| The oysters are set in a pool of tomato-flavored butter that melts pleasingly into a portion of tangy coleslaw. |
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| I would run in place, taking special care to thrust my knees at least chest-high while swinging my arms in a pleasingly manly fashion. |
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| Since my last visit, a pleasingly spicy Cajun seasoning had been added to the crawdads. |
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| It is the most pleasingly unconventional documentary portrait in recent memory. |
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| The room felt unfussy and pleasingly neutral, like a cross between a high-design airport lounge and a friendly neighbourhood cafe. |
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| Nobody really knows how they got there, which, rather pleasingly, negates the need to read lots of tedious literature on the subject. |
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| Matching up to the standards of their little ones, they were also pleasingly accoutred. |
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| The bronze sconces that lined the walls gleamed, furnished with fresh candles, and the side-tables beneath them smelled pleasingly of beeswax. |
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| This beautiful watering hole sits in a quiet suburban area which is pleasingly free of coachloads of dazed tourists. |
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| Built incrementally, it was originally a theatre, with a pleasingly symmetrical Italianate colonnaded frontage facing the town's main square. |
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| This joyous, soft, ripe, buttery Chardonnay with a pleasingly ripe nutty finish is a bargain at this price. |
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| This group has lost none of its ability to deliver pleasingly catchy melodies. |
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| Knotty-pine wails, white tablecloths, and a sprinkling of artwork and Western memorabilia create a pleasingly rustic yet romantic ambience. |
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| And that under-powered engine is pleasingly tractable on the slippery stuff. |
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| As far as audio goes, the Dolby Digital 2.0 mono track is pleasingly energetic, distinct, and easy to discern. |
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| The three journalists who interviewed Putin for this book are pleasingly sassy on occasion. |
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| The walls are pleasingly solid, and the doors hefty wood, with two between the bedroom and the corridor, a boon for light sleepers. |
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| The addition of colourful projecting sunblinds layered the facade pleasingly as well as solving the climatic problem. |
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| If you remove the particular from these events and just think of them as Cool Stuff, then they're pleasingly regular and not rare at all. |
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| The three basic elements of translation, commentary, and illustration are pleasingly balanced. |
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| Despite all this, Europe is still an economic superpower and, very pleasingly, also a civil, peace-loving, cultural and democratic one. |
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| Eileen Lavender is celebrating her fiftieth year, and the evergreen director's golden anniversary production opened last night to a pleasingly busy house. |
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| Buy now 2. U candleholder: £165.76, Another Country There's something pleasingly simple about this symmetrical candleholder by Minimalux. |
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| The upside here is that the 300 is the right weight for your youngsters, and it's also pleasingly light for a long back-country hike or lengthy canoe portage. |
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| A slight modification to the final scene adds the only major concession to modern values to the play with nod to post-feminist ideals, but works pleasingly well. |
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| In short, the film is a pleasingly inoffensive diversion in which Philip Seymour Hoffman, in the guise of splenetic gonzo rock journalist Lester Bangs, almost steals the show. |
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| In life, he cut a Pickwickian figure, pleasingly plump and full of benevolence. |
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| The sound is big, warm and very intense — pleasingly plump if not a little overweight. |
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| The grilled seafood sausage, pleasingly plump, comes stuffed with chunks of scallop, lobster and shrimp. |
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| In my opinion, that's a vegan diet, and, pleasingly plump sluggers aside, I'm not the only athlete who thinks so. |
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| She has always had that top-heavy bosom, and now her pleasingly plump double chin is here to stay. |
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| Equally pleasingly, tradition doesn't say do all the donkey work yourself because you are a woman. |
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| The mixed greens were crispy, the bacon expertly rendered, the dressing a pleasingly sharp garlic aioli. |
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| You should rather come out beautifully come pleasingly before God until God can recognize your goodness. |
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| The third movement has a strong rustic dance flavour and a pleasingly playful quality. |
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| Its streets are still pleasingly ramshackle in parts and it has the vague seediness that often characterises large ports. |
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| Less pleasingly, from an English perspective, is the fact that she's just been well and truly castled by Coyte. |
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| The red roofs of the house-tops contrasted pleasingly with the green and brown of the rich country side. |
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| Rome's wines, led by Frascati and Marino, were traditionally abboccato, pleasingly soft though not so sweet as to overwhelm the flavor of food. |
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| This way we keep our administrative costs low and cater to our clients' needs in a pleasingly straightforward manner. |
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| This is all pleasingly fun and nerdy, but audience participation in Plutonian naming hasn't always gone smoothly. |
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| This pleasingly light and gently perfumed skincare emulsion protects and cares for the skin. |
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| It has a simple, hypnotic riff repeated over a wide-open, reverbed-out rhythm section, topped off by some woozy synth strings for a pleasingly spacey effect. |
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| They want to know what makes a particular craft beer pleasingly bitter, why the wine they're drinking is so mellow, what gives their whiskey a smoky flavor. |
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| For all the clarity, richness and depth of the sound and the playback quality delivered by the IWS51 and IWS80 speakers, optically it is pleasingly understated. |
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| Hidden from view in the ceiling soffit are Cyclo 03 fluorescent color changers whose light produce an enticing yet pleasingly subtle effect in the chandelier's glass panels. |
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| People have been pleasingly eager to buy smartphones and to clock up data charges by playing games, watching videos and dawdling on social networks, as well as to make calls and send text messages. |
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| The relentless pace with which they attack is pleasingly invigorating. |
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| Whatever hand, human or randomly digital, is guiding the programming over at Netflix, they are to be commended on consistently turning up the most pleasingly unexpected documentaries. |
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| Pure cherry aromas, pleasingly sour, preceded a very pronounced red cherry flavor in the mouth, though the texture was not as full as one would have liked, perhaps a sign of the vintage. |
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| All the more pleasingly, it was achieved despite challenges posed by uncertainty in credit and wider financial markets during the second half of the year. |
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| This luxurious cream softens and pampers to leave skin pleasingly scented. |
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| These medium to large hunting dogs are adapted to the work of a pointer: dry, very muscular but pleasingly built, with clear physical distinctions between males and females. |
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| The model 125 F has a new side view and the lid profile fitting to it and the modified consoles and foot form round off the whole pleasingly to welfare. |
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| Equipped with Revox speakers, the majestic downlight system still gives a pleasingly uncluttered look to the ceiling and floods each room with an atmospheric, brilliant light. |
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| The biocompatible white zirconium oxide is a high-performance ceramic that is ideal for preserving a pleasingly natural mucosal color, and offers impressive soft tissue esthetics. |
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| The duck itself was fork tender, slightly pink, pleasingly warm and covered with a sweet onion and white wine demi-glace. |
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| Better was Mrs Diner's Eton Mess, which arrived in a pleasingly retro knickerbocker glory glass and benefited from some tangy raspberries. |
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| In their place is a perspective that looks upon Marilyn Monroe as suspiciously full-figured instead of pleasingly zaftig and insists on an undeviatingly lean aesthetic as the beauty ideal. |
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| What are the rooms like: The largest are beamy and truly spacious, with massive medieval fireplaces, authentic bumpy floors, and pleasingly light decor. |
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| I've sold two of your mirrors and that small chandelier that you've been trying to offload for months,' he tells me, handing over a pleasingly thick wodge of cash. |
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