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rather and pleasant
A very casual, pleasant program -- one of those easy-going things that make Newport's afternoon programs such a relaxing delight -- was held again under sunny skies, hot sun, and a fresh breeze for an audience of at least a couple of thousands who came to Newport to hear music rather than go to the beach.
Between the first meeting of Clerfayt and Lillian and this dismal denouement, Mr. Remarque has laid down many pages of junior-philosophical discourse, some demure and rather fetching love-making, pleasant talk about some of the countryside and restaurants of Europe, and a modicum of automobile racing.
On the early phonograph's reproductive capabilities he writes " It sounded to my ear like someone singing about half a mile away, or talking at the other end of a big hall ; but the effect was rather pleasant, save for a peculiar nasal quality wholly due to the mechanism, though there was little of the scratching which later was a prominent feature of the flat disc.
Deciding to experiment with his own independence and freedom, Gautier chose to stay with friends in the Doyenné district of Paris, living a rather pleasant bohemian life.
Spring is a rather pleasant season with fairly mild temperatures and not so much rain.
Many runners also favor running on trails rather than pavement, as giving a more vigorous work-out and better developing agility skills, as well as providing a more pleasant exercise environment.
He told writer Alex Simon " In the interest of maintaining my friendships with Jack Nicholson and Robert Evans, I ’ d rather not go into it, but let ’ s just say The Two Jakes wasn ’ t a pleasant experience for any of us.
In this pleasant and agreeable range of houses are some very magnificent buildings, and among the rest, the custom-house and town-hall, and some merchants houses, which look like little palaces, rather than the dwelling-houses of private men.
though pleasant, is rather thinly spread ; but the sets are a delight in the best traditions of the MGM musical, and Walters does a wonderfully graceful job of direction.
Leo rising subjects have a dignified and rather formal manner which inspires confidence ; while Sagittarius risers have a cheerful, pleasant and rather witty outer manner which suits all kinds of teaching, training and public speaking situations.
" She reported in April 1814: " Your father enjoys his health but grows rather feeble, dislikes more and more to walk ; but it is still pleasant for him to go on with his painting.
Additionally, the Midrash argues that Issachar's description in the Blessing of Jacob-Issachar is a strong ass lying down between the sheepfolds: and he saw that settled life was good, and the land was pleasant ; he put his shoulder to the burden, and became a slave under forced labour-is a reference to the religious scholarship of the tribe of Issachar, rather than simply to a more literal interpretation of Issachar's name.
The Pittsburgh Press criticized that " the show may have a universal theme it's hard to find ," while Duane Dudek of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel summed the series as a " pleasant little sitcom " which was not a " struggle for mastery in some ways, a rather old-fashioned love story.
He describes his unconsciousness as a blissful paradise, but his return to reality is also rather pleasant, as he is being lovingly cared for by a devoted nurse named Diana Marfleet.
Ball found the young painter especially pleasant, and was impressed that, unlike his peers, Janco was melancholy rather than ironic ; other participants remember him as a very handsome presence in the group, and he allegedly had the reputation of a " lady-killer ".
They were master smiths with good knowledge in various kinds of magic and rather greedy folk-in short, not very pleasant to do business with.
Spring and autumn seasons are short, with pleasant temperatures during the day but with rather cold nights due to its altitude from 956 m above sea level up to 1000 m in the old town.
In the period following the rise of Napoleon to prominence, the village was levelled to the ground on this account, as described in 1799 by Wilhelm von Humboldt: " The settlement spreads over a rather wide area, and seems to have looked clean and pleasant time ago.
Its call is rather functional, and not as pleasant and aesthetic as that of R. albicollis.
Frédéric Bastiat argues that idleness is the result of people focusing on the pleasant immediate effects of their actions rather than potentially negative long-term consequences.
Throughout his career, Oliva possessed a " rather pleasant disposition " and was known as a positive influence in a team's clubhouse.
Plump and pleasant, Miss Cackle is more lenient towards Mildred when she is in trouble, and rather than intimidate the girl as Miss Hardbroom does, Miss Cackle gives long, sorrowful lectures which causes Mildred to feel guilty for the trouble she is in.
Ot went for pleasant walks dressed in a rather fashionable sailor outfit with his father dressed in a three piece suit and a hat.

rather and white
Wilson was told that it was a sort of hotel for white people, which seemed to him rather queer.
Wilson again went downtown to a different banker, an intelligent young white man who seemed rather sympathetic, but he shook his head.
He later spoke out for black suffrage, though not based solely on race, but rather merit oriented, arguing, " The better class of them will go to work and sustain themselves, and that class ought to be allowed to vote, on the ground that a loyal Negro is more worthy than a disloyal white man.
Other Scots pines in the surrounding area are increasingly commonly festooned with tied bits of plastic, crisp packets and the like rather than ' white pieces of silk '.
However, at the time, " race music " and its white cousin, " hillbilly music ", were not considered to be worthy of consideration as art, rather as a low-cost product to be sold and soon forgotten.
During recent times, mainly during the apartheid reform and post-1994 eras, many more white Afrikaans-speaking people, mainly with " conservative " political views and of Trekboer and Voortrekker descent, have preferred to be called " Boers " or Boere-Afrikaners, rather than " Afrikaners ".
The auguste face base makeup color is a variation of pink, red, or tan rather than white.
General limitations about the structure and philosophy of CITES include: by design and intent it focuses on trade at the species level and does not address habitat loss, ecosystem approaches to conservation, or poverty ; it seeks to prevent unsustainable use rather than promote sustainable use ( which generally conflicts with the Convention on Biological Diversity ), although this has been changing ( see Nile Crocodile, African elephant, South African white rhino case studies in Hutton and Dickinson 2000 ).
* AM CVn, a very blue star of magnitude 14, is the prototype of a special class of cataclysmic variable stars, in which the companion star is a white dwarf, rather than a main sequence star.
Therefore, in December 1942, several patients with advanced lymphomas ( cancers of certain white blood cells ) were given the drug by vein, rather than by breathing the irritating gas.
Freed also made a practice of presenting music by African-American artists rather than cover versions by white artists on his radio program.
The downside of anti-aliasing is that it reduces contrast – rather than sharp black / white transitions, there are shades of gray – and the resulting image is fuzzy.
Another description said that " her mouth is rather large, the teeth brilliantly white, her neck is slender and fair, and the bust is admirably proportioned ".
In this sense, red phosphorus is not an allotrope, but rather an intermediate phase between the white and violet phosphorus, and most of its properties have a range of values.
This development of white mensural notation may be a result of the increased use of paper ( rather than vellum ), as the weaker paper was less able to withstand the scratching required to fill in solid noteheads ; notation of previous times, written on vellum, had been black.
A tradition may be deliberately created and promulgated for personal, commercial, political, or national self-interest, as was done in colonial Africa ; or it may be adopted rapidly based on a single highly publicized event, rather than developing and spreading organically in a population, as in the case of the white wedding dress, which only became popular after Queen Victoria wore a white gown at her wedding to Albert of Saxe-Coburg.
Gould describes Morton's rather imprecise technique of filling skulls with bird seed to obtain endocranial-volume data and how Morton had probably pushed down bird seed in the white skulls so that they had more volume.
However, by 2012 tobacco production, Zimbabwe's top cash crop, had partially recovered with the income being divided between thousands of Black farmers rather than hundreds of white farmers.
Hosts may also choose to honor regional or local customs, such as by serving a culturally important cake like croquembouche in France rather than a white layer cake, or by adding local specialties.
They are ivory in color rather than pure white, and have self-faced lapels ( i. e., made of the same fabric as the jacket ) rather than silk-faced lapels.
Where Newton narrowed the beam of light to isolate the phenomenon, Goethe observed that a wider aperture produces not a spectrum, but rather reddish-yellow and blue-cyan edges with white between them.
Most Raphael drawings are rather precise — even initial sketches with naked outline figures are carefully drawn, and later working drawings often have a high degree of finish, with shading and sometimes highlights in white.

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