The liveliness and pleasingness of dark eyes- T.N. Carver. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a pleasing performance. From Dictionary.com.
Doubtless the painter had noticed the pleasingness of such reflections, as repeating the human form, the supreme object of interest; but the interest stopped there. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864] Reference
Cromwell himself, however great a man, was displeased to think that his warts and wrinkles had been found less inimical to pleasingness of aspect, than might have been looked for. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 534, February 18, 1832] Reference
Of grace and pleasingness he became more and more careless, until he who at twenty had carved the lovely angel of S. Domenico, came at last to make all his men prize-fighters and his women viragos. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864] Reference
He got up and, as he absorbed the situation, his self-knowledge assured him that he would undertake to deal with it — the old fatal pleasingness, the old forceful charm, swept back with its cry of “Use me!”. From Wordnik.com. [Tender is the Night] Reference
On the other hand, there was a pleasingness about him that simply had to be used — those who possessed that pleasingness had to keep their hands in, and go along attaching people that they had no use to make of. From Wordnik.com. [Tender is the Night] Reference
To be sure, this very understanding, in itself, knowing the discipline under which they served, its consistency and reality, encouraged them to attempt to achieve perfect pleasingness, with the result that the whip was seldom called for, unless perhaps for the amusement of the master. From Wordnik.com. [Dancer Of Gor]
It is 'the pleasingness of apparently equal differences.'. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference
That such pleasingness would reside for her in any man astonished her. From Wordnik.com. [The Game] Reference
It is not the pleasingness or suitableness of a doctrine to our tempers or interests, 107. nor, 2. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.] Reference
As first negatively; it is not the pleasingness or suitableness of a doctrine to our tempers or interests, that can vouch it to be true. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.] Reference
Some of them were pretty, and none had any defect in person, to take off from that general pleasingness which attends youth and innocence. From Wordnik.com. [A Description of Millenium Hall And the Country Adjacent Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants and Such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections As May Excite in the Reader Proper Sentiments of Humanity, and Lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue] Reference
It is good also to add respectful submissions to the pleasingness of your discourse, with tender embraces, and all the marks of that consideration and goodwill you have for the person of him whom you thus correct. From Wordnik.com. [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 16] Reference
This assertion that adultery is more venial than mental unfitness is reiterated in another place, with a bold addition: "Adultery does not exclude her other fitness, her other pleasingness; she may be otherwise loving and prevalent.". From Wordnik.com. [The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649] Reference
This assertion that adultery is more venial than mental unfitness is reiterated in another place, with a bold addition: “Adultery does not exclude her other fitness, her other pleasingness; she may be otherwise loving and prevalent.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of John Milton]
Lorraine had taught her how to dress - an art of far deeper significance than many women trouble to realise; and wherever Hal went, if she did not create a sensation, at least she carried a dinstinction and pleasingness that were rarely overlooked. From Wordnik.com. [Winding Paths] Reference
However there was diffused over the roughness of the sentiments a charm which led the ear, and his own character intermingled with it gave to the dignity of his address a certain pleasingness and placidity, that were not ill calculated to win men's favour. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Lives Volume III.] Reference
His stature was somewhat above the middle size; his constitution strong; his air had a mixture of pleasingness and majesty; he was fresh-coloured, had a large forehead, a well-proportioned nose; his eyes were blue, but piercing and lively; his hair and beard of a dark chesnut; his continual labours had made him gray betimes; and in the last year of his life, he was grizzled almost to whiteness. From Wordnik.com. [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 16] Reference
God-pleasingness, and God-likeness. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John] Reference
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