| 单词 | pleasing |
| 例句 | In the hope of pleasing everyone, she took everyone’s advice, and like the old man and his donkey in the fable suited nobody. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Laila loved running her finger over Aziza’s pleasing, soft skin, over the dimpled knuckles, the folds of fat at her elbows. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Or: His attentions were both pleasing and flattering. comprise. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as it’s hard to describe what makes a piece of music or a painting aesthetically pleasing, it's equally difficult to describe what makes a mathematical theorem or a physical theory beautiful. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z One afternoon when they saw I was a little livelier than usual, they invited me to the Christopher Columbus, hoping that a pleasing woman would help me recover my good humor. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A world could be made in five pages, and one that was more pleasing than a model farm. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z People think pleasing God is all God care about But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Shadowing her stepfather and his apprentices, she learned how to select high-quality painting materials, create a pleasing composition, and interest potential customers. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z "I did not do any of these things for the sake of pleasing you," said Aravis. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z A voice isn’t just pleasing; it’s pleasing to the ear. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Particularly pleasing was the possibility that Joshua might be so stuck on his classical way of thinking that I would accomplish the unbelievable feat of beating him to the correct interpretation of his own experiments. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z They reminded Ifemelu of television commercials, of people whose lives were lived always in flattering light, whose messes were still aesthetically pleasing. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I felt it was unjust of her to scold me, but I only said, “I desire to do what is pleasing.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Even today, artists and architects intuitively know that objects that have this ratio of length to width are the most aesthetically pleasing, and the ratio governs the proportions of many works of art and architecture. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The twins thought they had been trying hard, and Jackson in particular, feeling he was still in disgrace in the Tallis household, thought he might begin to rehabilitate himself by pleasing Briony. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Everything had a different smell, some pleasing, others not. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z It’s enormously pleasing to me, this act of walking away. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Conveyed through those sounds was the pleasing, soothing, consoling reminder of being at home. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Old music, thanks to repetition and familiarity gained through broadcasting and recording, and because there was, unsurprisingly, much more of it, was more comforting and pleasing. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “It shows an affection for her sister that is very pleasing,” said Bingley. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z I say, rocking in pleasing rhythm to the sound of her voice. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It is the musical equivalent of dropping a random blob of ink on a piece of paper: by folding the paper and creating a symmetrical double, a pleasing shape is suddenly formed. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Alvarez would say later that he was inspired by the pleasing thought of undermining “the infallibility of Bethe’s Bible.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Killjoy style manuals tell writers to avoid alliteration, but good prose is enlivened with moments of poetry, like this line with its pleasing meter and its impish pairing of marital and medical. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The aroma is pleasing; a carnal incense like burnt offerings to the God of Infinite Vacation. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z No feature in the scene was extraordinary, but all was pleasing. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z It would be just as pleasing to him, he thought, if she questioned him no further about Shad’s letter. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z There were, to be sure, some who, while admitting she was pleasing enough, were withholding judgment as to her quality as a queen. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, pleasing, I would say. The robe, hmm, is a bit long and crooked. I hold out my arms. “It is?” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z People think pleasing God is all God care about. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Because I loved being around little kids and I quickly learned that it was a pleasing answer for adults to hear. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Perhaps he would tell her what a pleasing smile she had. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “You look like—now don’t get mad—you look like a person—” “No! Not a people—” “Well, wait, not exactly, no, no. You have the shape of a person, and a pleasing face—” “Pleasing? Attractiful?” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z The cork came free with a pleasing sound and I held it up triumphantly for them to see. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Also pleasing was the great accuracy of the data, which illustrated better than any previous analytical work the equality of adenine with thymine and guanine with cytosine. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z To put on a grey shirt once more was strangely pleasing. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z I have to wonder what sort of fluke allowed such a pleasing place to be built here. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z That is to say, it was, on the whole, extremely pleasing to see her again. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z He picks a region and roams the countryside for a week or perhaps two, visiting vineyards and collecting bottles of pleasing vintage to be shipped back to Munich. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z No longer would I deny myself the pleasing sensations of my maleness. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z You can look at a painting for the first time, for example, and not like it at all, but after looking at it a little longer you may find it very pleasing. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z He walks over to a slim, blackened stone with a pleasing shape, rounded at the top before rising into a cross. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “I know little, if anything, pleasing to say about the people,” wrote Goethe, who visited northern Italy in 1786. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The solution is to pull not only two slots leftward, giving us the pleasing symmetry between helped him and freed him. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “She’s trying to be true to herself instead of pleasing other people all the time,” she said. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z First of all, I said, no self-respecting freedom fighter would take orders from die government he is fighting against or jettison a longtime ally in the interest of pleasing an antagonist. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you think you shall like Morton?” she asked of me, with a direct and naïve simplicity of tone and manner, pleasing, if child-like. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z But having a cruel and bestial spirit, in order to practise his greed upon the people, he turned to pleasing the armies and to making them undisciplined. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Besides, these colorful compositions of insects and plants were much more artistically pleasing than Goedart’s rows of specimens on a white background. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They were powerful and puzzling and even fearsome, but also they could do pleasing things. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z “Why is that particular section so breathtaking? Why do we not find ourselves attracted to some calmer or more pleasing one?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “I would keep you from the revels, but Madoc has specifically instructed that you participate in them. So heed my advice. Be careful, and perhaps you will find ways to be pleasing.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Was her face permanently creased from years of pleasing customers, or was a tragedy lurking behind that grin? The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z This toy of voting was almost as pleasing as the conch. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Orion bellowed in agony, and Reyna thought what a pleasing last sound that was to hear. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z She had never owned a garment in such an eye-catching color, but the Swanburne uniform featured a trim of navy ribbon around the hem that Penelope had always found pleasing. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “How very pleasing and proper of him!” cried the good-hearted Mrs. John Knightley. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z No longer so close; no longer bound tight by the pleasing and troubling knowledge of our public separateness. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Had Elizabeth’s opinion been all drawn from her own family, she could not have formed a very pleasing opinion of conjugal felicity or domestic comfort. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Her countenance—despite the rumors—was still youthful and pleasing, and she endeavoured to carry on ruling in the manner of the dead king. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z “I do not know what I could imagine, but I confess that I have seldom seen a face or figure more pleasing to me than hers. But I am a partial old friend.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z “But then later it says, Slaves should be submissive to their masters in everything—and be well pleasing.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z As she grew up, a sound English education corrected in a great measure her French defects; and when she left school, I found in her a pleasing and obliging companion: docile, good-tempered, and well-principled. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The lobster was instantly surrounded by a halo of pleasing reminiscences, and curiosity about ‘the charming young ladies’ diverted his mind from the comical mishap. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z First run of the night is in the rich part of town—Potter Farms, where the houses are huge and geometrically pleasing to the eye, but the tips are not. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z She had seen or felt nothing so pleasing in days, perhaps weeks. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I am glad to be able to recall numerous occasions when the silver at Darlington Hall had a pleasing impact upon observers. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z His tongue had earned him some stripes on the back in the beginning, but soon enough he had learned the tricks of pleasing Nurse and the noble Yezzan. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There wasn’t time to reflect upon the pleasing scene. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “Truly, yes, to pray with. It would be pleasing to the saints if one used so fine a rosary as this, instead of wearing it as a vain bijou.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z After tea I returned to point out that it was lucky I found tennis more pleasing than model building. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z For more than a year at the Adult Center the only thing that mattered was pleasing her. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Most blacks thought I was either stupid or too intent on pleasing the whites. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “Oftentimes very convenient, no doubt, but never pleasing. There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z Using the same hypothetical numbers, they ran the program on the electronic computer, to the pleasing end that there was “very good agreement” between the IBM’s output and Katherine’s calculations. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Planting their orchards for millennia, the first Amazonians slowly transformed large swaths of the river basin into something more pleasing to human beings. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The prospect of this was pleasing in the extreme. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z This was what his father had taught him: the greater the composure, the more revealed one was, the truth of one’s inner life was manifest—a pleasing paradox. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z And there's no guaranteeing they'll be so pleasing to the eye. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z His table predicted, with pleasing accuracy, where new elements would slot in when they were found. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The desk, too, was pleasing—his father had built it himself. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “Oh! yes—very—a very pleasing young woman.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z He survived there for thirty-eight years and it would be pleasing to report that he passed this span in happiness and adulation. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Depending on your interests, you may also want to spend time creating pleasing chord progressions by choosing chords from the correct key that will complement a melody that you know. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I knew now why her face was familiar--its pleasing contemptuous expression had looked out at me from many rotogravure pictures of the sporting life at Asheville and Hot Springs and Palm Beach. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z We both appreciate simplicity, and if we are sometimes bored—well, boredom is a pleasing antidote to fear. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The coolness was as pleasing as having mint in your mouth. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “They’re slaves, Elias. Their only concern is pleasing their master, and in this case, I assure you, their master would not be pleased.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Impressed finally by the massive support of his former comrades in arms, Colonel Aureliano Buendía did not put aside the possibility of pleasing them. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z When we came into Lucy’s room I could see that Van Helsing had, with his usual forethought, been putting matters straight and making everything look as pleasing as possible. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z It had a pleasing weight in my hand. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Winnie’s shyness returned at once when she saw the big man with his sad face and baggy trousers, but as he gazed at her, the warm, pleasing feeling spread through her again. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z When he was done he felt a pleasing lightness in the air around him which slipped silkily over his skin and through his nostrils. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “I was charmed by her pleasing manners and keen wit,” Dr. Cigrand said. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He's one of our great male actors, not to mention the rare, pleasing celebrity who has overcome his most destructive impulses. Due Date Review: Downey, Galifianakis and Road Rage 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z As deputy general manager at a hotel, his whole life is about subservience and pleasing others, tolerating with forbearance pleas for different color sheets and even a request to “reduce the ocean noise.” Review: Jonathan Lee’s ‘High Dive’ Revisits a Plot to Kill Margaret Thatcher 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z But the point of all of this restraint and control — which is both pleasing and confining, for the audience as it is for the characters — is to allow small eruptions of chaos to become visible. Review: ‘1001 Grams,’ by the Norwegian Filmmaker Bent Hamer, Mixes Levity and Gravity 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z “As winemakers, we think that blends are often more complex and pleasing.” Don’t Judge a Wine by the Grape on Its Label 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z In the public eye, she was the slim and pleasing housewife, the accidental playwright featured in a photo spread in Vogue. The Brief, Brilliant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z One tiny volume shows up an especially pleasing set of associations. From the margins 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z The goal was simply to create a pleasing sense of softness. NY Fashion Week: tough, tailored, lots of black 2013-02-14T22:14:16Z But the story has a winning momentum, to go with its pleasing evocations of the symphony of running. Running for Their Lives in Two Middle-Grade Novels About Track Teams 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z It offers a pleasing texture, soft yet crisp, and a flavor reminiscent of okra or green beans. Review | At Ruta del Vino, refreshing takes on Latin food — with nary a small plate in sight 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z In nineteenth-century New York, the poor were made to look pleasing to the rich. The “Poor Door” and the Glossy Reconfiguration of City Life 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z Playwright Doug Wright has had some fun himself, the cast is committed and realistic, and the whole thing is a pleasing, tuneful, heart-filled ode to small towns and American dreams. Review: 'Hands on a Hardbody' tuneful, sweet ode 2013-03-22T00:10:15Z He has perhaps changed more than anyone else between episodes eight and nine, and the change is a pleasing one. The Deuce recap: season two, episode one – back in the New York groove 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z The extra-virgin oil is richly herbaceous on the palate, with notes of pepper and pleasing bitterness. An Olive Oil From South Africa 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z That show first presented itself as a careful and pleasing homage to the TV sitcom, bewitching and bewildering viewers in doing so. "Loki" is an enjoyable, aesthetic romp that feels smaller than the God of Mischief deserves 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z In spite of this, the men’s game is presently more pleasing to the eye than the women’s. Game, set and spats… a grand slam of tennis movies 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z Directed by Sue Bourne with pleasing attention to the intricacies of steps and the politeness of interpersonal rivalries, “Jig” begins light on its feet but soon becomes leaden. | 'Jig': Young Lords and Ladies of the Dance 2011-06-16T23:57:32Z They are elemental, but they avoid the grimness associated with that genre and are often humorous, or a touch ironical – an unusual and pleasing combination. Poem of the week: H?m (noun) by Jen Hadfield 2010-07-05T11:11:00Z Raven-Symone says she is a little nervous about hitting the stage - but not about pleasing critics. Raven-Symone to step into 'Sister Act' 2012-03-07T18:31:04Z In the case of the comedies, many of which involve mirroring and twins, it’s pleasing to show the themes in a schematic way on the table top. My kingdom for a can of beans! A radical take on the Bard in 'Table Top Shakespeare' 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z Fireworks is the clubbiest thing here, but its sumptuous electronic flow is still – like the rest of this pleasing album – dance-pop at its most enjoyably commercial. Yuksek: Living on the Edge of Time ? review 2011-07-07T22:59:00Z It wasn’t always outwardly crowd pleasing; there were moments of transition and experimentation. Music Review: Three Bands, Floating Their Music on a Cool Breeze 2011-06-12T22:53:07Z He stepped to the microphone and settled into his speech, which was not a pleasing pep talk for a country torn into bits. Perspective | Trump got his crowd and his fireworks, and peddled his fiction 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z Light, fresh and pleasing, with a chewy texture and fruity flavors. Does Blended Scotch Still Have a Place in the Modern Bar? 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z In 1928 the judge eventually ruled that "while some difficulty might be encountered in associating it with a bird, it is nevertheless pleasing to look at and highly ornamental". Call that art? No, Dan Flavin's work is just simple light fittings, say EU experts 2010-12-20T20:43:38Z True partnership is about finding someone you get along with so well, and find so beautiful inside, that the outside is just a pleasing window to the good stuff. Boyfriend more interested in thrill of pursuit 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Red brick, demure and pleasing: this was the architecture of the children's story book. Aesthetic values 2011-03-26T00:05:03Z Late success has also freed her up not to worry about staying popular or pleasing audiences. Mary Weatherford Brings ‘Horror and Beauty’ to Venice 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z The interplay between these tragic and comic versions of the same story is one of the pleasing structural parallels that make human beings feel satisfactorily entertained; "Oklahoma!" abounds in these. 'Oklahoma!' sweeps audience back to prairie in lush show 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z There’s a big-voiced showman in Mr. Lambert, ready to surface when he worries less about pleasing everyone or hitting his marks. Music Review: Adam Lambert?s Message at the Nokia Theater 2010-06-23T22:04:00Z Firstborns are often thought to care more about pleasing their parents, and to be conscientious and dominant, with laterborns being more easy-going, sociable and creative. Oldest, youngest or middle child? How sibling birth order affects you 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z In “Constellations,” a grab bag of an opening gallery, artworks and Jewish ceremonial objects play off one another in aesthetically pleasing, if historically nebulous, counterpoint. A Museum’s Fresh Take on the Whole Megillah 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Goodsell’s image, which is aesthetically pleasing, renders the virus in an even more disinterested way, as completely disconnected from our tendency to anthropomorphize viral threats with the rhetoric of war. Perspective | Coronavirus is a killer. But this artist won’t reduce it to a cartoon villain. 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z I found it particularly pleasing to learn that Twain, who knew Civil War veterans Ulysses S. Grant and Ambrose Bierce, also met Lewis Carroll and shook hands with Sigmund Freud. A new biography of the most famous American of his time: Mark Twain 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z In two weeks they would be back here in their “second home,” pleasing the palates of a new set of hungry people. Berlin Dinner Parties That Celebrate Refugees and Their Food 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z “Fête Noire” is a pleasing enough Balanchine primer, though it plays up the sense of the ensemble members as dancers in training. Dance Review: Harlem Ensemble at Jacob?s Pillow Dance Festival 2010-06-25T22:27:00Z She fills in for a mannequin in a department store window, having her limbs twisted into pleasing poses. ‘Temporary’ Is a Debut Novel That Leans Into the Absurdity of How We Work Now 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z “It’s the opposite of seduction. Seduction involves elegance and has the goal of pleasing others. This is grossly macho behavior.” | François Hollande: Casanova or Lout? 2014-02-07T20:50:14Z Emerald Nuts and Pop Secret A cheesy guy in a cape leads a Marine World-like team of humans though a hoop jumping, crowd pleasing routine, rewarding his barking merfolk with nuts and popcorn. 2010-02-08T13:08:00Z And just why would they then want to correct themselves, as you put it, in the hope of pleasing you? Perspective | Miss Manners: Using manners can look very similar to ‘being handled’ 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z Using the long corridors to stretch her viewers’ attention, Ms. Melnick and her liquid motion filled the moat with a pleasing picnic of inscrutable, activity. Dance for the People (by the Pros) at the River to River Festival 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z While the colors and scale are not as vibrant as in the quilts, they are pleasing fragments. Gee’s Bend Quilts in 2 Shows at Lehman College 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z It also provides the rather pleasing spectacle of Roberts, an Oscar-winning actor and star of some of the sappiest romances ever committed to celluloid, serenely pivoting to the small screen. Pretty risky: Has Julia Roberts’s move from Hollywood to TV drama Homecoming worked? 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z Live, it gets people moving through sheer physicality, though it’s also aesthetically pleasing enough for Boiler Room videos where people vibe and try to look cool in the background instead of dancing. Your week in Seattle music: Lucinda Williams, Dr. Dog and more 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Yes, he and his team are charged with conveying ideas visually and making exhibitions aesthetically pleasing, but that’s just the beginning. The man responsible for all the details you probably don’t even notice 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Like Payne, they are contemporary film-makers with cult followings who have walked the rocky path between pleasing their producers and making films that illuminate the dark underbelly of life. Cannes celebrates the movie mavericks 2013-05-25T23:06:17Z To Hollywood, the data suggest a potentially disquieting idea: The TV industry is populated by liberals, but big-league success may require pleasing conservatives. Republican-friendly TV shows more likely to be hits 2010-11-23T07:27:00Z For people like this, wine glasses must be esthetically pleasing but above all functional, enhancing the perception of wines that can often be subtle, nuanced and, in the case of older vintages, fragile and fleeting. The Best Wine Glass for Any Occasion: Our Critic Reviews 5 New Contenders 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z It’s pleasing to meet a playwright with so many ideas and a director so willing to stage them, but the quirks of form and flights of fancy ultimately seem forced. ‘City Of,’ by Anton Dudley, Has People and Parisian Statues 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z He shows, right from the start, that concerts are about pleasing the public. Power chords and Pollock: Art history and a theoretical superstructure of punk 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z Though the sequence is a lot more contrived than the music, its point — this helpless, unpolished little outburst of impulsive high spirits when alone in nature — is pleasing. Review: Mark Morris’s New Pastoral Says Less Than Its Music 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z It might sound like an obscure point, but Kant argues that the beautiful must be pleasing on its own account. For sale: the ashtray that inspired William Gibson 2010-07-08T09:30:00Z By incredible luck the only injuries Mitchell appeared to sustain were aesthetically pleasing grease smudges on her arm. The mystery of the influencer and the Instagrammed motorcycle accident 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Schoeck’s vocal writing is less pleasing: much of it is talky and shapeless, and it is often swamped by the string and woodwind scoring. Music Review: A Meandering Thread Becomes James Joyce 2010-10-10T19:42:00Z Though the choreography has no special complexities, the way it displays dancers and its range of strong colors are entirely pleasing. Dance Review: Nerve and Verve On a Grand Scale 2011-03-07T22:49:07Z The slow movement did not plod, and the third movement was a pleasing combination of playful scherzo and leisurely trio. Review | Asian Youth Orchestra, Chang play favorites to sound of crickets 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Increasingly the function of a florist’s installations is not merely a pleasing backdrop for showcasing wares; they serve to echo and amplify the impact of the clothes on the runway. By Arrangement, Fashion’s Florists 2014-03-02T20:44:24Z Least pleasing was the opening Bach work, the first French suite, best in the slow sarabande and second minuet, where he added complex embellishments on the repeats. Pianist Christopher Taylor cranks the bombast dial a little too high 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Furthermore, musicians who make unapologetically pleasing and soothing music, male or female, often are on the losing side in the cred wars. Fade Out 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Fans of Cat Sebastian and K. J. Charles will find this book quieter but no less pleasing. Sauce Makers and Scoundrels: Four Hot Romance Novels 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z One place where the problem lingers is the dark mole that serves as a base for otherwise pleasing fried chicken. Review | A chef steeped in tacos takes Mexican cuisine on an upscale ride 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z When trains go over it late at night, I hear their long, low horn, a very romantic, pleasing, urban sound. The East River Waterfront Dazzles. Take a Virtual Tour. 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z But its 78 inbound trails loped and dipped with the same pleasing unreality of Vail or Steamboat. ‘Snow Snow Snow’ at Jay Peak, Stowe and Stratton in Vermont 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z They appealed to me as boy because there's a pleasing lack of morality to them and lots of fighting. The great books giveaway 2011-03-04T11:19:03Z The trail then crosses the creek, whose pleasing water music grows in volume as you approach. Escape From the City: 9 Winter Outings That Fight Cabin Fever 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z Erasmus and Paul would prefer white wine over beer, thank you, and there is a pleasing and rare lack of self-consciousness about the way the characters engage with their identities. Review: A Child Adds a Layer to Gay Couple’s ‘Ideal Home’ 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z In addition, presented complete, it made for a pleasing, symmetric whole rather than tailing off at 10 minutes with diminishing energy. Music Review: Seamless Mesh of Musicians Furnish Unified Sound 2012-11-15T22:56:17Z The tenor Neal Cooper, in the role of Mark, sang with a pleasing warm tone but unsteady placement. Review: ‘The Wreckers,’ a Tale of Piracy, Love and Betrayal 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z Overall, the findings are a surprise, given my pleasing meals at the steak frites-driven Bearnaise. The strategy for Claudia’s Steakhouse: Go fish. 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Finding the truth in a character — tough work even for an adult actor — was less important to Shirley than pleasing the widest audience. Shirley Temple: A Cute Cocktail of Talent and Charm 2014-02-12T16:13:08Z Someone appreciated them both enough to get them permanently put under their skin; whether as a nod to their childhood or because they simply found it aesthetically pleasing. The pop tattoo makes its mark 2013-04-02T17:30:01Z The calligraphers’ tales point to reasons for this lettering renaissance, beyond its suitability for Instagram’s square, aesthetically pleasing frame. The Calligraphy Stars of Instagram 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z If you want only to please yourself, stay single; if you want to spend your life pleasing someone else, get hitched. I’m not attracted to my husband any more, maybe because of the menopause 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z No one knows exactly how an alien planet is going to look, so – provided its inhabitants are depicted in a way that is pleasing to the eye – most will suspend their disbelief. Jeff Bridges's age-spanning turn will be new Tron's legacy 2010-12-06T11:13:00Z He, or indeed she, is a figure that features heavily in Anderson's work, endearingly flawed and aesthetically pleasing. 'I don't think any of us are normal people' 2012-05-18T23:02:00Z I've been an actress for 30 years, and I found that when you start as an actor you are very concerned about pleasing the director, and what the director is asking of you. "She feels things deeply": How "A Radiant Girl" slowly realizes the persecution of the Holocaust 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z Sarah Hemming at the Financial Times described the move from page to play as "a pleasing fit" saying "Reade's fluid version adroitly balances plot essentials and detailed scenes." Pride and Prejudice's foray onto outdoor stage 'intelligent' 2013-06-27T13:01:21Z The glossies were relatable, visually pleasing and useful all at once — a tactile, addictive habit. Women’s magazines are dying. Will we miss them when they’re gone? 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z His reforms are aimed at pleasing a public long frustrated by local corruption. China's airing of 'V for Vendetta' stuns viewers 2012-12-20T06:43:09Z “I still struggle with that idea of a woman pleasing everybody,” Kadillak says, noting that dating pre-self-quarantine often came with expectations of getting physical early on. ‘I would pay $50 for a 2-minute hug’: True stories of sex starvation during self-quarantine 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z “On my watch, we really focused on the visitors and making their experience more pleasing,” she said. Pisano to step down after 13 years leading L.A.'s Natural History Museum 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z But, Updike has that special sheen, a filigree of wisdom and style so pleasing that it transcends its subject matter. The Great American Novelist tournament 2013-01-22T12:51:05Z To speak more about that would be to give away too many surprises; suffice to say that there's a pleasing ambiguity about the events and their causes. Not the Booker prize 2012: The Revelations by Alex Preston 2012-09-25T14:27:51Z He too will be at peace if he leaves the galaxy behind known primarily for pleasing millions by manfully grappling with rubbery extraterrestrials. Theater Review: ?Shatner?s World,? One-Man Show at the Music Box Theater 2012-02-17T03:00:01Z And there were pleasing oddities that suggested a venturesome actor not content to do as his agents told him, like Richard Kelly’s extraordinary heroic failure of an epic, Southland Tales. Dwayne Johnson: fast, furious and fun 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Few warriors are less intimidating than Elmer Fudd in a Viking helmet; few sights are as pleasing as Bugs as Brünnhilde, lithe and batting his eyelashes atop a white horse with a pink mane. Wuvwy Music 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z Here, his jumpy camera and occasionally arresting widescreen compositions are pleasing yet devoid of tension or surprise. | 'John Carpenter?s The Ward': Young, Cute and Menaced, Per Usual 2011-07-08T03:06:51Z In pleasing contrast to the American couple, who seem flattened by their self-delusion, the couple in Rome are brought off the page by their complexity. A Debut Novel About Two Couples, Divided by Countries and Creeds 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z The recording scenes are great fun — in the age of the ubiquitous oral history, there remains something viscerally pleasing about showing, not telling, how a song comes together — and the concert recreations are thrilling. We will (almost) rock you: Rami Malek is marvelous in “Bohemian Rhapsody”; it’s not quite e... 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z This display of dress and undress, the bright streaks in upswept hairdos producing the most color, was a pleasing show. Special Report: Fashion: The Discreet Return of the Bourgoisie 2011-03-06T18:55:47Z It was particularly pleasing for Sanders because he is a fan. Mad Men has a new hire: 75-year-old ad man straight from the swinging 60s 2013-03-11T19:03:24Z Kimberly said she was struck by the texture, rawness and pleasing eccentricity of the wines. Bubbles, With Joy: Pétillant Naturel’s Triumphant Return 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z It’s as pleasing as typhus But what if you got Eighteen years of free WiFi? Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Relax, these aren’t old jokes retold as poems 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z Gibson is a flawed fellow, no doubt, and it is pleasing that, for once, a celebrity's offscreen antics do seem to be having an effect on his career. The cassette Walkman has gone, and I must move on 2010-10-26T18:02:00Z Some virtuoso moments of Act II lack City Ballet speed and élan, but there are warm, pleasing performers. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Nutcracker’ in Philadelphia and by Manhattan Youth Ballet 2012-12-17T22:54:57Z So if a pleasing stasis is woven into the heart of this show, why am I feeling the need for a little disorder? 'Downton Abbey' Recap: Do We Really Want Anything to Change? 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z It was pleasing to see Curb Your Enthusiasm, which found a new head of steam this year, getting a nomination and equally good to see that Nurse Jackie and Edie Falco continue to garner support. Emmy nominations: the great, the unexpected and the awful 2010-07-08T15:18:00Z But while the show is musically pleasing, in dramatic terms, it is frequently limp. Review: ‘My Paris,’ a Portrait of Toulouse-Lautrec in Song and Dance 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z The gables, which once faced the front of the building, now face the sides for a more pleasing look that shows off a new wood-shingled roof. Garage to Guest House 2012-08-30T18:20:09.703Z But they also need to be pleasing to the eye. Coneflower options abound. A recent trial sought to find the best ones. 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z As if triggered by his presence, screens lower from the ceiling to display videos of scenes that begin sylvan and pleasing but, as his time there progresses, grow increasingly apocalyptic. Don Delillo's deep freeze: 'Zero K' takes on death, futurists and cryonics 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z And while the previous biennale’s theme, “Wonder,” favored aesthetically pleasing, and more accessible works, this year’s biennale is taking a slightly more difficult conceptual tack. Art: Definitions of Home at the Singapore Biennale 2011-03-21T15:00:05Z “We figured this crowd would be okay with pleasing Satan being considered a victory.” Fantastic Fest 2016: cannibals, floating heads and Dolph Lundgren 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Even more than Mr. Malkovich did, Mr. Driver makes us aware that real grandeur doesn’t always come in the expected, esthetically pleasing packages. Review: Adam Driver Heats Up a Wobbly ‘Burn This’ 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Sturdier by far is Matthew J. Lloyd’s painterly photography: though at times squintingly dark, his New Mexico scrub and skylines are distractingly pleasing. ‘The Kid’ Review: A Wild West Showdown Spurs a Coming-of-Age Dilemma 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z "Drank like a fish, wrote like an angel," would make a pleasing epitaph. Why do writers drink? 2013-07-20T07:00:14Z Drowned World didn't play to her hits from "Ray of Light" or "Music" and seemed less about pleasing her fans than proving something to herself. 10 Year time capsule: Madonna inspires Tarantino 2011-03-15T13:15:00Z The payoff isn’t the same as the thrill of pleasing a beautiful woman that Ms. Lopez can provide, but in Mr. Tyler contestants have a compatriot who knows all the words. Arts & Leisure Preview: Steven Tyler Escapes From Idolatry 2011-02-09T16:50:05Z Playing a time-traveller must have been especially pleasing in an industry obsessed with age. Alex Kingston: 'Lady Macbeth freaked me out' 2013-06-19T18:30:05Z I liked the look of it — so pleasing, with its orange Penguin binding and its affable title. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 5: Our Mutual Friend 2012-02-01T19:54:28Z She needs to marshal the power of a positive, calm and definite “No,” and tolerate the discomfort of not pleasing these overwhelming people, who may try to punish her when they don’t get their way. Ask Amy: Sister frets about passive expectant parents 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z But Mr. Mayer’s equanimity in the face of potential naysayers doesn’t mean that he has abandoned hope of pleasing even those opera lovers who have grown wary of directorial tinkering. ‘Rigoletto,’ in Rat Pack-Style, at the Met 2013-01-23T13:00:00Z Most industries, when depicted on stage or screen, are either hopelessly romanticised or thoroughly demonised, in such a way as to fill those who know the terrain with a pleasing sense of superiority. Career out of control: how Hollywood and Broadway portray professions 2012-12-12T22:42:17Z In his agitated condition, he seems to have forgotten that pleasing people is what entertainers do. Charlie Sheen's ego explodes on "20/20" 2011-03-02T13:30:00Z In order to concoct a pleasing combo — Mark Twain on the Tea Party, for example — you must already imagine what the author would write — an all-you-can-eat of gourmet ridicule — so there’s no element of surprise. David Mitchell: By the Book 2012-10-20T09:00:06Z It is pleasing to find a biographer who digs so deep to unearth extenuating circumstances for her subject. The Marquess of Queensberry: Wilde's Nemesis by Linda Stratmann – review 2013-04-17T13:00:03Z The group sniffed the samples and noted any pleasing aromas: Play-Doh, Concord grapes, tomato juice, clams, Kraft American Singles. Small Cheese Makers Invest in a Stinky Science 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z Even the three finalists not named winners were pleasing. Review: An Operatic Tryout Yields a Young Star 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z He thinks red is more universally pleasing than green, though he cautions against going too dark or inky. Nail Polish in Greens and Yellows Fail to Win Fans 2012-04-04T21:09:39Z Labor-intensive, visually compelling works by the Bahamian artist seem to challenge outworn heroes and cultural assumptions of the Western canon, yet some of Strachan’s simplest pieces may be his most pleasing. Artist Tavares Strachan’s show at Frye packed with subversive drama 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z These are some of the most pleasing works in the fair. A Fair Where the Art Shines (Grandstanding Not Required) 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z It was only years later that I realized what they were so mad about: They resented the implication that a woman has a right to exist for a reason other than pleasing a man. The gospel according to Sinéad O'Connor: She was right all along 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Among the few things that can be counted on with this show are its out of nowhere “surprise” saves that makes no sense beyond pleasing the fans. On "Game of Thrones," all men must die. Who will fall at Winterfell? 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z A perfectly pleasing Neil Simon comedy, however, just won’t do anymore. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: A Holiday Wish for Better Holiday Theater 2010-12-23T00:24:33Z Barefoot young women skipping and leaping in wispy Botticellian tunics blown about by the breeze — this was a pleasing sight, even if successive solos to Chopin or Gluck began to seem interchangeably quaint. Downtown Dance Festival, With Isadora Duncan Company 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z No matter how pleasing the product, tasting-room marathons tend to get a little dull after the first half dozen sips. T Magazine: Baja Fresh 2012-11-15T20:00:49Z Technically, that’s true, but this pleasing sequel is actually a classic plot. Despicable Me 2: It’s Gru Love 2013-07-03T19:14:37Z Perhaps the most gratifying, fragrantly pleasing success story to come of this compulsive behavior was my rediscovery of simmering whole chickens. The nourishing joy of simmered whole chicken 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z In some sense, they do, they’re meant to, but the cumulative effect of “Look” has a pleasing coherence in the mind’s eye. Solmaz Sharif and the poetics of a new American generation 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z This complexity is earned and pleasing, not least in how it shines a new light on his brother’s absence. Eli Gottlieb’s ‘Best Boy’ 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z The arrangement includes chicken sauced with tomato and fenugreek; dense but pleasing lamb in a blanket of saffron, cardamom and red chiles; and a vibrant creamed spinach that any steakhouse would envy. Review | After more than 30 years, Bombay Club is as comfortable as ever 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z A nest of frizzy onions in the center adds pleasing crunch. Mastro’s Steakhouse review: A well-played rendition of a tired song 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Vale’s serenades were compared by at least one observer to those of a Venetian gondolier, and he endeavored to preserve his genre’s lush and pleasing style, particularly as rock-and-roll commanded increasingly large audiences. Jerry Vale, crooner of the 1950s and '60s, dies at 83 Within this puzzle-oriented genre, the most constraining and hence the most aesthetically pleasing subcategory is the locked room murder, a.k.a. the miracle crime. ‘The Derek Smith Omnibus,’ by Derek Howe Smith It’s an atmosphere of gently rising expectations, which can be pleasing but unstable. Review: A Scrappy Ballet Company, Undone by High Expectations 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z But this is a mistake: Webern's music is among the most immediately pleasing in the modernist canon. London Sinfonietta/Brönnimann – review 2013-01-30T16:20:35Z Even the sight of girls toiling in a sewing-machine sweatshop is rendered pleasing. Music: Opera on Lake Constance: Love, Death and Fate 2011-07-26T11:00:06Z And the last line is so good and right and pleasing that I actually went for a third helping just to make sure I wasn’t wrong about it all. What ‘Green Book’ Says About the Academy. Our Critics on the Oscars. 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z If Schuyler succeeds — pleasing editors and Tilden’s own circle with his commentaries — he may wind up not only financially revived but as ambassador to France. Stories of Then That Still Hold Up Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z I preferred the big, pleasing mouthfeel of the toast slathered with peach butter, its sprinkles of sea salt providing delicate/assertive counterpoints. Slipstream pours on the coffee love. And they can cook, too. 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z In his first years on TBS, Mr. O’Brien still seemed haunted by losing “The Tonight Show,” but his series now has the pleasing eccentricity of someone who doesn’t care about ratings or expectations. The Most Riveting Host in Late Night (and the Most Overlooked) 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z But it boggled the mind in a pleasing way, and it was a wonderful sight when the particles danced to Matthias's strains. Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music festival ? review 2011-02-15T19:00:01Z The white entrance signs have an aesthetically pleasing Streamline Moderne look. Art Deco Los Angeles 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Instead of pleasing the court and king, 18th-century French artists appealed directly to public opinion at the hugely popular Salon exhibitions. For critics, it's better to be interesting than right 2011-01-28T13:02:56Z Reading it, you can hear small museums across the country sigh with relief: Here was something that was accessible, visually pleasing and easily transported, after all that Minimalist sternness, blankness and weight. Pattern & Decoration: A Movement That Still Has Legs 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Their greatest successes, and most aesthetically pleasing performances, came when they were coached by a dictatorial apparatchik and former player named Viktor Tikhonov, whom most of them came to hate. Cold War Puck: The Beauties of Russian Hockey 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z When you try to please everyone you end up pleasing no one. Peloton isn’t alone in making sexist gift gaffes. Even I once vouched for a pink beret 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z It made a colourful and pleasing coda to the sound and fury of new hardware doing battle. Xbox One and PlayStation 4: the best new games showcased at E3 2013-06-15T23:05:25Z It’s an act the company first performed decades ago, and it’s still crowd pleasing. Theater Review: Mummenschanz, at the Skirball Center 2012-12-21T18:16:23Z This man is occupied with pleasing himself and you’ve inconveniently abandoned him, leaving a vacancy in his diary for weekend pleasure. Even though the guy I’m seeing has a girlfriend, he’s very attached to me | Mariella Frostrup 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z If Amanda Garrett’s pleasing mystique in the Carolyn Brown role wasn’t what you would expect from a Cunningham dancer, it didn’t mar an otherwise lucid rendering of an important Cunningham dance. Dance Review: New York Theater Ballet at Gould Hall 2012-03-12T22:23:42Z But, on a more elemental level, Untitled Goose Game arrives at a time when it’s pleasing to exact interspecies revenge. The Joy of Being a Horrible Goose in a Time of Moral Crisis 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z There's a pleasing inversion of the unrelenting theme when we discover the reason for Mr and Mrs Brocket's lust for normalcy: as children, they had been forcibly groomed for stardom. The Terrible Thing that Happened to Barnaby Brocket by John Boyne - review 2012-08-03T21:55:06Z No matter what you do, no matter how hard you try to be pleasing, inevitably your capricious overlord will get in a mood, and then, bam, things will get ugly. Keep your kid’s meltdown off Instagram 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z But Gero describes the show as, despite its heart-pounding action, "very pleasing to watch . . . it does have that meditative, restorative feel." "Keep Breathing" creators talk survival, not Googling solutions and that controversial ending 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z “When I first got into the company in 2010,” Mr. Novak said, “I was so concerned with being correct and pleasing him that I wasn’t relaxed enough.” Get to Know the Colors on Paul Taylor’s Palette 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Barrett exaggerated the heaviness of the Menuetto and the airy lightness of the Trio, as if the distinction were not clear enough, but the effect was pleasing. Music Review: Mitsuko Uchida Plays Mozart at Caramoor 2010-06-27T21:49:00Z The dancers embodied the spirit of Jarrett’s left turn, and his resilience, in a pleasing, stylish whirl with touches of wit. The Washington Ballet, perfectly balanced in Forsythe’s ‘In the Middle’ 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z He gets closer to the present – though arguably not much cooler – using a Keane song to demonstrate another pleasing chord sequence. Howard Goodall's Story of Music; Being Human; Borgen – TV review 2013-02-04T07:00:06Z Said wrestling match takes place within a deep, pleasantly atmospheric fog of interwar glamor that makes it actually rather pleasing: heiresses and bohemians, cigarettes and alcohol, fatalism and ennui, garrottes and sleek, deadly period handguns. My Book-Buffer for June and July 2012-07-03T18:40:01Z By contrast, women “seem to have this idea they’re supposed to be pleasing in both contexts.” Sex on Campus: She Can Play That Game, Too 2013-07-12T20:23:14Z “It’s comforting and pleasing and calming. And, personally, I think it’s something that is hard to drink quickly.” What to Drink Before Bed? There’s Lots to Consider 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z And the olive oil from Château de Peyrassol, a wine estate in Provence, is distinctive for its delicacy, with a pleasing bitter edge. A Wine Importer Turns to Food 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z The pale wood furnishings and décor punctuated with cheery orange and chocolate accents in throw pillows and artwork were pleasing to the eye. Check In: Hotel Review: Capri by Fraser in Singapore 2013-05-03T17:50:47Z But perhaps the highest priority in attracting new concertgoers and pleasing existing ones is to provide a hall that doesn’t feel like the substitute that it is. A Temporary Concert Hall Hopes for a Permanent Audience 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z The spritz is a cocktail in which part of the appeal is looseness, a willingness to toss ingredients together in a rakishly pleasing way. Attention, day drinkers: Here’s what you should be imbibing 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z However, overall accommodation registered more strongly than any individual heightened feeling, and pleasing mildness conveyed varied but toned-down expression, especially in the anguished Symphony No. 40. Music of the Baroque left them shouting in the aisles 2011-05-24T16:14:47Z It's not quite the full science-nerd chic, but there is a pleasing uniformity to their appearance. New band of the day: Teleman (No 1,424) 2013-01-04T17:05:57Z As it is, “Dealt” remains a pleasing — if inoffensive — portrait. Review: In ‘Dealt,’ a Magician Never Shows His Hand (Until He Does) 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z These "kinetic" works may be the highlight of the show, but other pleasing pieces keep them company. Paul Marioni, K?K? Cribbs at Traver Gallery 2011-12-01T22:01:08Z The rustling and cutting of the bulb’s crispy skin is surprisingly pleasing, as is the parting of the cloves, and the way he cuts slithers of garlic with barely any resistance. Scalpel, please! The YouTube star performing food surgery on film 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z They also tell us that if we spend our entire lives pleasing others, but never ourselves, we will end up in a bad midlife crisis. How to Say ‘No’ This Thanksgiving 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Sure, but the idea is also plenty pleasing. Kyirisan review: Tastefully pushing boundaries in Shaw 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z I wanted to hide from men while also pleasing them. The day I put my bikini away 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z Equally pleasing is the thought that some shadowy Bilderberg-style group is necking pharmaceuticals to stay on top. Bradley Cooper: boy to man 2011-03-22T21:30:00Z “There’s a pleasing melancholy about it, I find,” Mr. Esterly said. Antiques: Michael Cardew, British Ceramist, Is Subject of a Biography 2012-12-21T05:27:15Z The golden ratio is a mathematical formula of pleasing harmony. The Semiotics of “Rose Gold” 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z For outsiders looking in, the moral of the story is that 'there is no pleasing Christians. Retailer's decision to drop The Blind Side upsets Christian faithful 2012-07-17T16:14:12Z The Grammys remain, at heart, a balancing act — a big tent that aims to satisfy everyone, fully pleasing no one. The Grammys Discover Youth 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z The resulting thickly painted works compress typography and image, figure and ground, attaining a pleasing intensity of pattern — pattern that is always, somehow, escaping itself. Review | The Whitney Biennial presents the best new artists in the country — and lots of fluff 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z In each case, the filmmaking is highly economical, and the economic analysis deeply pleasing. Steven Soderbergh’s “High Flying Bird” Is a Funny and Fleet Late-Capitalist Critique 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z A side plate of zucchini, broccoli and potatoes, everything flecked with dill, serves as a pleasing escort. Review | Greek cooking just like Mom made (because Mom actually made it) 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z Generally, if one wishes to encourage a certain sexual behaviour in a reticent partner, it is best to first increase the erotic charge between you by pleasing each other in well-established ways. My wife is scared of giving me oral sex 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z If You Gotta Go, Go Now” was a crowd pleasing ditty, that along with “Mr. Tambourine Man” should have been on Dylan’s previous album, “Another Side Of Bob Dylan.” Bob Dylan’s “electric trilogy” masterpieces: I played all 18 discs and 357 tracks. Here’s why you should 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z A recent gazpacho was pleasing but tasted more like chilled tomato soup with a smoked pimento chaser. Oddfellows Café + Bar serves as a hipness hub, all day long 2012-08-23T21:20:11Z The combination of the familiar music and the repetition of simple actions is pleasing. Review: More Mark Morris Video Dances, More Postcards to Fans 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z “These were balanced, persistent, fresh and pleasing,” Charles said. For Muscadet, Look Beyond the Obvious 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Some are plus size, others comic, and some straightforward glamour girls – all unrecognisable out of costume – but beyond the pleasing reality TV formula of transformation, Drag Race is also wildly funny. RuPaul: ‘Drag is a big f-you to male-dominated culture’ 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z Ms. Conroy compromises the pleasing simplicity of the piece by making it a statement play at the end, when the point is already implicit. Theater Review: ?I ? Alice ? I? by Amy Conroy at Irish Arts Center 2012-03-05T03:00:00Z With age, the tree grows much larger than anticipated and loses its pleasing bark tones. Perspective | How to turn the wet, soggy areas of a garden from a problem to an asset 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z Not just because they are ecologically sound, but also because they are pleasing to the human eye and spirit. A native plant designer’s memoir reflects on a life in the field 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z But “Euphoria” has stood out for its willingness to push to extremes alongside its aesthetically pleasing imagery. Doom Watching ‘Euphoria’ 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z Portraying characters who virtually define the generic, Mr. Llana and Ms. Brown infuse Adam and Eve with some pleasing sparkle. | 'Falling for Eve': Joe DiPietro?s Look at Eden by York Theater Company 2010-07-16T03:54:00Z Our corner room was airy and pleasing to the eye. Check In: Hotel Review: Playland Motel in Rockaway Beach, N.Y. 2013-09-03T21:08:19Z On “Apply,” she hopped up and down and wiggled the microphone cord until it was a slithering, ever-morphing S, pleasing no one but herself. Music Review: Glasser at Warm Up Series at MoMA P.S. 1 2010-07-04T21:49:00Z “It will be pleasing to larger audiences, but there’s a lot of scholarship beneath the surface,” Mr. Weinberg said. For Scott Rothkopf, a Swift Ascendance in the Whitney Hierarchy 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z “He had a very pleasing personality. . . . and I guess it just evolved through seeing each other so much.” Eulaulah Hathaway on Her Musical Marriage to Donny Hathaway 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z This means that somewhere in our backyard, there will be two five-gallon buckets hanging upside down that I would rate a one on a one-to-ten scale of aesthetically pleasing yard decorations. She’s the breadwinner and OK with it: A Gen X perspective for “conflicted” millennial women 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z It’s a shockingly unsentimental moment to find in a Spielberg movie, one in which the young version of himself learns that pleasing the crowd might require turning an antisemite into the hero. When Jewish Artists Wrestle With Antisemitism 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Although less pleasing on its own, her voice pushes and pulls in beautiful ways against Crowe’s lighter sound in the third Couperin lesson. CD reviews: Joyce DiDonato looks at war, peace and the Baroque 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z It was in a pleasing beach vernacular, built inland in the mid-20th century and later moved close to the water—part town house, part beach house. Key West Contemporary 2010-09-01T04:00:00Z The discovery of the Gallery Girls gift in the last room of this exhibition gives the whole show a pleasing symmetry. A free-wheeling medium for a free-wheeling country 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z They wore matching cotton suits of the palest, most pleasing shade of blue imaginable. Modern Love: Losing a ‘Boyfriend,’ the Best Way Possible - Modern Love 2013-05-23T22:40:29Z To what extent is it an innate gift, an emanation some people are born with like an especially pleasing body scent? Music Review: Andrea Marcovicci Sings at the Oak Room - Review 2011-11-18T23:47:18Z But even the unadorned rice with the brined chicken kebab, pulsing with saffron and lemon, is pleasing. Review | At Rumi’s Kitchen, you’ll find poetry on the plate and mannequins by your side 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z “We did our own thing. GI was never about pleasing the people. We pleased ourselves. And if people were pleased by what we did, then that was just icing on the cake.” John Stabb, punk rock headliner of D.C. music scene, dies at 54 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Clam bellies are fried to a pleasing shade of gold, then presented in a wire basket with tartar sauce that tastes made from scratch. Review | Seafood with a need for speed inside Union Station 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z It’s harder to wrestle the second half of Bernstein’s life into a pleasing shape. The ghost of Leonard Bernstein, onscreen and onstage in Hershey Felder's 'Maestro' 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Ikea's first custom tiny home took just 60 days to build and was made with a focus on renewable and reusable materials, designed to be both functional and ascetically pleasing. Ikea selling tiny homes during COVID-19 pandemic as more Americans leave cities 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z “I like to create a chaotic imbalance that then needs to be reassembled back into something aesthetically pleasing.” A Sun God? A Cyborg? No, It’s a George Condo Creation 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z But are they also valuable, beautiful, good for our minds, pleasing to our souls? The Best Facts I Learned from Books in 2018 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Their bodies are honed according to principles of art, with pleasing proportions and balance, and they operate harmoniously, with a sense of organized movement and a lively and exciting rhythm. Perspective | Why Roger Federer is the most graceful athlete of our time 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Still, the design, a pleasing hodgepodge of red curtains and bric-a-brac, warms the New Ohio Theater’s somewhat clinical space. ‘Feather Gatherers’ Gives a Twist to a Russian Folk Tale 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z There was a pleasing hubbub of conversation, a cadre of neatly aproned cooks and servers, and a smart but soothing palette of black, gray and white. The Culinary Couple Who Built a British Empire 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z This year wasn’t really about pleasing people or doing what the judges or the gymnastics critics would like. She’s the Dancing Force Behind Nia Dennis’s Viral Gymnastics Routines 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z This rage, marked by a hostility toward anything poetic or naïve, reaches its full expression in the comments directed at Jose Canseco’s feed, a highly pleasing outpouring of slightly oddball, gnomic pronouncements. Circa Now : Nasty Comments on Twitter 2013-04-26T22:39:53Z A pleasing abstract print by Ben Fry corresponds to letters of genetic code from Chromosome 21. Art Trek: A Critic’s Gallery Crawl Through SoHo and TriBeCa 2014-04-04T17:47:11Z Ferrell and Rudd are as pleasing to watch in this scene as they are in their best movies. "The Shrink Next Door" is a compelling stranger-than-fiction anchored by Paul Rudd and Will Ferrell 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z The sound of Li's band live rarely deviated from that of her recordings, no doubt pleasing fans of the intensely moody albums. Swedish singer Lykke Li cuts a Bergmanesque figure at the Showbox 2011-05-27T21:13:04Z We are very devoted to pleasing each other, that’s the secret to our marriage. Their Relationship Morphed From Dislike to Inseparable 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z The other was a smaller but no less telling test: pleasing an early audience of members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, who vote for the Academy Awards. "Social Network" passes first test with Oscar voters 2010-10-04T02:28:00Z Their pictures will undergo one of the most grueling tests in movie making - pleasing Cannes' notoriously picky critics who regularly boo as the credits roll if they are unhappy. Cannes film festival opens with fittingly lavish 'Great Gatsby' 2013-05-13T12:09:15Z “No. I mean pleasing. What we feel is attractive. Of course, it’s subjective.” 'I just want to see the person I always saw in my head': the story of a face 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z Shostakovich took up the call in his “Song of the Forests” from 1949, an oratorio that glorified Soviet forestation campaigns in Siberia through pleasing, triumphant harmonies and an easy-to-understand text setting. She’s Rising From the Depths of Soviet Music History 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z "The exterior’s simplicity appealed to me, and the inside felt very expansive and calming. Everywhere you looked there was something visually pleasing." Patrick Dempsey's Frank Gehry–designed Malibu Estate 2014-02-04T05:00:00Z Each of these shows is capable of pleasing us, of entertaining us, of educating us — and as the judges and mentors on each show remind us, you have to think about your client. ‘Making the Cut’ Is New, but the Pattern Is Familiar 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z “I could experiment with materials, only pleasing myself.” Sarah Lucas, Unmasked: From Perverse to Profound 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Gold’s choreography is perfectly pleasing to the eye. Dance Review: Tom Gold Dance Presents Two Premieres 2014-03-08T00:55:43Z Photograph: Allsport In Tom Campbell's pleasing novel Fold there's a character who is fond of the aspirational sporting slogan most often attributed to Gary Player: "The more I practice, the luckier I get." Luck by Ed Smith – review 2013-04-23T09:00:01Z He contrasts that with a rich and frivolous family’s lavish, well-protected, spacious, comfortable, architecturally distinguished and aesthetically pleasing villa that, nonetheless, conceals and symbolizes the agony of the deprived and the despised. How “Parasite” Falls Short of Greatness 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z It's hard to care about any of them, but it's pleasing that Preston has the wit to grant a second chance only to those of significant parentage, as opposed to significant character. This Bleeding City by Alex Preston | Book review 2010-03-27T00:08:00Z Monkfish is as pleasing for its creamy tarbais beans, crisp lardons and silken red peppers as for the thick roasted centerpiece. Review | Fresh reasons to return to 1789, one of D.C.’s oldest restaurants 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z Or whether acts of aesthetically pleasing physicality that are judged and rated by experts — gymnastics, diving, figure skating — should be regarded as sports. Critic’s Notebook: Madden NFL 25 Portrays ‘Real’ Football 2013-08-26T22:05:55Z He and his wife, Dawn, learned a secret about the dinner after their first visit in January: Don’t fill out the advance questionnaire with the idea of pleasing the pickiest palates in your family. For these wounded warriors, a chef-cooked meal is part of the healing process 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z Not all of Mr. Ives’s inventions are pleasing. | 'The School for Lies': Glittering Opprobrium in Iambic Pentameter 2011-05-02T04:27:03Z Choosing storage pieces that are aesthetically pleasing helps. Everything Merry & Bright 2010-12-08T19:14:00Z The same studies that show mens’ voices associated with trust indicate that womens’ voices are supposed to be pleasing and relatable, which helps them get work as GPS devices and digital assistants. Vocal Opposition: Women Want Work Doing Movie-Trailer Voiceovers 2013-08-12T18:40:35Z His pleasing compositions of color and texture taste as bright and fresh as they look. Diners are in capable hands in both the liquid and sushi bars at Ballard's Moshi Moshi Sushi 2010-06-17T20:15:00Z In fact, Mary emerges, in her memoir, as an individual wholly unconcerned with pleasing others—not uncoöperative, just sure of herself. When the Oppens Gave Up Art to Fight Fascism 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z There’s a nice, pleasing bit of symmetry, though, in such comments. Fashion Review: Collections from Milan Fashion Week, Prada, Fendi, MaxMara and Versace 2012-02-24T23:55:00Z "I see books and images all the time and the challenge is to capture the essence of the story while pleasing the author and the publisher," he says. How do I become … an illustrator 2013-01-29T12:48:36Z “Parental disappointment, peer pressure, and pleasing an authority figure—any one of those, for an adult, is a difficult situation,” Stefani Goerlich, a sex-and-relationship therapist who works with trauma survivors, including children, told me. A Reconsideration of Santa’s Lap 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z It began with a leisurely, harmonically pleasing string section. ArtsBeat Blog: Remembering September 11 With Music 2011-09-11T21:09:27Z But it nonetheless retains a pleasing retro flavor and is a model from which many later songbook confections could learn a thing or two. Theater Review: ‘Marry Me a Little,’ Sondheim Songs, at Clurman Theater 2012-10-04T20:43:21Z Slivers of mackerel, meanwhile, benefited from the pleasing acidity of a light vinegar marinade and the pungent addition of microchip-thin shavings of Parmesan. Choice Tables: Lisbon?s Culinary Golden Age? 2011-03-11T19:55:00Z The culinary wordplay of combining eggplant and eggs was pleasing to me, and I liked the way the yolks broke into a sauce over the savory vegetables in the pan. When Eggplant Meets Eggs 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z Revisionist takes on characters have a pleasing audacity, but Morrison isn't so much propounding a thesis as approaching a classic with a different level of political awareness. Toni Morrison's ghostly 'Desdemona' blends words and music in lyrical revision of Shakespeare 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Funny nice, the kind that comes with a pleasing undercurrent of naughtiness. Jason Bateman: ‘My dirty secret? Playing the straight man. Because he gets to be in every scene’ 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z His technique of looping back to the past has a pleasing synchronicity. 'In One Person': John Irving's novel of desire, two ways 2012-05-09T21:16:04Z “That’s why I wrote it, because I was so tired of pleasing,” he said. Knausgaard Tour Arrives in Manhattan 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Lunch foods are also quick to prepare and aesthetically pleasing, especially when packed in your favorite baggies and boxes. 5 best tools to help you upgrade your lunch game, according to our editors 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z They try at first to comply with their father’s increasingly severe demands, but there’s no pleasing him. Review: ‘One & Two’ Exposes Dangers of Trying to Control Teenagers 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z If grace is the sweetest, most pleasing aspect of the body, we should find it in abundance among athletes at the elite level. Perspective | Why Roger Federer is the most graceful athlete of our time 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z James Fleet and Johnny Flynn are particularly strong; what's especially pleasing is the combination of unremitting intelligence with unremitting laughs. makes most plays look underwritten. The Children's Hour; Plenty; The Heretic ? review 2011-02-13T00:06:05Z There’s a pleasing symmetry in the odd reunion of these two boats so far from home – once sailing the Clyde, now a few hundred metres apart along the Thames. Ten years living on a boat: 'It's a fun life – I'm not a watery hobo' 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z The best appetizer, though, was a rich, aromatic mix of sweetbreads, chanterelles and peas — each ingredient perfectly cooked, then jumbled into a pleasing orange-hued mound, punctuated by the bright green peas. A Toronto Restaurant Both Simple and Iconoclastic 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z Four thin slices of lamb, edged in charred onion jam and arranged with a few ruffles of lettuce, are pleasing enough, but more of an appetizer than a main course salad selling for $27. Review | Mirabelle, a gem in the making, loses some of its luster 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z That strikes me as a weirdly pleasing balance of Boy's Own bravado and a more liberal, right-minded approach. I can't wait for Iron Man 2 2010-04-08T14:54:00Z Earlier in her career, she said, she couldn’t get away from the idea that as a woman, she had to be “likable and pleasing.” Insult Tonya Pinkins? She Got There First. 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z It’s pleasing and freeing to be in his presence. Isaac Oliver: Reading as Cabaret 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z The day’s India pale ale was, surprisingly, a pleasing complement to the pizza, the hops playing easily off the basil and creamy brie. Victoria, Canada is a small city with a big farm-to-table scene 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z But all of it was solid and pleasing, akin to watching a well-made black-and-white western. NSO lineup is all-American, from composers to featured artists 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z His chapters are organized with the pleasing precision of a bento box. Review: ‘The Big Stick’ Argues for a Robust Military Role Abroad 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z Her sound was sleek and tensile, and certainly more pleasing and consistent. A mixed bag from six young musicians (and from the judges) 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Restrain yourself from return visits to the bread basket, with its pleasing pretzel twists and yeasty rolls; the fluffy, citrus-charged chiffon cake, among other desserts, merits a diner’s personal storage space. Review | Four splurge-worthy reasons to eat in New York City right now 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z “This was about pleasing me. I didn’t really think about the resale value of what we did. I invested in what made me happy.” This owner disregarded resale and made her glam apartment a gift to herself 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the 17th century water spouter Jean Royer, able to swallow prodigious amounts of water and then spout said liquid in colors and aromas pleasing to the senses. The Curious, Astounding Collection of the Magician Ricky Jay 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z The fourth season of “Veronica Mars” finds a balance between pleasing everyone who has held the faith for 15 years of fandom and opening the door to new possibilities. "Veronica Mars" contends with the mystery and tragedy of growing up 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Oh, a good wine has to be pleasing. A Wine From Nowhere 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z Pick it up, look anywhere and there's something as pleasing as you'll find in any collection of aphorisms. Alex's Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos| Book review 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z And a perfectly pleasing Neil Simon comedy was what producers and artists on Broadway once did better than anyone else. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: A Holiday Wish for Better Holiday Theater 2010-12-23T00:24:33Z “The aesthetic of it is so pleasing, and so black and so Afro-centric and African and modern and worldly and futuristic,” said Bassett. Bold, black and beautiful, 'Black Panther' hopes for cultural shift 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z The result is a clever catalog of baby life, featuring a pleasing array of families of all backgrounds. Picture Books About Babies’ Favorite Subject — Themselves 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z The songs were enjoyable enough, but Paliwal’s voice wasn’t especially pleasing or flexible, and she sort of mimed each word with her left hand, like a rapper. Mashup of sounds at Fortas Chamber concert 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z The film is a breezy joyride, as pleasing a summer popcorn flick as you’ll find this season; reprising the iconic role of Mr. Spock, Quinto yet again manages to make a rigid logician totally likable. Zachary Quinto on Gay Hollywood and Why Star Trek Beyond Is the Perfect Movie for Right Now 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z The Calders managed to do something pleasing with every one. Calder Quartet takes a bow with a timeless performance 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z The 18th-century writer’s formulation about the sublime versus the beautiful had been formative for me, dividing the aesthetic world into the tidily pleasing and the compellingly terrifying — think cheerful daisy versus boundless and stormy sea. In California Desert, Father and Daughter Find the Sublime 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z At any rate, the Wised-up “West Side Story” was a hit, grossing $44 million; winning 10 Oscars plus a special honorary award for Robbins; and pleasing the critics. Review | Just in time for an updated ‘West Side Story,’ a look back at the 1961 classic 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z It is pleasing to see people talking back to the soul-insulting banality of conventional advertising. Art in Review: ‘Signs of the Times,’ at Jonathan LeVine 2012-08-16T19:58:30Z However, it did find support from musicians routinely faced with the unenviable task of pleasing notoriously picky tastemakers, radio playlisters and music journalists. Feline groovy: one man's Kickstarter quest to make the purrfect music for cats 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z It's pleasing to see a truly great British artist gaining popularity. McGee on music 2010-03-30T14:51:00Z So it’s a pleasing irony that the playwright Samuel D. Hunter, the reigning bard of American economic dead-endism, has managed such a vibrant career. Review: Rude T-Shirts and Rude Awakenings in ‘A Bright New Boise’ 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z He argues — and he convinced me — that the Dixie Chicks became less interesting, not more so, when they stopped worrying about “pleasing country fans.” ‘Major Labels’ Wraps Popular Music — All of It — in a Warm Embrace 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z Her music is pleasing on the simple, visceral level. Loretta Lynn's music: That's how the Republican women I grew up with talked (behind men's backs) 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z It's important to get a range of subjects and tones, and I'm looking for books by non-'names' – it's pleasing to find a surprising and wonderful book by a writer I've never heard of. Amazon reviews as reliable as critics 2012-05-16T17:03:20Z And it will be a challenge to stay frugal while pleasing others whose tastes, comfort levels, ages and gender may be different from my own. After a Miracle in S?o Paulo, the Frugal Adventure Begins 2010-06-09T03:30:00Z Like regular life, it seems neither particularly pleasing nor especially sustainable — yet the three fight to prolong it. New Fiction Traces the Anguish of Lost Young Men 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Completing the list of challenges takes both skill and timing, and the game is finished before its pleasing, if limited, conceit gets old. The Best Video Games of 2019 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Underneath that is familiar Sonic Youth territory: scraping and scratchy guitars, tinny plinks and plucks, pleasing noise. Music Review: 'YOKOKIMTHURSTON' a weary creation 2012-09-28T17:46:06Z Trying to appeal to art house and charnel house in one compact package runs the risk of pleasing neither. Movie Review: ‘Blue Ruin’ Stars Macon Blair as a Man With a Vendetta 2014-04-24T22:43:10Z It was a rare horror film that represented New York at its most sophisticated and aesthetically pleasing rather than grimy. Hoping for a Spooky Halloween? We Have Some Suggestions 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z "I kind of stripped the music back and tried to make it the most pleasing it could be," he explains. The many lives of Dev Hynes 2011-08-05T23:04:00Z Bates, a novelist himself, observed that as temperatures rose, young ladies begin to think on “new gowns and pleasing fictions, both airy and froth-like.” The Invention of the “Beach Read” 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z The best of the bunch was broiled shrimp swimming in a deeply satisfying Calabrian chile butter, and brussels sprouts, roasted to a pleasing char and served in a buttermilk sauce studded with crisp chicken skin. A New Orleans Restaurant Where Creole Meets Caribbean 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z I will submit, probably pleasing no one, that it doesn’t matter. ‘Bandersnatch,’ ‘The Sopranos,’ and the Myth of Certainty 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z The show is tasteful and sometimes pleasing, but ultimately about as exciting as paging through a design magazine. Art Review: ‘Alexandre Singh: The Pledge’ at the Drawing Center 2013-01-17T20:50:38Z “Get Untamed: The Journal” has the tagline “How to quit pleasing and start living,” which has become an anthem among her fans. Doyle keeps ‘Untamed’ conversation going in journal, podcast 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z “Welcome to Car2Go,” the car sang, in a pleasing baritone, as I opened the door. Joyriding in Car2Go 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z This situation will not improve without some renewed effort to engage him in pleasing you. I love my husband – but his sexual limitations are blighting our marriage 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z Neville is often in search of aesthetically pleasing limitations of palette—at the furthest extreme, a gray-haired women dressed in gray, in front of her gray house, looking cheerful. After the Brexit Vote, Mark Neville Looks at Life in “Little Britain” 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z They don't care about pleasing others or being nice. Beyond "girl gone mad melodrama" — reframing female anger in psychological thrillers 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z His sofas and chairs, with their lovely patterned fabric covers, are as practical as they are pleasing. Franz West: generous sculptural jester 2012-07-26T16:05:02Z Book-It Repertory Theatre continues its felicitous tour through the Austen canon in a pleasing new theatrical version of "Sense and Sensibility." Review: Book-It's 'Sense and Sensibility' a delight 2011-06-06T21:48:04Z The scene, however simple and aesthetically pleasing, sends a subtle message that many Mexican moviegoers immediately understand about domestic workers like Cleo and the confusing status in the households they serve. Oscar contender Roma stirs up nostalgia and guilt in Mexico’s middle class 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z "There's something really pleasing about them," Clunes opines of the magnificent creatures as he meets his first, Mandy, at the huge Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta. Tonight's TV highlights: The Sinking Of The?Laconia 2011-01-06T00:05:01Z As Ms. Stefani began writing, she said she didn’t worry about potential sales, what it means to be a 46-year-old pop singer in a youth-dominated field, or pleasing her record company. Gwen Stefani Climbs Back From the Abyss 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z What to do Livadi, the port town, is a pleasing throwback to what the Greek islands used to be like. 20 Greek islands … you may not have heard of 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Musically, it has pleasing simplicity and a gentle circularity. Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll 2010-05-20T21:29:00Z These pitted green olives, caramelized and treated to stuffings of pineapple or figs, lose their saline, bitter swagger and turn gently mellow for a pleasing change of pace. A Childhood Obsession Leads to a Cereal Bar at Kith 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z Cooler-toned blues and greens, such as sage, interact well with low light and provide a subtle but pleasing hint of color without looking too dark, Barney says. How to make your rooms light and bright, even in wintertime 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z The other thing that's really surprising, and very pleasing, is that women are finding it. From masculinity to race, Apple's basketball series "Swagger" addresses "so much more than sports" 2023-08-12T04:00:00Z We tell our daughters to be quiet and pleasing and our co-workers to not make waves. Girls would love science, if it was more like Katy Perry 2012-06-25T15:25:00Z Tasters found the shape to be pleasing, and the flavor was “forward, bright and fresh,” Alexa said. The Best Canned Tomatoes 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z And when I look at activating spaces downtown, I have to make sure they are visibly and aesthetically pleasing, they’re safe, clean. Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell on his plan for the arts, and local arts leaders on what the sector needs 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z This is the magic of theatre, more than of television, which usually relies on repetition to create a pleasing familiarity. “Horace and Pete” Is Louis C.K.’s Most Audacious Independent Creation Yet 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z One night's soup du jour was pleasing, too. A la Bonne Franquette presents unfussy food, skillfully prepared 2012-05-11T03:34:03Z That’s what Christian Louboutin meant when he told The New Yorker, “The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women but to pleasing men.” Are High Heels Headed for a Tumble? 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z We think of design as one of the planes on which civilisation charts its course, measuring ourselves by our technological achievements and our talent for pleasing forms. Welcome to Sarajevo's designs for survival 2011-03-02T14:40:00Z But many pleasing pieces were markedly less expensive than they had been a decade or so ago, once allowance is made for the erosion of the buying power of the British and American currencies. Auction: Buyers Lose Their Taste for 18th-Century Art and Furniture 2011-07-22T12:00:06Z And it's always very pleasing to see so many V for Vendetta masks in the crowd. Alan Moore: an extraordinary gentleman ? Q&A 2011-07-25T12:47:07Z The show's simplicity is undeniably pleasing, but its self-conscious elegance prettifies emotions and actions, dilutes the tragedy and sends you out into the night feeling jolly rather than sobered. The Suit – review 2012-05-24T13:27:17Z But any fun that might be gained through this visual humor is undercut by Lenny’s icy misanthropy; the show is pleasing to the eye but not to the soul. A Man Without Qualities: HBO’s “The Young Pope” 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z “Thrillingly alive to big questions of meaning and belief, her essays are testaments to exquisite attentiveness, each painstakingly stitched and emitting a pleasing, old-fashioned whiff of starch.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z On the other hand, she and French women believe the notion of beauty should be pleasing to you. The Fascinating Difference Between French and American Beauty 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z Some of it will age one, three or six months and grow nuttier, a character that caviar distributors typically like – and pleasing distributors can be important, given the economics. How to make caviar sustainable 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z This may be because they are more pleasing than Mr. Kirchheimer supposes. Review: ‘Tall’ Is a Little Movie About How Buildings Got So Big 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z It's interesting that the celebrities on offer in the musical meat market straddle many leagues of fame, from the visually pleasing and talented Olympian Louis Smith to, er, X Factor hopeful of yore Wagner. TV highlights 18/12/2012 2012-12-17T19:59:01Z Our commodious room, with its exposed pine beams, had the pleasing scent of a cedar closet. A Return to Guadeloupe: Tropical Life, French-Style 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z There were a number of Anglo-French songs too, and their lyrics composed in a pleasing kind of Franglais: "Unsmooth me," implored my favourite, "Ruffle me up somewhat." Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll 2010-10-07T21:40:00Z Her daughter identified a faint but pleasing smoky flavor, reminiscent of barbecue-flavored potato chips. How Do the New Plant-Based Burgers Stack Up? We Taste-Tested Them 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z But Mack gave his Conrad a pleasing relatability, with an air of gallantry and warmth. The Washington Ballet let Brooklyn Mack go. He landed at the Metropolitan Opera House. 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z These myths are all part of the pressure girls face to be “good girls”: liked by everyone, nice to all, and pleasing others before herself. From BFF to 'Friend Divorce:' The 5 Truths We Must Teach Our Daughters About Friendship 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z “I think what Caissie manages to do so brilliantly is convey that and still make it so pleasing to listen to,” he says. Caissie Levy gets uncomfortable in ‘Caroline, Or Change’ 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z The mix of self-deprecation and self-importance would just come off as unbearable if it weren’t fueled by his canny observations, his pleasing sentences, his comic timing. In ‘The Last Days of Roger Federer,’ Geoff Dyer Ponders the Twilight 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z It is wrong to base opinions purely on prejudice, so it was pleasing to visit and have all my prejudices confirmed by evidence. Where not to spend your bank holiday: a guide to Britain's worst days out 2011-08-20T23:06:23Z “How to Eat” also marked a step away from technical, chef-written cookbooks and toward a philosophy of cooking that was about pleasing oneself rather than flexing culinary muscles to impress others. Nigella Lawson Was Never Just a Domestic Goddess 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z A sliding wood slab door leads to a bathroom paved in pale green and ivory tiles by Heath, the Sausalito-based ceramics company; the result is laid-back luxe that is supremely pleasing to the touch. Check In, Check Out: Hotel Review: h2hotel in Healdsburg, Calif. 2010-09-24T18:42:00Z The machines may still be pleasing but the joy of exclusivity is gone. David Mitchell: are smug Apple users losing their cachet? 2010-06-05T23:06:00Z Mr. Wu, the author of “The Master Switch,” writes with elegance and clarity, giving readers the pleasing sensation of walking into a stupendously well-organized closet. Review: ‘The Attention Merchants’ Dissects the Battle for Clicks and Eyeballs 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z One was the very pleasing sound of his girlfriend gurgling with pleasure, her mouth full. Not the Booker prize 2012: The Casablanca Case by Simon Swift 2012-10-03T10:07:25Z Drawn together by the mutual attraction of their electrical charges, their molecules stack in orderly sequences, forming defined planes and repeating facets that can create the pleasing shapes – geodes, prisms – that they’re sought for. Dark crystals: the brutal reality behind a booming wellness craze 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z “When one marries, one is pleasing God,” the imam said, asking the assembled to pray that Ms. Gul and Mr. Harun would bring each other happiness and tranquillity. Not Quite Dating, but Certain About Forever 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z Though its premise about the need for human connection is hardly unexplored, Hoult and Stewart deliver passionate performances, and the stark, monochromatic visuals offer an aesthetically pleasing, if frightfully cold, picture of the future. The Best Movies at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Hence the pressure to frame design features — like an eye-catching color or a pleasing plaid — as trademarks. Opinion: Louboutin and the Little Red (Litigious) Shoes 2012-01-22T02:25:58Z The pleasing cooking is accompanied by good cheer in the dining room, hospitality being a signature of all Meyer’s establishments. Review | Tom Sietsema’s 8 favorite places to eat right now 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z Which means that the other possible takeaway is that maybe pleasing fans isn’t actually what celebrities care about most, and that asking them to be quiet about their opinions is an unrealistic expectation. The Lessons of the One Direction #FreePalestine Tweet 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z The combination is as pleasing as it is punishing. Reviews: Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, Metrico, Hohokum and Road Not Taken 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z It smacks of desperation to go viral — a fault jarringly at odds with the pleasing simplicity of the rest of the movie. ‘Shotgun Wedding’ Review: ‘Die Hard’ With Refreshments 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, in judging what is art, we would do well to remember JH Huxley's observation – paintings by apes are pleasing to look at, and the point is they don't pretend to symbolise anything. Evolutionary music doesn't mean the death of the creator 2012-06-19T16:47:01Z Working within the pleasing, boxy confines of an old-school aspect ratio, Pawlikowski by turns isolates his characters or clutters his shots with bodies, creating a snapshot of collectivism. ‘Cold War’ Review: Love Without Borders 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Thrillingly alive to big questions of meaning and belief, her essays are testaments to exquisite attentiveness, each painstakingly stitched and emitting a pleasing, old-fashioned whiff of starch. Books About Losing Faith That Will Give You Hope 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z You’d want to do a test in a closet or other non-critical place to make sure the concrete used in your house results in a pleasing look. How to give a concrete floor a cost-effective update Besides, it’s tough enough pleasing the local crowd. Music: Two Bands Nurtured in a Garden State of Mind 2010-03-13T00:05:00Z There’s a pleasing humility and introspection to this Bruce — a ruler no longer sure if his patriotic purpose is worth the carnage. ‘Robert the Bruce’ Review: The Return of the King 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z These images are often colorful, aesthetically pleasing, and project “I’m healthy” through your iPhone screen. Instagram blows up meal prepping, now it's the new tv dinner & it's driving a food industry sector 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z It is pleasing to see a writer bringing together painstaking research with gripping storytelling. How to Create the Perfect Wife by Wendy Moore – review 2013-01-04T22:55:08Z I think it’s important to be protective of that creative space and try to write first to please yourself before you think about pleasing other people. For ‘To All the Boys’ author Jenny Han, self care means protecting her creativity — and baking 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z The rooms are on the second and third floors, and the aerial, window-lined approach around the curving hallway to the hotel rooms is pleasing. Hotel Review: White City House, London 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z Miss Williams, a pretty young woman in the punk of condition, should have a pleasant and pleasing career on the screen. Bathing Beauty: The Wet and Wild Life of Esther Williams 2013-06-13T15:28:43Z You need not be a pro, so don’t worry about producing something “artistically or aesthetically pleasing,” Robinson says; the point is to honor the person and the loss. Saying goodbye: Unable to gather in grief, we must find new ways to mourn 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z Cobblers with a biscuit topping are pleasing but I prefer those with a pastry dough or a batter. Fruit Cobbler Shows Off Its Many Sides 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z “It’s very selfish what we do. And we are really, really pleasing ourselves. If that’s allowed.” Kander’s second act: Kander and Pierce, with new musical ‘Kid Victory’ 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Not only is it pleasing to look at, but you can also hide stuff behind the picture — like your television remote controls. How to give household clutter a new life 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z But "Billy Elliot" aims to please, and it's been pleasing the masses since its smash London debut. Review: 'Billy Elliot' is pro-union, and pro-razzle-dazzle, too 2011-03-25T00:20:39Z All of this creates a tension that is a pleasing counterweight to the rollicking rhythms of the narration. ‘Lurid & Cute,’ a Novel by Adam Thirlwell 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z It was a pleasing visual experience that evaporated the second I stopped thinking about it. Do high fashion and art really mix? 2013-06-26T00:40:00Z The concept of grace—refined ease of movement and manner, as a way of pleasing, assisting, and honoring others—wove through this endeavor. Blame it on the baby boomers: Yes, pretty much everything 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z The bookcase offers both a visually pleasing surface and a gesture at intellectual depth. The ‘Credibility Bookcase’ Is the Quarantine’s Hottest Accessory 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z I don't think inherently being a people pleaser is in any way beneficial to anybody, least of all the person who's doing the people pleasing. "She taught me an eating disorder": Jennette McCurdy on why some moms "don't deserve" to be revered 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z And now, to mark its 20th anniversary, Encores! is reviving the musical again - a production that is pleasing overall and contains a few priceless gems. Review: Politics and old-style humor in 'Fiorello' 2013-02-01T22:16:04Z Now that elite complacency has been shattered, the time is ripe for a closer look at more plausible if less pleasing stories. The moral foundations of fascism: Warring psychological theories struggle to make sense of Hitler, Mussolini and you-know-who 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z “You know what? The other thing I love about her is her spirit. It’s just so pleasing.” Megan Fairchild, the Swan With the Screwball Spark 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z When the visitor swipes these labels with a handheld reader, a signal is sent to a data projector that plays a pleasing melody with barcode graphics in soothing colours. Do high fashion and art really mix? 2013-06-26T00:40:00Z Its absence allows her a pleasing freedom of improvisation, but makes very hard the achievement of reflective depth or delicate judgment.” Pauline Kael and Her Legacy 2011-10-15T22:17:20Z Although unicorn cake isn’t a particular flavor of cake compared to our lemon or carrot cake, it certainly is an aesthetically pleasing one to look at. Google reports that 'Unicorn Cake' was the most searched food last year 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z Move over charcuterie boards, there’s a new aesthetically pleasing food trend in town. ‘Jarcuterie’ food trend puts spin on charcuterie boards 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z The overall sound quality is pleasing, if a little plain. At the Phillips Collection, soprano Abigail Mitchell has room to grow 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z The opera’s minimalist atmosphere manages to be aesthetically pleasing in a cleanly subdued way, without distracting from the story’s emotional center. Orpheus and Eurydice get a feminist re-imagining in Seattle Opera’s intimate ‘O+E’ 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z The house’s contrasts are pleasing to Mr. Moss, whose family home in a suburb of Chicago contained its own anomalous pairings. The ‘Kanye West of Furniture’ Is Now Nesting in the ’Burbs 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z I suppose, now, it is; yet I feel as though a certain sinister, and pleasing, ambiguity has been lost, or an internal emphasis shifted. Who is Ozymandias? And Other Puzzles in Poetry by John Fuller – review 2013-04-16T11:56:09Z The whole point of it that I like is that you’re pleasing other people. NBC Brings ?Community? Back to Its Passionate Fan Base 2012-03-12T21:53:03Z Grouping objects in a pleasing arrangement is the goal of a vignette. How to set up a beautiful and functional bar cart 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z Tuna salad sharpened with red onion is pleasing. Review | With Capo Italian Deli in Shaw, owners aim to create delicious deja vu 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z His voice is rough-edged except within a relatively narrow window in his high register, where it produces a bright and pleasing tone. Music Review: Andrea Bocelli in Concert at Barclays Center 2012-12-07T22:43:16Z Competitors were sometimes thrown off by the unflappable geniality, since he was a shrewd competitor, adept at luring clients and pleasing them. In Their Words: Remembering I.M. Pei 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z A soft, khaki paint color on the trim adds pleasing contrast. Cozy Den Redo 2010-04-28T14:57:00Z While aesthetically pleasing, a fire pit, fire table or outdoor fireplace doesn’t offer much warmth unless you huddle around it. Here’s how to warm your outdoor space for socially distant entertaining. But act quickly. 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z Among the large plates meant for sharing is pleasing grilled monkfish tail dappled with peanut romesco. Review | A chef who reveres the region brings his act to D.C. 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Grisetti, who resembles Ray Bolger, has a pleasing voice, while Ms. Mauzey has an offbeat comic timing that lends the illusion of a zing to some of her lines and songs. Early-’60s Absurdism in ‘Red Eye of Love’ 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z In the pepperoni pizza, the crust is dense, the cheese is dry and flavorless, and the pepperoni lacks crunch and richness — yet it invokes the pleasing nostalgia of a Lunchables. Unloved by Generations of Soldiers, the M.R.E. Finds a Fan Base 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z Nowadays pleasing ourselves is our most popular pursuit. My boyfriend doesn’t like my parents. What does this mean for our future? 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z Firefights are a pleasing mix of long-range shooting and short-range bashing of alien faces. Destiny Is a New Shooter Game From Activision and Bungie 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z Heavy on sandwiches but with a selection of hearty, colorful salads and homestyle plates featuring veggie "chickin" and tempeh comfort food, the restaurant aims more for crowd- pleasing flavors than culinary adventurism. Vegan cuisine reigns at Veggie Grill in South Lake Union 2012-09-20T20:46:04Z Mr. Doherty grew up nearby in White Plains, which may help explain a pleasing and nearly unprecedented feature of the show: New York brownstone interiors that are actually as narrow as a New York brownstone. Television Review: ‘Elementary,’ Starring Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu 2012-09-26T21:59:16Z Bird-print curtains add a pleasing layer of pattern to this inviting spot. Abercorn Place Idea House 2010-07-15T22:03:00Z It is, however, pleasing to look at — and listen to. Review: ‘Sunset, o639 Hours’ by BalletX at the Joyce Theater 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z The producers are responding to him, and often with pleasing results. Michael Jackson’s posthumous ‘Xscape’? Not bad! But not ‘Thriller,’ either. They were so taken up with claiming territory, finding gold, pleasing their patrons and returning home safely that they had no time for any intellectual response. ArtsBeat: Peter Whitfield Talks About the History of Travel Literature 2012-03-14T14:30:34Z While Noah takes the next month to heal, Mitchell will continue pleasing audiences as Billy, a role that has made him "more confident and just overall a better actor and singer and dancer," he said. Bad break for 'Billy Elliot' star a good break for his sub 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Now, it is a larger and maturing display that shows how you can take the plants of the Mid-Atlantic mountains, piedmont and coastal plain and use them in pleasing combinations. In deer territory, good fences make good gardens 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z “To be bold, but not only bold in terms of scale, but in terms of detail, artistry, technology, and to make sure first and foremost that we are pleasing the most ardent ‘Star Wars’ fan.” Chewbacca, Ford and Hamill launch Disney's 'Star Wars' land 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Bright cherry and spice aromas announce this sangiovese as a pleasing quaffer or a good partner for casual meals, such as burgers or pizza. A refreshing $14 Tuscan red seeks burgers or pizza for a delicious match 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z They had a pleasing crispness, like cardboard or a snack chip. | Self Edge: Jeans Made to Be Tough Enough for the Demanding 2010-04-13T22:37:00Z Ms. Akers’s show was too quiet and melancholy to be crowd pleasing, but there was not an emotionally false note. Critic’s Notebook: Lincoln Center’s American Songbook Series at Allen Room 2013-02-03T22:53:42Z In a veggie burger, particularly the mindful slider-sized offerings at Superiority, the same pleasing fairness one finds in a cheeseburger is present. Beauty is in the mouth of the beholder: why veggie burgers deserve a chance 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z The outcome is rustic, hearty and thoroughly pleasing. Oval Room review: Under a new chef, it tastes as vibrant as ever 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z A chili rub provides the beef with a nice kick; a thatch of fat yuca fries offers pleasing balance. Ruta del Vino, previewed: All the makings of a D.C. neighborhood smash 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Plus—spoiler alert!—the adaptation’s elusive ending could be a little more concrete, or at least pleasing in a cinematic sense. Next Movie for The Fault In Our Stars Fans? John Green's Paper Towns 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z “It was sibling harmony, a sound that was very pleasing. I’ve never heard anybody that could come close to that particular sound. It couldn’t be imitated.” Jim Ed Brown, Smooth Voice on ‘The Three Bells’ and Other Hits, Dies at 81 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z The intellectual and technical skill they bring to bear on their weekly “commissions” makes for visually pleasing and conceptually solid paintings, sculptures and prints. Another Once-in-a-Lifetime Chance at an Art Career 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Businesses with "flatter" hierarchy focused on pleasing employees and customers as well as shareholders offer a more successful and creative alternative to centralized corporate structures, Johnson writes. Author sees blueprints for social change in Internet design 2012-10-05T22:21:47Z The most pleasing moments were rhapsodic and slathered with rubato, as in the schmaltzy second theme of the first movement and the soaring crescendos of the slow movement. Review | Cellist Alban Gerhardt proves to be a musical omnivore at Phillips Collection 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z "The Dust Bowl" - One of the most pleasing things of the year was to see a Ken Burns with some fire. AP critics pick the year's best movies 2012-12-14T21:29:02Z “A good gift is as pleasing to the giver as the receiver,” Watson, 50, told me as we walked around his store. Ted Watson’s gift-givers paradise 2013-12-05T00:16:56Z It is also pleasing to note that there was not a trace of antisemitism in him, and he foresaw that the Nazis' attitudes to the Jews would one day bring the country to its doom. Diary of a Man in Despair by Friedrich Reck – review 2013-03-26T15:23:23Z Though the fruitiness was indeed pleasing, it, however, lacked an added earthy element. The Profound Modesty of Good Dolcetto 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z This protest was announced on Mumsnet, a pleasing hotbed of radical feminism these days, as part of a campaign against proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act. Don’t you just love it when a man explains to you what it means to be a woman? 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z Over the nine decades since Clara Bow lassoed her boss’s son onscreen, It Girls have often blithely scoffed at standards of pleasing behavior. A tale of two It Girls: Chloë Sevigny, Greta Gerwig and the generational likability divide 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Countertops, free of clutter, are utilitarian and aesthetically pleasing. Perspective | Don’t let a cramped, messy kitchen keep you from culinary bliss 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z But director Mike Flanagan did manage the impossible task of pleasing both Stephen King and the Kubrick estate. New this week: ‘Clemency,’ BET Awards, HAIM, ‘Doctor Sleep’ 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z Despite the low alcohol by volume at 4.5 percent, the beer’s golden body is full, with a prickly, almost champagne-light effervescence followed by a pleasing dryness. Beer of the Week: Thiriez Extra 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z So, you take a classic heroine and you strip her of her stereotypes: she is no longer weak and pliable, pleasing and emollient, cute and girly. Beauty and the Beast: feminist or fraud? 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z "I was people pleasing for too for too long" he explained, proving that despite his vocal loathing of Alcoholics Anonymous, he's still got some of the 12-step speak left in him. Charlie Sheen's ego explodes on "20/20" 2011-03-02T13:30:00Z James was immediately attracted to the man a bishop described as, "the handsomest-bodied in England; his limbs so well compacted and his conversation so pleasing and of so sweet a disposition." 11 of the most influential royal lovers in British history 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z Kissin's pianism was more pleasing in the selection of four Schubert Impromptus that began the second half. Evgeny Kissin – review 2012-11-22T17:43:55Z Some higher-end cars “hide” windshield wipers in a well so the car is more aesthetically pleasing. Some areas are already seeing snow. Here’s how to winterize your car. 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z As the awards themselves, there’s been a pleasing lack of consensus on what and who should win what. Oscars 2019: predictions, timetable and all you need to know for the big night 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z This pleasant installation of rainbow light appears similarly pleasant and pleasing to look at. Why is airport art so lame? 2012-09-27T21:36:00Z That said, the most pleasing thing about the show may be its format: Each episode lasts a half-hour. Review: ‘Modern Love’ Is Charming but Uneven 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z Channel 4's Four Rooms is a terrifically pleasing collision of Cash In The Attic, Antiques Roadshow and Deal or No Deal, set inside what looks like a prison for naughty architects. Four Rooms: how to beat the experts 2011-07-08T23:06:59Z The usefulness of stock-tank pools extends beyond happy hour; they are sturdier and more aesthetically pleasing alternatives to plastic kiddie pools. Do-it-yourselfers are turning livestock watering tanks into backyard pools. Here’s how. 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z The spirit is clear, with a pleasing viscosity, a bell pepper aroma, and notes of citrus and spice on the palate. Tequila Picks Up Mezcal’s Smoky Habit 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z His account of Mozart’s Symphony No. 29 was generally pleasing as well. Music Review: Mostly Mozart at Avery Fisher Hall - Review 2011-08-25T22:15:11Z There is also pleasing camerawork: painterly images of strained light and oppressive gloom. Arts & Leisure Preview: ?Green Zone,? ?The Ghost Writer? and Conspiracy Comforts 2010-03-31T20:54:00Z The downsides, however, are that it's not the most aesthetically pleasing option and you'll need to remove the window covering in the spring when you want to open your windows again. How to fix drafty windows before winter weather arrives 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z Even the more nose-holding aspects of sheep farming are depicted in a somehow visually pleasing way. ‘A Perfect Pairing’ Review: Going Down Under for Wine and Romance 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z A penchant for visual ambiguity also saves the works from being simply pleasing or pretty. Farah Atassi paintings: Part Picasso and pure catnip for fans of midcentury design 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z That decision was pleasing and it was bittersweet, because just as I was rediscovering those memories, my mother was losing hers. Growing Up in the Library 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z As more streamlined clothing appeared, slim pockets began being sewn into apparel, making a person's silhouette more aesthetically pleasing for designers. The reason dresses and jeans have fake pockets 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z Lots of multi-dimensional, otherwise complex dudes rapping about women, but just the one featured female emcee, Gangsta Boo, delivering a one-dimensional verse about getting paid and pleasing her man. 'Run the Jewels 2': Headphone rap that nails it 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z Silk organza pants with pompoms are more pleasing to fondle than silk organza pants without. In Bed-Stuy, a New Store Is Like a Petting Zoo for Clothes 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z But what’s so pleasing about Heartbeat Opera’s “Butterfly” is how well its artistic intentions dovetail with its limited means. The Trailblazing Efforts of “Indie Opera” 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z They’re like the golden spiral staircase, steps that, mathematically speaking and from a bird’s-eye view, carry the climber farther away from the central axis of origin at a particularly pleasing rate. The Lonely Toil of Frank Ocean: Is It Art, or Denial? 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z It’s fragrant and lively, with fresh, almost exotic fruit flavors grounded by a pleasing earthiness. 20 Reds Under $20: Where the Values Live, for Now 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Their voices and the soft conversations of couples circling the plaza were like birdsong: Zapotecs and Mixtecs speaking with a lilt and tumble and murmur that was so pleasing. Memories of Mexico 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z The newest steakhouse incorporates overhead beams, reclaimed Virginia wood and abundant brick for a pleasing effect. A Charleston restaurant group plants a steak in Old Town 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z And if it lacked any sartorial energy to compel the Armani look forward, it had a pleasing gentility. Special Report: Fashion: Giorgio Armani Sends Out a Shimmering Collection 2011-09-26T17:07:04Z What’s pleasing to the eye is pleasing to the earth — a sentiment the film rigorously supports with science. ‘The Pollinators’ Review: Fight of the Honeybee 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z And since we rarely hear the perspective of the ultra-Orthodox in comedy clubs, there’s a pleasing freshness about an act that offers a look into a world often hidden from public view. What’s So Funny About Orthodox Judaism? This Comic Has One Answer 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z Blunt has a ready – and pleasing – facility to make you feel noticed. Emily Blunt: 'It's about human beings and how they're affected by a crisis' 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z The non-gender-specific category was pleasing for a person who has long reckoned with gender identity — as a child, Ramsey loved being mistaken for a boy by strangers, she said. In ‘The Last of Us,’ Bella Ramsey Might Save the World 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z Yet just below its pleasing surface, the music abounds in quirky strangeness. Review: Danish String Quartet Plays at the Rose Studio 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z But it’s a pretty, pleasing piece, dancing to the music without particularly illuminating it. Review: Ballet Hispanico Adds Style and Bounce to an Apollo Homecoming 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z Arranged all together, they form a visually pleasing honeycomb pattern. What's the honeycomb pasta TikTok is buzzing over? 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z One of the pleasing byproducts of this year's Britten centenary celebrations promises to be more opportunities to hear the works of Frank Bridge. BBCNOW/Brabbins – review 2013-01-10T13:56:33Z The internet suggested substituting a baking soda solution, which worked well, lending a slight, pleasing bitterness, if not the shininess. These Pretzel Shortbread Cookies Are (Almost) Too Good to Share 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z “So I’m very hopeful this will be an aesthetically pleasing event,” he said. TV Series to Showcase Off-Broadway 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z Not all of the images will look pleasing to the eye, nor do they necessarily reflect what you had in mind. Give this AI a few words of description and it produces a stunning image – but is it art? 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z This makes for a pleasing cognitive dissonance, cultural ruminations organised by a Linnaean schema one associates with scientific textbooks. Bugs Britannica by Peter Marren, edited by Richard Mabey 2010-06-11T23:15:00Z On the other hand, the Lumineers doesn’t deal in challenging music to begin with and its pleasing, accessible sound is also why “Cleopatra” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart. The Lumineers deliver an infectious show at Marymoor 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z “It’s that finding a female voice that is pleasing to almost everyone is infinitely easier than finding a male voice.” Family Matters: Turn Right, My Love 2010-06-25T17:20:00Z Zodiac sign memes dominate Twitter, where popular accounts like @astrology serve “aesthetically pleasing astrology posts” and @poetastrologers rewrites horoscopes with literary flair. How Astrology Took Over the Internet 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z Although visually coherent and aesthetically pleasing, these later works begin to lack any intellectual value, referring to nothing more than is unequivocally exposed to the naked eye. Young arts critics competition 2010: the winning entries 2010-10-20T22:00:00Z What is pleasing, however, is how well it works. Space Miner: Space Ore Bust and Tekken 2010-04-17T23:10:00Z Particularly pleasing was the Prince, or Don Ramiro, of Maxim Mironov, a tall tenor with a gentle whitish sound in a most respectable company debut. In Washington National Opera’s ‘Cinderella,’ parts are better than sum 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z Restaurant workers are dependent upon pleasing their guests for economic returns via tipping. Scandals Keep Breaking, but Restaurateurs Have Yet to Own Up 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Cobblers with a biscuit topping are pleasing but I prefer those with a pastry dough or a batter. Fruit Cobbler Shows Off Its Many Sides 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z It's the rare series that doesn't aspire to be broadly pleasing while making its case for being carefully watched and evaluated as entertainment, societal critique and high art in one pass. With "Swarm," two "Atlanta" collaborators kick the beehive of toxic fandom 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z There is no idea other than crowd pleasing behind “Rock the Ballet,” which offers a meandering series of episodes to a string of well-known pop and rock songs. Dance Review: Will Scaramouche Fandango? (And Other Mysteries) 2009-12-17T06:05:00Z Its conclusions about self-actualization pull less attention, as is the way of all innocuous, pleasing outcomes. The secret "Barbie" message everyone can get behind is that Allan is amazing. He is also like us 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z But there always is a pleasing assortment of beloved images hanging there. On a Jeep tour of Stockbridge, Mass., it’s all easy on the eyes. Maybe too easy. 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Those horrible flavors were shortly replaced with more pleasing floral notes after the wine was exposed to the air for a short amount of time. 170-year-old champagne tastes like wet, cheesy hair 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z He captures a pleasing, guttural restlessness in his own bluesy ballads about cosmopolitan loneliness and adrift yearning, notably the twangy waltz “When the One You Love Loses Faith,” from his most recent album, “Absent Fathers.” Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Jan. 1-7 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Inevitably, if not frequently, not all these pleasing liaisons, long or short, ended peacefully. Cynthia Ozick Calls the New Philip Roth Biography a ‘Narrative Masterwork’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z It would be pleasing – but misleading – to promise that social democracy, or something like it, represents the future that we would paint for ourselves in an ideal world. Tony Judt: A manifesto for a new politics 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z One of the first people to see it was Tim Wright from Lancashire, who told the BBC: "I find it pleasing to look at but I've not a clue what it's trying to say." Gift Horse trots in Trafalgar Square 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Through his lens, the true and the weird are mirrored properties, undulating and deceptively pleasing to the touch. Ralph Eugene Meatyard’s Sweetly Southern-Gothic Family Album 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Heaven forfend! – but it’s undeniably pleasing that Crawford decided to share her story with a black queer woman, in a magazine published by another black woman, instead of handing it over to two white men. Friends reunited: the one where they try to get along again 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z But a solid core remained to hear the consistently pleasing headliner burnish blues standards and originals. Soaking up sun & soul at Chateau Ste. Michelle bluesfest 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z But normally, he appeared too eager to please and too pleasing to be plausible. Chuck Todd Begins as Host of NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z The tenor Neal Cooper, in the role of Mark, sang with a pleasing warm tone but unsteady placement. Review: ‘The Wreckers,’ a Tale of Piracy, Love and Betrayal 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z Though its characters are tasked with pleasing a male-driven marketplace, “GLOW” seems content to revel mostly in the physical accomplishment. Review | Netflix’s ‘GLOW’ fits right in with today’s feminist TV, but mostly it’s just ready to rumble 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z The effect of the show was like that from a scene in a Dr. Seuss story: pleasing and charming. Martin Roth Populates a War Zone With Parakeets and Bullfrogs at Louis B. James 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Three girls, no older than 12, had found even more untracked snow here, right next to the lift on a pleasing ridgeline with firs on one side and aspens on the other. Canyons Ski Resort, Park City, Utah 2011-12-09T19:25:27Z What is pleasing about these three different things, the memorial, the folly and the fountain, is that they all work. Folly for a Flyover 2011-07-09T23:05:57Z Their growing friendship represents both a pleasing synchronicity with the past and a hopeful way forward. ‘All the Land to Hold Us’: A west Texas tale of hardship 2013-08-15T19:18:08Z Director Michael Bay, master of the known universe when it comes to soul-crushing blockbusters with insidious worldwide appeal, manages a couple of pleasing, borderline-coherent bits. Transformers: A 'Moon' to howl at 2011-06-28T05:19:00Z The addition of jet packs and the retooling of mechanics to allow you to choose a specialist class of trooper rebalance the action in an immediately pleasing and intuitive way. Games picks of the week 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z It is a pleasing dish, if not the sparkling combination I recall from Pangaud’s glory days in the city. At Masseria, a young gun salutes his mentors with a fancy feast 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z The objects themselves are pleasing to the eye, automatic eye candy. If the Shoe Floats 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z I push some flattened rice into something moist on the plate and get a pleasing crunch in the mouth. Review | Help save this restaurant: Everest Kitchen’s Nepalese fare is worth the trek 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z The close affinities are pleasing, and so are the clever transitions. Review | In the galleries: Sequence of photographs creates a graphic continuity 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z While some details should have been laid to rest with the blog — the culling of the list of backhoe operators is one example — Mr. Ureneck’s account is enriched by pleasing vignettes and family history. New Books: ?Irma Voth,? ?Boxer, Beetle,? ?Cabin,? ?Headhunters? 2011-09-14T22:31:31Z The beautiful translation is pleasing to the eye and ear, but we respect the honorability of the faithful translation. The “do-nothing bitch” binary: Why Kim Kardashian and Serena Williams both deserve selfie respect 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z It’s just filled with so much talent, so much beauty, the aesthetic of it is so pleasing and so black and Afro-centric and African and modern and worldly and futuristic. 'Black Panther' stars on importance of African culture in Marvel film 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z “That was pleasing. But I knew it would be fair. We’re always fair.” ’60 Minutes’ keeps on the news and is rewarded by viewers 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z “I think it’s playing into my addiction of people pleasing and approval and acceptance.” Saving Sarah From Herself, Oprah Style 2011-06-03T19:53:35Z He has a palette of tones that is very wide and pleasing to the ear, at least to my ear.” Songwriter With a Global Guitar 2011-05-09T22:00:27Z The 2007 Breton, balanced and pleasing, was the last wine in the tasting made from estate fruit and the last vintage sold under the Schneider Vineyards label. He’s in a Cab Franc State of Mind 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z As women we’re taught that sex is all about pleasing your man. Want good sex? Get married 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z But her essential opacity remains a constant, the pleasing angles of her gorgeous face unfailingly presented to their best advantage. During a Social Media Break, Kim Kardashian West Offers ‘More Me’ 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z There is always laughter and the pleasing sounds of people enjoying themselves, both from the patrons dining and from the folks on payroll. Cook this gumbo to celebrate the perfect unity of French, Asian, Creole and Cajun cuisine 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z But Paus cautions that we still don’t know whether such methods would be safe, or end up being cosmetically pleasing. The new growth in hair loss research 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z Its 24-megapixel sensor creates images with colors that are more pleasing than those produced by point-and-shoots, and its battery lasts far longer. Gear for Fall Foliage Hikes 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z But “Nobody Knows.” radiates a suspicion that pleasing you would be all too easy. New Music: 2 Chainz, Arctic Monkeys and Keith Urban Release New Albums 2013-09-09T22:11:48Z It’s a pleasing digestif on its own over ice; a splash of it tones down the sweetness in a Last Word cocktail and sneaks some herbal punch into a gimlet. Embrace the Bittersweet With Centerbe, From Faccia Brutto 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z "The stuff on pleasing men hit the wrong note for some women," said White, the current editor. Helen Gurley Brown, the original Carrie Bradshaw 2012-08-14T10:48:43Z Hang On to the Night, Colin Moulding's Set Myself on Fire, Radios in Motion and Statue of Liberty were particularly pleasing to the ear. XTC: 'Is there a place in rock'n'roll for a Princess Anne lookalike?' – a classic feature from the vaults 2013-01-23T13:09:00Z There’s no question they’re showing off a little – a sequence where Leo peppers an assailant with machine-gun fire sparked its own mini-controversy – but the dialogue alone has such a pleasing musicality that it hardly matters. Miller's Crossing at 30: the Coen brothers' unknowable gangster drama 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z And for consumers, the result may one day be a planet covered in chocolate – sharp and square, in its most pleasing form, and ready to melt where it ought: in our mouths. Unmeltable chocolate and bean-to-bar: A cocoa expert highlights 3 sweet trends 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z The front-of-the-house staff doesn’t yet work as a tight cadre with a common goal of pleasing the customer. Bar Sajor is Matt Dillon’s finest yet 2013-06-13T21:27:15Z This results in a firm, bouncy texture after cooking, with a pleasing chew. The Crispiest, Lightest Shrimp Cakes 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z They do, though, reveal the rich patterns and textures of this insect, its pleasing symmetry and forms that border on the baroque. The underrated beauty of moths 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z The newcomer just needs to be more consistent about pleasing the palate. Ocopa rises to the top on H Street NE, while DC Harvest shows spark But Ver Sacrum produces this wine with semicarbonic fermentation, a method common in Beaujolais and in many natural wines, yielding a juicy, aromatic, immediately pleasing wine. 20 Under $20: Beckoning Bottles in the Dead of Winter 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z The cake is aesthetically pleasing and outrageously delicious. The 10 best Costco bakery goods being sold this autumn 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z “It’s not aesthetically pleasing,” she said of the video from the car, “but I wanted to get it out there before the wedding because I wasn’t going to be on the phone during the ceremony.” How the Case of Gabrielle Petito Galvanized the Internet 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z When you eat food that’s both nutritious and pleasing to your taste buds, you tend to be more satisfied than when you eat low-nutrient foods. A healthy lifestyle doesn’t guarantee a long life, but it will add life to your years 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z In other words, Chinese celebrities see pleasing the state as an effective way to reach a market. How Chinese celebrities are pushing "One China" messages to millions of fans online 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z Collectors prefer badges with legible dates and lettering along with signs of what the auction catalog describes as “pleasing brown, green, and red patina.” McLeod Plantation Museum Tells the Story of the South 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z On the internet, where characters become avatars for our personalities and moods, passively pleasing trinkets don’t pack the same punch. How Sanrio Makes Anti-Capitalism Adorable, and Profitable 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z The bar, set off with a web of ropes, pours some pleasing libations, among them honest daiquiris and negronis rejiggered with mezcal. Tail Up Goat review: Expert hosts turn dinner into a flavorful party 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z Oh, to see anything as wild and pleasing as that on Oscar night. Review | A decent show, if you like your Oscar nights fully automated 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z As in many Manhattan courtroom dramatizations, “Inventing Anna” features a different, more aesthetically pleasing courthouse from the one where the real trial took place. Seen ‘Inventing Anna’? Here’s What It Gets Right (and Wrong) 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z Part of the pleasing unpredictability of his delivery is that Mr. Chappelle would rather seem to stumble into punch lines than be guided by them. Dave Chappelle Returns to Stand-Up, With Stories to Tell 2013-08-15T11:55:00Z In 2004, Jennings wrote himself into game show history when he won a record 74 “Jeopardy!” games in a row, and his ascension would supply a pleasing exclamation point to his narrative. What Should the New ‘Jeopardy!’ Be? Guest Hosts Provide the Clues. 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z After all, the first thing Faustus does is to command the devil to come back in a more pleasing form. Faustus doctored as Marlowe gets a monster-inspired makeover 2013-02-28T12:47:03Z But in the end the only mulches I like are natural ones, pleasing to look at and beneficial to the soil. Mulch provides numerous benefits 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z But there is something pleasing about the play’s imperfections. | 'Seven Minutes in Heaven': At Here Arts, Steven Levenson?s Play About Teen Desire 2010-06-13T21:49:00Z His voice is very even and pleasing as well. Showcase for new talent at Strathmore proved a worthy outing 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z The contrast of colors and the complementary curves that work with the blur to create a pleasing sense of motion. At Olympics, the line between photo and painting can blur 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z The roller coaster of gentle curves and dips made my trip more pleasing than Mattie’s as she’s “slipping and sliding when we were climbing the steep grades.” On the Trail of ‘True Grit:’ A Tale Comes to Life 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z The one I chose cost many zeros fewer than, oh, $45 million, but its sound was rich and bright, with a pleasing hint of rough burr when I dug into the low strings. Critic’s Notebook: A Critic Donates His Cello, His Musical Past, to WQXR 2014-04-04T18:05:57Z I’m 25, I’m a white, blonde girl in the entertainment industry – it’s so easy to fall into a world of pleasing everyone. Brie Larson at Telluride: 'It’s so easy to fall into a world of pleasing everyone' 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z Her food impresses the most sophisticated foodies while still pleasing all the children at the table, which is pretty artful in my book. The key to Margie-Mom's Southern brownies is the decadent chocolate frosting 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z But that reflected, he felt, the aesthetics of his project: he would give no thought to pleasing the audience, never mind family or friends. Why Name Your Book After Hitler's? 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z In this mini-season, NK builds a story of about her struggle to navigate the task of pleasing of white people as often the only black woman in a group. Podcasts Worth a Listen: ‘Fiasco,’ ‘Unwell,’ ‘In Those Genes’ 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z But it is also an important reminder of just how upset people become when women are not scraping and cutting off bits of themselves in order to be pleasing to the public’s eye. Why does female armpit hair provoke such outrage and disgust? 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z The burn in each bite is pleasing, and persistent. Review | Georgetown gains a little gem in Lutece 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z They seem particularly pleasing to the human eye, and looking at them has been found to reduce physical signs of acute stress. Need a quick stress-reliever? Try one of these surprising science-based strategies. 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z The result is very pleasing to read, when it isn’t frustratingly glib, which I regret to report is too often. A Personal, Breezy Tour of Classic Children’s Books 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z Well, no, but the multi-instrumentalist's work is deft and pleasing, despite its spoonfuls of utilitarian soft rock. I Am Arrows: Sun Comes Up Again 2010-08-12T21:45:00Z They developed a succession of structures and styles that span many centuries and yet — magically, convincingly — cohere in a pleasing whole. Fontainebleau: A Forgotten Treasure 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z It was ear candy, something incredibly pleasing and yet it was also improving your life somehow. We Asked Some Musicians to Pick Their Favorite Songs of All-Time 2011-10-26T13:25:58Z Paintings made by running a wallpaper roller or brayer incised with a grid pattern over canvas, and then applying calligraphic marks to the resulting grid, are pleasing abstractions in the vein of Mark Tobey. Art Review: At New Museum, Brion Gysin?s First Retrospective 2010-07-29T21:21:00Z In this age of the Tyranny of the Voice, he has a pleasing lack of respect for the instrument. New band of the day ? No 1,273: Two Inch Punch 2012-05-18T11:27:00Z An annual survey of 1,000 Americans commissioned by Goodyear determines 50 scenic byways that are the most aesthetically pleasing and fun to drive. Are We There Yet? Who Cares! Enjoy the View 2011-08-04T21:49:57Z Pumped up and utterly uninterested in pleasing anyone, let alone any male gaze, if the character was a rarity back in 1991, she looks shockingly unique now. James Cameron: ‘The downside of being attracted to independent women is that they don’t need you’ 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z This one, though more expensive, is not simply pleasing but compelling. 12 Wines From Argentina and Chile to Seek Out 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z A pop-bluegrass duo consisting of Nils d’Aulaire on banjo and Jay Klaitz on guitar, the pair play pleasing, jangling songs that grow on you with their exaggerated earnestness and wide-eyed drama. ‘The History of Future Folk’: a goofy, charming space jam 2013-07-11T21:21:09Z That tried to have a ‘Lord of the Rings’-style feel to it, and it ended up not really pleasing anybody.” The rising influence of faith-based movie fans 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z The combination imparted a pleasing savory-sweet balance to the fresh seafood. Bites: Restaurant Report: IO Osteria Personale in Florence 2012-08-03T16:40:37Z "Her name alone will of course ensure vast sales, as well as the pleasing prospect of widespread conversation about books," he said. JK Rowling's The Casual Vacancy: vast sales, price wars and leaks 2012-09-26T12:35:49Z Atlantic City also offers a pleasing end to the narrative arc of his film. Shake, rattle and Rolls: across America in the shadow of Elvis 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z Biscuit pizza is endlessly versatile and crowd pleasing. Why you should be eating biscuit pizza, an endlessly versatile and crowd pleasing food with soul 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z The Hare With Amber Eyes," writing that "it feels lustrous in hand, orderly, pleasing. Book gift guide: 20 picks for the season 2012-11-21T18:28:12Z The book has a pleasing, economical feel, like a mug with the perfect handle. The Enduring Wisdom of ‘Goodnight Moon’ 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z Abrams isn’t coy or gratuitously manipulative when it comes to pleasing his audience. ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ gets the nostalgia-novelty mix just right 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z The Dream House' is one of the most pleasing poems. Hill of Doors by Robin Robertson – review 2013-03-24T10:00:01Z There’s a pleasing grandeur in watching the boat’s imposing smokestacks fold down when a low bridge is ahead. The American Queen Paddle-Wheeler Cruises on the Mississippi 2012-06-01T19:22:58Z “Amigo,” another big hit, was a favorite of , often played during his visits to the Americas, something the singer found especially pleasing. Roberto Carlos, Brazil?s Pop Giant, Visits Radio City 2010-04-15T22:17:00Z There's a surfeit of mediocrity along with that, of course, but even the act of sorting that chaff was pleasing. Best TV of the Decade, from 2010 to 2019 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z “Because I am a travel photographer and I am interested in making pleasing pictures, I will often warm up a picture, meaning I will add a little bit of red, yellow and orange,” said Sammon. Editing your travel photos can make all the difference — here’s how to do it 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Current Seagrams score 2/1 - W/L Bigger question: Who doesn’t love a consistently good, and pleasing brassiere? The Lobster Club Does Japanese, From Raw to Half-Baked 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Thus he included elements in his designs like hand-woven buttons, authentically warming quilted linings, and pleasing but extraneous pleating details that are not necessarily friendly to corporate profit. Review: With Weather as a Composed Prop 2011-01-15T20:42:43Z A lot of people think they’re hard to look at, and not pleasing. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: ‘Eat Only When You’re Hungry’ 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z Its sleek neatness is pleasing, its promise of claustrophobia less so. Concrete thinking's in fashion at Brussels' brutalist Jam Hotel 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z If it's original in any way," she insists, "it's because I really didn't care about pleasing anyone other than myself. 'Forces take you over' 2011-02-12T00:03:28Z “Bodies are aesthetically very pleasing, very interesting, especially up close,” Cousins noted. Maisie Cousins’s Visceral Images of Desire and Decay 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z On the other hand, knowing that footage exists that could potentially round some of the less pleasing aspects of The Dark Knight Rises out is infuriating. The Dark Knight Rises and Prometheus DVDs to shed a little light 2012-10-08T11:47:04Z It would be pleasing to think that a new age of empowered women on screen is dawning in reaction to #MeToo and Harvey Weinstein. Wonder women: how female action heroes will blast cinema screens in 2018 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z If anything, the local library, an elegant mix of glass and diamond-shaped plywood, is the more pleasing of the two. A tour of a changing capital 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z The judicious editing captures pleasing particulars, like dancers exchanging smiles through their exhaustion, and the musicians of the Ictus ensemble playing industriously, lined up at the rear of the stage. Bounding Across Space and Time, via DVD 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z There’s a pleasing amount of British television available here, while at home I get my fix through the apps Acorn and BritBox. Lauren Graham’s Week: Background Binges and Books, Books, Books 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z But allowing a person some measure of authority over their own depiction on film sets a director on a slippery slope that ends with pleasing the talent instead of challenging the audience. Hollywood needs to stop letting stars author their own biopics | Charles Bramesco 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z That’s certainly an incentive to avoid the four-year-old Bordeaux, Barolo and Hermitage in favor of potentially lesser wines that will be more pleasing when young. For Northern Rhône Reds, It’s Not the Age but the Emotions 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z It’s pleasing to look at, thanks to the labors of the production and costumer designers, Sarah Greenwood and Julian Day, and the eye of the cinematographer, Laurie Rose. ‘Rebecca’ Review: A Classic Tale, but There’s Only One Hitch 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z With pleasing symmetry, the film has broken down a few barriers of its own. Octavia Spencer: ‘You need to see people of colour in big movies’ 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Just as pleasing are crisp hushpuppies, their centers veined with corn kernels. America Eats Tavern: Revived in Tysons, with less history on the side How she managed this — while raising her children and pleasing a husband who didn’t always love her the way she needed — is central to the stories and secrets that Ms. Polley gently shares. Movie Review: ‘Stories We Tell,’ Written and Directed by Sarah Polley 2013-05-09T21:37:27Z She wondered why puzzles couldn’t be layered with similarly pleasing textiles. She brought kids joy with her ‘magical’ toys. And hid her own misery until it became unbearable. 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z But it does not seem to be pleasing everyone. ArtsBeat: Much Light but Less Sweetness as Maastricht Art Fair Opens 2012-03-15T17:45:19Z The Rice of Mallon’s imaginings is obsessed with pleasing Bush and prone to “tattle” to the president about her fellow Cabinet members. Review | What was George W. Bush really like? A novelist whips up a campy portrait. 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Over the course of babysitting, she begins to role-play, a seemingly innocuous ploy that culminates in a pleasing punch line. Review: From Sundance, Shorts Tour the Country 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z “We find it’s aesthetically more pleasing” than a solid stone marker, McWilliams says, and the glass element still adds a sense of movement and color. Seattle Glass Monuments helps craft brighter memories 2014-05-03T23:24:42Z She says it taught her simple presentation tactics, such as making carrot sticks, which are pleasing to children’s palates. 'No food should be taboo': how to tackle your child's weight – without giving them a complex 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z “The Word Pretty” is also of a surpassingly pleasing size. A Serious Reader Offers Appealingly Casual Thoughts on Reading, and Life 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z At this eatery, the welcome is as warm as the brightly painted walls and as pleasing as the mostly Roman food and moderate prices. Where To Eat In North Beach 2010-05-10T20:00:00Z So why don't they merely susbstitute some more pleasing numbers for the ones that have caused such alarm? Here and Now: Letters by Paul Auster & JM Coetzee – digested read 2013-05-26T13:00:02Z And there are bookstores: it's pleasing, as an American, to walk through a city where bookstores are so common and prominent - and, again, tending toward focus. T Magazine: Grand Teuton 2012-11-12T16:00:53Z Beyond being clever, I like how Sabzi flips the lyric into a refrain that strikes the magic hitmaking combination of annoying and pleasing. Music Monday on Tuesday (like breakfast for dinner): Das Racist with Sabzi, G-Side and Nicole J King with Hudson Mohawke, OC Notes and Cat Satisfaction 2010-03-30T21:51:00Z But there’s good shameless and bad shameless, and “Poldark” is reasonably good stuff, milking the emotions and pleasing the eye without unduly insulting the intelligence. Review: ‘Poldark’ on PBS’s ‘Masterpiece’ 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z Those signs were models of logic and legibility in a pleasing, but unobtrusive style. Design: How to Ruin a Great Design 2011-03-13T19:30:07Z In That Old Ace in the Hole, Annie Proulx introduces us to a legion of idiosyncratic characters all with crazy names that combine to produce a pleasing but unspectacular plot. The Great American Novelist tournament 2013-01-22T12:51:05Z He’s easy enough to talk to, with a pleasing dose of oddball intensity lurking beneath his sleepy exterior. Jake Gyllenhaal: ‘I would love to not talk about my personal life’ 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z I also follow a lot of tweets that are going on, and when I find one that’s not too pleasing to me, you’ll hear from me. Dionne Warwick Is Ready for an Encore 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z In The Times, Howard Taubman allowed that some songs were pleasing, “but not enough of them.” Attend the Tale of ‘Anyone Can Whistle,’ Then and Now 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z Less pleasing, as they have been throughout the show’s run, are the weekly mysteries. ‘Endeavour’ Review: Farewell to the Morse Cinematic Universe 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z The taste was just as pleasing: The meat was incredibly tender and the soulful flavor of the herbs that seasoned it lingered on in my taste buds long after it was taken away. A Taste of Barcelona’s Evolving Dining Scene 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z For synaesthesia fans, each celestial body you hit adds a new part to a pleasing trance-like melody, until everything's lit up and making music. This week's new games 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z The collard greens are pleasing, even without the traditional sting of vinegar or the addition of meat. Review | After five decades, the Hitching Post still knows how to fry right 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z “If you provide someone with the infrastructure or backdrop to place things in an orderly manner, it ends up being pleasing to look at,” Charalambous said. You love books. Here’s how to happily coexist with them. Fashion has a bad rap, about being shallow, about pleasing men, so I was happy I was wearing unfashionable, bizarre outfits – celebrating fashion, but not some beautiful, sexualised model. 'Think about the bigger picture': life lessons from Meryl Streep and other successful women 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z Mr. Cumming delivers the verse with lucidity and intelligence, and it is undeniably pleasing to hear the Scottish play performed with an authentic Scottish accent. Theater Review: Alan Cumming in ‘Macbeth’ at Lincoln Center Festival 2012-07-08T20:59:33Z So many architects and designers say this sort of thing that it’s worthwhile, even when considering buildings as pleasing as the new Whitney, to be suspicious. At the Whitney, a new structure forges a different relationship with the city 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z Services arose to supply literary ornamentation, selling visually pleasing books by the meter. The ‘Credibility Bookcase’ Is the Quarantine’s Hottest Accessory 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z I also entertain a lot and salads are a big, colorful, simple, aesthetically pleasing way to feed a lot of people. A salad grows at the Getty Center: Artist Julia Sherman on the roots of her unusual project 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z She has noticed that her husband has been sounding strangely like his father at times lately, which is none too pleasing to Mimi, since she and Curtis’s father never got on well. | 'Black Tie': Patrician Clan That Clings to Its Foibles 2011-02-09T03:01:04Z “I’ve met people in similar industries and made business contacts. A hotel is a one-off experience, no matter how aesthetically pleasing it might be.” Want Clubby Cachet? Stay at a Private Club 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Lembit Beecher’s “Small Infinities,” a Diderot Quartet commission, was the more pleasing contemporary half. The Diderot String Quartet wins some converts 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Will the words a woman says fail to resonate if she is not conventionally pleasing to look at? Hollywood’s hidden sexism: How casting notices keep beauty standards alive 2014-01-25T00:00:00Z He considered mathematical takes on beauty, the golden ratio of pleasing proportions first theorised in ancient Greece. 'I just want to see the person I always saw in my head': the story of a face 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z There are some decent sight gags and some pleasing inside jokes for game lovers, like a red phone to the Kremlin that plays part of the Tetris soundtrack for its hold music. Video Game Review: Jazzpunk Video Game Commits to Comedy 2014-02-10T22:47:55Z The objects crammed into his tomb were both aesthetically pleasing and practical, including a golden chariot meant to speed his spirit, or ka, to its next destination, known in Egyptian cosmology as Duat. Behold, King Tut, in All His Majesty and Mystery 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z The tapping and brushing sounds of his painting technique, which are sure to trigger tingles of delight for those who experience ASMR, offer a workmanlike soundtrack of pleasing white noise. In Search of Sleep, with Bob Ross 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Usually made with little or no barrel aging, the wines achieve a gingery spiciness and a pleasing minerality. Bargains from France: 2 chardonnays and a 4-pack sampler to try 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z This novel is impressive for its moral complexity, and for the energy and virtuosity of its language: a strange, pleasing music that lingers in your mind. New Books by Imbolo Mbue, Krys Lee, Gonzalo Torné and Lisa McInerney 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z Recipes that move in a circular, winding or unrestrained manner may be aesthetically pleasing when taken as a whole, but they are hard to follow, as are those that cram too much onto a page. Some of the newest cookbooks look like comics. But does that work for readers? 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z Individual viewers’ mileage will vary as to whether “Rocketman’s” just-off-plumb arrangements are as pleasing as the beloved songs they grew up with. Taron Egerton shines in an oddly dark ‘Rocketman’ 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Finally, the last line of the whole poem repeats words from the first line: “pearl,” “pleasing,” “prince.” The Strange Power of a Medieval Poem About the Death of a Child 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z And sometimes, pleasing ourselves means making ourselves unhappy. Vince Gilligan: I’ve never Googled “Breaking Bad” 2012-07-23T20:47:00Z Short and blocky, as the real Cagney was, Creighton is a delightfully agile dancer with a pleasing tenor. In 'Cagney' the musical, Hollywood's tough guy tap dances 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z As singer, actor and dancer, he is sophisticated and complex but seldom pleasing. Trajal Harrell’s ‘Twenty Looks’ in Full at the Kitchen 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z The chef/owner's schedule is punishing, but does he know how many he is pleasing? In Queens, Star Treatment for Seafood 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z In a moving juxtaposition of youthful and mature artistry, tenor Joshua Guerrero melded his sound with Domingo’s during the famously pleasing “Au fond du temple saint” from Bizet’s “The Pearl Fishers.” With some big opera names behind it, Young Artist Program aims even higher 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Lauper devoted a chunk of time to such older hits, also pleasing fans with quiet airings of the lovely "Time After Time" and "True Colors." Review: Cyndi Lauper proves she knows how to have fun with the blues 2010-09-03T18:49:00Z The characteristic activity on such a computer has been given the pleasing name "wilfing", adapted from the acronym WWILF, or "What was I looking for?" Is this the end for books? 2011-08-14T20:30:01Z A triangular monument in Triangle Park on a triangular plot of land is more than a pleasing coincidence of geometry. New York’s Necessary New AIDS Memorial 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z What a delight to encounter paintings at once so pleasing and mysterious. What our writers love this week 2011-01-19T22:47:04Z This question is far more elemental and familiar: If the choice is between pleasing your in-laws and centering your own ambitions and desires, what do you choose? Perspective | Meghan and Harry made a fairy-tale escape. They still seem trapped. 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z This mix results in a pleasing schizophrenia and a remarkable variety in affect and ambition within one collection. 'Lucky Alan and Other Stories' is Lethem at his bizarre best 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Tiny design houses and modestly sized brands are all producing masks that are more pleasing to the eye. Masks are here to stay. And they’re quickly becoming a way to express ourselves. 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z A particular highlight is Agnès Varda, whose gentle demeanor and thoughtful musings on the artistic impulse are both pleasing and provocative. 'Great Directors': Lights, camera, action on 10 filmmaker interviews 2010-08-05T20:31:00Z An underliner of Italian parsley, dandelion greens and baby kale adds a pleasing bite to the fish. Brine restaurant review: Farm (and sea) to table, without all the fuss 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z The ghost of Hugh Grant lurks within the pages of this novel, a pleasing London-set romantic comedy complete with a cast of quirky supporting characters. Newly Released Books 2011-05-18T22:35:53Z This gesture of independence, far from pleasing Eugene, causes him to threaten Marco with disinheritance, which creates a rift between them that lasts almost until the father's death. James Lasdun reviews The Scientists: A Family Romance by Marco Roth 2013-02-16T09:01:01Z The family-run Afghan Bistro is small and cramped but also warmhearted and enormously pleasing. Tom Sietsema’s 7 favorite places to eat right now 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z First Impressions: The Evoque is aesthetically pleasing and well balanced in proportion — just big enough not to be small, but petite enough to handle city driving conditions. Car of the Week: 2012 Range Rover Evoque 2012-02-28T20:39:55Z The pleasing entree is finished with hot-sauced honey and benne seeds. At Shilling Canning Company, history outshines much of the menu 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Golden fried catfish, offered with a choice of two vegetable sides, makes a pleasing platter. Pop’s SeaBar and Walrus & Oyster Ale House: 2 joints where seafood rules First, there was the delicate balance of pleasing hardcore fans while appealing to audiences not steeped in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. 'Deadpool' Writers on Dialing Up the Raunch in 'Not Your Father’s Superhero Movie' 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z “I’m not really interested in pleasing,” she said in her teasing contralto. Isabelle Huppert: ‘The Best Way to Please Is Not to Please’ 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z But it was a rather pleasing still-life, Fruit in a Round Basket which particularly helped me appreciate Burton's poem. Poem of the week: Pissarro's Orchards by Marianne Burton 2013-06-24T10:20:03Z But the trial lavenders were also rated for their ornamental characteristics, including flower production, pleasing shape and general health. Granny’s flowers these are not: Two perennials that deserve a revival 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z “Million Dollar Quartet” has a pleasing modesty, taking place as it does on a single afternoon, Dec. 4, 1956, in the rattletrap recording studio of Sun Records in Memphis. | 'Million Dollar Quartet': On Broadway With Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis and Company 2010-04-12T02:19:00Z Yes, you want the satisfaction of pleasing your mom, just once. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Don’t fight negative energy. Neutralize it. 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z On the Sunday night it will be Mumford & Sons, which is particularly pleasing, said Eavis, because it was only four years ago that they were playing at 11am on the Park stage. Stones to play Glastonbury 2013-03-27T19:00:00Z “The first thing that hits me is a faint, pleasing bitterness,” he says. On your next summer vacation, look for berried treasure 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z When I present at conferences, none of the delegates knows I spent the previous night on my knees pleasing my master. What I'm really thinking: the submissive 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z I think it would have been diminishing returns, Knowing that it's now this triptych is quite pleasing. "I wrote endless drafts": "Sanditon" boss on the pressures of giving Jane Austen fans closure 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z With her zesty attitude and cogent line-readings, she’s still a pleasing sight for moviegoers, as long as they squint when looking at her. Joyful Noise: Is it Awfully Nice or Just Plain Awful? 2012-01-12T21:30:09Z It's an odd little confection, the tête-bêche, but it's oddly pleasing. T?te-b?che books make a speculative return 2011-07-28T10:57:58Z His Cuban sandwich layered with roast pork, Swiss cheese and pickles is pleasing. Review | Colada Shop in D.C. reviewed: Little Havana done right, and an $8 daiquiri 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Still, if only Ms. Michelson’s movement were the sole issue, she would emerge as a dogged, earnest choreographer of considerable precision, deliberately narrow vocabulary, and a pleasing if unexceptional feeling for wide stage space. Dance Review: Sarah Michelson’s ‘4,’ at the Whitney, Continues a Series 2014-01-26T22:09:19Z Its catalog is a compact mine of information, rather like a handbook, arranged A to Z with in-depth entries and a pleasing combination of matte and glossy pages. The Best Art Books of 2017 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Shakespeare’s Hamlet observed that “the Devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape.” Theater Review: ?The Witch of Edmonton?: A Supernatural Subject with Human Urges 2011-02-04T17:00:53Z Mr. Lipes, with an eye for pleasing, natural compositions and a knack for visual understatement, shows a similar sense of decorum. ‘Ballet 422’ Captures Justin Peck and City Ballet in Creative Motion 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z The music we liked, it’s not exactly pleasing.” Wax Trax concerts to salute founders and their misfit genius 2011-04-06T05:51:08Z Out on the water, his passenger’s neuronal activity resolved into a pleasing if possibly illusory tableau of blue sky, gentle breeze and cawing sea gulls. Daniel Dennett, Author of ‘Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking’ 2013-04-29T21:49:23Z “The idea that there was this second/third order parody going on seemed really pleasing and fun,” Mr. Barr wrote. A Show About Nothing Begets Something You Can Play Online 2014-05-04T21:24:06Z The effects, indeed, of these sacred and fabulous records are different: the one shedding over the mind a pleasing serenity; the other, a sombre melancholy. Cumbria is the place to boggle your Hallowe'en mind 2012-10-29T10:33:55Z It’s not particularly complex, but is full of pleasing citrus and mineral flavors. 10 Reasons You Should Give Riesling Another Look 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z In these sprawling but welcoming communities, readers have found one another, banding together in a global, aesthetically pleasing book club that’s open for discussion 24/7. The Bookstagrammers and BookTubers changing the way we read 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Framed around a surprisingly sweet romance, as well as Fin’s eventual confrontation with his painful family history, this debut offers a pleasing lightness-to-heart ratio. ‘The Miniature Wife,’ by Manuel Gonzales, and More 2013-01-30T20:24:47Z Others who would explain the shade’s prevalence by noting that it’s “pleasing to the eye” are similarly missing something. WATCH: What we talk about when we talk about millennial pink 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z But LEDs are more robust because a tough, clear plastic encases the key components: a tiny semiconductor chip that lights up when a current passes through, and filters that create a more pleasing color. How to remove paint residue from bricks 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z And although our luggage was unchic battered canvas, we were treated like royalty from start to finish, breathing in the pleasing rose air throughout. Check In, Check Out: Hotel Review: The Langham in London 2011-09-09T18:55:00Z Surrounding me, the curves and stainless steel were so pleasing, I felt as though I were cocooned in a giant Airstream. How a Greyhound station in Savannah became a hit new restaurant 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Shakespeare’s assertion that the “devil hath power t’assume a pleasing shape” is confirmed many times over. Review: The Devil Went Down to Chelsea to See ‘Prudencia Hart’ 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z It was not ingratiating, nor neo-Classical in the sense of offering hummable tunes in a definable style, but it was pleasing to the ear. NSO, Barto show that “pleasing new German concerto” is not an oxymoron in new Rihm work 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z It is a perfect creation — satisfying all taste senses, texturally varied, aesthetically pleasing, fulfilling large swaths of the food pyramid. Ketchup on my hot dog? So sue me 2011-08-03T14:15:00Z Some of the melodies — played by a four-man band on Joseph B. Musumeci Jr.’s set of a shabby cabaret — are quite pleasing, such as the tune for the ensemble number, “Pluck Down the Stars.” ‘Nero/Pseudo’ by WSC Avant Bard fiddles away its glam-rock musical potential “It’s more visually pleasing than a whole bird,” he said. The Bird Rules the Thanksgiving Magazine Cover 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z For example, are you focusing on pleasing him – perhaps out of a sense of duty or guilt – to the extent that you are bypassing your own needs and feelings? My partner says our relationship is the sexiest he's had. For me, it's the least. Can it be saved? 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z Watching this production — and, true to the sentiment on that Route 101 sign, it’s a thriftily pleasing one — I was led as the sun set to what felt like a clarifyingly timeless thought from Wilder. Perspective | An ‘Our Town’ for our time, staged in the New England community that inspired it 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z That also makes the series' means of introducing women in the place of characters originally written as men, or genderless, especially pleasing. How the conscientious casting of women in "The Sandman" defies the gender-swapping trope 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z Quite the contrary, he is at the same time a political being constantly alert to the horrifying, passionate or pleasing events in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Picasso's politics 2010-05-07T23:09:00Z This free event will observe the Mexican holiday’s related traditions, many of them dedicated to pleasing the departed, who are believed to return just for the occasion. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Diced raw lamb bound with smoked mayonnaise is a pleasing tartare. Review | Honeysuckle review: The cooking is skilled, but the chef needs to lighten up 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z They may not seem very radical in social terms – pleasing pictures of popular flowers – but as art they are revolutionary. Impressionist Gardens; Another World: Dal?, Magritte, Mir? and the Surrealists 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z But the efficacy of direct engagement on the issues is a pleasing fantasy of grant writers. How theater should respond to a democracy in meltdown 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z Other Christians cite Harry's pleasing similarity to Christ – he was willing to die to save humanity, and he was never out of King's Cross – and think he is OK, despite the baby pagans. Harry Potter and the end of a pop-culture phenomenon 2011-07-12T18:59:01Z “The aesthetic of it is so pleasing, and so black and so Afro-centric and African and modern and worldly and futuristic,” said Bassett. Bold, black and beautiful, 'Black Panther' hopes for cultural shift 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z Though the caterpillars failed to appear on the day of the hearing, a judge ruled that they would be relocated to a different patch of land, presumably pleasing the defendants and prosecution. Thieving monkeys and felonious caterpillars: Mary Roach’s research for ‘Fuzz’ was full of surprises 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z For sure, customers are very much a priority at Quattro Osteria, which opened in August and brims with pleasing particulars, only some of which come from the kitchen. Review | Quattro Osteria puts fun on the plate and in the room 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z It’s a generally agreeable and occasionally exciting picture, but one with major plot holes, hit-and-miss effects and a dedication to pleasing everybody and alienating nobody. Spider-Man and Holden Caulfield: A secret history 2012-07-03T00:00:00Z Among the most pleasing aspects of “A Life in Three Acts,” which is also directed by Mr. Ravenhill, is its becoming modesty. Theater Review | 'A Life in Three Acts': Of Youth, Frocks and Politics: A Not-So-Ordinary Life 2010-03-08T06:24:00Z It must, however, be pleasing for these long-assimilated elderly rebels to know that someone, somewhere, is still scared of them and that their subversive potential has not yet been utterly absorbed and nullified. Why Bob Dylan didn't make a fuss in China 2011-04-09T23:37:00Z But there is a workaround: the less formal upstairs cafe, surrounded by the pleasing lines and dark wood tones of a Prairie-style home. Berkeley on a Budget 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z The fruit lends a come-hither sweetness to the aroma and a slightly pink haze to the body while providing pleasing, more-ish tartness to the finish. Beer of the Week: Bell’s Poolside Ale 2016-07-16T04:00:00Z Then Romantics such as Edmund Burke and Joseph Addison beheld it with "pleasing astonishment" as a manifestation of the sublime. Wish You Were Here: England On Sea by Travis Elborough 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z There is a pleasing straightforwardness to Foster that, I imagine, at times did not help her in Hollywood, but has, in the long run, worked in her favour. Jodie Foster: ‘I have a magical thinking that I can cope with anything’ 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Luft said that it was “actually more pleasing to me to find something that had nothing to do with nudity.” I Went Naked to a Museum, and It Was … Revealing 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z According to Merriam-Webster, gravy also means “something additional or unexpected that is pleasing or valuable.” How to make gravy: Everything you’ve ever wanted to know 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Here, time moves as slowly as the silty water, and Rourke uses it to lay down a few pleasing ruminations. Not the Booker prize: The Canal by Lee Rourke 2010-10-04T12:08:00Z On the southern elevation, half the width of the first floor is set back, leaving south-facing balconies tucked into each gable end – a pleasing staggered rhythm that extends the length of the street. How social housing in Manchester has reinvented the back-to-back 2012-12-18T15:39:19Z The “Selma” effect was contagious—probably more so, by a pleasing irony, than if it had earned a higher number of nods. Oscar’s White Night 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z But there was never a chance of pleasing everyone. As Dead Exit, a Debate Will Not Fade Away 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Liszt’s transcriptions of Schumann’s songs are not the recital staples they once were, but pianists still include them on programs occasionally, or offer them as encores, usually to pleasing effect. Music Review: At Chelsea Art Museum, Schumann as Others Hear Him 2010-06-23T21:57:00Z Playwrights say artistic directors are obsessed with selling tickets in spite of their nonprofit missions and with pleasing board members by favoring world premieres or playwrights who are already admired by critics. 2010-01-13T23:35:00Z Yet, regardless of its legitimacy, Alifom’s lasagna did not set firmly, nor was it particularly pleasing to the eye. Ethiopian cuisine is unlike any other. Why are some chefs trying to modernize it? 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z But I do get people saying how much they enjoyed Swiss Army Man or Imperium and that’s always really pleasing. Daniel Radcliffe on Why He Loves When People Make Fun of Him 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z He’ll never get an award for originality, but when it comes to rehashing formula and pleasing his audience, the man is a master. Safe Haven: Something Borrowed, Something ‘Boo’ 2013-02-14T13:00:55Z Two songs by Michael Nyman, composed for the score of a 1995 film, put these ancient instruments into a pleasing pop-ballad idiom, contrasted with a more operatic idiom in arrangements of Handel arias. Review | Countertenor Iestyn Davies and Fretwork revive music old and new at Library of Congress 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z I introduced it here to use up our leftover sliced bread, and the whole family loved it, except my son – pleasing him is a herculean task! Family life 2013-06-15T06:15:01Z Yet for all of its pleasing glitz and glamour, "My Name Is Prince" hits its finest notes in the waning pages of St. Nicholas’s retrospective. "My Name Is Prince": A graceful, powerful photographic tribute to the Purple One 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z Generally I spend weeks thinking about it in an idle way, a pleasing diversion from whatever else I’m supposed to be doing. Stress-Free Stews 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z Watching them play hide-and-seek around a hedge maze is pleasing. In "One Fine Morning" Léa Seydoux experiences the exquisite heartbreak and passion of everyday life 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z The museum, which has already produced traveling exhibitions, held collecting events in 15 cities and published books about the African American experience, hopes to move quickly into its second phase: pleasing the public. An extra patina of pride on African American Museum’s second day 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z Any admirer of Conan Doyle will want to add this pleasing book to their library. Review | When the world was too much with me, here’s what I read for some R&R 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Cultural connection or disconnect: The people we encountered on the streets and in restaurants and parks were very friendly, and the age and racial diversity was pleasing and unexpected. What a Trip: Living it up in Pittsburgh, hidden arts-and-culture jewel Hermes’ Un Jardin Sur Le Nil is a watery “mango” scent that contains weirdly pleasing facets of tomato and carrot; Slumberhouse’s Pear + Olive smells like a produce aisle in heaven. How to wear perfume in summer: what to cherish, what to avoid and why 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Is every note, every image, every brush stroke pleasing to the ear/eye/mind? It’s good to be pretentious! 2012-06-28T00:00:00Z So it's been pleasing to see the xx and Vampire Weekend reversing the trend these past couple of years with their radically unabrasive sound and style. Trophy Wife (No 876) 2010-09-28T15:47:00Z On the screen, journals and writing are animated, which is pleasing to watch while Angelos' two Sontags bring the words vividly to life. Review: Susan Sontag is doubled in new play homage 2013-06-07T00:11:08Z There is a wonderful scene in which a choir sings a weird, gripping close harmony; they struck a pleasing and resonant note for this festival. A dance of death at the Venice film festival 2010-09-05T21:00:00Z Spencer, a veteran accompanist, is self-effacing at the keyboard, but he adds pleasing touches, such as a tolling bell in “Die junge Nonne,” about a monastic novice fearful as a storm passes over her convent. CD reviews: A modern symphonic master 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z It’s entirely possible for women to have melodic, pleasing voices, of course. Perspective | Elizabeth Holmes’s weird, possibly fake baritone is actually her least baffling quality 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z The film, pleasing and inoffensive, often amuses as it wrestles with the nature of familiarity as well as the question of where beauty resides. Review: ‘The Beauty Inside’ Features 123 Actors for One Leading Man 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z Young women experience little encouragement to understand their bodies, let alone desires, and instead grow up to associate sex as an act of "pleasing" bereft of their own pleasure. Great sexpectations: Peggy Orenstein's 'Girls & Sex' explores the thorny politics of teen sexuality 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z A few pleasing pieces of the kind seen in traditional British middle-class homes appeared at wide intervals, amid a mass of indifferent furniture. Auctions: Seesaw Bidding Early in the Season 2011-09-09T11:00:09Z Though the homages and allusions are not obvious, the 18-minute work, starting with elegiac strings and ending with braying brasses, has a pleasing contour and gives the orchestra a good and imaginative workout. Review: New York Philharmonic Presents a World Premiere 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Together, Morrissey and Pollock are pleasing, though they might want to raise the temperature a bit so the sexual tension between them is more apparent from the start. Signature Theatre’s ‘Elmer Gantry’ steps up to the melodic pulpit "With over a 5 percent increase in attendance, the diverse offerings on stage are clearly pleasing our audiences," Charlotte St. Martin, executive director of the Broadway League, said in a statement announcing the figure. Broadway grosses up 11.4 percent this season, over last 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Not all residents prefer the former, even if it is more aesthetically pleasing. Rome turns to cost-saving LED lighting but some residents unhappy 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z There’s something pleasing, I said, about the illusion of an irreducible unity. The Ugly Truth 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Her patchwork quilt of a book interweaves occasional New Age banalities with real insight to achieve a somehow pleasing totality. ‘The Good Death,’ ‘When Breath Becomes Air’ and More 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z Singing is culturally defined; what one group finds pleasing another will find unlistenable. Voice-overs 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z When he took over, he brought in a company started by Danny Meyer, a prominent restaurateur with an emphasis on people pleasing, to counsel staff. A Broadway Mogul Redefines Clout in His Own Fashion 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z I was his mother, not his teacher, and he didn't care about pleasing me. Advice from a home-school veteran: Ditch the schedule and let your kids play 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z It doesn’t always matter if the aesthetics of my host are ones I find pleasing. Decoding Your Airbnb: Adventures in Voyeurism 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z If it's original in any way, it's because I really didn't care about pleasing anyone other than myself. Mercury prize shortlist 2011: what Guardian and Observer critics said 2011-07-19T13:07:52Z The sterling tree of the moment is the yellowwood, a medium-size shade tree with beechlike gray bark, a pleasing symmetric outline and panicles of delicate but showy white flowers that announce its leguminous clan. Perspective | For the gardener, May is a circus. I’m learning to slow down and enjoy the show. 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z He is the sort of person who takes his time at the post office, deciding which stamps to buy to put on a package, spurning anything with a flag and looking for something aesthetically pleasing. Books of The Times: Roaming the Streets, Taking Surreal Turns 2011-05-18T21:30:05Z Moskin's recipe arrived right around one of our first double birthday days, and it struck me then as a likely crowd pleasing, indulgent prelude to cake and candles. The crunchiest, cheesiest macaroni and cheese bakes on a sheet pan 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z “Our designers don’t use them. They really aren’t a substitute for the real thing. There’s nothing more aesthetically pleasing and magical than a fully decorated house and landscape.” Let It Glow! With Lasers, a Holiday Home Decorating Craze Takes Off 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z And all women are individuals, so if you get to a point where love-making is an option, stop worrying about your own performance and instead focus on pleasing her – in whichever way she prefers. I’m worried that my erections are not adequate 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z She’s taken care to include women of diverse shapes and backgrounds among her “muses”—to the extent that that’s possible while also pleasing corporate clients. The Female Gaze of Petra Collins 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z For some people such all-star reunions are enough to carry a piece emphasizing pleasing style over lasting insight. "Inventing Anna" takes a good story, imprisons it in unnecessary excess and robs of us our time 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z Tonight's double feature is a reminder of how pleasing "Futurama" can be when it's doing what it does best: being clever, boisterous and absurd. The sci-fi vaudeville charm of "Futurama" 2011-06-23T18:24:00Z Last month, Adult Swim announced it ordered 70 new episodes of this absurd animated comedy, pleasing fans waiting for new material since Season 3 ended in October. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Love Means Zero’ and ‘Rick and Morty’ 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z He became a monster through years of devoting himself to pleasing rich people. The Horrors of Rich-People Food, Fleshed Out on Film 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z But while the piece does indeed rely on a computer algorithm that alters its dynamics at each performance, a pleasing playfulness and an affecting symbolic layer are hard-wired into it, too. Review: ‘Yesterday Tomorrow,’ a Meeting of Songs About Time 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Bong’s film imparts many vital lessons, and chief among them is that there are few things in life more pleasing than a perfectly positioned coffee table. The real star of Bong Joon-ho’s Oscar-winner Parasite? The house 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z The most experimental piece on the album, “Eschaton,” rides in on burbling sounds that ebb and flow, causing a sort of pleasing chaos. ‘Extralife’ by Darlingside Review: Folk Meets A Cappella 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z For much of his career Flagg was an ardent opponent of tall buildings, which he considered both unsafe and difficult to make aesthetically pleasing. Not Your Grandfather’s Skyscraper 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z Ross fingered a very delicate line that he then looped to accompany himself as he unexpectedly began singing with a pleasing tenor voice the hymn “I’ll Overcome Someday.” Review | Harriet Tubman, the band, blasts out at Kennedy Center 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z As pleasing as these challenges are, The Talos Principle is as much a game about reading as it is a game about puzzling through logic exercises. The Talos Principle Prompts Thinking Beyond Virtual World 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z This back-and-forth about the toasting continues, assumingly pleasing viewers as the employee continues to ask, “More toasted?” TikTokkers' Subway sandwich stunt goes viral, has users demand raise for employee 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z I play a good alto – I played a bit actually on the Mott album, which is quite pleasing for me, having not touched a sax for a long time. David Bowie on Ziggy Stardust, white funk and other theatrical matters – a classic interview 2012-06-12T15:57:34Z Every single part of the environment was imagined as part of a pleasing whole; your efforts will be rewarded when you begin to apprehend a decidedly French notion of elegance, suitable to its time. Fontainebleau: A Forgotten Treasure 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z I don’t know that an artist should be pleasing his own group. “There is power to the temporary relationships you have as an actor.”: John Cho stars in “Columbus” 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Submitted for your approval: My list of the worst snubs, and the most pleasing nominations. The Emmys' most glaring omissions 2011-07-15T13:50:00Z More importantly, where does all that striving, fretting, pleasing, pushing get them? Review | Societal expectations? Please. For the female protagonists in these 3 debut novels, it’s time to break the mold. 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z Her own movie began with a pleasing reversal – Chris Pine as the lone male on Themyscira – but when they got down to the action, she was in “the world of men”. The Smurfette Principle: why can’t Hollywood accept gender equality? 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z When it works it’s a beautiful thing, aesthetically really pleasing. Skyfall Director Sam Mendes on Reinventing James Bond and His Favorite Scenes 2012-11-23T10:43:46Z A third factor is the tendency in most people to put greater emphasis on punishment than on reward: losing $100 is far more painful than winning the same amount is pleasing. In the hands of an angry God 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z A particular highlight is Agnès Varda, whose gentle demeanor and thoughtful musings on the artistic impulse are both pleasing and provocative. | 'Great Directors': Filmmakers Get Personal 2010-07-01T22:38:00Z “Everybody is concerned about pleasing the advertisers, and it’s not just the big magazines.” Critic?s Notebook: Pushing Fashion Boundaries in an Era Without Any 2011-01-12T22:45:41Z I will say it was very pleasing to say, ‘Somebody was watching,’” Reed said. As Ricky Reed rises, the producer for Lizzo learns balance 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z In season 11, I was all about pleasing people. 'Idol' winner rolling out debut album in July 2013-05-22T17:33:15Z That made a pleasing tableau for the fashion house, where the original designer invented the bias cut, with its ripple of fabric at a graceful angle across the form. Fashion Review: Cabinet of Curiosities 2013-07-04T16:56:14Z The best songs — “Two Weeks,” “Pendulum,” and “Closer”— keep the record in your ears beyond the pleasing strangeness of the initial encounter. FKA twigs Tries a Different Tack on ‘LP1’ 2014-08-09T04:00:00Z Phillips adds, "It's pleasing to come away from a movie such as 'Cinderella' having felt something for, and with, the archetypes on the screen." 'Cinderella' remake offers some of that old Disney magic, reviews say 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z It tastes like mozzarella sticks, minus the breaded outside, and with a pleasing firmness inside rather than the gooey melt of mozzarella. Trader Joe’s pizza bread cheese is as delicious as I feared 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z The most pleasing bravura dancing — style and flair — in this season’s “Nutcrackers” came from Anthony Huxley, Ms. Pereira’s partner; he’s an admirable though not impeccable partner. Critic’s Notebook: Versions of Sugar Plums at New York City Ballet 2012-12-29T01:10:26Z “My whole mode was man pleasing at that age. I was surrounded by men, including most of my professors, and gravity just drew me to them.” Louise Erdrich discusses her new novel, 'Future Home of the Living God' 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Despite its simple interface and pleasing graphics, meditating on a cellphone is distracting. Which works better: A meditation app or in-person instruction? 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z It was perhaps one of the simplest, yet aesthetically pleasing aspects of any office lobby that I’ve visited. Eero Saarinen’s Michigan 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z Mild and pleasing, with aromas and flavors of peat, iodine and earth. Does Blended Scotch Still Have a Place in the Modern Bar? 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Advertisement Advertisement Musically speaking, this program was pleasing but lightweight fare. Review: New York City Ballet’s Winter Season Blends Movement and Music 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z “It’s not a matter of pleasing or not pleasing,” he said. At the Boston Symphony, Andris Nelsons Embraces Tradition but Looks Ahead 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z “To give us an incentive to monitor and ensure cooperation, nature endows us with a pleasing sense of outrage” at cheaters, and delight when they are punished, Mr. Flesch argues. Next Big Thing: Literary Scholars Turn to Science 2010-03-31T22:36:00Z The design guidelines for the prototypes stipulated that the side facing the United States be “aesthetically pleasing” but made no provisions for the Mexican side. Is Donald Trump, Wall-Builder-in-Chief, a Conceptual Artist? 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z “No performer works harder at pleasing his crowds,” jazz critic Will Friedwald wrote in his book “A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers.” Buddy Greco, the ultimate lounge singer, dies at 90 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z "It's pleasing to have two of your books to be made into a film," says de Bernieres. Dog days 2011-05-19T07:25:27Z The kitchen follows through with some pleasing fish and seafood. Review | Osteria Costa gambles on Italian accents at MGM National Harbor 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z One hundred and eighty years after his birth, 128 years after his ruckus with the Royal Society, it would be pleasing if his career would settle down. Eadweard Muybridge: Feet off the ground 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z Lewis and Debra Winger as the American poet he loves and tends through illness, found a pleasing balance of tone and emotional texture, of heart and ache. Remembering Richard Attenborough, the Man Behind Gandhi 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z There’s a pleasing symmetry between what Rosemary Feit Covey depicts and how she depicts it. Review | In the galleries: A tip of the hat to a revered Washington milliner 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z They are, without question, pleasing to the liberal reader's ego. How conservative comic Greg Gutfeld overtook Stephen Colbert in ratings 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z Because of this technique the stories of his ancestors fleeing the chaos that followed the Ottoman Empire’s collapse are not always easy to follow, but the overall effect is as pleasing as watercolor. Books of The Times: ?House of Stone,? a Memoir by Anthony Shadid 2012-02-26T21:56:30Z It was easy to get caught up in the exotica of "Kung Fu Panda," the pleasing, almost contemplative look of landscape and architecture, the juxtaposition of village and nature. 'Kung Fu Panda 2': Hyperflexed 3-D takes kick out of sequel 2011-05-24T20:04:05Z Inside at last, I flip the pleasing levers and then check my “X”s one more time; it’s all done so quickly that I linger a moment longer. What We Can All Do at This Moment Is Vote 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z It positions Imagine Dragons as the heir to not-entirely-ignoble corporate rock behemoths such as Journey and Asia, similarly anonymous crafters of similarly pleasing and empty songs. Imagine Dragons’ new album is good, even if no one will admit it 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z All of them benefit from deft and careful pruning when young to develop a pleasing branch structure. The 15 best trees and shrubs for fall foliage 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z “Anything that tastes good, smells good, or is pleasing to your sense of touch is a great way to soothe,” says Best. Perspective | How to keep your cool with your kids when everyone is cooped up together 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z This journey happens to have a pleasing narrative structure that works well onstage. East West Players finds the laughter behind the tears in 'Criers for Hire' 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z Reading “To Float” felt to me like one of those dreams: The rhythm is as pleasing as the substance itself. In a (Prose) Tribute to Fathers and Father Figures, a Fast-Paced Poet Slows Down 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z I know that I won’t feel fulfilled until we have children – and the abstract idea of us doing so is utterly pleasing to me. I dread a baby coming between me and my husband | Mariella Frostrup 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z These nice, simple, pleasing shapes were a very good way of making a pattern that wasn't too "patterny". Designer Emma Bridgewater's top 10 tips 2013-11-23T00:53:06Z Passage spaces are given over to photographs and smaller works, and a pleasing rhythm is established between rooms devoted to intimate exploration, such as the boxes of Cornell, and larger, more exuberant sculptural forms. The use and abuse of the feminine in Hirshhorn’s ‘Marvelous Objects’ 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Kallmeyer freely admits that some NFTs — like the Bored Ape Yacht Club’s primate illustrations, two of which are on display at Verse — are not aesthetically pleasing. Perspective | Welcome to the metaverse, where the art is virtual but the headache is real 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z He also has some pleasing chemistry with his blade-running predecessor, Harrison Ford, with whom he trades pointless punches before Ford finally says: “We could keep at this or we could get a drink.” Ryan Gosling movies – ranked! 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z A picture-perfect lawn might be visually pleasing, but it provides no benefit for wildlife. We're rethinking our lawn design (and you should, too) 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z But in TV or film, women have to be more pleasing on the eye than men. Sharon Horgan: 'There is a black streak in everything I've done' 2012-12-16T00:05:12Z Maruimstad expresses the most exciting facet of the band and shows their ability to innovate while pleasing from the first listen. March's best music from across the MAP 2011-03-14T11:24:55Z For those seeking a fun, visually pleasing action-adventure flick, "Avengers: Endgame" will not disappoint. "Avengers: Endgame": Sloppy plot holes distract from an otherwise cathartic epic 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z The big-gun sequels — Iron Man 2, Shrek Forever After, Sex and the City 2 — weren't nearly as pleasing or popular as their originals. Box Office Weakened: Greeks and Killers Falter in a Junky June 2010-06-06T20:15:00Z Even in note-taking, I was always very interested in making my notes look aesthetically pleasing. Zazie Beetz Grew Up With Shel Silverstein and Nina Simone 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z One bit had a pleasing soupçon of the “I’ll see who’s around” part of “One Way or Another,” a song I remember fondly from her appearance on “The Muppets,” somewhere in my amphibian brain. Uptown Rapture: Debbie Harry at the Carlyle 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z And it’s like birth — it is a difficult and not always aesthetically pleasing process. Quinn Cummings: My homeschooling manifesto 2012-08-24T18:10:00Z And if that doesn't sound like the perfect recipe for an evening in with a curry and a six-pack, then there's no pleasing you! Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z Some moments of the set seemed a little overtly crowd pleasing, given his flintiness on record. Live review: Gesaffelstein at the Fonda 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Her panels are rendered in pleasing cotton-candy shades of pink and blue — soft colors that give the gritty content an ironically feminine edge. Without spandex or cleavage, artist Gina Wynbrandt creates a hapless, funny, very real comics heroine 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z The warm, familial narrative that seeps from this moment is deeply pleasing to witness. At Tacoma Art Museum, portraits that reach out and touch you 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z While German entries got zero points from many countries in the past, Lena got points from most countries and called the widespread backing especially pleasing. Germany finally feels loved with Eurovision win 2010-05-30T08:30:00Z Neither he nor his team — especially Mr. Zinn and the lighting designer, Ben Stanton — forget the value of pleasing the audience with surprise. Review: In ‘Make Believe,’ Four Children Meet Their Inner Adults 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z |
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