Sentence examples for pleased yet from inspiring English sources

When Oxford University Press (OUP) translated the memoir into English and had it published she was pleased, yet also felt that something had been lost in translation.

We got home late that night after the cruise, and I was pleased yet again that we had a bedroom all to ourselves at our host's home.

And anyone would think that I, as one who has written about extending summer, should be pleased, yet I find myself hankering after traditional autumnal evenings, with food that is warm, cozy, homemaking and welcoming.

"I was pleased yet a bit puzzled to see that this week's edition of O Fiverão arrived in my inbox not at caipirinha time, but at 12.18pm Fiver Towers time/9.18am Brazil time (or 8.18am Mr Roy's Manaus time).

Maybe she doesn't realize how good she is, sounding pleased yet surprised by an upfront compliment.

We are pleased yet again to partner with UNICEF in the UNITE FOR CHILDREN.

(The e-mails don't say "Pretty please!" — yet).

Here, his jumpy camera and occasionally arresting widescreen compositions are pleasing yet devoid of tension or surprise.

Under Allardyce the football may have been less aesthetically pleasing yet, played in a 4-3-3, it was deadly effective.

These include Jane Harris's drawings of pleasing yet mysterious shapes formed by a heavy application of graphite.

Both performances showed the composers eager to please, yet just as eager to shed the trimmings of courtliness.