Sentence examples for slight pleasant from inspiring English sources

It is one of the mild injustices that has characterized her career that Ms. Moore does not get credit for having gone brunette (for last year's slight, pleasant and embarrassingly effective tearjerker, "A Walk to Remember") with less obvious motives.

"Un sourire," a slight but pleasant tribute to Mozart composed by Olivier Messiaen in 1989, alternated between radiant sighs and the composer's trademark bird twitters.

Of the two soups, my favorite is Moroccan chickge pea and vegetable with chicken, a hearty stew spiced with a house-made curry base of turmeric, coriander, cumin, cinnamon, mustard, ginger and cayenne, each bite leaving a slight and pleasant backburn.

Sant's airy falsetto is particularly on display on the title track, which caps off this brief group of slight but pleasant songs.

At their worst, they're accomplished without being interesting: New is a pleasant but slight bit of Good Day Sunshine-ish thumbs-aloftery; I Can Bet drifts in one ear and out the other without leaving much impression.

In that spirit, "Just Another Story" -- with its speechifying and stylization of, oh yes, the common man -- is a pleasant but slight movie even as it inspires more than one cringe with its labored ebonics, images of broken chain link and insistent references to cool street themes of the 50's like sex and getting high.

It's a pleasant, if slight, deviation from whatever metal-on-metal sound packs have been circulating the Abletons of the '89+ crowd.

As a result "Walter Mitty," inspired by the brief 1939 James Thurber short story about a man who lapses into heroic daydreams at the slightest provocation, has a pleasant, curiously off-center quality that reflects the blending of these two sensibilities.