"There are moments that are less pleasant," he replied wryly.
THE receptionist for Graham B. Spanier, Penn State's president, returned to the phone Friday morning with a pleasant but stern reply to an interview request.
polemical treatises against Epicureans and Stoics: That Epicurus Makes a Pleasant Life Impossible, Reply to Colotes, Is 'Live Unknown' a Wise Precept?, and On Stoic Self-Contradictions, Against the Stoics on Common Conceptions.
"No, but it's a pleasant surprise," he replied quickly.
Pressed on why she had been so persistent, Ms. Kay replied in a pleasant Louisiana accent: "It's a big deal to me.
They wished each other a pleasant spring break, and Ruske replied, "Hooooray!!! Maybe you'll share a cute pic with me… ;)" Shyr says she interpreted the message as a request for a nude photograph.
This unnamed Python who I shall call John for the purposes of this story, replied with a pleasant letter detailing exactly how long he had left on this earth, rounded up to the nearest hour, how much of that was allocated for sleeping, eating and making love, and of what left, how much was currently earmarked for reading, before politely declining the opportunity.
"They become pleasant when they're fulfilled," he replies.
"Once it was pleasant here, but no more," he replied, shaking his head.
Maybe you could carry on replying in a vaguely pleasant way, but never arrange to see them?
If one were to ask, "How did viewing Picasso's 'Guernica' affect you?" and the reply was, "I found it pleasant," we would conclude that his reaction to the painting was, to say the least, inadequate.
