Fitz Patton, the sound designer, has added pleasant snippets of original music, and Andrea Lauer, the costume designer, has dressed Angela in casual outfits that look comfortable on her.
If so, the Hallmark Channel wins it for connecting the stripper from the sleazy "Showgirls" and the bumbling police lieutenant from "Monk" in "Lucky Christmas," a pleasant if improbable original movie it serves up on Saturday night.
Mr. Pleasants said his original contract had extended into next summer.
Keuka is where the Finger Lakes' wine industry first began, in the 1860s, and it remains home to the original pioneer, Pleasant Valley Wine (in Hammondsport), alongside more recent additions such as Heron Hill (closer to Urbana).
Just about any story on this subject in the last decade has featured pleasant if not wholly original ideas like bringing more natural light into spaces, playing with organic, softer forms and incorporating homey elements like Oriental rugs, plants and personal photographs.
Fruit bodies have a "faintly fragrant, pleasant" odor; in his original report on the species, Murrill noted that specimens left to dry in an oven developed a strong odor of burnt sugar.
It is at this juncture that the writer should probably confess that although he found the original film pleasant and could acknowledge its triumphs and virtues (as listed above), he was not a particularly effusive lover of the former film over all.
Anti-Robinson loss functions are global criteria for quantifying how far a similarity matrix is from a Robinson matrix and therefore how 'smooth and pleasant' the visual effect of the original matrix is not.
In his review for Allmusic, Andrew Leahey wrote that the cover songs are "perfectly pleasant", but insisted that Sudol's original songs were the highlight of the collection.
However, Leila Cobo of Billboard magazine was critical about the fact that some tracks do not add much to the originals, but the album "stays merely pleasant, notably in 'Desafinado' and 'Manhã de Carnaval / Gentle Rain'".
KUNG FU PANDA 2 -- I thought the original Kung Fu Panda was a very pleasant surprise and featured some of the best action scenes of the year.
