What's the difference between luscious and pleasant?

Luscious


Definition:

  • (a.) Sweet; delicious; very grateful to the taste; toothsome; excessively sweet or rich.
  • (a.) Cloying; fulsome.
  • (a.) Gratifying a depraved sense; obscene.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Anyway, pink was not then the absolute obsession with little girls that it has since become, and I had been hoping for the luscious, bleeding colours of Disney's Technicolor.
  • (2) Jane Eyre has spawned a thousand luscious anti-heroes, and a million Pills & Swoon paperbacks.
  • (3) One of the most pleasing things in recent years is that it has become easier for us in Britain to get hold of luscious, fleshy Medjool dates.
  • (4) I dreamed that a baby burst out of my abdomen last night, an image utterly remote from most luscious baby marketing.
  • (5) Project Spark looks like an intriguing game builder allowing users to create luscious RPG worlds with a simple Kinect interface.
  • (6) Young had obviously reached a bad stage in his life, but the backing by the London symphony orchestra makes it luscious.
  • (7) The winning recipe: Zesty lemon and almond and vanilla petits fours I've just tried out a new luscious petit-four recipe, based on a Moroccan idea I saw, which has to be the epitome of zesty.
  • (8) Looking back now that game still has the feel of a luscious one-off.
  • (9) Luscious Libras Luscious Libras Photograph: Alicia Canter "This is our walkabout performance – we're a Mexican-wrestling thumb-war team.
  • (10) People are waiting in line with containers and barrels to fill up to get to where they want to go.” Ang said from Havannah he could see that the islands of Moso and Lelepa, “normally a luscious, rolling green, have been stripped bare” by the cyclone.
  • (11) And, I’m always the conservative one so I may be understating that number.” Hardy, 56, who has been selling houses for 20 years, pauses to point out the window as she drives past acre after acre of luscious hedgerows grown 20ft high to shield the wealthy from prying eyes.
  • (12) Let’s not forget we are talking about a land that the ancient Greeks could not believe when they landed: such a paradise of luscious food, but because of the massive inequality of rich and poor, there were times when many people had very little to eat.
  • (13) I'm in a huge, ancient cast iron bath with crackled cream enamel, and I've decided to float on my back in the green water, piling the huge mounds of luscious fleshy seaweed all over me.
  • (14) Joyce DiDonato, the US mezzo-soprano who performs the part for the last time in the run tonight, would have achieved wonderful reviews for her voice alone: luscious and clear, with a freshness that filled the theatre.
  • (15) In the prop store, I see the Pontipines' tiny picnic table, cloth laid out with drawer-knob cakes and luscious trifles made out of sherry glasses filled with glass beads.
  • (16) The winning recipe: braised ox cheek ragu I live in Santiago de Compostela in north-west Spain and the weather has been awful this winter, so I wanted to make something heart-warming, rich and luscious.
  • (17) For a weekend last September, he gave over his luscious farm in the Cotswolds to a festival celebrating his two great loves: food and music.
  • (18) The superbly lifelike constellation of almost too luscious-looking grapes, bruised and scarred apples, a pomegranate burst open to reveal the blood-red seeds within, and other ripe, even over-ripe, fancies that balance dangerously on the edge of the table is just one of many fruit baskets that appear in Caravaggio’s art.
  • (19) The dish is silky and luscious with a wonderful mouth-feel; the textures in the stuffing balance perfectly.
  • (20) Doña Yoli, a humble operation, has been doling out luscious red pozole for decades.

Pleasant


Definition:

  • (a.) Pleasing; grateful to the mind or to the senses; agreeable; as, a pleasant journey; pleasant weather.
  • (a.) Cheerful; enlivening; gay; sprightly; humorous; sportive; as, pleasant company; a pleasant fellow.
  • (n.) A wit; a humorist; a buffoon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facial expression, EEG, and self-report of subjective emotional experience were recorded while subjects individually watched both pleasant and unpleasant films.
  • (2) Subjects also rated the pleasantness of 29 foods listed on a questionnaire.
  • (3) Bloody odd combination but those Orange Foam Headphones would blast those magnificent records into my developing brain over and over again" chernypyos – Björk's Human Behavior and Sinead O'Connor's Fire On Babylon: "bjork's 'human behavior' and sinead o'connor's "fire on babylon" oddly stick in my head from that one evening walking in the woods, breathing the damp air, and feeling pleasantly invisible" Pyromancer – REM – Automatic for the People Blood Sugar Sex Magic Pearl Jam - Vs RATM's first album Portishead Maxinquaye by Tricky Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream "I used to go to the local library and take out a CD (50p for 3 weeks!
  • (4) It is pleasant walking, full of character and constantly changing views.
  • (5) At the end of the experiment, the concentration of salt in soup rated as tasting most pleasant increased in the group which added the crystalline salt to food.
  • (6) Some of the choices involved will not be pleasant ones.
  • (7) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
  • (8) He said Watts was a “pleasant lady” but described Wright as a “cold fish Craig”.
  • (9) Nearby there is a pleasant park with tables and a barbecue.
  • (10) In sensory-specific satiety, the pleasantness of the sight or taste of a food becomes less after it is eaten to satiety, whereas the pleasantness of the sight or taste of other foods which have not been eaten is much less changed; correspondingly, food intake is greater if foods which have not already been eaten to satiety are offered.
  • (11) The house she walks back to, and in which she and her husband, Geoff, live, is pleasantly unexceptional.
  • (12) Patients with Down's syndrome usually have mild and pleasant temperaments, rarely exhibiting temper tantrums or behavioral problems.
  • (13) One month later the subjects underwent a second recognition test, at the end of which they were required to give an evaluation of the pleasantness of each odour on a nine-point scale.
  • (14) The wipes were found to be pleasant and convenient to use.
  • (15) I am always pleasantly amazed by how the city continues to be improved.
  • (16) "The reality is that we've got a situation where the Conservative party is being run almost as if it's an exclusive coterie, and it's an exclusive coterie on the left of centre of the Conservative spectrum, allied with the Liberal Democrats who are, I think, much more pleasant to associate with from their point of view," he said.
  • (17) Branagh, who received his fifth Oscar nomination (all, incidentally, have been in different categories) declared himself "absolutely thrilled", adding: "It was such an enjoyable experience to make, and this is a very pleasant outcome."
  • (18) 205 subjects each chose a "most pleasant" sound delivered through an earphone by turning the control knob on a continuously variable audio oscillator.
  • (19) To determine the contribution of sensory stimulation to the changing hedonic response to foods, the effects of consuming very low-calorie and higher calorie versions of soup and jello on the subjective pleasantness of foods were compared.
  • (20) The motive seemed to be removal from prison to the fairly pleasant surroundings of the local hospital.