Word: pleasanter
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...horror of settling down in my office for the 1985 championship game against Juventus, of Turin - and then watching Juventus fans get crushed to death when some Liverpool supporters rioted. Through long experience, my family has come to know that their chances of having a vaguely pleasant husband and father on any given Sunday depend largely on how Liverpool fared the previous day. But what on earth makes this - let's admit it - pretty unsophisticated devotion to the fortunes of men I've never met and don't really want to so powerful...
FULLERTON, Calif.—The afternoon was too pleasant, too breezy, to host the finality of defeat...
...heading to school. I wont buy notebooks or sourcebooks; I will not buy or sharpen a fistful of number two pencils. I will not, come September, plan an outfit to wear on the first day of school. And so a pattern that has been varied and repeated with the pleasant regularity of Dickens novels through most of my life will be broken. I am not scared so much as I am bemused. I do not have a template for whatever will happen next...
Accordingly, the report outlines several measures to free up green space and provide a more pleasant trip for travelers from Barry’s Corner (the intersection of North Harvard Street and Western Avenue) past the Larz Anderson Bridge...
When University of Oxford researchers presented volunteers with a vial of cheddar-cheese odor labeled either CHEDDAR CHEESE or BODY ODOR, guess which one they preferred? Sure enough, subjects found the odor significantly more pleasant when they thought they were smelling cheese. Researchers used imaging technology to try to pinpoint the neurological intersection of good-smell words with good-smell odors. Though the precise mechanism hasn't yet been worked out, it is clear that smell is in both the nose and the brain of the beholder...