Example Sentences

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Dr. Nadal, speaking for Team 1, said in an interview that “humans appear to use only one pleasure system to assess how pleasurable or unpleasurable a sensory experience is.”

From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2018

The Cellphone Is Ready for Its Close-Up “The Canyons” — directed Paul Schrader, written by Bret Easton Ellis and starring Lindsay Lohan — is a dispiriting, unpleasurable work punctuated with flashes of vitalizing vulgarity.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2013

The contemplation of the horror of the hell gave him—and her, too, he thought—a curious feeling which was not unpleasurable.

From The Pretty Lady by Bennett, Arnold

"I hardly thought it of Mellony," he added in not unpleasurable reflection, "nor yet of Ira."

From A Christmas Accident and Other Stories by Trumbull, Annie Eliot

He was young still, and in a few years he would look back on all his misery with a sadness in which there would be something not unpleasurable.

From Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)