Sentence examples similar to pleasant dark from inspiring English sources

The policeman at the desk, the pleasant dark-skinned one, asked why we had not come the day before — he had missed my mother's jollof rice.

His first published novel, Haneʾehovim ve-haneʿimim oder der shvartser yungermantshik (1877; "The Beloved and the Pleasant; or, The Dark Young Man") was a popular success.

The first pleasant surprise was the dark burnished tone the group applied to the opening of Haydn's Quartet in G (Op. 77, No. 1), a courtly work in which a touch of velvet is not amiss, at least in the first two movements, but which also demands an ability to pivot quickly between elegance and forcefulness.

Grilled calamari rounds arrived in a light broth flavored with lemon, olive oil and pale ovals of thin-sliced, pungent garlic; sautéed shrimp with Portuguese sausage was a pleasant yin-yang of dark and light, sweet and smoky, with shards of sautéed garlic softened and sweetened by the heat, then sparked by bright, grassy fresh parsley.

There's certainly an element of that but it's also worth remembering that the first test was played in the 1870s, at the height of the industrial revolution, when England's green and pleasant hills had become dark satanic mills and there was no longer time to roam in pastoral idylls, so test match cricket was, from the beginning, nostalgic.

That means a handsome body and a pleasant cabin with the darker shades and softer sorts of plastics that Europeans prefer.

A pleasant-looking man whose dark, pleading eyes suggest reserves of decency and a deep well of panic, Mr. Carell makes for a markedly different presence from Mr. Adams, a stand-up comic who delivered all his dialogue like one-liners and seemed two jokes and one unfastened brassiere away from a gig at the Playboy Mansion.

Sometimes, in all this dark, it's pleasant to cling to those few yellowish lights, too.

Her last film was the dark, psychological comedy Pleasant Moments (2006).

The backdrop for all this action is a pleasant, cozy storefront defined by dark wood paneling, pink nappery, carpeting, 21st-century ceiling lights, each flanked by two twirling fans, and, at this time of year, an overlay of Easter baskets and bunnies.

He has a quick laugh that brightens a pleasant face surrounded by wild, dark, curly hair.