Sentence examples for almost pleased from inspiring English sources

Lieutenant Callaghan sounds almost pleased to notice a familiar face on the train.

He seemed almost pleased to have lost the game and won the argument.

The company's stock price barely flinched during the speed-skating collapse, and Plank seemed almost pleased to have some new inspiration for his pep talks.

Would you be able to help?" "Of course," I replied, flattered by having been mistaken for a Spaniard, and almost pleased to be of some help.

When I met Gunn first in San Francisco in the early 1990s, he seemed amused, almost pleased, at how little known he was, compared to Allen Ginsberg in America or Ted Hughes and Philip Larkin in England.

In one photograph, a woman in a milliner's shop bites her lip in appraisal of the hat on her head, looking almost pleased with what she sees in a mirror.

She will be one of those most pleased by Mr Cameron's offer of a free vote and is almost certain to take him up on it.

And everyone else around was smiling, looking almost as pleased as I was.

This convention almost invariably pleased audiences, because it also demonstrated the magic of movies — the kids so extraordinarily resembled the adult actors they would turn into.

This generation of digicams, I'm almost tearfully pleased to report, makes it extremely simple to transfer the photos to your computer.

"I was almost proud and pleased to be involved in the occasion.