Sentence examples for pleasant mean from inspiring English sources

Descartes himself wrote little on artistic topics, even in his Compendium Musicæ, and he is even doubtful about the possibility of a true analysis of aesthetic responses, since the beautiful and the pleasant "mean nothing more than a certain relation of our judgment to the object considered and cannot have any determinate measure" (Letter to Mersenne, March 18 , 1630.

Pleasant (mean arousal rating 7.06; mean valence rating 7.87), neutral (2.61; 4.99), and unpleasant (7.62; 1.61) verbs served as T2 stimuli in the RSVP task.

Obviously, the art shows are merely the fringe entertainment on this trip; a pleasant means of passing the time while recovering from the previous night's bellini-induced hangover.

But many others discover their parents' sexuality by less-than-pleasant means.

Palm Springs' proximity to Los Angeles, retro charms and pleasant climes mean the burg's International Film Festival can expect heavy traffic, but its chief ability to attract talent this week probably has something to do with the fact that so many active members of the Academy have retired there.

Concerning students' social self-perceptions, items 15 (I have good friends in this school), 19 (my social life is good), 28 (I seldom feel lonely) and 46 (my accommodation is pleasant) received mean scores greater than two (Table 2).

Though pleasant, conditions meant anyone who had chosen to spend the day wandering through the ice field had to be even more careful than usual – the area was filled with hidden traps where the ice or snow had softened and could easily have buckled under the pressure of a human foot.

Cuernavaca's pleasant climate means many wealthy capitalinos — particularly among the intelligentsia — maintain weekend residences there.

Conversely, benign images were rated as slightly pleasant on average (mean ratings were midway between "neutral" and "pleasant") and these ratings were lower (i.e., more pleasant) than for verbal descriptions of the same object.

An uncomfortable grimace on your baby's otherwise pleasant lips may mean that she needs to burp.

The markdowns also meant pleasant surprises for shoppers like Sonya Rennier in Schaumburg.