Sentence examples for built to please from inspiring English sources

This philosophy could generally be extended to Strawberry Hill, which, with his characteristic humorous self-deprecation, Walpole referred to as a "small capricious house, built to please my own taste, and in some degree to realize my own visions" — a statement that hides the true importance of this unique enterprise and its ability to delight and amaze even today.

Alan Gilbert is in the final weeks of his first season as music director of the New York Philharmonic, and whether or not he thinks in terms of having something to prove — it's hard to think of a conductor who would not — his programs seem built to please.

Despite its origins, Fanhattan is built to please media companies and Hollywood studios as much as consumers.

The essential pitch to both New Yorkers and the IOC is that the facilities that would be built to please the IOC would also benefit New Yorkers, and indeed are things that New York should be building anyway, and would if the city could just get off its duff.

The Gothic north portal was said to have been built to please the landowner William Rhodes, who wanted to use one of the towers as a belvedere.

Like the general public, donors react to highly emotionally charged stories that in some cases are built to please them or are told at the expense of the same children they want to protect.

"If you need the facilities you should build them," he says, and he wonders if a track-and-field facility especially one built specifically to please the IOC– is really New York's most pressing need.

In his old age, our ancestor Simon Finch had built it to please his nagging wife, but with the porches all resemblance to ordinary houses of its era ended.

Brian Souter and Rupert Murdoch have flirted with Salmond because they can sniff a small state coming that must, whatever its currency turns out to be, run surpluses and build reserves to please the Bank of England, the European Central Bank and, above all, a market that will punish the tiniest step away from neo-liberal orthodoxy.

On the same panel, Alex Chapman (a leading games lawyer at Sheridans) suggested that while invested projects are built to make money and hopefully please the fans, crowdfunded games are meant to please fans, with profit being optional.

Echo's owner, Jerry Petitt, said he hadn't built the park to please everyone.