Example sentences for: pleasingly

How can you use “pleasingly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Individual performances are said to be inspired; the card hall settings are said to be gritty; the dialogue is said to be pleasingly peppered with poker jargon--but the film is deemed "unable to do justice to its potential" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). Objections: a sluggish plot and a predictable setup.

  • He was invoking the vicious and sinister qualities that make weasels (along with stoats and ferrets) such satisfying villains in Kenneth Grahame's Wind in the Willows , and such pleasingly greasy stooges in David Letterman's epithet "record industry weasels."

  • This higher plant/cyanobacteria relationship is pleasingly consistent with the endosymbiotic hypothesis of organelle evolution.

  • It is, of course, the juxtaposition of childish amusements and adult ornamentation that makes this list so pleasingly perverse.

  • On Husemannstraße, a number of buildings from the age of Kaiser Wilhelm II have been pleasingly restored.


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