Sentence examples for downright pleasant from inspiring English sources

And when the two men put aside the predictable banter and just sing, it's downright pleasant.

And when the two men put aside the predictable banter and just sing, it's downright pleasant (1 20).

Rip is also the only person allowed to talk back to Lear ("This place gets downright pleasant when you ain't around"), and Mr. Grier brings a welcome warmth and thoughtfulness to the role, mixing resentment and affection.

It may be frightening to imagine being in a Lapin on the turnpike next to an overloaded 18-wheeler with a sleep-deprived driver, but it's downright pleasant to imagine being in one in, say, the parking lot of the train station I use to get to work, Princeton Junction, one of the most crowded in New Jersey.

The second is Frederiksted on St Croix in the US Virgin Islands, another tourist ghetto that has the advantage of being a half-hour taxi ride from the downright pleasant and interesting town of Christiansted (18th-century Danish fort, seaplane terminal, a cool shop called Tesoro that sells weird contemporary art from around the region).

Flying JetBlue is downright pleasant.

And Engleby himself is the most vivid personality Faulks has yet devised - not particularly pleasant, possibly downright evil, but engagingly lucid and disarmingly funny: "My own diagnosis of my problem is simple," he explains.

While I don't want to completely disparage these things — different ears will find them pleasant if not downright cool – the Crushers turn almost everything — from a drama to a bit of dubstep — into a bass-heavy party.

Normally when I smoke pot, I go through a variety of psychological stages ranging from the very pleasant to the downright horrible.

What depresses me about modern movie musicals is that they've become horribly sanitized to appeal to the largest block of viewers, with results that vary from pleasant diversion (Hairspray), to downright, despicably bad (Into the Woods).

Clearly not all customers are pleasant and some are downright surly or difficult, especially when waiting in long queues or holding unrealistic expectations about what your store can offer them.