Sentence examples for pleasantly told from inspiring English sources

Whereas "Portnoy's Complaint" was an outrageously comic tale about the throwing off of duty, "Nemesis" is a pleasantly told parable about the embrace of conscience — and what its suffocating, life-denying consequences can be.

It's a pleasantly told story, but Anthony Browne's extraordinary pictures present such strong visual metaphors that any imaginative child will understand Katie's feelings without reading a word - and, what's more, will understand more about Katie than she does herself.

She pleasantly told them that nothing was to be inferred by the fact that Mr. Pellicano was representing himself, that none of the defendants had to testify under the law and that just because these defendants were indicted, doesn't mean that they're guilty.

He was pleasantly surprised, he told me, to see a force that was relatively disciplined and well motivated.

A cousin's husband, Akbar Sherzad, is helping out; on my second visit, when we asked for help with a corkscrew, he pleasantly but firmly told us no alcohol was allowed.

Lunch passed pleasantly as they told her, in stereo, some of their experiences working on the pyramid in Mexico, and about other excavations they had worked on.

"We had more than 350 people here Saturday, which I was pleasantly surprised by," he told me.

RD: I was shocked but pleasantly surprised when we were told we had made a romantic comedy.

I was shocked and pleasantly impressed when my wife told me about Bruce Feiler's TED talk on "Agile Programming for your family".

"You're late," she is told, and she agrees, pleasantly.

I have this friend.... " Ms. Larson told Previn Warren, the pleasantly scruffy passer-by, about Ms. Chaudhary.