The pleasantness of a cool breeze on a hot summer day. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The world does the reverse, thinking that nothing does you good unless it hurts: pleasantness is suspect. From Wordnik.com. [On Experience, Part Two « So Many Books] Reference
She was friendly, friendlier than when I'd first showed up in Personnel, but behind the pleasantness was a definite reserve. From Wordnik.com. [Timegod's World]
How much 'pleasantness' and attentiveness should be required, beyond good 'personal skills'?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-06-29] Reference
They come up to gallery requirements by their "pleasantness" or the inoffensiveness of their style. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
Thou, who surpassest all the fair in pleasantness. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
That kind of pleasantness will get you fired mister!. From Wordnik.com. [Kranepool Society :: A New York Mets Blog] Reference
Ocular monitoring suggested they also experienced more "pleasantness" during those interactions. From Wordnik.com. [Ars Technica]
Now, opposite to Thabor, and a mile and a half north of Endûr (doubtless the Biblical Endor), lies a village called Naîn ( "pleasantness"). From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
How do we measure the "pleasantness" of Broadway, now that the workers in that area can enjoy more open space in which to eat their lunch or finish their book?. From Wordnik.com. [DMI Blog] Reference
There is no suggestion of pleasantness about Newgate. From Wordnik.com. [A Girl Among the Anarchists] Reference
"We'll all go," cried Arlee, with instant pleasantness. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Darkened Windows] Reference
In the ways of the Lord I shall have feasts of "pleasantness.". From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
Her ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace. From Wordnik.com. [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference
May her ways be ways of pleasantness and all her paths be peace!. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
Her ways were ways of pleasantness, and all her paths were peace. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference
All the pleasantness in Paul's face vanished again, and he looked at. From Wordnik.com. [High Noon A New Sequel to 'Three Weeks' by Elinor Glyn] Reference
Being tempted by the pleasantness of the place, he walked there a while. From Wordnik.com. [The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01] Reference
Many were convinced, and this did not add to the pleasantness of our lot. From Wordnik.com. [The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland] Reference
Rhone, and is surrounded by hills, which give it pleasantness and effect. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808] Reference
This change has given to the ground the harmony and pleasantness of a park. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867] Reference
My troubles just vanish and every living, breathing pleasantness comes to the fore. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
We praised our nativity-caster's pleasantness, and he went on then again: The whole. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter] Reference
But the feeling of tones is something more than mere pleasantness; it is also a mood. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
Its pleasantness had a charm that stole him from his anxious fear and melancholy memories. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
Mandeville's short curls and emphasizing all the cosiness and pleasantness of her surroundings. From Wordnik.com. [The Pleasant Street Partnership A Neighborhood Story] Reference
She addressed it as if there were an intelligence back of the vacuous pleasantness of the young face. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
Heaven may be said to lie upward, yet 'its ways are ways of pleasantness, and all its paths are peace.'. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
Amidst the pleasantness of the scene, there was something missing from the feel of the area: inhabitants. From Wordnik.com. [The Revolutions of Time] Reference
His voice had of a sudden gained a sterner accent; the pleasantness of his aspect became clouded by a frown. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
To speak of KINDS of pleasure is to mean KINDS OF EXPERIENCE which have the common attribute of pleasantness. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
What struck me in her taste was that there was nothing bizarre, everything breathed of youth and pleasantness. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
New York 99 noise 12 noisy 6 park 1 pavement 1 people 48 place 37 pleasantness 1 populated 2 population 19 populous 1. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Association in Insanity] Reference
Anglo-Saxon poetry depended for its pleasantness to the ear, not on rhyme as does ours, but on accent and alliteration. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
It was assumed by the Greeks that the ways of nature were 'the ways of pleasantness,' and that 'all her paths' were 'peace.'. From Wordnik.com. [Guide to Stoicism] Reference
For cure of heart-ache, he suggested the pleasantness of garden nooks, and the repose that lingers about a dew-sprinkled lawn. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
She looked deep enough to find the pleasantness we didn't know was there because we'd covered it up with so much disagreeableness. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Rose of Mifflin] Reference
True, we often think of the quality of pleasantness as inhering in the things we enjoy, and speak of troubles and sorrows as objective. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
It was now early evening, and the temperance of twilight, with its soft and mellow splendors, only increased the pleasantness of the area. From Wordnik.com. [The Revolutions of Time] Reference
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