Sentence examples for terribly pleasant from inspiring English sources

Our village had no businesses in it, and the walk to the nearest village that did was not terribly pleasant.

That's the terribly pleasant and almost painfully articulate world of "Damsels in Distress," the loopy new romantic comedy of manners and other things by Whit Stillman.

"All of us can have grouchy moments and say things we regret but it reveals, what he is reported to have said, something not terribly pleasant.

"I ended up having to get out of my [wheel]chair, sit on the floor, which is not a terribly pleasant place to sit, throw my chair off the train and then crawl off," she recalled.

I do this exercise with all of my students and, even though it's not terribly pleasant to think this way, we both take solace in the fact that the worst-case scenario rarely happens, and we feel better for having considered all of the possibilities.

By carefully noting the ways her heroines think and speak and gesture, by mapping their hopes and fears, she does a vivid job of making their day-to-day lives fully tangible to the reader — though, given these women's often repellent personalities, it's not a terribly pleasant place to be.

And then you're into the "cookery": lots of very pleasant, not terribly complicated ways to prepare varieties of fish that may not yet be your favorites.

This first installment of a projected two-volume biography provides a pleasant, if not terribly groundbreaking introduction to Mr. Hockney's life and work, tracking the evolution of his radiant art from boyhood scribbles through triumphant stage designs for the opera "The Rake's Progress" in 1975, when this book abruptly leaves off.

"I went to Laos and smoked and went to Paris and smoked, but each time I got terribly sick; it never had a pleasant effect.

Mr. Trintignant appears to have realized early on that he was, in the usual terms of movie stardom, only an average specimen of homo cinematicus: of modest height, medium good looking, possessed of a pleasant, expressive, but not terribly memorable voice.

It shows that America loves a good hissing match over a good golf story, writes Gene Wojciechowski on ESPN.com, even if neither side is terribly likeable — Williams being even less pleasant a character than Woods during Woods's run of dominance — and the whole idea of so much attention on a caddie striking many as entirely absurd.