Word: pleasanter
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...lost so many colleagues and friends during that period and I could have perished,” he says. “It was not a pleasant experience to be placed in solitary confinement for nearly two years, without books. But you look back and you look at other things which have happened within the nation, what you underwent just fades into insignificance...
...peer pressure into which we ritually plunge our young in the name of higher education. The answer he arrives at is not simple. Some get their comeuppance in Charlotte Simmons, and some are redeemed, but Charlotte's fate is a surprise, and not everybody will find it a pleasant one. Wolfe may be getting old, but he's not getting soft...
...once the Canadian troop made it to Ust-Kamenogorsk, they found some pleasant surprises...
...driving percussion and high-hat touches and the smooth vocals. Ned can cover a vocal range without his more celebrated brother’s cracks, and for this type of song he’s more effective. Traditional, yes, innovative, no; nonetheless here the music is so relentlessly pleasant that even the most hardened hipster would have to tip his trucker hat. “After Than Before” has no words, but the guitar interplay strikes a conversation that’s consistently interesting, and the instrumental never gives in to any sort of conventional classic-rock structure...
Compare that to Harvard Stadium—literally the oldest operational football field in the country—more than 100-years young, yet arguably as pleasant as during its teen years that led up to World War I. No luxury boxes—hell, I’m still thankful the press box has electricity—but the concrete seating is fan-friendly to be sure, the mobile toilets are armed with pine-tree air fresheners, and the walk to the field’s Allston home isn’t so bad from the Business School. From...