"It pleased us, the general excitement in the air in 1969," Serena says early on, and again, not many pages later: "A seedy, careless insurrection was in the air".
Laid on that golden outer lid was a tiny wreath of flowers, as it pleased us to think, the last farewell offering of the widowed girl queen to her husband.
It pleases us to provide a solution for our customers.
It pleases us; and so, by Our own impulse, We command".
"It pleases us to make people happy," said Mrs. Saponara, adding shyly, "Some even say we're better than the Bronx".
… The world from which fairy tales and folk tales emerged has largely vanished, and although it pleases us to think of these stark, simple, fantastic narratives as timeless, they aren't.
Whether it pleases us or not, there will always be a third of the electorate prepared to support a platform of public service cuts, draconian asylum laws and hostility to Europe.
If in this view it pleases us, we are tolerably satisfied… if we are doubtful about it, we are often, upon that very account, more anxious to gain their approbation, and … we are altogether distracted at the thoughts of their censure, which then strikes us with double severity (Smith 1982, p. 109).
"It pleases us," the Daesh fighter tweeted later, after reading LaPierre's response, "that Mr. LaPierre keeps using such highly-charged rhetoric meant only to incite fear in Americans because that is literally the same reason we carry out terror attacks.
We weren't aware of the promise of Olympia's K Records (only a privileged few had heard the first Beat Happening album in 1985), the depth of their sweetness and refusal to follow rock's usual macho path, but if we had been, it would have pleased us.
This is the second record from the reunited Dolls, in a sense a sophomore release behind "One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This," from 2006, and it's the first of the band's second phase to be produced by Todd Rundgren, who was behind the boards for the band's epochal 1973 debút.
