Sentence examples for pleasant duties from inspiring English sources

Beginning Jan . 1 a pilot program will relieve some Chicago police officers of one of their less pleasant duties: taking bodies to the county morgue.

One of her pleasant duties in Alaska will be to receive an award from her friend, Edward Albee, for her body of work.

Much of the play is written with an ominously fateful logic that prefigures serious comic writers from Beckett to Joseph Heller: "Aren't there any pleasant duties?" Agnes asks the lawyer.

The young heroine of the more conventional story, derived from Italianate fiction, is wooed by a respectable young aristocrat named Claudio who has won his spurs and now considers it his pleasant duty to take a wife.

Photograph: National Gallery Ten years ago, it was my pleasant duty to serve on the panel of judges for the Charles Wollaston award, given for the most impressive work to be shown in the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy, and to present the prize.

It isn't pleasant duty.

So striking was the orchestral sound produced by Sargent that the press thought he had retouched the scores, and Carte had the pleasant duty of correcting their error.

Earlier one of Gale's more pleasant off-field duties in the three weeks since his verbal spat with Lancashire's Ashwell Prince was to hand Lees, 21, his county cap.

As the "stim schedule" progresses -- a name that makes me picture pleasant flower-arranging duties -- I visit my clinic most mornings at eight for blood work to measure my estrogen count and an ultrasound to film a reality show of my plucky, fighting follicles.

By Brendan Gill The New Yorker, November 21 , 1953P. 35 One of the pleasantest of the duties we impose on ourself is giving a legup to historians of the very distant future We like to scatter clues for them that they may reconstruc the inimitable, ever-so-long-since-dusty us: Homo sapiens Americanus.

True Action was one of the luridly hard-nosed products of the Magazine Management Company, where Mr. Friedman went to work in 1954 after "several years of rather pleasant, humdrum Korean War duty".