pleasantness

Example Sentences

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"We were surprised at the pleasantness of them."

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2025

This multifunctional test is a card with a QR code that subjects scan to answer four questions that evaluate odor detection, intensity, identification and pleasantness.

From Scientific American • Mar. 28, 2023

“There was nothing heavy or morbid about these conversations,” Alice McDermott writes, but “rather an eager, industrious, even entertaining, pleasantness in all of it.”

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2022

In “Yellowjackets,” the adult Misty keeps a tight lid on her emotions, projecting an eerily banal pleasantness that belies the character’s insidious scheming.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2022

None of the pleasantness was directed at him because of his father, as it was back home, or his grandfather’s memory, as it was in Danville.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison