Sentence examples for pleasantly straightforward from inspiring English sources

Pleasantly straightforward, this one.

Mr. Clark's early diagrams were basically balloons, though they might be mistaken for a fleet of airships or a family of hot-dog rolls: Applied to the analysis of an actual simple sentence — 1 being the subject (noun), 2 the predicate (verb) and 3 the object — the balloons could be pleasantly straightforward: or unpleasantly convoluted: Mr. Clark's balloons weren't that easy to draw.

Their conceptions of the Beethoven works are pleasantly middle of the road and straightforward, without extremes of tempo or gesture.

He was pleasantly surprised.

She was pleasantly surprised.

"They were pleasantly surprised".

SOUND LEVEL Pleasantly quiet.

I was pleasantly surprised.

Israel was pleasantly surprised.

She smelled pleasantly of seawater".

We were extremely pleasantly surprised.