day for the first month, even if the first time will be more annoying than pleasurable. |
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The Sunday papers are spread messily around, and the hiss from our glasses of Buck's Fizz competes with the crackling log fire to be the most pleasurable sound. |
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It's about the heart of doing movies, and not just making movies, but like there's something fundamental about it, not something pleasurable or agreeable. |
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Mary foresaw a possible pleasurable visit with her kinswoman. |
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Reading these dead-on descriptions, a runner feels a pleasurable sensation of recognition. |
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A haven of genteel entertainment might persuade local residents that there were pleasurable and respectable alternatives to a knock-down drunken blowout every weekend. |
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The human psyche believes that only pleasurable objects can bring happiness, and thus it attempts to magnetize them and all kinds of Others into its sphere. |
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Although some of the demos featuring Ilene Woods suffer from irremediable damage, in most respects this selection is a pleasurable listening experience. |
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Watching him tighten his evil coil around Lesgate, by slowly disclosing everything he knows about him, is delectably pleasurable. |
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Even such a wave, but not so pleasurable, Dark in the glass of some presageful mood, Had I for three days seen, ready to fall. |
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Changing a tyre on these roads where the heat haze engulfs you, is not a pleasurable experience. |
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If you're looking for a pleasurable page-turner, Amazing Disgrace fits the bill. |
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Extremely pleasurable to drink, zinfandel is a kissing cousin to Italy's primitivo. |
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One out of three Americans say watching television wouldn't be as pleasurable without the remote control as it is with the device. |
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Of course, pleasure is certainly more, well, pleasurable than pain. |
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Most canoe aficionados would argue that motorizing a canoe removes the pleasurable aspects of traveling in one. |
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Opiate receptors in human brains allow us to perceive pleasurable stimuli such as sweet tastes. |
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Morris believed that all work should be artistic, in the sense that the worker should find it both pleasurable and an outlet for creativity. |
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A climb up these is neither pleasurable nor safe as they are extremely active loose rock channels. |
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The ankle was both the itchiest and the most pleasurable to scratch, with the forearm the least irritated. |
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Second base is a pleasurable post for the reason that the man covering it is in the thick of things at all times. |
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The character of Sobchak serves in a similar manner, supporting the very mellow and almost orgasmically pleasurable life of his friend, the Dude. |
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Silent cinema was a highly pleasurable and fully mature form. |
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This impulse, pitted against the insouciant acute observational approach informed by Tibillus makes for a knottily pleasurable prosody in the main. |
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In essence, the Grand Tour was neither a scholar's pilgrimage nor a religious one, though a pleasurable stay in Venice and a cautious residence in Rome were essential. |
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They love good food, well prepared, truly fresh, and pleasurable. |
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These changes could lead overeaters to seek more and more food to get a pleasurable response, suggests study leader Ivan de Araujo of Yale University. |
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If we adopt a practice of stress reduction, taking digestive enzymes, and making mealtime a relaxing, pleasurable experience, then our digestive systems will thank us for it. |
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