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Moreover, as the complexity of life increases, its strains and repressions are multiplied, with the result that any giving way to an impulse contains a slight element of the mischievous or ridiculous; whence, for this reason too, the pleasant is also the comical.

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  1. adjective Giving or affording pleasure or enjoyment; agreeable: a pleasant scene; pleasant sensations.
  2. adjective Pleasing in manner, behavior, or appearance.
  3. adjective Fair and comfortable: pleasant weather.
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  • “Yes. He was gone the last two weeks in August.” I kept my expression pleasant, but I felt like shouting. —  Death on the River Walk
  • The juice of virgins squeezed at midnight into coconut shells A glass of wine would be most pleasant, my Lord It's very good wine,' his Lordship said dubiously. —  Title here
  • A pleasant, almost cordial intimacy had developed between himself and Félicie. —  Maigret and the Toy Village—Simenon, Georges - 46
  • FORTUNATE and pleasant was my arrival here,—fortunate, because no mishap occurred during the journey; and pleasant, because we had scarcely patience to wait for the moment that was to end this short but disagreeable journey. —  The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Vol.1.
  • Flaunting her bewitching beauty while keeping her biting wit out of sight, she captured the heart and soon would have the hand of the wealthy, pleasant, and pliable Lord Darley. —  0001
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  1. Middle English plesaunt, from Old French plaisant, present participle of plaisir, to please, from Latin placēre; see plāk-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also pleasaunt; from Middle English *plesant, pleasaund, from Old French pleisant, plesant, plaisant, French plaisant = Italian piacente, piagente, from Latin placen(t-)s, pleasing, charming, dear, present participle of placere, please: see please.
 

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