Sentence examples for rather than pleasant from inspiring English sources

And most daydreams are unhappy rather than pleasant escapes.

The Greek prime minister violated unprecedentedly an unwritten rule that says "its better for a politician to be useful to his people, rather than pleasant".

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields fruit to those who have been trained (Hebrews 12 11).

Some people find this level edgy rather than pleasant [ 68, 69].

However, places like these and the makeshift tents and camps of asylum-seekers viewed from the bus from port to train station – interesting rather than obviously pleasant – often become the most memorable parts of journeys, and you only see them when travelling indirectly, in the interstices of the conventionally appealing.

Rather than sending pleasant tones through the ears to train the brain, it uses the magnetic pulses to send those tones directly into the brain to create positive feedback on its own.

These folks can turn dining out (a pleasure that folks without children take entirely for granted), into an embarrassing meeting with your accountant rather than a pleasant meal amongst friends.

"We as humans can actually nudge this history toward a more pleasant outcome, rather than toward the less pleasant outcome," he said.

Nutbourne Cured Meats include a fennel-seed salami which isn't good enough for £6; the salami has too many fatty globules, and the fennel seed is bitter rather than full of pleasant, liquorice-like flavour.

These conflicts and differences became evident in the song writing, as each song was credited to individual rather than multiple members; Pleasant Dreams was the first album in which writing is acknowledged this way.

Rogers 19 argued that the eudaemonic position of well-being is the extent to which a person is fully functioning, rather than simply feeling pleasant.