Sentence examples for pleasant sad from inspiring English sources

Because that's a sweet, pleasant, sad album.

Here she mostly spools out her intricate patterns in drifting postrock soundscapes, which are pleasant enough ("Sad American," "Montreal").

The poet generalises fearlessly: "pleasant thoughts" invite "sad thoughts", and the whole constitutes a "sweet mood".

I heard a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sate reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind.

To obtain explicit odor ratings, children sniffed the odors from jars and rated their pleasantness using a six-point VAS where each point was also denoted by a "smiley," ranging from a happy face associated with pleasant to a sad face associated with unpleasant.

(The game is like Wordsworth's vision of spring: "In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts / Bring sad thoughts to the mind").

Fear, frustration, sad, happy, pleasant, and satisfied emotions are stimulated by music and sound.

But underneath this pleasant picture lies a sad chapter he is determined to put behind him – life as a street child.

Researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are studying liberals' and conservatives' reactions to happy or pleasant photographs and scary or sad ones in an effort to learn more about the cognitive underpinnings of political preference.

To the Editor: Regarding "The Frugal Grand Tour" (Sept . 7: Sad to see such a pleasant and eventful trip come to an end.

In three Ives songs she captured wistful melancholy (his arrangement of the hymn "At the River") better than exuberance ("The Circus Band"); it was telling that in his two-part "Memories," "Rather Sad" was haunting while "Very Pleasant" was bland.