(a.) Capable of affording pleasure or satisfaction; gratifying; abounding in pleasantness or pleasantry.
Example Sentences:
(1) The bank tellers who saw their positions filled by male superiors took special pleasure in going to the bank and keeping them busy.
(2) Black males with low intentions to use condoms reported significantly more negative attitudes about the use of condoms (eg, using condoms is disgusting) and reacted with more intense anger when their partners asked about previous sexual contacts, when a partner refused sex without a condom, or when they perceived condoms as interfering with foreplay and sexual pleasure.
(3) Walking for pleasure was generally the most common physical activity for both sexes throughout the year.
(4) I like to think of Shakespeare as one delicious smorgasbord that I have a lifelong pleasure in eating.
(5) Saudi Arabia As one might imagine, Saudi television rather wants for the bounty we enjoy here - reality shows in which footballers' mistresses administer handjobs to barnyard animals, and all those other things which make living in the godless west such a pleasure.
(6) The clashes between the moralistic Levin and his friend Oblonsky, sometimes affectionate, sometimes angry, and Levin's linkage of modernity to Oblonsky's attitudes – that social mores are to be worked around and subordinated to pleasure, that families are base camps for off-base nooky – undermine one possible reading of Anna Karenina , in which Anna is a martyr in the struggle for the modern sexual freedoms that we take for granted, taken down by the hypocritical conservative elite to which she, her lover and her husband belong.
(7) Data from human and animal studies indicate a correlation between ictal pleasure or reinforcement and the subject's ability to induce seizures.
(8) I have had the awe-inducing pleasure of standing alone among the giant trees, both sequoias and redwoods, and hearing nothing but the chatter of the squirrels and the high wind in the tallest branches.
(9) Nondrinkers reported a greater likelihood of both positive and negative effects; heavier drinkers reported more pleasurable effects.
(10) A survey last year found that almost 4 million British adults never read books for pleasure , and as in Pellerin’s case, a lack of time was the dominant factor.
(11) We like to enjoy ourselves, if you enjoy the way you play you’ll win a lot of games.” It is a long time, and several managers, since Sunderland fans have derived any sustained pleasure from observing their team in action and sure enough, watching Allardyce’s charges was once again, a somewhat gruelling experience.
(12) (Like humans, they have sex for pleasure as well as for procreation.)
(13) But a big part of the High Line's success is its planting and landscaping, which is intelligent, imaginative and well considered, in the way it converts industrial relics into a place of urban pleasure.
(14) There is an enjoyment that comes with owning it, a pleasure, but also he is an astute businessman.
(15) He confessed to over-indulgence in this pleasure at some stages of his life, and to the recreational use of drugs.
(16) The opposite of a guilty pleasure: a guilty torture.
(17) We would have been denied the pleasure of seeing the official Tongan team anorak, for a start, and it was a bit special, wasn’t it?
(18) "It gives them a sense of pleasure when they believe that they've destroyed me or taken me down.
(19) No changes in plasma beta-endorphin or ACTH concentrations were observed with pentagastrin nor after the meal, despite the combination of very high sensory pleasure with intake of a very large amount of food.
(20) It was the book that turned me on to the intoxicating pleasure of theatre criticism and – well-thumbed and much borrowed from – it has stayed with me ever since.
Titillation
Definition:
(n.) The act of tickling, or the state of being tickled; a tickling sensation.
(n.) Any pleasurable sensation.
Example Sentences:
(1) "It was a certain kind of titillation the shop offered," the critic Matthew Collings has written, "sexual but also hopeless, destructive, foolish, funny, sad."
(2) But even when these titillating accounts touch on real concerns, they do not really reflect the great mass of everyday teenage social behaviour: the online chat, the texting, the surfing, and the emergence of a new teenage sphere that is conducted digitally.
(3) As a result, the segment was edited in order to obscure any inappropriate detail and it was felt that the overall effect was comedic rather than titillating."
(4) In a 2014 article about the first season, Slate’s J Bryan Lowder wrote : “Straight critics and viewers seeking liberal cred will find an easy tool here; Looking is, after all, gay without any of the hard parts (dick included), gay that’s polite and comfortable and maybe a little titillating but definitely not all up in your face about it.” The week’s best new TV: Looking, BoJack Horseman and Vikings Read more Despite the brickbats, Looking was renewed for a second season, and matured into a layered portrait of contemporary gay friendships and relationships.
(5) The coming out, or in some cases outing, of male celebrities certainly exists, and does result in media attention – Tom Daley and Wentworth Miller – but the angle of coverage is not titillation or surprise.
(6) It doesn't bother me that men will watch to be titillated, as it's part of life.
(7) I know your readers may find it titillating but it's depressing to keep talking about it".
(8) The "titillating details" of the "sordid affairs" of the Anna Nicole saga "enticed" Bahamians and changed the face of the island's politics, two confidential memos sent by the embassy in Nassau reveal.
(9) We don't yet have the " feelies ", Huxley's cinemas in Brave New World – where the cinema spectator is titillated by the images and by what sounds like a vibrating seat.
(10) And while it's true that gridiron jocks can't seem to perform unless interrupted every 10 seconds by schmaltzy corporations peddling their wares, brass bands booming across the pitch and cheerleaders wiggling and jiggling like wind-up titillators, it's also true that American spectators do at least get what they're promised - it may take five hours but eventually they will see 60 minutes of football.
(11) To me it wasn't titillating, sensationalist, or even entertaining, but in terms of the way female servants were treated by those above and below stairs, it was accurate: many were raped, mistreated or subjected to abuse.
(12) There is a titillating investment in framing women as covertly aggressive.
(13) At the same time, the cable adds, the "titillating details of Anna Nicole's sordid affairs have enticed the Bahamian public to give renewed focus to government indiscretions".
(14) In the end perhaps the most spectacularly titillating moment of Liverpool's day in the high court came right at the beginning with news that the divorced Jordan and Peter Andre were scheduled to appear simultaneously in the court next door.
(15) When the Victoria's Secret Bond Street store opened there were rumours that upscale labels on the street didn't like the brand "lowering the tone", but there is nothing remotely titillating about the Victoria's Secret shopping experience.
(16) Through such words, Powell won votes and titillated white British fears of people with different coloured skins.
(17) You could argue this isn't as titillating as onstage megalomania or animatronic twerking.
(18) He had heard Hitler speak and was titillated by the aesthetics and sexuality of Nazism.
(19) By merely changing the antebellum language, the reactions could be recycled into our current tabloid newspapers and titillating TV programs as if the tragedy occurred yesterday.
(20) Set in Japan - and utterly unlike the predictable movie confection of bath-house titillation and exploding aluminium - Fleming's novel has the reclusive villain, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, make himself over as benefactor to the suicidally inclined and terminally ill who come to the garden to fade over and out amid toxic blossoms.