Sentence examples for was less pleasing from inspiring English sources

Bartholomew's delicate good looks — fair hair, blue eyes — made the most of a family likeness that was less pleasing in Hester, his lithe ranginess cumbersome in a woman.

Their second goal was less pleasing on the eye, with the Motherwell captain, Stephen Craigan, crucially deflecting a Mark Wilson shot beyond his own goalkeeper.

The second half was less pleasing on the eye although Finn's goal was a cracking strike as he let fly from 20 yards to beat Doherty with the help of a post.

A jewelry vendor on Atlantic Avenue, Pamela Greenspan, was less pleased with the day's results.

Rachel York, 21, an American who works at Robert College of Istanbul, a private high school, was less pleased.

The Independent was less pleased with the Tate's achievement, however, particularly the loose interpretation of group titles and the "higgledy-piggledy scattering" of the works' arrangement.

He was less pleased when the child turned out to be a bit of a dunce, so that by the time he was 15 he felt obliged to threaten him with an apprenticeship to the local steel mill.

The White House was less pleased.

While Rubinstein was impressed by Tchaikovsky's musical talent on the whole (citing him as "a composer of genius" in his autobiography ), he was less pleased with the more progressive tendencies of some of Tchaikovsky's student work.

Howard Cohen of the Miami Herald was less pleased with the album, writing that it "pales in comparison to the original" and (despite liking its music) the "magic is gone".

Gullit was less pleased when the Galaxy allowed Columbus back into the game, with Brad Evans scoring in the 67th minute and Guillermo Barros Schelotto tying the score on a penalty kick four minutes later after Chris Klein upended Robbie Rogers.