The room was pleasingly large. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a pleasing performance. From Dictionary.com.
They are young, fair, and simple, and pleasingly shy. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
His new woollen tights pulled pleasingly over his knees. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
The blue dress swayed pleasingly about her hips and legs. From Wordnik.com. [Truly]
The handling model is fun and the visuals pleasingly sparse. From Wordnik.com. [Ten essential Google Android games] Reference
The "human touch" is pleasingly apparent throughout the book. From Wordnik.com. [Education and the Higher Life] Reference
Broken Social Scene played a pleasingly sprawling set Monday night. From Wordnik.com. [In concert: Broken Social Scene at Warner Theatre] Reference
His exchequer was palpably swollen, and more pleasingly than his phiz. From Wordnik.com. [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
Business was good in the city, and his was pleasingly above the average. From Wordnik.com. [The Players] Reference
The violent world of cities such as Strathbane seemed pleasingly remote. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Scriptwriter]
The leaves are stout, shining, and leathery, and ofttimes pleasingly bronzed. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference
The dance, thus pleasingly accompanied, was called the Dance of Peace and Joy. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands] Reference
It suggests celery in flavor, but is sweeter and is even more pleasingly fragrant. From Wordnik.com. [Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses] Reference
Hindooism is more fantastic, and less pleasingly endeared to us, than the paganism of. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843] Reference
The Mission style of architecture is pleasingly exemplified in the California Building. From Wordnik.com. [An Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition] Reference
"It is pleasingly written, and the scientific information is correct and well selected.". From Wordnik.com. [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference
Not only was it light, pleasingly designed, and tastefully decorated, but it was also clean. From Wordnik.com. [No Man's Mistress]
She was not what is esteemed a striking beauty, but her appearance was pleasingly interesting. From Wordnik.com. [Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father] Reference
And so it proved, in a pleasingly neat confirmation of how the intruders came and went unnoticed. From Wordnik.com. [Locked Rooms]
In addition to her prettiness, Harriet Westbrook had a vivacious manner and talked quite pleasingly. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference
The mutual sorrows of Rama and Sita in their state of separation are pleasingly and tenderly expressed. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from the Hindu Dramatists] Reference
The dusky pink and moss-green colors of the room's furnishings and draperies blended pleasingly together. From Wordnik.com. [One Night for Love]
"Lady Delacour," whose habits and fashions are so pleasingly described in that admirable novel, "Belinda.". From Wordnik.com. [As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century] Reference
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co. All these little books are very prettily printed and very pleasingly bound. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
Global warming can engender such polar positions because the actuality of the subject is so pleasingly nebulous. From Wordnik.com. [A House Of Cards] Reference
I took a swallow of the dark beer in my glass and found it filled the mouth pleasingly, rich with yeast and hops. From Wordnik.com. [The Moor]
Fleur Marlowe had big gray eyes that tilted pleasingly and long fair hair and Casey thought she was about her age. From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
The foliage is truly handsome, short, finely toothed, rolled back, pleasingly wrinkled, and of a pale green colour. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference
Willie '-- and my father's social good-nature, are pleasingly recalled to me by Macindoe's verses, rough as they are. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
During this year, the avocations of Lord Lovat's turbulent leisure were pleasingly varied by the cares of a love suit. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
Clear streams of water ran coolly and pleasingly by the sides of the streets, shaded by the ubiquitous weeping-willow. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland] Reference
Samit Patel has cruised pleasingly to 21 from 19 balls, and Yorkshire are bringing on Adil Rashid for his first twirl of the match. From Wordnik.com. [County cricket – as it happened] Reference
And along with in-demand jazz session man Shahzad Ismaily, Sean Lennon lays down some pleasingly dirty guitar and fierce percussion. From Wordnik.com. [Numero Ono] Reference
Well, this is the story of Julian Treslove, once of the BBC (pleasingly satirised) and now making a living as a celebrity lookalike. From Wordnik.com. [The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson] Reference
But the arts, through their beauty of form, may present pleasingly objects, emotions, ideas, not in themselves beautiful or pleasing. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
The pleasingly persuasive voice of her ladyship, delivering the manly sentiments of his lordship, made no impression on the cardinal. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2] Reference
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