Sentence examples for seek to please from inspiring English sources

Although her tunes still seek to please pop ears, Madonna has long since given up flirting.

It's important not to seek to please people for the sake of it, to play to the crowd.

As straightforward as that may seem, lobbying on the part of a big firm from the United States — the superpower that East Europeans seek to please — raised some eyebrows.

The speech of the president must give an enormous boost to the morale of the people because we do not want to lose our people's confidence while we seek to please the opposition.

"Since the introduction of printing," he wrote in "The Critic as Artist," "there has been a tendency in literature to appeal more and more to the eye, and less and less to the ear which is really the sense which, from the standpoint of pure art, it should seek to please, and by whose canons of pleasure it should abide always".

He/she must ensure they please the actor - by protecting them from what they regard as intrusive journalistic probing - and, at the same time, they seek to please the journalist by ensuring they get enough meat to warrant that sought-after double page spread.

Zweig's great virtue was that he sought to please.

I like Melville's advice: "Woe to him who seeks to please rather than appall".

More likely, it is a case of an overzealous machine seeking to please its master.

"Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appal!

While her music still seeks to please pop ears, Madonna has long since given up flirting.