She wasn't sweating, but there was a pleasurable sense of exertion.

For most of us, the result is a pleasurable sense of energy and focus.

For the audience, there is a pleasurable sense of engagement in the creative act and in the author's unmasking of her characters.

He was conscious of a pleasurable sense of anticipation.

Even in a museum setting, these quilts convey a pleasurable sense of warmth, so appropriate to their function as bedcovers.

The pleasurable sense that Houston keeps getting better was counterbalanced by the fact that no one in the outside world seems to know or care.

To a degree, the trainer can create a pleasurable sense of well- being.

During this time a male feels a deep and often pleasurable sense of relaxation, usually felt in the groin and thighs.

I have a pleasurable sense of proprietary interest in Acela's well-being.

Carthew breathed long; he had a strange, half- pleasurable sense of wading deeper in the tide of life.