Word: pleasants
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Namhi K. Wagner, donning yellowtinted glasses as she sat in the front row at the lecture, said the commemorative event for her husband evoked both sadness and pleasant “surprise...
...these are minor squalls in what is otherwise a rather pleasant journey. Sea of Poppies ends somewhere off the coast of Malaya, with the motley crew we met in India now poised to go off in myriad directions. Ghosh is coy about his next act, but speaks keenly of the month he spent researching in Guangzhou - the Canton of old. Could the Opium Wars soon entangle the Ibis? Or will it be a mutiny of disgruntled migrants? Or what about the machinations of a mysterious ex-pirate from Burma's Muslim Rohingya minority, whose betel-stained gums and drooping mustache...
...effect. “As are we all.”“Surely not, sir,” said Roxanna, with a feeling heave of her rustic bosom. “The air and sunshine are so clear and fortifying here. The whole outdoors smells only of pleasant things.”“Ah, Roxanna,” Frederick said. “It is not merely to our physical state that I refer. The mental evanescence which animates us all, the spirit; that too can become ill. Our souls are no less fragile than...
...trick is that Alaska's government spends money on its own citizens and taxes the rest of us to pay for it. Although Palin, like McCain, talks about liberating ourselves from dependence on foreign oil, there is no evidence that being dependent on Alaskan oil would be any more pleasant to the pocketbook...
Whereas most male stars in the Saturday Night Live era (a line that stretches from Bill Murray to Seth Rogen) sport a louche, slackerish affability, Stiller often plays the less-than-pleasant comic foil: the tightly wound unhero who either gets on everyone's nerves (Dodgeball, The Royal Tenenbaums) or is the hapless pawn of domestic fate (Meet the Fockers, The Heartbreak Kid). As actor, writer or director, he knows something most Hollywood people don't: certain characters needn't be lap-dog lovable--if they're funny enough, the movies they're in can still be hits...