Sentence examples for pleasingly not from inspiring English sources

In Britain, the longest speech ever pronounced in the House of Commons – a six-hour effort on law reform by Henry Brougham, in 1828 – was, pleasingly, not even a filibuster.

It is actually better than its progenitor, and pleasingly different -- not a tender button, but a tough, meaty knob.

The sound is big, warm and very intense — pleasingly plump if not a little overweight.

Chickeny yet also fishy and pleasingly chewy but not too chewy.

The Cubano (450 yen) included a shot of espresso, water, sugar, caramel and cardamom to create a pleasingly sweet — but not cloying — drink.

Pleasingly, we're not dealing with superhumans; the overriding sense is of ordinary people – each with their own motivations – grasping for something remarkable.

"Forever Gone" (1999), a miniature house with a pine tree extending out of its pitched roof, is an example of this pleasingly weird, although not too weird, body of work.

With their fresh-squeezed taste and pleasingly slushy texture (not to mention less fat and fewer calories than a scoop of roche, or chocolate hazelnut), they also spare a hopeless chocoholic from falling victim to her surroundings.

Among the dyes, Blue RR had better exhaustion performance although it was not pleasingly attached with the fiber during fixation.

Not that front-wheel drive isn't pleasingly reassuring in nasty weather, but the G35 comes with standard traction and stability control, so fearing bad weather isn't necessary.

And, pleasingly, you don't have to be a superstar chef to have a go yourself.