Sentence examples for please him in from inspiring English sources

"I wanted to please him in the way that I want to please Nick.

But she did try to please him; in the evening she read the Gospels, as he had asked her to.

So here you see three average people trying clearly, or at least to Hamilton, trying clearly to impress or please him in some way.

(The name was semi-randomly generated, but might as well have been crafted to please him). In one, below, he and Aasif Mandvi hit many of the serious questions about this enterprise.

It is, after all, the only mode of behaviour Truman knows, since he has been confronted from birth by characters acting in a way that they think will please him, in order to win his favour and thereby influence Christof to extend their contracts.

Sydney was a folk poet, a holy sceptic and an iconoclastic theologian - that last description would both bemuse and please him - in the amateur tradition of the folk movement, deconstructing the theology of the academic establishment and bringing it to life.

She should not start what she could not sustain, but pleasing him in any way that she could was helpful: it made her feel less than entirely useless.

Nicky Henderson could not be induced to name his best chance in the handicaps but let slip that Tanks For That had pleased him in a gallop at Kempton on Tuesday.

Instead, Father Fantuzzi believes in shining a spotlight on movies that please him, because in his view good cinema and religion overlap, both searching for meaning, both finding a compelling language for that quest.

She was forced to return to her husband, although all her efforts to please him were in vain.

"The only question is, was it directed from the crown prince or the king — or was it a group that was trying to please him?" Giuliani said in an interview.