There is always something pleasurable in the struggle and the victory.

She had never known any sensation so pleasurable as that sense of adventure with which, each morning, she went to work.

For investment of wealth are like the ass, scratching, pleasurable at first but painful afterwards.

Destructive consumption may be pleasurable for the moment, but does not satisfy.

Moreover the drama is more compact; "for the concentrated effect is more pleasurable than one which is diluted."