Sentence examples for please rather than from inspiring English sources

I like Melville's advice: "Woe to him who seeks to please rather than appall".

"Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appal!

But I am now eager to hear about your memories of necking at the theater — on the stage, please, rather than in the balcony.

"There was, I think, an instinct to please rather than to necessarily interpret, which I tried to quickly dispel, and it worked out really well.

'Don't learn anything.' Why don't you just say that?" He concluded with the best advice for writers he knows, from Melville: "Woe to him who seeks to please rather than appall".

"It's unanswerable," he admits, but in asking himself the question, he unleashed a funhouse of objects that are both seductive and terrifying; seemingly simple, but complex in meaning; familiar, but impossible to pin down in a cohesive narrative about who Fordjour is, and why he wants to please rather than telling everyone to go f**k off.

They regarded professors as bosses to be pleased rather than authorities to be challenged.

If you are like me, you might be pleased rather than annoyed when others commit such glaring solecisms, since they afford a momentary feeling of superiority.

In January, the Daily Beast went so far as to accuse her of "Spineless Feminism". Swift may be the highest-paid artist in the world, but her decision to speak out on issues as she pleases rather than as others call on her to means she gets little credit for the space she's made for female artists.

Each aims toward the ear-pleasing rather than the groundbreaking.

You want to please people rather than pleasing God.