Word: pleasants
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...from me but only after I heard three good things that had happened to each of them. Some days the best I heard was, "Well, lunch didn't suck." But I can attest to the long-term effects. For the next three years, our ride home was far more pleasant. And when my now 21-year-old daughter calls to talk about things going wrong, she always brightens her mood by relating something good. Happiness is a habit best learned early. Karen Reddick Yurka Manzanita, Oregon...
...what they’re after—rather than accept themselves as heirs of British rock, they explore just what it means to be a British rocker, and even just to be British, and these level of inquiry and musical introspectiveness I just find completely absent in the pleasant but not ultimately intellectually engaging music of their Manchester peers...
Luckily, readers can ignore the rehashed ideology in favor of the thoroughly enjoyable memoir embedded in the book. With his endearing, well-written anecdotes of romantic bumbling and freshman foibles, Douthat produces a fun little gem of narcissism, a pleasant indulgence for author and reader alike...
...photographs have the same appeal as billboards and magazine advertisements: they are stark, bright, and pleasant. But Greenfield puts away advertising’s air brush and reveals the women with all their imperfections. In fact, just about any imperfection a contemporary woman might have is photographed and mounted on the wall here...
...thrusts people together in a strange new world, one in which they get to rub virtual shoulders with characters they might otherwise never meet. The challenge for the citizens of cyberspace -- as the battles to control the Internet are joined and waged -- will be to carve out safe, pleasant places to work, play and raise their kids without losing touch with the freewheeling, untamable soul that attracted them to the Net in the first place...