Word: pleasingness
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As a contest, Super Bowl XXII ended by half time. As a lesson, it should last forever. The TV ratings in the late stages were the paltriest in years, but it is pleasing to imagine that this may have only partly been a product of the lopsided score, that a...
Rather's aggressive interrogation of Bush was an ambush that backfired. But the Bush people had planned a sally of their own: the Vice President was eager to launch a crowd-pleasing counterattack on live television. Within days, however, there were signs that Bush's strategy might also boomerang. Once...
The annunciator will greet passengers in "a pleasing melodious voice," Carbona said, adding he did not yet know what the gender of the voice box would be.
The annunciator will greet passengers in "a pleasing melodious voice," Carbona said, adding he did not yet know what the gender of the voice box would be.
In some 20 books of collected short pieces, Perelman offered a unique amalgam of elegant phrase and pratfall comedy. Behind each one was the carefully drawn self-portrait of a curmudgeon, skewering the pretentious, detonating popular culture and putting backspin on cliches ("Jigwise, all is up"). The role of sulfurous...