When the bride and bridegroom exchange garlands (jayamaala), they declare, "Let all the learned persons present here know, we are accepting each other willingly, voluntarily and pleasantly.
Here in the buckle of the Bible Belt, I have been pleasantly surprised over the past couple of years to see the Church grow more accepting of alternative lifestyles.
I applied for the master's degree course in social work and was pleasantly surprised when I was accepted.
GOOPER: It is pleasantly crisp indoors, and I accept your bisexuality as an intrinsic part of your identity, Brick.
When she accepted, he was pleasantly surprised.
Niki Smart, a Laguna resident who self-published her first book, "Hell Camp: How to Chew on a Crazy Childhood and Avoid Choking," approached Hanauer last year about hosting a reading and was pleasantly surprised when the owner accepted.
Even to this day I'm still pleasantly surprised - and much more likely to accept and reply - when someone takes the time to personalize their message to me.
You may be pleasantly surprised at what people can and will accept if we would just give them option to choose to be in integrity with us and not be fooled with lies and misrepresentations.
Pleasantly surprised at the mullah's seeming integrity, I accepted his invitation to my colleague and me to see his work firsthand.
Stevick helped the inspector replace the wooden planks over the hole, then gratefully accepted the gift of the second wrapped sandwich, which turned out to contain pleasantly peppery chicken salad, albeit on soggy white bread.
Recently, though, I accepted an invitation to speak to a group of parents who had adopted children outside their race, and was pleasantly surprised to discover that the focus of adoptive parents is shifting.
