pleasure-seeking
Example Sentences
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The NAc helps govern motivation, pleasure-seeking behaviors, and impulse control.
From Science Daily • Dec. 8, 2025
Most of us aren't these people, but likely wouldn't want anyone to become cruel because of our own pleasure-seeking behaviour either.
From Salon • Nov. 27, 2024
According to scientists, it is all about our brains' pleasure-seeking tendencies.
From BBC • Sep. 29, 2024
Food television is best served by shows on how to cook for people who want to learn to cook, not be pleasure-seeking citizens of the world.
From Slate • Oct. 23, 2019
They thus endeavoured to resist Epicureanism even on the ground where the latter seems prima facie strongest; in its appeal, namely, to the natural pleasure-seeking of all living things.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
