It feels utterly refreshing to have someone fighting your corner.
And it was refreshing to have at least one composer thumb his nose at music's past.
But it was refreshing to have one professor on the programme pushing us constantly to "take action, experiment, and iterate".
It's been refreshing to have someone say, as Bill did, "I'm not going to accept that, MP.
"And, besides, it was refreshing to have him approach me out of old-fashioned, uncalculated, genuine attraction".
In an increasingly complex world, plagued by unreadable (certainly unread) terms and conditions, it is more than a little refreshing to have something explained in good, plain English.
Anyway, it was refreshing to have Diana's butler, Paul Burrell, come to New York for television interviews about trysts and homosexual rape in the palace.
Essex head coach Paul Grayson says youngster Jamie Porter is "refreshing" to have around the first-team set up.
Sure, it will be hard to part with their devices, but it will also be refreshing to have my kids experience life as it used to be.
It's downright refreshing to have a young, external view that is remarkably clear eyed as well as one with a bit of fun.
It's been quite refreshing to have proper conversations with people.
