Sentence examples for pleasing sentiment from inspiring English sources

Book 1 tends toward open drama and pleasing sentiment.

According to Hume, "morality is determined by sentiment" and virtue is "whatever mental action or quality gives to a spectator the pleasing sentiment of approbation" (ECPM 85); "virtue … is a quality of the mind agreeable to or approved by everyone, who considers or contemplates it" (ECPM 68).

Second, a general psychological principle explains how it is possible for competing emotions to produce a complex, pleasing sentiment.

That's not what you'd call a standard crowd-pleasing sentiment.

I am not in the business of forcing people to change their beliefs or to announce theologically inaccurate statements to please public sentiment.

So although critics issue judgments of taste based on their own sentiments, a judgment of taste must involve something more than a pleasing or displeasing sentiment.

"Please put that sentiment in your piece," Mr. Noonan said, chuckling.

"So when I read this paper, which does not contain much sentiment, please recognize" that "what you see here isn't what you see in Afghanistan".

But then took a visitor aside to offer a sober sentiment: "Please tell America we feel very sorry for happened on Sept. 11, because thousands of innocent people were killed.

That please-the-sponsor sentiment was evident when Buck clucked with awe several times during Wednesday's broadcast about the DirecTV starship that hovered above Fenway Park, flashing images from its HD screen.

It may not be strong medicine, but it delivers an effective, pleasing dose of pure sentiment and vicarious heartache.