How To Use Pleasingly In A Sentence
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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.
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I, for one, am quite ready for a pleasingly intimate and low-key affair.
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This is knowledge pleasingly imparted and well worth having.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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The pâté, pleasingly thick with a hint of orange, was cheerfully presented and came with a healthy helping of salad and grapes.
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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)
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And that under-powered engine is pleasingly tractable on the slippery stuff.
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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
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Over-detailed political memoirs were frowned upon as being both rather treacherous and unpleasingly venal.
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It's pleasingly literary without being pretentious; plot is in no way sacrificed to prose.
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he made displeasingly cutting remarks about his friends
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The tempos were well judged, the instrumentalists understatedly stylish, and everything was pleasingly well sung.
Times, Sunday Times
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a voice with a pleasingly unforced quality
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Himself a rational pleasurist, as being much too wise to be shamed of the pleasures of humanity, loved me indeed, but loved me with dignity; in a mean equally removed from the sourness, of forwardness, by which age is unpleasingly characterised, 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.
Memoirs of Fanny Hill.
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The name tripped from his tongue as pleasingly as the rainbow sphere delighted his eye.
Nemesis
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All the models wore trainers, which made the collection feel pleasingly low-key.
Times, Sunday Times
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The difference between how we are seen and how we want to be seen, can be unpleasingly large…
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Himself a rational pleasurist; as being much too wise to be ashamed of the pleasures of humanity, loved me indeed, but loved me with dignity; in a mean equally removed from the sourness, of forwardness, by which age is unpleasingly characterized, 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.
Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749)
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Although she remains ambitious and pleasingly plain-spoken, her latest album does not seem to have evolved out of that coffee house from a decade ago, but is still easy on the ears in a very familiar, heard it all before, sort of way.
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An incredibly versatile and pleasingly designed little object.
Times, Sunday Times
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But also, there is something pleasingly atavistic about looking at wildlife through the naked eye.
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So it feels pleasingly apposite that here she is taking on the future.
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The Suite in E minor, BWV 996, is less successful, the thicker texture producing an unpleasingly muddy effect.
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The three basic elements of translation, commentary, and illustration are pleasingly balanced.
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Episodes are pleasingly short but packed with info.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some of them achieve a pleasingly mesmeric effect by their constant repetition of words like ‘match’ or ‘jump’, but to me they might as well be automatic writing.
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The steak arrived in a bowl of Scottish stovies, which were navvie-pleasingly hearty but limply flavoured.
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Miller's stories fold into a pleasingly nasty and perverse piece of pornography.
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The addition of colourful projecting sunblinds layered the facade pleasingly as well as solving the climatic problem.
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For the mention of Asa brought rather unpleasingly before him the stocky and decidedly not well-groomed figure of his younger brother, whom he had not seen in so many years.
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A steamy bowl of country soup made with farro and shreds of savoy cabbage arrived after that, and then a dish of squid salad doused with garlic, soft chickpeas, and a dressing that tasted pleasingly of lemons and tahini.
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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: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
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So it feels pleasingly apposite that here she is taking on the future.
Times, Sunday Times
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So it feels pleasingly apposite that here she is taking on the future.
Times, Sunday Times
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The interior design is pleasingly simple.
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The salver-shaped corolla, which is white, pleasingly tinted with red, has a short tube and five divisions, curiously cornered; the flower is fully ¾in. across, and in its unopened state is hardly less pretty than when blown.
Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
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Pleasingly, the residual thiophenol could be readily removed without silyl ether hydrolysis via passage of the product through a pad of basic alumina.
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This beautiful watering hole sits in a quiet suburban area which is pleasingly free of coachloads of dazed tourists.
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Eileen Lavender is celebrating her fiftieth year, and the evergreen director's golden anniversary production opened last night to a pleasingly busy house.
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This was achieved by turning half away with a repressed sigh so that the onlooker observed the profile which photographed very pleasingly.
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Grandpa Izzy says that Margaret is zaftig, which is Yiddish for pleasingly plump.
The View from Saturday
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He held his broad shoulders erect in a proud military posture, and his soldier garb was pleasingly butch—shined combat boots, a black crewneck pullover with shoulder patches, and camo pants that were fitted around his narrow hips and muscular legs.
Dreams of a Dark Warrior
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Dried salmon and other fish also adorned others, pleasingly hinting of the general honesty and mutual confidence of the humble natives, poor as they were, for strangers were never thought of; the road, such as it was, merely mounting up to "the hill" (the lofty desert of sheepwalk) on one hand, and descending steeply to the river Tivy on the other.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845
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They want to know what makes a particular craft beer pleasingly bitter, why the wine they're drinking is so mellow, what gives their whiskey a smoky flavor.
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The range is described as bodywear, rather than underwear, because it includes pyjama bottoms, wifebeater vests, long johns and T-shirts, all of which also look perfectly nice and pleasingly plain.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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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.
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As far as audio goes, the Dolby Digital 2.0 mono track is pleasingly energetic, distinct, and easy to discern.
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This is knowledge pleasingly imparted and well worth having.
Times, Sunday Times
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Matching up to the standards of their little ones, they were also pleasingly accoutred.
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Here is a pleasingly provocative collision of two aesthetics, both juxtaposed and, in four plainchant pieces, superimposed.
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The walls are pleasingly solid, and the doors hefty wood, with two between the bedroom and the corridor, a boon for light sleepers.
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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.
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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.
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The interior design is pleasingly simple.
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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.
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I was talking about Michael Moore, who just so happens to be, err, unpleasingly plump.
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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.
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Knotty-pine wails, white tablecloths, and a sprinkling of artwork and Western memorabilia create a pleasingly rustic yet romantic ambience.
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For three nights, he performs gigs with comedy chums that promise a pleasingly oddball frisson.
Times, Sunday Times
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pleasingly plump
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An incredibly versatile and pleasingly designed little object.
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Today, his approach seems pleasingly anachronistic.
The Times Literary Supplement
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This is knowledge pleasingly imparted and well worth having.
Times, Sunday Times
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This joyous, soft, ripe, buttery Chardonnay with a pleasingly ripe nutty finish is a bargain at this price.
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The pendant is okay - pleasingly kooky, even - if worn under a jilbab, however.
Times, Sunday Times
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Built incrementally, it was originally a theatre, with a pleasingly symmetrical Italianate colonnaded frontage facing the town's main square.
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the room was pleasingly large
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Since my last visit, a pleasingly spicy Cajun seasoning had been added to the crawdads (a crustacean that looks like a tiny lobster).
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The word mister sounded sharply, yet not unpleasingly, to my ear: it was the first time I had been so designated or so dignified.
Rattlin the Reefer
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Hindooism is more fantastic, and less pleasingly endeared to us, than the paganism of
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843
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A steamy bowl of country soup made with farro and shreds of savoy cabbage arrived after that, and then a dish of squid salad doused with garlic, soft chickpeas, and a dressing that tasted pleasingly of lemons and tahini.
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Pleasingly, the residual thiophenol could be readily removed without silyl ether hydrolysis via passage of the product through a pad of basic alumina.
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The interior design is pleasingly simple.
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For three nights, he performs gigs with comedy chums that promise a pleasingly oddball frisson.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bronze sconces that lined the walls gleamed, furnished with fresh candles, and the side-tables beneath them smelled pleasingly of beeswax.
