We were pleasantly surprised by how well we've done when buying appliances, even though energy efficiency wasn't our main criterion – in fact, it wasn't even on the list.
About Bear Stearns, for which JP Morgan predicted $33bn of potential exposure, a former JP Morgan executive was similarly proud in 2008: "we were very pleasantly surprised to see that it was a very well run, tight operation with good risk controls and a risk discipline that was very similar to our own," he said.
The atmosphere of the whole place is pleasantly informal and conducive to rest and relaxation; but there's a busy pedestrianised shopping street just five minutes' walk away, where you can buy excellent local produce very cheaply, and cafés, where you can sit and watch authentic Italian pavement life.
A pleasantly bitter drink, with good tight foam and solid coffee aromas pushing past the milk.
"I was pleasantly surprised when she beat a handful of kids in her class despite what she has gone through.
"We've been pleasantly surprised by the response we've received.
Photographs of the pleasantly colourful contrast of Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano erupting alongside the lights of the aurora borealis provided perhaps the most eye-catching clash in Iceland this week, but it is not the most eagerly anticipated.
Whereas Seoul's and Singapore's offerings are on a more global basis: visitors are very pleasantly surprised at what they find there, it's less 'foreign' than they might have thought.
Mark Fitzpatrick, of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said: "I am surprised – very pleasantly so – that the #IranTalks reached an extensive framework for an agreement.
As Polly Burgin, she made her film debut in a low budget Monogram Western called Across the Rio Grande (1949), in which she portrayed a guitar-playing saloon singer, pleasantly warbling the title song.
The monitor light goes red and you instantly think: 'What am I doing, how can I get it to go back to green?'" Small changes mean money savings Many of the households were pleasantly surprised when they realised that they only needed to make very small changes to make a difference to their consumption and cost.
