Word: pleasant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...school's recreation room. Yet Wiseman is remarkably nonjudgmental; his best scenes are poignant rather than pointed. A class of blind children lie on the floor while three teachers caress them with wispy fabrics and a piano plunks out Over the Rainbow. "I want you to think about pleasant things," says a teacher soothingly, "and I want you to let the music go all inside...
...Reagan Administration for its most obvious failings, including Iranscam and the Noriega fiasco. So far he has done that without appearing negative by assaulting Bush personally. A more difficult challenge for Dukakis will be to flesh out his vague stump speeches with more specifics. This means converting his pleasant-sounding concepts -- such as a "real war on drugs" and "comprehensive day care" -- to realistic programs complete with price tags. He also owes voters a credible explanation of how he will curb the federal deficit. If his follow-up sounds as expensive as his promises are expansive, Dukakis may alienate...
...other side of the coin, soccer's Jape Shattuck was less than pleasant during my year with the team. And no one matches football coach Joe Restic for general boorishness and unhelpfulness. Even during last fall's Ivy championship season, Restic persisted in leaving phone calls unreturned and requests unfulfilled. I got the feeling that Restic felt himself too professional to have to deal with the lowly student press, but his conduct during my three years on the beat was anything but professional...
David and Harriet aspire to a life of "pleasant suburbia." They are not swept up in the social causes of their peers, and their rejection of the sexual freedom offered by late 20th century society is symbolized by their denouncing of the Pill. Instead, they dream of a life of quiet domesticity directed toward making a large, happy family named, appropriately, the Lovatts...
Mike is a word processor. Hmmmmmm. Click, click, click. Paragraphs from that fellow over there, thoughts from that woman opposite. Phrases from pleasant platitudes past and present. Committee review. Clip and paste. Put this up there, that down here. Reassemble it all in a white plastic machine and then read...