You might think that Paris fashion week is a mere skip through a pleasant field of pretty little Chanel tweeds and cute Vuitton hair accessories, but that's merely the froth on top of the cappuccino.
It wouldn't have been pleasant fielding on it, but we have to get on with the game.
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.
"He is a young man who joined the football team in August and was a hard worker on the field and pleasant off the field.
Their intended customers, Porter wrote in an 1822 newspaper ad, were "desirous of spending the gloomy winter months amidst pleasant groves and verdant fields".
In 1822 Porter placed an ad in The Gazette of Providence seeking to provide landscape views that might appeal to "those gentlemen who are desirous of spending the gloomy winter months amidst pleasant groves and verdant fields".
Ms. Vowell's storytelling and descriptive skills enable her to convey the hubris of the missionaries from New England, who vowed to spread the gospel in Hawaii, to teach the natives to read, to translate the Bible into Hawaiian and to cover, as the missionaries said, "those islands with fruitful fields and pleasant dwellings, and schools and churches".
No defensive lineman this season, short of Warren Sapp of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, has been as dominating, for Carter plays with a fury that is in sharp contrast to his polite and pleasant personality off the field.
Indeed, when we got over the surprise of discovering him to be a pleasant fellow, he even fielded borderline tactless questions, unthinkable to ask of someone with his image.
The subdivision centerpiece, completed first, is an expansive and pleasant park, with two baseball fields, basketball courts, a picnic area and children's playground.
