Sentence examples for playing pleasant from inspiring English sources

A fellow I must confess I had never heard of before, Billy Bragg, was playing pleasant folk tunes.

Jesse Smith (Ms. Smith's daughter) on piano and Michael Campbell on homemade marimbas — one with glass bars, one with metal tubes — played pleasant ditties suggesting simplified Philip Glass pieces.

Both groups of plays were revised and published in Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898).

Though there is nothing shabby-looking about this latest take on Shaw's early comedy (the first of his self-described "plays pleasant"), what most frequently comes to mind are amateur productions of Gilbert and Sullivan.

As First Lady, she has her campaign against childhood obesity, and seems to play a pleasant admonitory role in a solid marriage.

Sir James played some pleasant if not very idiomatic Mozart before embarking on a string of Irish encores (including a number on his trusty tin whistle) sprinkled with a crowd-pleasing dose of blarney, which revealed where his heart truly lies.

Talking about sound: Your phone now plays a pleasant little sound when you plug in the charger.

In "Manhattan," Lloyd plays the pleasant Paul Crosley, one of the members of Frank's team.

"When every channel is playing 'Pleasant Goat,' of course it's going to do well".

The second, Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing with Fire, is published this month, with a further seven in the series planned.

It's never particularly pleasant playing people you know, it's not an encounter you look forward to.