Word: pleasant
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They're constantly assessing. They look you up and down both metaphorically and literally, and that's not always altogether pleasant...
...fact that there are disabling truths, messy realities that positively stymie adequate response unless their particulars are reduced to deceptive simplicities. Every sentient human being knows this from daily experience ... Constantly hearing the truth, the cold, hard, brutal unsparing truth, from spouses, relatives, friends and colleagues is not a pleasant prospect. 'Human kind,' as T.S. Eliot wrote, 'cannot bear very much reality.' TRUTH TELLING MAKES IT POSSIBLE FOR PEOPLE TO COEXIST; A LITTLE LYING MAKES SUCH SOCIETY TOLERABLE. At what point does 'a little' become 'too much'? The nervous boy who cried 'Wolf!' in the admonitory tale told...
...Atlantic Ocean. Since there hadn't been much immigration from Asia in a couple of years since it was regulated, and since there was very little immigration from Latin America in those days, the source of immigration was from across the Atlantic and the Atlantic Ocean was not a pleasant place for any immigrant boat during the war. Immigration just flat-out stopped during the war years. The second influence was the reverse of the first. The war produced a tremendous surge of unhappy, dislocated, economically troubled people from the broken-up empire of Austria-Hungary, and people just poured...
...Le’s is an interesting mix of Asian serenity and American tastelessness. The wooden tables are decorated with just a flower, while bizarre artwork clashes with the pastel colored walls. If anything, these prints create an interesting conversation piece and do not significantly detract from the pleasant environment. Compared to its similarly priced Asian counterparts in the Square, however, Le’s takes the cake for ambiance and cleanliness, despite its shortcomings...
...regime.He may not be a professional, but his self-taught style is appreciated for its simplicity.“He doesn’t try to be colorful, like professionals do,” Pian says. Describing Zhou’s music as “pleasant,” Pian says “it’s wonderful to have him. He gives Harvard Square a special color...and his playing definitely takes courage.” FIDDLER IN THE SQUAREIn 1996, Zhou immigrated to the United States to join his mother and uncle, who were already living...