Sentence examples for apt to please from inspiring English sources

Except his roof was not deemed to have quite the level of architectural pizzazz required, and was slammed in the New York Times as "a banally tasteful vision of modernity that is apt to please those who are pathologically averse to risk".

This decision would be more apt to please the parent and grandparent vote.

There was also, at the entrance to the farm, a disinfectant foot bath with a sign above it whose message struck some observers as less biologically than metaphorically apt: "For biodiversity reasons please step into foot bath before proceeding".

In his eagerness to please and impress the stepmother (who, in apt fairy-tale style, is identified that way in the credits), Zhao magnanimously offers to hire Wu to work as a masseuse in his imaginary hotel.

To please everybody is to please nobody".

In short, he is more apt to strike out in any direction he pleases than to prove a point and remain wedded to it.

"The young bureaucrat-in-training" is apt to learn "that success comes not from pleasing the audience but from placating his superiors until that time it is reasoned effective to betray them".

If, in the near future, a grinning robot should walk up to you at a party and say, "Hi, my name is Bob; pleased to meet you," you'd be apt to cut it some slack and assume that it really is on some level and in some way–"pleased".

Progress, however, is apt to come slowly.

That is not apt to happen.

We're not apt to disagree.