Word: pleasingness
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Particularly pleasing was the woman's chorus in the final section. The sung passages did not sound like the usual half-muttered versions so dear to most conductor's hearts, but rather had a youthfulness and brightness that went well with Senturia's straightforward interpretation.
Today's "Danish modern" is in a sense the climax of that tradition-a simple, sane and sanitary style suitable for all. The Met show has its full share of pleasing examples: the frugally lined furniture of Kaare Klint and Arne Jacobsen, the silver of Georg Jensen, bright-hued...
B.B., like many elderly men, tended to romanticize his youthful trips. His quest for Lotto's altarpice in a rural, unmechanized Italy was undeniably pleasing. It seems even more so in contrast to his trips in modern Italy, when B.B. at times seems slightly dry, and ever so slightly disgusted...
At Chicago-and in the famous Treaty of Fifth Avenue huddle-Nixon went all out to make New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller his running mate, aware of his crowd-pleasing talents, his appeal to independents, and the need for his help to swing New York's 45...
Despite broader aims, his production never parts with its broad a. Nor is it slick; it is simply more farcical and playful than the usual production, more given to sassy detail in an unmolested design, to whispering what is commonly bellowed or enlarging what is usually small. Just as D...