Word: pleasingness
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"We, and I mean everyone connected with the organization of the Commencement, are always thinking about better ways of changing the rituals. But we don't engage very often in making changes because most of us are happy with the tried and true and pleasing," Hunt says.
Pinning a corsage on a barely constrained chest constitutes the first hurdle of the night. Proposition: primrose placement may seem a pleasing preface to the promenade, presuming the preeminent payoff does not involve a prurient priapism.
The curious thing about swing, though, is that it was popular and poignant simultaneously, at once low and high, democratic and aristocratic. At its best, swing wedded a danceable rhythm to challenging harmonics and inspired improvisation, producing a single musical form capable of pleasing aesthetes along with everyone else. Swing...
"Anyone want to get a Catholic Groove on?", as quoted from Ryan Miller (Guster's lead vocalist), became the theme for the second half of the evening. Perhaps feeding on the randomness of the whole evening, Guster produced a crowd-pleasing rendition of Aerosmith's "Sweet Emotion," complete with full...
When Wilde was writing over a century ago, his plays were enormously successful on the London stage, where he was deftly skewering the hypocrisies and pretensions of the very social order that made up his adoring audiences. If this production tries a little too hard to be innovative and pleasing...