Sentence examples for displease me from inspiring English sources

Why would it displease me?

"Some displease me more than others, but none of them really give me any confidence in the future of this country".

(He could jump from Plato's discourse on the divinatory power of dreams to dinner at the castle — "a confusion of meats and a clutter of dishes displease me as much as any other confusion" — and do justice to them both).

He is so considerate of me; doesn't want to displease me.

He started out as a disciple of naturalism; Zola was not impressed when he turned to decadence: "the excessive color of his style displeased me".

As Breton notes: "A woman can be a genius, can embody all the mental qualities I hold dear, yet all it takes is one single physical detail which displeases me for me to lose all interest".

When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me.

When Murray's father died, she wrote to Natalia that he "displeases me and disappoints me, dead, as much as he did in the little I knew him in life," and she appears to have often felt the same about the son.

Just as we are now told that nobody in Littleton saw Harris and Klebold's rampage coming, so Gide's alter ego in the book, a writer who is himself at work on a novel called "The Counterfeiters," takes the story's sudden lurch into violence as a reproach, remarking, "It displeases me to be surprised.

"It is not something that pleases or displeases me.

'What astonishes me most,' Patricol wrote, 'and greatly displeases me in the young man is the extreme care p28 which he takes to hide, the ease with which he disguises, the sentiments of his heart..