Sentence examples for pleasant notes from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

While the conditions certainly looked unfriendly — chipped floors, an industrial steel door grate, sewing stations crammed under a claustrophobic ceiling — there were small touches that cut against the arduous atmosphere: a pleasant note beside the time clock reminding workers to punch in when they arrive, and fresh green vines threading, jungle-style, through the bright fluorescent lights.

Luckily it ended on a more pleasant note.

It sounds like an invigorating curatorial effort, though it may be worth remembering that Edgar Allen Poe's namesake short story does not end on a pleasant note.

On a more pleasant note, Danielle Fishel and Ben Savage announced they would be appearing on the "Boy Meets World" spinoff "Girl Meets World," and the news broke that "Downton Abbey" mastermind Julian Fellowes was working on a 19th century drama series titled "The Gilded Age" for NBC.