Sentence examples for managed to please from inspiring English sources

"In this situation he should have pleased one group or another and he managed to please no one".

It's managed to please fans of the source material while also wooing newcomers – the Koboyashi Maru of balancing acts.

"I think we were always committed, and even if things got a little weird, we reined it in and managed to please the audience".

Omnicom has managed to please enough other clients to propel its stock price to $94.56 last week from a post-Sept.

One recent success, Fargo, managed to please fans of the film by replicating its visual style and dramatic tone, while doing plenty that was new.

At the start, he sat down with important constituencies across the political spectrum — from anti-tax ideologues to the teachers' union — and he crafted the initiative so cleverly that he managed to please nearly all of them.

In practice, however, the debt settlement firms frequently manage to please no one.

When he spits out the word "destiny," he finally manages to please her — momentarily.

Investors want both, but it's unclear how banks will manage to please them if the economy continues to recover sluggishly.

The composer was no longer a hack, he was an ironist who scorned the party he cowardly submitted to; he was a bitter jester — a yurodivy, in Volkov's Russian characterization — managing to please his superiors while mocking them to his knowing listeners, mixing cowardice with daring.

And scepticism is appropriate when this sum is the result of four months' work by NASA, America's space agency, on a project dubbed the 60-day study.Nevertheless, NASA's new plans for a return to the moon manage to please a surprisingly large constituency.