Sentence examples similar to a pleasing sentiment from inspiring English sources

According to Hume, "morality is determined by sentiment" and virtue is "whatever mental action or quality gives to a spectator the pleasing sentiment of approbation" (ECPM 85); "virtue … is a quality of the mind agreeable to or approved by everyone, who considers or contemplates it" (ECPM 68).

Book 1 tends toward open drama and pleasing sentiment.

That's not what you'd call a standard crowd-pleasing sentiment.

So although critics issue judgments of taste based on their own sentiments, a judgment of taste must involve something more than a pleasing or displeasing sentiment.

After naming social hierarchy the "true moral equality" that binds a polity together, Mr Burke identified it as a "pleasing illusion" which makes "power gentle and obedience liberal" and ushers "into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society".

But then took a visitor aside to offer a sober sentiment: "Please tell America we feel very sorry for happened on Sept. 11, because thousands of innocent people were killed.

The repetition pleasing, the sentiment mysteriously loaded.

I am not in the business of forcing people to change their beliefs or to announce theologically inaccurate statements to please public sentiment.

Nothing would please Lucius more than a good ethnic cleansing, a sentiment seconded by an evil spirit deep within the endless interiors of Hogwarts.

Please pity me a shy sentiment of a school boy, who in sending his thesis to his master.

It may not be strong medicine, but it delivers an effective, pleasing dose of pure sentiment and vicarious heartache.