pleasurably

No other subject gave them half the satisfaction, or commanded half the attention; and but few scenes in my life remain so freshly on my memory, or are so pleasurably recalled to my contemplation, as these hours of intercourse with a distant and benighted race in the midst of the desert."

I had just work enough to do, in mounting my employer's drawings, to keep my hands and eyes pleasurably employed, while my mind was left free to enjoy the dangerous luxury of its own unbridled thoughts.

I never was so won upon, as by this class; never yielded up my full confidence and esteem so readily and pleasurably, as to them; never can make again, in half a year, so many friends for whom I seem to entertain the regard of half a life.

She fancied likewise, but it might be altogether fancy, that there was a stirring up of her system--a strange, indefinite sensation creeping through her veins, and tingling, half painfully, half pleasurably, at her heart.

But I wished to tell him that I had done it; and in truth I was not more than pleasurably afraid; I had rather that impersonal curiosity as to the issue which has been the saving of me in still more precarious situations.

Having very pleasurably spent a recent Bank Holiday evening watching the octogenarian Joan Hickson play Miss Marple in one of those 1980s TV versions, I only hope they don't cock up the remakes by trying to 'sex it up'.

Though less pleasurably offbeat than the helmer's well-received "Read My Lips" and "The Beat That My Heart Skipped," this is solid, sinewy pulp fiction with strong prospects for arthouse showings abroad and on local release Aug.

Such willfully contaminated modes of identification (do I want to be Jodie or have Jodie?) pleasurably echo from the mise en abime of Adler's images.

There's almost no dramatic action until the opera's second half; instead, there's a tuneful series of folk-flavored songs, dances and choruses that reek pleasurably of a time and place at a fascinating remove from our own.

Ben Harvey might never be first violin, but there has got to be a place for him in the band and Moseley are pleasurably occupied at this moment in trying to bring him into the tune.

If you roll the food around your mouth you experience each bite more intensely and more pleasurably.

Filmmaking is pleasurably on the cheap, though digital vid image seems altogether the wrong look for a film that screams to be shot on celluloid.