There was something about having access to this information in Chicago that brought on a faint but pleasing kind of homesickness.
There were a number of Anglo-French songs too, and their lyrics composed in a pleasing kind of Franglais: "Unsmooth me," implored my favourite, "Ruffle me up somewhat".
There is though a pleasing kind of symmetry in the fact that a battle-weary captain, fighting against his body as much as his opponents and bowing out of the one-day international arena, should hoist the Cup into the Melbourne sky.
Almost any page of The Analysis of Beauty, opened at random, yields some striking expression: "Huge shapeless rocks have a pleasing kind of horror in them" or "The ear is as much offended with one even continued note, as the eye is with being fix'd to a point, or to the view of a dead wall".
When Hitchens became a journalist for the New Statesman, after graduating from Oxford, he adopted a pleasing kind of double life, part reporter, part revolutionary activist, imagining how he might help an IRA terrorist hide from the law.
