more pleasing
Example Sentences
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Mr. Carney steers things back in a more pleasing direction in the end, but for a light comedy, “Power Ballad” contains far too much perplexed agony.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
Scientists suggest that these shorter, higher-pitched sounds are more pleasing to our auditory system, perhaps because young humans have high-pitched voices, and domestic cats have evolved accordingly to curry human favor.
From Salon • Aug. 11, 2023
It’s definitely more pleasing than failure evidently, and you prefer it, but I no longer need to race towards success.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2022
"The result was what we wanted, but the more pleasing thing was the manner in which we did it."
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2022
Planting their orchards for millennia, the first Amazonians slowly transformed large swaths of the river basin into something more pleasing to human beings.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
