At the start of the novel, the home life of Francois Mouret and his wife and cousin Marthe ( née Rougon ) is portrayed as a generally pleasant and relaxed existence.

The ascent of the hill is the start of a pleasant circular walk, detailed in Jarrold's Walks in Cambridgeshire, which goes north from the top to the Roman Road, follows this over Hildersham Hill ( 95 m ) for, then descends to Hildersham and goes back along the valley of the River Granta to Linton.

Although the Saturday of this particular match had mostly pleasant sunshine, Bird and his fellow umpire, David Constant, refused to let play start because of the previous night's rain ; parts of the outfield were still too waterlogged, according to the officials.

*" And a pleasant good afternoon / evening everybody ", used at the start of every game

Typical critic comments included " feature-length after-school-special nothingness " and " the start of Ringwald's slide " Roger Ebert was a notable exception, giving the film three stars and while acknowledging the film " is probably a good deal more pleasant than the average American teenage girl could look forward to " and the ending " contrived ", he found it has a " feel for plausible dialogue and scenes that reveal personalities " particularly in scenes involving the young passion of Ringwald and Batinkoff.

Reading your proof had a similarly pleasant effect on me as seeing a really good play.

" San Marino was formed to protect your personal rights and to control the growth and activities of the City in such a way that each individual resident will be guaranteed a pleasant place in which to live with a minimum of nuisance, with assurance that his property values will be protected by stringent zoning regulations.

" Rose-water is the rain they have, Which comes in pleasant showers, All places are adorned brave, With sweet and fragrant flowers. Hot custards grows on ev ' ry tree, Each ditch affords rich jellies ; Now if you will be ruled by me, Go there and fill your bellies.

Suppose you spend your days and nights in an office, working at not entirely pleasant activities, such as entering data into a computer, and this, all for money.

Campan recalls a pleasant anecdote: the king said to the duc de Noailles, that with Madame du Barry he had discovered new pleasures ; " Sire-answered the duke-that's because your Majesty has never been in a brothel.

" His present and your pains we thank you for: When we have matched our rackets to these balls, we will, in France, by God's grace, play a set shall strike his father's crown into the hazard ... And tell the pleasant Prince this mock of his hath turn'd his balls to gun stones ".

"" ( It is always pleasant to have exact solutions in simple form at your disposal.

" This, let's face it, is a book about one of the hardest of hard liquors and for all this let's be mature, I just drink it for the taste not the effect, honest, Two units a day only stuff ... it is, basically, a legal, exclusive, relatively expensive but very pleasant way of getting out of your head.

For instance, in his classic poem " Dror Yikra ," he begins the second line: Ne ' im shim ' chem (" pleasant your name "), with a modifying form of the adjective " pleasant ," where properly it should be na ' im.

If on occasion you think of us, we hope your memory will be a pleasant one.

In fact, this short book is pleasant reading ; add your own nostalgia if you wish.

" Mimi Coertse: I have pleasant memories of your distinctive timbre and your sweet but never too sentimental voice.

I also would very much like to see your pleasant countenance and the rare beauty of your wisdom and greatness.

If it were granted me to be associated with you and to behold your honored, charming, and pleasant countenance then you would be my father and I your son.

# Help you to handle complaints, avoid arguments, keep your human contacts smooth and pleasant.

May your knowledge be pleasant for you .” from Sahih Muslim

The sand is fine and pleasant, the cabanas are clean, and the parasols, green, raspberry, and butter yellow, are very gay.

We may further grant to those of her ( Poetry's ) defenders who are lovers of poetry and yet not poets, the permission to speak in prose on her behalf: let them show not only that she is pleasant but also useful to States and to human life, and we will listen in a kindly spirit ; ;

The home listener is overpowered, all right, but the experience is a far from pleasant one.

It is not a pleasant or easy position, but one we have endeavored to maintain.

In Coriolanus the agnomen of Marcius is used deliberately and pointedly, but the Homeric epithets and the Anglo-Saxon kennings are used casually and recall to the hearer `` a familiar story or situation or a useful or pleasant quality of the referent ''.

There is a humorous but revealing story about a rancher who owned a large slice of Texas and who wanted to have on it everything that was necessary for a completely pleasant community.

What is surprising and pleasant is that Mantle and Maris, under constant pressure from writers and photographers, are trying to be cooperative.

He has a pleasant sense of humor and is modest enough to admit mistakes and even `` a cardinal error ''.

The Franck symphonic poem, `` Psyche '', is a lush, sweet-sounding affair that was pleasant to encounter once again.

Some pleasant fall cruising country is mapped out below.

In Kerry in the southwest of Ireland, her keen is experienced as a " low, pleasant singing "; in Tyrone in the north, as " the sound of two boards being struck together "; and on Rathlin Island as " a thin, screeching sound somewhere between the wail of a woman and the moan of an owl ".

The climate is pleasant, moderated by the southeast trade winds for about nine months of the year and with moderate rainfall.

But if life itself is good and pleasant (...) and if one who sees is conscious that he sees, one who hears that he hears, one who walks that he walks and similarly for all the other human activities there is a faculty that is conscious of their exercise, so that whenever we perceive, we are conscious that we perceive, and whenever we think, we are conscious that we think, and to be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious that we exist ... ( Nicomachean Ethics, 1170a25 ff.

* Single-ended output stages ( be they tube or transistor ) have an asymmetrical transfer function, meaning that even order harmonics in the created distortion tend not to be canceled ( as they are in push – pull output stages ); by using tubes OR FETs most of the distortion is from the square law transfer characteristic and so second-order, which some consider to be " warmer " and more pleasant.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly ( agreeing " neither to harm nor be harmed "), and it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

She seemed to work to grow close to her son in the few days he spent at home, talking to him about some of the more pleasant moments of his childhood and then trying to talk to him about those things in which he alone was interested.

Through the Gatehouse, the quadrangle is laid out around a pleasant lawn with a few decorative trees.

Monash was regarded with great respect by the British-a British captain on the staff of William Heneker's 8th Division described Monash as " a great bullock of a man ... though his manners were pleasant and his behaviour far from rough, I have seen few men who gave me such a sensation of force ... a fit leader for the wild men he commanded ".

" Michele Romero of Entertainment Weekly gave the album a C, saying, " On a few songs, breathy mewl is a pleasant contrast to the mechanical drone of Sugarcube-like techno-tunes.

Puerto Galera town is a pleasant but sleepy Philippine town with few attractions.

There are few Local Authority estates in the area but the largest, and still pleasant, is in Woodside Park where ex-Spice Girl Emma Bunton grew up.

Maleme has a few large hotels and several pleasant apartments close to the beach and some bars and a discothèque at the western end.

Spring is known for being windy with pleasant days and cool nights well into November ; however, precipitation is most variable then: sometimes, the normal winter drought can last longer than expected ; on other years, very severe thunderstorms bring hail and over 100 mm ( 4 inches ) of rain in a few hours.

In 1635 the cathedral was described as: "... small and plaine, yet it is very lightsome and pleasant: her cathedral's quire is neatly adorn'd with many small pillars of marble ; her organs though small yet are they rich and neat ; her quiristers though but few, yet orderly and decent.

He greets Mew and a few of the old hands, but the pleasant reunion is interrupted when a string of mules is led into their midst, each carrying the dead body of a G. I.

For me, adventure games have represented a pleasant diversion — something I could boot up and get lost in for a few hours at the end of a long day.

Jens Andersen, author of Hans Christian Andersen: A New Life ( 2005 ) describes God as " one of Andersen's most beloved ghosts " and notes that God in " The Angel " is a " pleasant and helpful traveling companion [...] There are few figures in his works to whom he returns more often or examines from so many different childish angles.

The opening of the Tay Road Bridge in 1966 put Tayport within a few minutes ' drive of the centre of Dundee, and it has since evolved into a pleasant dormitory town for that city.

These averages are reached through an alternating weather pattern, with several days with northerly winds and temperatures of around 28 ° C ( 82F ) or higher and warm nights over 15 ° C ( 59F ) giving way, in a very sudden manner, to cool, rainy weather and temperatures between 10 ° C and 15 ° C ( 50F to 59F ) for a few days, then to dry, sunny weather and colder nights ( around 5 ° C, or 41F, and sometimes much lower ) and pleasant days in the 15 ° C to 20 ° C ( 59F to 68F ) range, and a gradual increase in temperatures as winds rotate to the north again.

Janet Maslin in the New York Times wrote: " A 50's romp with a few glaring 90's touches ( dueling cellular phones, frazzled single parents ), One Fine Day makes for sunny, pleasant fluff.

This pleasant neighborhood includes few commercial establishments.

The town is home to some 7030 people, which now includes people from all over the world, for whom Divonne is a pleasant place to live for a few years while they are posted in the Geneva area with multinational companies or international organizations such as the United Nations.