pleasingly

How To Use pleasingly In A Sentence

• I slog tonight so that the next day's slog will seem marginally less Sisyphean - and so the Teachout Museum, also known as my living room, won't look unpleasingly messy when I stroll through it in the morning on the way to the shower.
• I, for one, am quite ready for a pleasingly intimate and low-key affair.
• This is knowledge pleasingly imparted and well worth having. Times, Sunday Times
• On Night Waves on Thursday night, Philip Dodd took Blair to task in pleasingly highbrow Radio 3 style, pointing out that Blair's memoir, A Journey, is "marinated" in religion, as well as being obsessed with movement. Rewind radio: Evan Loves Tax; Tony Livesey; Night Waves
• The pâté, pleasingly thick with a hint of orange, was cheerfully presented and came with a healthy helping of salad and grapes.
• Himself a rational pleasurist, as being much too wise to be asham'd of the pleasures of humanity, loved me indeed, but loved me with dignity; in a mean equally remov'd from the sourness, of forwardness, by which age is unpleasingly characteriz'd, and from that childish silly dotage that so often disgraces it, and which he himself used to turn into ridicule, and compare to an old goat affecting the frisk of a young kid. Fanny Hill, Part X (second letter)
• And that under-powered engine is pleasingly tractable on the slippery stuff.
• o 'faddling fictions as -- gestes of jongleurs, tales told by tramping troubadours, ballades of babbling braggarts, romances of roysterous rhymers, she (good gossip!) as I say, having hearkened to and perused the works of such-like pelting, paltry prosers and poets wherein sweep of sword and lunge o' lance is accompted of worthier repute than the penning of dainty distich and pretty poesies pleasingly passionate. The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
• Over-detailed political memoirs were frowned upon as being both rather treacherous and unpleasingly venal. Times, Sunday Times
• It's pleasingly literary without being pretentious; plot is in no way sacrificed to prose.