Sentence examples for mostly to please from inspiring English sources

Moran had studied piano since he was six, mostly to please his parents, using the Suzuki method, and he could play Bach and Chopin and Schumann.

After she transferred to the undergraduate law program at the University of Alabama, mostly to please her father, her lack of polish struck some as ill-suited to the judicial decorum she was being trained to observe.

Not since Jacob K. Javits took near-daily flights back to New York City (mostly to please his wife, Marian, who refused to leave Manhattan) have a senator's commuting habits been so carefully documented.

He'd started playing, on a child-size instrument, at the age of four, and although he didn't really enjoy the lessons, he stuck with them, mostly to please his parents.

She dated a boy in high school for three years, mostly to please her parents, and after she ended the relationship he would trail her in his car, and once broke into her parents' home.

Like my colleague A. O. Scott I believe that Mr. Crystal is therefore a perfect host for the show, happy to poke a little fun but mostly eager to please.

While other girls of her class were brought up to bring Father his paper, and then to disappear into silence, Smith was a "wicked, selfish creature" who mostly got to please herself, her eccentricity and determination (useful qualities in a poet) growing exponentially as a result.

There's plenty to do but, mostly, you're left to please yourself.

Sarah Rodman of The Boston Globe felt Cyrus mostly succeeded while "trying to please most of the people most of the time" on Breakout.

She has been trying to please other people, mostly her coaches, ever since.

These are mostly gentle, uncomplicated pictures that aim to please.