"Our brides weren't sure they were appropriate, but then they saw them in the royal wedding coverage and became pleased with the choice.
I became pleased with my new setup — until, walking briskly, I got to a corner where a puddle was obscuring the height of the lip of the curb.
However, he chose to continue participating in the study, and during the subsequent quarter he qualified for the incentive, and became pleased with the intervention.
Punctuated at the start by deafening percussion, the music dispenses its own kind of greyness, with a heavily muted orchestra and muffled offstage choir creating unisons and glissandi at an equally glacial pace, yet this gradually becomes pleasing to the ear.
But even as Kitty Hawk gave way to Tailhook, and aviation became commonplace — please return your seat-back trays to their upright and locked positions — a certain novelty has endured.
"In the Union Square Cafe manual we instruct the waiters to ask, 'Ice water or mineral water?' If mineral water is proposed first, it becomes about pleasing or disappointing the waiter.
The old signs still survive in some Manhattan neighborhoods, but, like redwood forests and watermelons with seeds, they are vanishing fast, and once you're aware that they're doomed, the preëmptive nostalgia takes hold, and they become as pleasing to the eye as lobster boats.
Since when your headaches have being became daily (please note year and month)?
Ecclesiastical practices, festivals, claims about miracles and revelations, are thus inessential to our salvation, not part of what we must do in order to become "well pleasing to God".
Goddess Chandika Jayasundara took the slain heads of the two demons to goddess Kaushiki, who became immensely pleased.
