How To Use Pleasing In A Sentence

All the more perhaps for that, she was born sagacious, which is a less pleasing, but, in a bitter pinch, a more really useful, quality. Erema — My Father's Sin
The result is a species of amphitheatric arena, in which any of the dramatic exhibitions, that are so pleasing to this spectacle-loving nation, may be enacted. Recollections of Europe
Yes the win in Riesa was pleasing as I was wearing a normal costume and was unrested, unshaved and untapered so that's always a confidence boost
Prema Jayakumar's translation is done with a rare felicity that is pleasing to read.
It is widely regarded as an architectural disaster, aesthetically unpleasing and out of keeping with the rest of the College.

Wednesday's win was a pleasing, restorative result at a time when it was badly needed, but it would be delusive to read too much into it.
And the idea of the wind chimes, oiled, wrapped and protected in rolls of aromatic hessian sacking, lying up in the dark of the garage loft against some future need, is pleasing enough.
Its foliage is pleasing and the seed pods are marvellous.
The arrangement of the furniture formed a pleasing ensemble.
It bore that air of uncostly refinement which is one of the most pleasing outward features of the aloof civilization to which it, though not the Callenders, belonged. Kincaid's Battery
Their set consisted of hooky pop gems that relied on guitar and punch for most of the power, and the mixture was a pleasing one.
Something that comes in a pleasing box, with a shiny satin ribbon. Times, Sunday Times
One such bod was commenting that he thought that the ancients had erected Pentre Ifan because it was aesthetically pleasing and fitted in with the surrounding landscape.
But what was remarkable in the lady was, that although her features were handsome, and upon the whole pleasing, the pupil of each eye was dimmed with the whiteness of cataract, and she was evidently stone-blind. The Purcell Papers
On the basis of our repentance and profession of faith in Christ, God regards us as acceptable and pleasing in His sight.
Once known as the merchant capital, Osaka was the place where rice vendors developed sushi by mixing seasoned rice with other ingredients into a visually pleasing and tasty package.
Pleasing to the eye: Owing to the diffuse reflection of vermiculites , its flamboyant looking and tridimensional appearance, metal roofing tiles enjoy great popularity worldwide.
[14] In the Greek, however short the metre and however long the ode, there is no weariness from monotony; for the interchange of anapaest, dactyl, and spondee, in the lines of from only four to six syllables each, makes a constant and pleasing variety. Songs and Hymns of the Earliest Greek Christian Poets
There is a pleasing symmetry to cooking the dish. Times, Sunday Times
They are blessed with speed, agility and a very pleasing nature and broken in by the old and traditional way of the herdsmen, the gauchos.
After the interval a group of six musicians gave a pleasing rendering of three modern pieces.
Her pleasing voice met the demands of the wide vocal range with assurance and expressive colour.
Such were the rimes of _Skelton_ (vsurping the name of a Poet Laureat) being in deede but a rude rayling rimer & all his doings ridiculous, he vsed both short distaunces and short measures pleasing onely the popular eare: in our courtly maker we banish them vtterly. The Arte of English Poesie
If there is anything more pleasing than a man in a suit with a scowl on his face, we can't think of it. Times, Sunday Times
The materials used on the exteriors give the house a pleasing, weathered appearance.
Simple: take your trainers off, wind your arm up, and get hoying your ‘shoe’ - the pleasing alternative to the game played by all those wizened, pipe-smoking Frenchmen.
The chain sinnet aka chain braid, daisy chain, or monkey braid is a cable shortening and storing method that can be used to make stray cables a little more pleasing to the eye. Use A Chain Sinnet To Tidy Cables | Lifehacker Australia
They'll pump out this dry language with words like "appetitive" and "phenotypic" but they won't use any pleasing visual aids, on that one-out-of-a-thousand occasion on which it is directly related to the chosen topic. House of Eratosthenes
A few trees scattered around gave an agreeable and silvan air to the place; and the chapel, that appeared on a rising ground at some distance from the hamlet, was constructed in a style of pleasing simplicity, which corresponded with the whole scene. Anne of Geierstein
It is pleasing to see good citizens cleaning up after their dogs when they take them for walkies.
The string playing was sinewy, and tonally integrated, a lovely sound which would not disgrace a professional orchestra; particularly pleasing, bearing in mind that this one includes even first year students.
All over the country, harassed parents are frantically trying to decide how to entertain their offspring, rather than pleasing themselves.
Anna Warner, a passalong from neighbors Mae and Mickey looks pleasing with the spent stalks of Astible arendsii ‘Fanal’. Some Daylilies And A Surprise « Fairegarden
Thankfully, the four young leads give suitably heartfelt and believable performances, giving an otherwise schlocky teen soap opera the pleasing illusion of quality.
It is pleasing to note in this list that not only the garments and stuffs, but the very colors named, have an antique sound; and we read in other inventories of such tints as philomot (feuillemort), gridolin Customs and Fashions in Old New England
The relish of the mind is as various as that of the body, and like that too may be altered; and it is a mistake to think that men cannot change the displeasingness or indifferency that is in actions into pleasure and desire, if they will do but what is in their power. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
It was pleasing to know that the presentation had gone so well.
Produced with technocrat perfection, it presents the palate with a pleasing gooseberry and apple-like nose and a palate that vibrates with clean fruit flavours.
Too much emphasis on pleasing the judges is detrimental to the music, he feels.
It's very pleasing that as you add parallel client loads, the server pretty well just soaks it up with massively sublinear slowdown. Planet Sun
the room was pleasingly large
I accordingly furnished myself with two parcels, and found it very agreeable and pleasant; and in a short time I had the satisfaction of feeling the good effects of this pleasing and salutary medicine; and to confirm the services received from it, I am determined, for the future, to drink it instead of foreign teas, because I think it more grateful than any thing yet presented to the public as a stomatic; therefore in justice to your valuable discovery for the public good, you are welcome to communicate this information to the world at large; with the sincerest wishes for the general use of your excellent Tea. A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves
If you remove the particular from these events and just think of them as Cool Stuff, then they're pleasingly regular and not rare at all.
He was persuaded that disunity in the church was displeasing to heaven and bad for the empire's success and prosperity.
Most of the other starters, however, including the thick, roasted butternut squash soup, were quite pleasing.
That was pleasing, but just being part of a magnificent day brought a tremendous sense of pride and good feeling.
B. G.) which graced the board with its plastic forms, suggestive of the most pleasing objects, -- the spiral ringlets pendent from the brow of beauty, -- the magic circlet, which is the pledge of plighted affection, -- the indissoluble knot, which typifies the union of hearts, which organs were also largely represented; this exceptional delicacy would at any other time have claimed his special notice. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867.
‘We're trying to make the garden more visually pleasing and also attract inner town wildlife,’ said Mr Goldie.
While the smell brings to mind molasses, this goo, called bagasse, won't find its way into people-pleasing confections. Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed
And then we were amazed to hear the sound of singing -- amazed, for it was not the uncouth singing of negroes (who in happy circumstances delight to uplift their voices in psalms) nor yet the boisterous untuneable roaring of rough seamen, like Vetch's buccaneers, but a most melodious and pleasing sound, which put me in mind (and Cludde also) of the madrigal singers of our good town of Shrewsbury. Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow
Glossy, visually pleasing vertical bars of black and white enamel intersect a variety of colorful, hard-edge shapes and geometric figures in reds, yellow, blues and greens.
Honouring the messages from your body is more important than pleasing Aunty Petunia with an extra slice of pav.
The closing minutes of the first semifinal heat saw a strong set, some jumbled take-offs and a few crowd-pleasing wipeouts.
Wherefore, such opinions and persuasions are gradually insinuated into the mind, and are admitted insensibly without opposition or reluctancy, being never accompanied at their first admission with any secular disadvantage; -- but these divine convictions by the word befall men, some when they think of nothing less and desire nothing less; some when they design other things, as the pleasing of their ears or the entertainment of their company; and some that go on purpose to deride and scoff at what should be spoken unto them from it. Pneumatologia
Margarita, as beautifull as the best: but yet so peevish, scornefull, and fantasticall, that she disdained any good advice given her; neyther could any thing be done, to cause her contentment; which absurd humors were highly displeasing to her husband: but in regard he knew not how to helpe it, constrainedly he did endure it. The Decameron
I remember taking classes in Maori in New Zealand, where each lesson began with the recital of a ‘karakia’ or prayer, the meaning of which was often fairly opaque, but not only were we uttering ‘real’ Maori, the recital had a pleasing ritual effect. F is for First Lessons « An A-Z of ELT
The Tri-Van marries these two basic approaches in aesthetically pleasing and innovative ways. Best New Arrow Rest 2009: Mid-Atlantic Archery Tri-Van
There were five homes here in quite a pleasing little cove on the sheltered side of a narrow cape. THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS: Coming of Age in the Arctic
PVC-free and tactically pleasing cable is designed to reduce microphonics. Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets
It was pleasing that racing was unanimous in support. The Sun
Placing pleasing photographs from the past on a website and encouraging the independent preservation of borough buildings, while enjoyable, is largely passive and only one facet of what we think is possible both through the Beachwood Historical Alliance and the borough at large. Beachwood Downtown Revitalization and Community Involvement « Beachwood Historical Alliance
The fantasy of the undecorated house is Tuesday morning as it is actually lived, not as we would like other people to imagine it; it is the idea of energy, of chaos, of motion, of mess well, mess within very circumscribed and aesthetically pleasing limits: children lying in a pile of books, artfully unmade beds, one piece of clothing strewn across a couch. The Rise of the Personal
Those more ferocious animals were kept away while those less dangerous and more pleasing were allowed out.
Miss Margland, who came but for two days, sought with much adulation to obtain an invitation for a longer stay; but Mrs. Berlinton, though all courtesy and grace, incommoded herself with no society that she did not find pleasing. Camilla
They fill him with an attentive ravishment, a marveling, it's pleasing and rejuvenating, a steady, pure current that he has never experienced until now with anyone. . . A Window Onto Comic Tedium
I was talking about Michael Moore, who just so happens to be, err, unpleasingly plump.
The prospect was pleasing to many young white men in the ranks; and ambition went far to irradicate prejudice against Negro soldiers. History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens
Oh, this is by, yeah, the square root-- And so the higher Young's modulus is, the higher the speed of sound is, and that is intuitively sort of pleasing.
Prosecco, the light, appley crowd-pleasing bubbly of the Veneto region, is a step up from Spanish cava and an attractive value compared to champagne.
A slight modification to the final scene adds the only major concession to modern values to the play with nod to post-feminist ideals, but works pleasingly well.
The surprise of the Lord Keeper was scarcely less unpleasing at the duplication of the expected arrival; his mind misgave him strangely. The Bride of Lammermoor
This must be particularly pleasing for Glass as he's wanted to put Peake's fantasy trilogy on stage for some time.
Montbrun hastened, with a courtier's smoothness, to recommend the red wine which, though Spanish, had a certain plangency, he thought, which Major Sharpe might find pleasing. Sharpe's Honour
Yes, my name is Briton, they supposedly conceived me there, kinda a gross story, the thought of my parents doing it is quite disgusting and unpleasing to my stomach.
Of course there's no pleasing some people since fans of the great Dame immediately wondered why the BBC didn't include the 1989 four hour miniseries Mother Love, with one of her juiciest roles. Michael Giltz: DVDs: The King And Still Champ: "Citizen Kane"
And there is a kind of sacredness attached to the memory of the great and the good, which seems to bid us repulse the scepticism which would allegorize their existence into a pleasing apologue, and measure the giants of intellect by an homaeopathic dynameter. The Odyssey of Homer
Get out of your rut of voting for the aesthetically pleasing contestant with no vocal talent, and pick the ones who can sing.
This pleasing effect softens the hard steel lines and shields the precipitous drop to the road below. Times, Sunday Times
An able staying handicapper on the flat, the five-year-old has taken well to hurdling and has won his last two races in pleasing style.
No matter how silly the questions, the poor victim must remain charming and keep repeating titillating soundbites, without ever actually being injudicious or displeasing the capricious movie-going masses.
Maybe I am an old fuddy duddy but there is something pleasing about opening a bottle that has a real cork. Vent your spleen: synthetic corks! | Dr Vino's wine blog
Homemade crackers are more pleasing than store-bought ones - and no more work to make than cookies.
This concupiscible appetite, howsoever it may seem to carry with it a show of pleasure and delight, and our concupiscences most part affect us with content and a pleasing object, yet if they be in extremes, they rack and wring us on the other side. Anatomy of Melancholy
Did you know that "delicatessen" is German for "pleasing things to eat"? The Union - All Categories
The interior design is pleasingly simple.
Gauzy, beaded, to-the-floor gowns that were slashed at the back (tastefully rather than tartily) made a pleasing antidote to Eighties-style excess. Top stories from Times Online
The upside here is that the 300 is the right weight for your youngsters, and it's also pleasingly light for a long back-country hike or lengthy canoe portage.
\ "But reducing visual complexity to make things pleasing to the eye by hiding critical information, \" from knowledgeable stakeholders, will certainly increase composition and or \ "structural complexity\", and make it difficult for stakeholders to grasp full understanding. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
Christ is the "signet" on God's hand: always in the Father's presence, ever pleasing in his sight. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
This pleasing prodigality would be easier to browse if the columns of text were not so close-set.
So low was he that he preferred Gibsen’s tea-time salmon tinned, as inexpensive as pleasing, to the plumpest roeheavy lax or the friskiest parr or smolt troutlet that ever was gaffed between Leixlip and Island Bridge and many was the time he repeated in his botulism that no junglegrown pineapple ever smacked like the whoppers you shook out of Ananias’ cans, Finnegans Wake
Lord Jesus Christ in incorruption, who continue constant in their love to him, so as not to be corrupted out of it by any baits or seductions whatsoever, and whose love to him is uncorrupted by any opposite lust, or the love of any thing displeasing to him. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
If tourists visit the garden in summer, they will be astonished by the pleasing green and red of thickly dotted lotuses.
They'll mimic the great glasscloth backing (or introduce the soft neutral texture if Melissa and Matt decide to go with tan paint) and they're so affordable that they can spring for a few on each side for even more eye-pleasing consistency. creamy tan Ikea curtain panels will perfectly complement the swirly lines of the rug when hung high and wide over the giant windows in the sunroom. RVABlogs
My cod with chorizo is a tried-and-tested combination, with the strong taste of the chorizo providing a pleasing counterpoint to a succulent piece of cod.
He said that the halving of bingo duty in last week's Budget was a pleasing swansong. Times, Sunday Times
Promoters and managers attend these conventions in the hope of pleasing the right people to get the right ratings to get the right fights.
Your success in the field of your especial ambition will be assured if you win your first chance there by making an _initial_ pleasing impression and then _keep right on pleasing_. Certain Success
The same is true of Lewis's imagery, It is decorative, pleasing and attractive.
Three hours in the rain is all it took to transform this uninspiring, barren plot into a pleasing eye-catcher. The Sun
Such piety is the salvation of families and states, just as the impious, which is unpleasing to the gods, is their ruin and destruction. Euthyphro
Choose Construction Common or Deck Common redwood, grades with pleasing blends of heartwood and sapwood, for a long-lasting and economical deck.
Of the more substantial dishes the most pleasing was some crisp-skinned but rare trout with bright orange roe and an acidulated julienne of crunchy vegetables. Restaurant review: Viajante
Like leaves before the wind, the boys rushed out by a back door into the play-ground, while the master solemnly passed to his house, with a deep slow bow to the ladies; and there was poor Scudamore -- most diffident of men whenever it came to lady-work -- left to face the visitors with a pleasing knowledge that his neckcloth was dishevelled, and his hair sheafed up, the furrows of his coat broadcast with pounce, and one of his hands gone to sleep from holding a heavy Delphin for three-quarters of an hour. Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War
Fresh tomatoes make the sandwich more pleasing to the palate.
B. G.) which graced the board with its plastic forms, suggestive of the most pleasing objects, -- the spiral ringlets pendent from the brow of beauty; the magic circlet, which is the pledge of plighted affection, -- the indissoluble knot, which typifies the union of hearts, which organs were also largely represented; this exceptional delicacy would at any other time have claimed his special notice. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
In its quiet look and basic cops-and-robbers plot, it has a pleasing storybook quality. Times, Sunday Times
At some point the word slipped its etymological harness and came to mean a hanger-on, someone who could get the occasional meal from a nobleman by pleasing him with good conversation, delivering messages, or doing some other job. Parasite Rex
Mutual good humour is a Dress we ought to appear in whenever we meet, and we should make no mention of what concerns our selves, without it be of Matters wherein our Friends ought to rejoyce: But indeed there are Crowds of People who put themselves in no Method of pleasing themselves or others; such are those whom we usually call indolent Persons. Spectator, June 25, 1711
They seek to reduce what they see as needless clutter and eye candy, and to fashion beautifully spare pages, focusing on the most pleasing presentation of text.
There was an aromatic pungency about it, which lent it a pleasing exoticism. GALILEE
They come as a collection of discordant but not unpleasing tastes. Times, Sunday Times
What a pleasing precedent any unlikely victory would set!
Jane was blonde, blue eyed, and was tall with a pleasing figure.
We are alone until we stumble upon a flamboyance of flamingos (what a pleasing collective noun). Times, Sunday Times
The final movements weren't unpleasing, either: muscular and sprightly, yet not grating. Times, Sunday Times
Children, careless of pleasing, and only anxious to amuse themselves, are often very graceful; and the nobility who have mostly lived with inferiours, and always had the command of money, acquire a graceful case of deportment, which should rather be termed habitual grace of body, than that superiour gracefulness which is truly the expression of the mind. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
After nearly nine months of work, he said that it was very pleasing to see the aircraft flying once again.
At the Eaux Bonnes, our female attendant wore her red-peaked _capeline_ in the house, which had a singular effect, but was by no means pretty: indeed, the only impression it gives me is, that it is precisely the costume which seems to suit _a daunce o 'witches_; and cannot by possibility be softened into anything in the least pleasing to the eye. Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre
That is why that is such an important moment, not because the thing was shaped like two spirals - that's just aesthetically pleasing - but because the world changed on that day.
Grace reigning is a reverence of God, and gives honour to him who is infinitely great and high, and to whom all honour is due, than which what is more becoming or should be more pleasing to the rational creature? Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
MY DEAR FRIEND: Of all the various ingredients that compose the useful and necessary art of pleasing, no one is so effectual and engaging as that gentleness, that 'douceur' of countenance and manner, to which you are no stranger, though (God knows why) a sworn enemy. Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works
Only there does the noise seem to congeal with some solid structure and make for a truly pleasing listen.
Photographs are of reasonable resolution and the whole layout of the book is more pleasing and open than earlier volumes in the series.
Whites, miles from any danger, panicked during the riots and don't want to experience that unpleasing emotion again.
But how pleasing to see both taking as much as they dished out, yet neither whingeing to the official. The Sun
It has a simple, hypnotic riff repeated over a wide-open, reverbed-out rhythm section, topped off by some woozy synth strings for a pleasingly spacey effect.
Margaret starts out as a many pleasing girl in France as good as ends up as a scolding, infamous aged hag; is which a story, or is it unequivocally dual plays? Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
Aesthetically pleasing it wasn't, but his goal did suggest a quickness of mind and, just as important, a ruthlessness that is engrained in all great strikers.
Look anywhere along the sporting calendar and you find an activity that is pleasing to do for its own sake. Times, Sunday Times
If otherwise, it is vaguely approbative, with the implication, as to the work approved, of some pleasing archaeological reconstruction.
There is no timber in this valley, and accordingly the scenery, though on a large scale, is neither impressive nor pleasing; the mountains are large swelling hummocks, grassed up to the summit, and though steeply declivitous, entirely destitute of precipice. A First Year in Canterbury Settlement
The squeals of the larva should have been horrifying to Cameron, yet she found them almost pleasing, riffs of a symphony she had composed. MINUTES TO BURN
a pleasing piece of news
The walls are pleasingly solid, and the doors hefty wood, with two between the bedroom and the corridor, a boon for light sleepers.
B.: The patterned seams create a pleasing "starburst" effect around the crotch (or "Clinton-getter"), making them, indeed, a historically significant choice. Colleen Werthmann: Hillary Clinton Pen-Pal Reveals Letters: "A Portrait of the Grown-Up Dork as a Young Dork"
Boyle is famous now not because she has an incredible singing voice - which, let's face it, she hasn't; she has a good singing voice and that rare but not unknown talent of possessing perfect pitch - but because she is aesthetically "displeasing" (she is over 25, doesn't appear to have great knowledge of personal grooming and looks much older than her real age - 47). Irish Blogs
This hill, or rather cluster of hills, is surrounded on one side by a reach of Cork Harbour, over which it looks in the most advantageous manner; and on the other by an irriguous vale, through which flows the river Glanmire; the opposite shore of that river has every variety that can unite to form pleasing landscapes for the views from Dunkettle grounds; in some places narrow glens, the bottoms of which are quite filled with water, and the steep banks covered with thick woods that spread a deep shade; in others the vale opens to form the site of a pretty cheerful village, overhung by hill and wood: here the shore rises gradually into large inclosures, which spread over the hills, stretching beyond each other; and there the vale melts again into a milder variety of fields. A Tour in Ireland 1776-1779
I am told that Lucy Ringwood promises to possess all that fascination so pleasing to your sex in ours, and which peculiarized her lovely mother. Romance Readers and Romance Writers: a Satirical Novel
-- Ipley crooned a ready accompaniment: the sleepers had been awakened: the women and the men were alive, half-dancing, half-chorusing here a baby was tossed, and there an old fellow's elbow worked mutely, expressive of the rollicking gaiety within him: the whole length of the booth was in a pleasing simmer, ready to overboil with shouts humane and cheerful, while Sandra Belloni — Volume 2
I enter into confession, I most humbly beseech you, that you would vouchsafe (in this distresse) to assist me with your fatherly advice and counsell, because, if thereby I cannot attaine to a more pleasing kinde of happinesse; neither confessior, or any thing else, is able to doe me any good at all. The Decameron
And that whatever action can have no effect either upon one's self, or any other person, and is neither pleas - ing nor displeasing to God, cannot be called cither virtu - ous or vicious. The Dignity of Human Nature, Or, A Brief Account of the Certain and Established Means for ...
The coloring looks good throughout, always vibrant and always pleasing to the eye.
Mr Magell served as president of Blackburn Rotary Club, was a keen golfer at Pleasington Golf Club, and did lots of work for charity.
You can stain the wood with this special liquid to give it a pleasing color.
Balmawhapple, has craved of my age and experience, as of one not wholly unskilled in the dependencies and punctilios of the duello or monomachia, to be his interlocutor in expressing to you the regret with which he calls to remembrance certain passages of our symposion last night, which could not but be highly displeasing to you, as serving for the time under this present existing government. Waverley
According to The tenants of Shinto, all White animals are sacred Kami spirits that you mess with at the peril of displeasing the Gods. Would You Keep an Albino Gamefish?
The preyful princess piercd and prickd a pretty pleasing pricket; Act IV. Scene II. Love’s Labour’s Lost
Leonard Cohen performed a pleasing, truncated version of his lengthy show captured on his new "Live in London" (Sony) CD, while Booker T. Jones, backed by the Drive-By T.uckers, performed tunes from his new album "Potato Hole" (ANT.) and classics originally recorded with the MGs. Coachella Is a Dance Party
Mutual good humour is a dress we ought to appear in wherever we meet, and we should make no mention of what concerns ourselves, without it be of matters wherein our friends ought to rejoice: but indeed there are crowds of people who put themselves in no method of pleasing themselves or others; such are those whom we usually call indolent persons. The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant
I only discoursed on that pleasing subject because news is scarce.
The Scotchman was the best supported, for his manners were pleasing, and his willingness to oblige infinite. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
Elliott Carter's rippling toccata "Catenaires," composed in 2006 when he was in his late 90s he recently celebrated his 102nd birthday, formed a pleasing diptych with the Ligeti and had in pianist Audrey Andrist a performer just as technically daring. On the Verge of experimental dissolution
The thought of EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson meeting a grisly end in the Brussels public toilet where he hoped to seek refuge from the inexorable advance of pitiless technology is not unpleasing.
Here is a pleasingly provocative collision of two aesthetics, both juxtaposed and, in four plainchant pieces, superimposed. Times, Sunday Times
As long as the shape and style of the piece is pleasing, quality furniture is worth re-covering.
Detail is sharp and clear, contrast is nicely managed, and deep black levels make this pleasing to behold - visually.
Some of the things that irritate you about him are also very pleasing at the same time.
There was not a moment when the show was not pleasing.
Yet Nature hath given us a sufficient demonstration, in creating our bodies more soft and delicate, yea, and our hearts timorous, fearefull, benigne and compassionable, our strength feeble, our voyces pleasing, and the motion of our members sweetly plyant: all which are apparant testimonies, that wee have neede of others government. The Decameron
There is a pleasing symmetry to the preparation of this dish. Times, Sunday Times
It will form here-after a pleasing incident in the annals of our Union, giving to real history the intense interest of romance and signally marking the unpurchasable tribute of a great nation's social affections to the disinterested champion of the liberties of human-kind. State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
If you struggle with self-love, perfectionism, or chronic People Pleasing, you might be a codependent.
(Raynox 0. 66x, or a Raynox 0. 3x fisheye) The 0. 66x gives a bit wider view then the normal lens on the camera, but the 0. 3x fisheye gives a full view of the rooms and seems more pleasing as it shows how big everything is, but then you can notice the fisheye is a bit distorted and I'm not sure if realtors would like/not like that so I'm not sure which one to get. News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)
You sit at sky-blue tables on lawned or cobbled terraces there's a covered pavilion for wet days; the food is fresh, hearty and cooked to order by farmer's wife Nikki Exton – who manages to juggle gardening with lambing, growing herbs and salad leaves, making chutneys, baking cakes and dishing up crowd-pleasing meals. West Dorset's top 10 budget eats
Three years ago you gave a pleasing illustration of "_the Amusements of May_," and at the same time lamented the decrease of village festivity and rural merriment, which in days langsyne cheered the honest hearts and lightened the daily toil of our rustic ancestors. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 379, July 4, 1829
Kubrick was all about making marmoreal masterworks, not pleasing mortals with morsels of wish-fulfillment fantasy.
The cherry tree bushed out so much that it produced very little fruit, but the foliage itself had a pleasing abundance to it.
The organ score accompanying the film sounds quite pleasing.
Does the dome have a pleasing aesthetic quality or is it mushroomed, flattened, or split open?
I agree the tunnel would be the most ascetically pleasing option, but I'm pretty sure they could change any ordinance if they needed to. Sound Politics: Mayor Gridlock
Eileen Lavender is celebrating her fiftieth year, and the evergreen director's golden anniversary production opened last night to a pleasingly busy house.
The participants would be bringing aesthetically pleasing furniture suitable for those living in tiny accommodations.
This area of France has a pleasing climate in August.
The house is plain, simple, and inconveniently small; but doors and walls are great luxuries, and you cannot imagine how pleasing the ways of a refined European household are after the eternal babblement and indecorum of the Japanese. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
The small, delicately outlined figures grouped together in large, unshaded expanses of background space and the subtle colouring create a pleasing sense of lightness and formal balance, but the air of decadence is inescapable.
The result is a conflict of rhythms, a kind of syncopation, which produces a very pleasing variant of the formal rhythm. The Principles of English Versification
If I was committed to pleasing publishers instead of telling my opinion, wouldn't I also "inflate" my review grade, too? New Blog Name: Cowardly Book News & Reviews
Lock-back knives have almost always been plain and black, but this time the aluminum handles are anodized to a pleasing blue color and tastefully embellished with a little scroll-work.
Manfred had already argued a difficult position with a compelling mix of conviction and crowd-pleasing humor. AMAGANSETT
A surface function that is sinusoidal at the bottom and grades smoothly to a straight course of bricks at the top gives a pleasing curtain effect. Wolfram Blog : Designing the Brick Wall of the Future
This is knowledge pleasingly imparted and well worth having. Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps it wasn't as aesthetically pleasing as those other contenders. The Sun
When pressing down the push button, it will make pleasing sound to confirm the operational success.
The symmetry is pleasing, at the end of a narrative that is bracing, adventurous, touched by surprises, perfectly balanced and completely engrossing.
As far as audio goes, the Dolby Digital 2.0 mono track is pleasingly energetic, distinct, and easy to discern.
Of so very many things, of failure, of displeasing, of not understanding, of not being equal and even worrying how my switchy feelings may get in the way of it all. June 1st, 2004
In art it is often the departures from symmetry that are aesthetically pleasing or disturbing, and in science those same asymmetries are both revealing and informative.
Both are neatly finished to a pleasing soft luster.
This pleasing effect softens the hard steel lines and shields the precipitous drop to the road below. Times, Sunday Times
A nude wearing baroque (antique) gold jewellery (and nothing else) is aesthetically much more pleasing than a completely nude woman or one wearing both jewellery and clothes, presumably because the homogeneity and smoothness of the naked skin contrasts sharply with the ornateness and rich texture of the jewellery. The Cognitive Science of Art: Ramachandran's 10 Principles of Art, Principles 1-3
Bright colours and clear bold graphics make the menu practical and aesthetically pleasing.
For though one should speak ten thousand words well, if there happen to be one little word displeasing to you, because not sufficiently intelligible or accurate, you make no account of the many good words, but lay hold of the little word, and are very zealous in setting it up as something impious and guilty; in order that, when you are judged with the very same judgment by God, you may have a much heavier account to render for your great audacities, whether evil actions, or bad interpretations which you obtain by falsifying the truth. ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
And how about those of you on this site that think of yourself as an actual authentic christian, stop trash talking people like Pat Robinson and try posting something pleasing to Jesus, and let those without sin throw the first stone. Matthew Yglesias » Did Haiti Form a Pact With the Devil?
It is pleasing to note it will celebrate its tri-centenary this year.
A quick-tempered man will react more aggressively to an unpleasing situation than a placid one.
Overall, though, music reproduction is clear and not unpleasing.
In short, the film is a pleasingly inoffensive diversion in which Philip Seymour Hoffman, in the guise of splenetic gonzo rock journalist Lester Bangs, almost steals the show.
Gratitude is the best attitude. There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance. Joseph Addison
Some of the old Turkish bath houses are still operating and are as aesthetically pleasing as they are physically soothing.

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