pleasantly

One of the smaller plates from the set, a four-foot-long cutaway drawing in pleasantly soft sepia tones, hangs over my couch, and has followed me from Notre Dame to New York and finally to Milwaukee, a reminder that I must measure myself — success and failure alike — not against my peers, but against the great cathedral-builders of old, who had to think big as a matter of course.

Matthew Alderman in Dappled Things 2009

Is John McCain pleasantly surprised that gasoline in America where someone need to remind him he is running for President is $4.00 plus a gallon.

McCain 'pleasantly surprised' by Iraqi leader 2008

I suppose it shouldn't be so astonishing given the broad theme that tends to unite anthology stories; nonetheless I remain pleasantly surprised.

October 2006 2006

I†™ ve found it. ” The Systems voice chimed pleasantly from the walls of the house.

365 tomorrows » 2006 » February : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2006

I suppose it shouldn't be so astonishing given the broad theme that tends to unite anthology stories; nonetheless I remain pleasantly surprised.

REVIEW: Forbidden Planets edited by Marvin Kaye 2006

So he nodded, and kept his expression pleasantly interested.

Music to My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005

So he nodded, and kept his expression pleasantly interested.

Music To My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005

Miss Roper, with all her skill, could not extract a word pleasantly soft from him one a week.

The Small House at Allington 2004

Kolinahr seemed like overkill; yet Kirk kept his expression pleasantly neutral.

Recovery Dillard, J. M. 1995

"We may praise God as much for small mercies," said Martin pleasantly, "as for great ones; and trees must not be blighted that were appointed to fruit."

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1922