My friend acknowledged it pleasantly and non-judgmentally, while I repeated it, as if confessing, almost wishing it weren't true.
I guess there's a distinction to be acknowledged between the pleasantly white storks of America and their Skeksi-like African cousins, though frankly that seems racist, and it wasn't really the parts of this winged abortion that flooded my bowels with shuddering, primeval horror.
Several male students acknowledged that the math skewed pleasantly in their favor.
We were pleasantly surprised to discover that all of the vendors we surveyed acknowledged and appreciated the challenges of clinical decision support, and reported that they provided knowledge management capabilities to help their customers manage their clinical knowledge.
Pleasantly self-deprecating, he acknowledges that he is not always right.
This is why Disney, the universally acknowledged master of applied queuing psychology, overestimates wait times for rides, so that its guests — never customers, always guests — are pleasantly surprised when they ascend Space Mountain ahead of schedule.
Indeed, in recent months I have been (mostly pleasantly) surprised by things that I find myself doing/thinking/liking/etc. that once seemed so far outside my realm of interest that I barely acknowledged their existence.
He wondered whether her style would chafe, but he was pleasantly surprised and, at times, moved, particularly when Rice gave stirring remarks commemorating the Rwandan genocide and acknowledging that the United States did not do enough to stop the killing.
He was pleasantly surprised.
I was pleasantly surprised.
