It stemmed from the President's soaring conviction that courageous intentions must inevitably produce pleasing results.
Light-emitting diodes use as little as one-tenth the power of an incandescent bulb, produce pleasing light and last for up to 20 years of normal use.
Armstrong World Industries and the Energy Department collaborated with Universal Display to develop thin ceiling tiles that are cool to the touch while producing pleasing white light that can be dimmed like standard incandescent bulbs.
Note 8's after-the-fact adjustable blur is great, and the iPhone 8's Portrait Lighting produces some terrific results when used properly, but Google's solution is arguably the best one for the biggest number of people, since it requires very little patience and produces pleasing results much of the time.
Warmer lighting demands different settings from a TV to produce pleasing, natural-looking colors and images.
The beginner can produce pleasing results without the exacting studies and practice required by, for example, painting or music.
Guitars and sailboats clearly do not deliver freedom in the sense of a maximization of choice; you might even say that the guitar player or the sailor is constrained, or even trapped, for a sailboat will not sail upwind, and a guitar will not easily produce pleasing sounds.
One set of bass notes may sound differently without a set of chords for accompaniment on an organ, so harmony and percussion rhythm plays a great role in producing pleasing tunes.
"Our competitors are people who produce wines pleasing to the consumer, at competitive prices," Mr. Magrez said in a recent conversation, referring to big foreign wine exporters.
Listeners who care about opera clamor for new ones, but with few exceptions — works by John Adams and Philip Glass mainly — when they are produced, they please neither audiences, critics nor singers and are rarely seen again.
