Word: pleasanter
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...think they took about a minute off their times. They’re getting used to college-length courses and took a solid step forward.” Overall, the team’s finish despite the absence of some top runners came as a pleasant surprise, as both teams finished in the top half of crowded fields. On the men’s side, there were 43 teams total, with 291 runners, and for the women, there were 44 teams and 299 runners. The Crimson will use this strong performance as a confidence boost when the squad competes...
...R.E.M., which isn’t surprising considering Springsteen and R.E.M. toured together in support of John Kerry’s presidential campaign in 2004. The crescendo of vocals and violins never reaches the emotional height it aspires to, and the song comes off as pleasant but jarringly un-Bosslike. “Girls In Their Summer Clothes” is another departure from the norm, an attempted fusion of Beach Boys pop and stadium rock that results in the album’s worst track. Springsteen has spent much of the past decade rallying opposition to the Bush administration...
...action, no matter how discourteous, is laudable as long as it incites academic debate. It may be true that discourtesy among public officials gives professors and journalists more to talk about, but one thing is for sure: It won’t make the world a happier, more pleasant, or safer place to live. It is the university’s job to provide substance for thought, not spectacle. Breaking social codes by petty name-calling only creates unnecessary tension between people that hinders compromise. In section we don’t name-call to make a point, and neither...
Upon entering, the first pleasant surprise is Monet's Poppies Near Vétheuil and Manet's In the Garden of Bellevue hanging in the downstairs salon. But the vibrancy and luminosity of those Impressionist masters are just a foretaste of this small but exquisite museum's offerings. Upstairs, for instance, is Van Gogh's The Sower, whose thick brushstrokes and bright greens, yellows and blues announced a new style for the artist at an especially troubled period of his life: only two months after finishing it in 1888, Van Gogh argued with Gauguin and famously cut off part...
Nick was about as nice as an old man with a dislocated hip can be. Despite what is typically an extremely painful problem, he was pleasant, talkative and charming. His interests lay in the history of his native Sparta and in the making, extolling and drinking of large amounts of the well-known (and in my limited experience, best-avoided) pine-resin-laced traditional Greek wine retsina. Trained by decades of exposure to the resinous brew, Nick's brain and liver now presented us with an unusual difficulty: they had become so good at detoxifying his system that...