But because his decision not to take Bush on directly had the pleasant side effect of preserving his job and his status, it feels, again in retrospect, as if it was another case of Powell being unwilling to do anything that might damage his career.
But that's the view from the pleasant side.
This is the pleasant side of their product.
A refusal to rise to an insult will have the pleasant side-effect ofconfounding your tormentor.
One of the less pleasant side-effects of pool time is the toll that chlorinated water takes on skin and hair.
Of course, there is another, less pleasant, side to the unpredictability of the genre.
The official line is that taxes on tobacco and soda are principally health measures; the extra revenue for the state is but a pleasant side benefit.
A pleasant side effect of all the spending on antiterror technology will be a reduction in crime.
"It has pleasant side effects.
Tire squeal comes on easily around even modest bends, and the steering is on the numb side of pleasant.
