Without it, Deford would be introducing himself with a straightforward, rhythmically pleasing, conversational, scene-setting declaration.
Using the more straightforward "please" in a sentence can be more effective in making people click a button online, according to new research from Facebook.
No straightforward victory, please, we're British.
Ros? said the ritual was "pretty straightforward" to please the god Legba, or Elegua, as he is variably known.
No dissembling, please -- just a straightforward answer.
"I e-mailed a blunt question: 'I believe that Robert Galbraith is in fact J. K. Rowling, and will you please come back with a straightforward answer?' " he related.
It's lightly tannic and not especially complex, but deliciously straightforward and pleasing.
Fratelli Alessandria Barolo San Lorenzo 2004 $52 ** 1/2 Straightforward and pleasing with aromas and flavors of flowers, cherries and earth.
Partly it was the sense of chaos that always surrounded this group, which has long preferred entertaining disruption over straightforward crowd pleasing.
And seafood salad, a cool melange of shrimp, scallops, calamari and scungilli in a light marinade of celery, lemon and just the right dose of oil and garlic could not have been more straightforward or pleasing.
Gilb himself had a stroke in 2009, and the story that opens the collection, "please, thank you," appears to be a straightforward personal account.
