Sentence examples for and trying to please from inspiring English sources

It isn't about being objectified and trying to please a male audience; it's about representing a sexuality that I felt good about".

Bush is still a 'frat boy', making jokes and trying to please everyone while the Neanderthals behind him push him more to the right.

And I want him to relax and maybe not always be so cute and caring and trying to please me, so that maybe I can pursue him a little myself.

Poirier's new book, "Unsung Heroes of American Industry," is a slender collection of stories about hapless folks engaged in such quixotic pursuits as breeding worms, making pearl buttons and trying to please their parents.

Ms. Wodobode, whose character is from Ghana, said: "If you look at our faces and attitudes during the play, it's not a 'look at me.' We are not grinning and gyrating and trying to please.

Somewhere in my 40s I thought, 'this is exhausting, trying to make it alright for everybody and trying to please everyone all the time.' It doesn't mean you have to turn in and be entirely selfish – it just means you have to stop a little bit of that".

"A lot of designers are scared and try to please their audience," said the pop star Katy Perry, a Scott devotee.

Young children may be compliant and try to please their elders by doing as they're told, filling in blanks and practicing drills.

Maisie says, in every case, more or less what a child would and tries to please the wayward grown-ups around her even as she deflects their efforts to make her feelings answer their needs.

Sensing this, the president took a leaf from his domestic policy book and tried to please everyone.He flattered Turkey with huge amounts of time, and wooed the Greeks with a surprising degree of sympathy on matters of substance.

The staff is nice and tries to please, bringing complimentary openers (shredded pickled vegetables, a steamer of soybeans in the shell or a seaweed salad) and glasses of plum wine at the end of the meal.