Nurse Hopkins had a sad cypress long npse, and the end of it quivered a little with pleasurable emotion.

The pleasant and pleasurable emotions are not of any great concern to us here.

I never had experienced such painful and pleasurable emotion at one time, and in my own heart I did not know which predominated.

Her delicate organization and creative imagination rendered her peculiarly susceptible of pleasurable emotion.

Gregory, for instance, argues that there is "a close relationship between tragic katharsis and the transformation of pity and fear [...] into essentially pleasurable emotions in the theater".

Since there were only five Sli, they weren't very powerful, and besides, there were mostly pleasurable emotions on the starliner.

Miss Leatheran breathed into that one word a whole gamut of pleasurable emotion.

He swung round to Poirot, his voice breaking with pleasurable emotion.

Anhedonia is an inability to experience pleasurable emotions from normally pleasurable life events.

As the gale of pleasurable emotion diminished, he withdrew from the table, stretched out his wings and limbs and refolded them tightly to his body before speaking.