Sentence examples for Agreeable to him from inspiring English sources

Quite apart from the awkward fact that the God of the Hebrew Bible clearly enjoys the right kind of burnt offerings (after the flood, Noah's smelled particularly agreeable to Him), one wonders how Eagleton can possibly know that his spectral and not-of-this-world God is also an unneurotic aesthete who may regret His creation, and dislikes the Stars and Stripes.

The Catholic truth is that "God, through His grace, efficaciously forms in us a movement of love, which carries us toward Him and toward what we know is agreeable to Him, for that is the definition that St. Augustine gives of the grace of Jesus Christ, Inspiratio dilectionis, ut cognita sancta amore faciamus".

The master of the house is anxious to entertain his guests; the guests are anxious to be agreeable to him.... Whereas, at a tavern, there is a general freedom from anxiety.

Tocqueville may not personally approve of some elements of this "decadence," but he declares that God is wiser than he is, and "what wounds me is agreeable to him.

It was the mayor who commanded the conversation, expanding on topics that were agreeable to him, like the stories his mother told him about patriotism during World War I and his several visits to Puerto Rico's capital, San Juan, where, he said, there was a fortress with "cannons".

Hughes was also one of the first English writers to appreciate the growing importance of Eastern European writing, which has a severe, existentialist quality agreeable to him, and he was one of the main channels for bringing its influence into the country.

He made himself agreeable to all around him, and his biographers attest that he led a chaste life in this respect uninfluenced by the king.

He said he had played for many years at the commencements of the Girls Latin School in the same auditorium "for a fee of $10 on each occasion". He said if that figure was agreeable to Hopkins, it was to him.

Although Boland is very agreeable to letting his wife leave him, he does not like the idea of divorce.

Jeter, who is usually agreeable to whatever his manager asks him to do, did not make himself available to reporters on Thursday.

Trump, in his tussle with Megyn Kelly of Fox News, and with womankind in general, might also draw comfort from Rousseau's view of "woman" as "specially made to please man," who "must make herself agreeable to man rather than provoke him".