"It wasn't a pleasant fact, but I didn't see what I could do about it.
Still, Legend's presence reiterated a pleasant fact about the N.B.A.'s impressive, and continuing, rise in popularity: that it has occurred without a departure from the basic and quite overtly acknowledged understanding, on the part of the league, that its core fan base is largely black, located in cities, and uncommonly attuned to the twin velocities of popular culture and the Internet.
But it is not a very pleasant fact; is it not essentially a weakness of vitality, a kind of failure - life failing to appreciate itself, hating itself because it cannot appreciate the splendour of its own fate?
The camels are in the cast of a Christmas show at a famous theater, and word has spread that they take morning constitutionals along 51st Street, though representatives of the theater seem to regard this pleasant fact as a national security secret.
Aside from the stunning location and the pleasant fact that Alberta's economy is going up rather than down, the participants were eager to share their leadership lessons.
"While the Fed's rule is a pleasant surprise, the fact remains Congress prohibited banks from recouping their costs associated on their own product," said Richard Hunt, president of the Consumer Bankers Association.
It was such a pleasant day, in fact, that we were for a while accompanied by a flock of magpies and by a banded racing pigeon that seemed to have gone AWOL.
It is in fact a pleasant plight.
By Richard Armour The New Yorker, July 8 , 1950 P. 64It is in fact a pleasant plight View Article By Jelani Cobb By Joan Acocella By David Remnick By Jia Tolentino.
Many people regard the line of carriage horses outside the Plaza as a pleasant anachronism, but in fact they are the center of one of New York's longest and bitterest political feuds.
No one can blame the author for taking such a pleasant gig, but the fact that it is so willed an enterprise shines through at every turn, with Banks desperate for anything to amuse the reader: disquisitions on smoking, drugs, book tours, car parks, curries and wine all seem less like elegant digressions than diversionary tactics.
