But when he watches the advocates of intelligent design at work, he sees pleasant people who speak plainly, convincingly and with humor.
The past month has seen pleasant surprises from tech leaders Google, Microsoft, and IBM, which have turned in rosy earnings despite a gloomy economy.
The participants were aware that they were going to see pleasant and unpleasant pictures and hear unpleasant but harmless sound pulses throughout the experiment.
"If one is conscious, he should be in a nice bed with perfumed sheets, with people who are participating in this event; or, if possible, should be placed in a nice panoramic spot where one can see pleasant things just for one more time, and not in a hospital room.
The first time I ever saw Pleasant Avenue was in "The Godfather".
I saw a pleasant take on it in London with Ewan McGregor as Sky Masterson.
The child generates an appetite for objects of this sort and in the presence of an apple the child will have a mixed reaction: a pleasant feeling because the object is seen as pleasant, but a painful feeling because she is not in possession of, or enjoying, the apple.
At times, it has helped me see a pleasant diversity, to avoid mistaking confusion for unkindness, to vividly enjoy sincerity, and sometimes to worry about others' emotional fragility.
When you're a carer who sees perfectly pleasant clients scraping by, and obnoxious clients living in luxury, you do wish you could redistribute resources.
Walk around the wards, and you will see the pleasant middle-aged woman whose two months of belly pain turned out to be metastatic colon cancer.
Then wander into the old city, seeing how pleasant a historic district can be when you remove the tourists and install residents going about their daily business.
