Word: pleasanter
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Carroll added that the décor was very pleasant...
Sentimentalists will object here that shopkeepers’ motives for polluting their storefront displays with tinsel, holly, and plastic candelabras are an expression of holiday good cheer, perverse financial considerations be damned. That’s a very pleasant thought, but it defies common sense. This isn’t someone’s living room—it’s the marketplace, and the only warmth that matters is that of customers’ grabbing hands. Storeowners aren’t trying to cheer you up or brighten your day; they’re trying to pander...
...Vadim Bolshakov, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, sweating is a typical “non-specific fear response.” Tolaas wrote in her proposal for the installation that in the West, smell is thought of in “aesthetic terms—pleasant or unpleasant,” whereas in other cultures, body smell is an important personal defining feature. “Since our representations of the world are most of the time scentless, this indeed reinforces the social drive for deodorization of the world,” Tolaas wrote...
...Gore would love her. But, dammit, so do we. It's lovely to see her preserving her vision for her books against commercial compromise, even more warming to see her fight for love and for keeping her beloved Lake District landscape a green and pleasant place. The director, Chris Noonan, doesn't play to our sentiments, he just lets them naturally evolve--even the animation of a few of her drawings doesn't feel especially forced. The result is an honorable and curiously winning film. BREAKING AND ENTERING Anthony Minghella's basic filmmaking impulse is toward the romantic epic...
...know him over the last several years," says Jack Reed, an influential Armed Services Committee member. "And he strikes me as someone who's a pragmatist. He strikes me also as somebody who will listen, particularly to the uniformed services. In that respect, he'll be a very pleasant change from Secretary Rumsfeld." -with reporting by Massimo Calabresi