Sentence examples for pleasant note from inspiring English sources

And it ended on a less than pleasant note.

The Jefferies Group is ending its life as an independent firm on a pleasant note: with a solid quarterly profit.

But a slice of baked acorn squash, its concave interior filled with squash custard ($2.50), hits a pleasant note.

As the first step in any neighborly problem, Ms. Doskow suggests either nicely speaking to the neighbor or, if you don't want to discuss it directly, leaving a pleasant note.

After Kurt Thomas got the Knicks off on a pleasant note by hitting a jumper and rejecting O'Neal's first shot, the Knicks went 12 minutes 22 seconds without getting a point from anyone but Sprewell.

As eight of Newark's nine council members gathered around a conference table in the governor's private office, and the mayor looked on in stony silence, Mr. Corzine tried to get things off on a pleasant note.

These upstarts are often too busy building and trying to impress the rest of the world to focus on architecture or plan niceties to make the heroic routine of everyday life more pleasant, notes London-based architect Eric Kuhne, who has worked on major projects in Moscow, Dubai and other Persian Gulf cities.

When talking about what's next, Pleasants notes that they've released two new games in the past week alone.

But the most interesting thing Pleasants noted was that he recently heard (from his own source, apparently) that half of all users on Facebook now play social games.

When Mike suggested that most of the games are just a combination of blindly pushing buttons, Pleasants noted that things were evolving, and that games were about to get more social.

After quickly approving one of the designs, Hawass noted, in the pleasant tone of a person forced to say something crushingly obvious, "I think you have to enlarge the name".