Sentence examples for universally pleasing from inspiring English sources

Now I am not so foolish as to presume that there is any universally pleasing multigenerational meal.

– the so-called "lone director" slot was a near-annual fixture on the ballot: the film-maker sufficiently admired by his directing peers to land a nomination, but whose film wasn't universally pleasing enough to crack the list.

What gives us such feelings is moreover universally pleasing, because "well-being, welfare, health" (Wohlsein, Heil, Gesundheit) are the "ground and end of the existence of every living thing…We all desire well-being, and whatever promotes this well-being in any way is agreeable" (Kalligone, p. 668).

He thinks red is more universally pleasing than green, though he cautions against going too dark or inky.

The refugees were not universally pleased at being told they were going to Britain.

His faculty, however, was not universally pleased with the list of books that his principal consiglieri Adler drew up for them to teach.

I'm not sure I've ever done anything that has universally pleased so many people.

Gushing aside ("this is its universally celebrated, endlessly pleasing, devilishly functional, drop-dead gorgeous design"), it does a handy job of crystallizing and commemorating the dawn of the iPod age.

The enormous work highlights the brute, unrefined 'beauty' of the logo; a depiction of aesthetics without particular substance or originality, something plain but universally and irrefutably pleasing.

After the death of the old pope in this story, when the College of Cardinals gathers in conclave to consider who should succeed as head of the Catholic Church, Moretti reads the minds of the various cardinals as they wait for the vote-count to begin - and their thoughts are universally the same: "Please don't choose me".

Break every rule when it comes to universally tedious conversation, but please, don't talk about how exhausted you are.