Sentence examples for if not pleasant from inspiring English sources

Nowadays, the region's town centres are safer, if not pleasant, places to stroll through, and Mr Ocalan's guerrillas, probably down to around 4,000 inside Turkey and 3,500 outside, operate in smaller groups than before.This success is due partly to the eviction, between 1992 and 1995, of Kurdish inhabitants from more than 3,000 villages.

But, while it's not a revolutionary price, it is in line with current (non-4G) models, so it seems a logical (if not pleasant, given the whole "next-gen" thing) price point.

I think people who actually know me might even describe me as being tolerant if not pleasant.

For over half a century, Candlestick Park has been one of the most famous and recognizable, if not pleasant or attractive, buildings in San Francisco, but it will be demolished sometime in the coming months or years.

So I must drink, even if it's not pleasant at all," Chi explains.

Yet it has conducted foreign relations since the revolution of 1979 in a way that seems perfectly rational even if it is not pleasant.

It wasn't really planned to shape up as a themed column, but sometimes we can only respond to what we're seeing, even if it's not pleasant.

"Directors of listed companies have duties and obligations toward us — to tell us the truth, all the truth and nothing but the truth, even if it is not pleasant to hear," Didier Cornardeau, chairman of a shareholders' lobbying group, told reporters at the court.

I'll push it through for a year, even if it's not pleasant, as long as it does some good.

They nag because they love you, even if this way is not pleasant at all.

Let's be clear: Rejection is not pleasant, even if it can fuel creativity, which is why it's important to investigate other environmental conditions that can simulate the experience of rejection without actually making the person go through such a painful experience.