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It will be found that even in the lighter forms of drama which we accept as typical and satisfactory this social flavor may be detected, giving it body, but not detracting from its pleasurableness.

From How to See a Play by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

But in the meantime, what do you positively mean to assert about the pleasurableness of work amongst you?”

From News from Nowhere, or, an Epoch of Rest : being some chapters from a utopian romance by Morris, William

The psychological treatment of aesthetic data here sketched out cannot stop at an analysis of the aesthetic state or attitude into a number of recoenizable elements each of which contributes its own quantum of pleasurableness.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

We hear of the little joys and adventures of those days, so faithfully and long remembered, with a pathetic pleasurableness.

From Emily Brontë by Robinson, A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances)

I purpose at present to speak only of four of the more current opinions respecting beauty, for of the errors connected with the pleasurableness � 1.

From Modern Painters Volume II (of V) by Ruskin, John