Sentence examples for about as pleasant from inspiring English sources

Sitting at this lunch is about as pleasant for him as watching a cockroach crawl up his arm.

In her Leading Off column, Lynn Zinser puts it more colorfully, writing, "their match might be about as pleasant to watch as a livestock auction".

A pipe can jam and play on seemingly forever, much like a stuck car horn and about as pleasant to listen to.

It's not that Victoria Azarenka and Maria Sharapova aren't marvelously talented and lovely, and fighting for the No. 1 ranking, it's that their match might be about as pleasant to watch as a livestock auction.

The "Tuscany style" ham was as wet as a flannel that had been left at the bottom of a full bath for a week — and about as pleasant to eat.

And it's about as pleasant to clean.

And right then, it was about as a pleasant a state as anyone could hope for.

But pleasant is about as far as it goes.

It turns out that without her boisterous Kardashian daughters, Ms. Jenner is poised, pleasant and about as exciting as a Sunday afternoon nap.

I was a blank slate at which someone's sweet, cookie-baking grandmother could toss casual insults phrased as pleasant inquiries about the quality of my day.

Life in New Orleans is all about making the present – this moment, right now – as pleasant as possible.