Word: pleasants
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...crisp, dynamic rock. Vocalists Armistead Burwell Smith IV and Rob Crow traded off lead and backup duties throughout the set, producing consistently beautiful harmonies. The band’s specialty is the mid-tempo pop-rock nugget, and they succeed in coming up with songs that are always pleasant, but never quite transcendent. This set showed off all the best moments from their 8+ year career...
...words with leggy super-mutilator Ann Coulter, or Bill O?Reilly, belligerent host of The O?Reilly Factor on Fox News. Franken?s radio show was originally called The O?Franken Factor, with the simple aim of annoying O?Reilly and provoking a lawsuit from him. It?s a pleasant irony that, for all his importance in lowering the level of TV?s political discourse to barrier reef depths, O?Reilly?s lasting legacy may be that he diverted the careers of two men: one (Al Franken) who could become a U.S. Senator, and another (Stephen Colbert) whose parody...
...when you ask 20 people for letters, there will be less-than-glowing responses that need to be explained. “The president is expected to be skeptical to some extent.”While “really sterling” candidates make the ad hoc a pleasant experience, “when it’s a tough case, which most cases are, it can be grilling, it can be like sitting on oral examination for a PhD candidate—very invigorating,” says Government Department Chair Nancy L. Rosenblum...
...University in South Bend, Ind. The 90-minute trip, along the electric-powered silver train that in normal years carries about 13,000 passengers a day in relative comfort, has seen daily ridership spike to over 17,000 at points in recent months. What was once a leisurely, relatively pleasant way to start off and end the workday has become an exercise in elbow wrestling...
...that name: a pile of kittens, a bunny nuzzling a blade of grass, a puppy sleeping on a quilt. A million Hallmark calendars have been sold on the enduring appeal of such images; that Cuteoverload.com could acquire 65,000 readers and hundreds of comments per day by designing a pleasant blog around them makes total sense...