Sentence examples for somehow pleasant from inspiring English sources

"The burning spread over my tongue and around my mouth and became overwhelming," McQuaid writes of the painful, yet somehow pleasant, experience he shared with his son.

While we were raised to believe that emerging with blue blotches and pneumonia from a glowering sea was somehow pleasant, it only took one foreign holiday to think: sod this.

Less lyrical but somehow more pleasant-sounding version: You're a Chinese brain teaser.

Groningen is farming country – far from outgoing Amsterdam or the cosmopolitan Hague – where impeccably flat green fields stretch out in every direction and the smell of manure is, if not exactly pleasant, somehow pure.

Somehow a man so pleasant he makes Niall Quinn seem like Pol Pot has become a quasi-hate figure for the club's fans.

"I don't value employee ownership because I believe it is somehow 'nicer', a more pleasant alternative to the rest of the corporate world.

And walking into that courtyard is like undoing a box − a present − and uncovering a pleasant if somehow unsettling surprise.

Throughout, we kept a nervous eye on the black-tip reef shark that circled us — totally harmless, we knew, but somehow still scary (in a pleasant way).