Word: pleasingness
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The fantastic sphere of a child's imagination--a world upside-down--offers ample material for an artistic enterprise but is rather difficult to make appealing to an adult mind. Miss Siegl's triumph is to achieve this feat with highly pleasing results.
Theological Style Pleasing
Throughout history, Nervi remarked, architectural style has reflected the technical possibilities of the day. Insofar as style has followed technological trends, it has been aesthetically pleasing. But when style becomes an ornamental gloss, covering and hiding new developments, buildings lose their beauty.
Though Moore takes his cue from nature-primarily from the human figure, but also from "natural forms such as bones, shells and pebbles"-he has always avoided what he regards as the two major perils in the sculptor's art: the temptation to reproduce only appearances, and the feeling...
One of the pleasing vagaries of the publishing business is that every year or so a good novel takes hold of public fancy and lodges near the top of the bestseller lists for month after month. Suburban matrons feel socially inadequate until they have read it, a Hollywood movie producer...