Word: pleasingness
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"Meantime millions of good Catholics wonder if the only road to Heaven is metallurgical. ... To be sure of God's help and protection over body and soul always keep yourself in God's grace. Then you won't even need medals, though you may use them. And...
A pleasing vitamin in music is consonance, as in such agreeable harmonies as the standard Do Mi Sol Do. When composers wish to ennoble, invigorate or inspire their listeners (as for example in the opening bars of the Star-Spangled Banner) they depend heavily on consonances. An upsetting virus in...
Kieran's own formal explanation of why he quit the Times: what with newspapering and pleasing with information (not counting increasingly frequent, nonprofitable radio appearances selling war bonds, etc.) he has been much too busy to do the traveling to sports events his Times job required. Sports fans had...
The hydrangea hedges, the big round beds of pansies, a fountain tinkling outside the main entrance of the institution "out at the end of Center Street," where Oregon houses 3,000 of its mental patients, make its externals pleasing to the eye. But any Oregonian who knows enough to make...
But it was a far cry from an agreement at the White House to an agreement on Capitol Hill. In the House, Chairman Henry N. Steagall introduced a bill more pleasing to the farm bloc: it established a new, higher kind of "parity" based partly on wages paid to farm...