Hitchcock's ability to conjure up that sense of a perfectly pleasant life going haywire is especially powerful.
The overall effect is to give viewers who have not been abducted a taste of what it must be like: the time inexplicably lost, the confusion over what "they" want with us and the nagging sense that something very peculiar, and not at all pleasant, is going on.
By Shannon Reed February 4, 2017 A pleasant greeting goes a long way.
Mr. Buren has successfully created and professionally put together a cheerful space, pleasant to go through at least once.
But that fun and pleasant demeanor goes away when Iupati becomes a bulldozer clearing paths for a running game that has helped the 49ers reach the Super Bowl.
In a few years' time, we will have worked out that it is more pleasant to go north than south, and to take more winter than summer breaks.
It should be pleasant to go there and make a declaration of love to your first lover, or have a cup of tea with your mother who you haven't seen in a long time".
"A Pleasant Surprise," went the headline of a 1983 _Times _review, by Paul Goldberger. "It has not been difficult to presume that Trump Tower, the 68-story"—note the bullshit number—"glass skyscraper... would be silly, pretentious and not a little vulgar," the critic wrote.
