If you've never seen "Arcadia," its absence may not be immediately apparent, but those who know the play well will likely find this earnest revival to be unpleasingly flat. ❋ Terry Teachout (2011)
He seems to suggests that it is unpleasingly vague in that it raises as many political questions as it answers, to say nothing of the policy questions. ❋ Unknown (2007)
For the mention of Asa brought rather unpleasingly before him the stocky and decidedly not well-groomed figure of his younger brother, whom he had not seen in so many years. ❋ Unknown (2004)
In the distance a group of dairy - maids were plying their task, which they accompanied throughout with snatches of Irish songs which, mellowed by the distance, floated not unpleasingly to the ear; and beside them sat or lay, with all the grave importance of conscious protection, six or seven large dogs of various kinds. ❋ Unknown (2003)
I thought, too, that I perceived the traces of sorrow in her countenance, which was excessively, although to my taste, not unpleasingly, pale. ❋ Davies, Richard T. (1991)
Alleyn looked at the not-quite-closed eyes, the long lashes and the full mouth that had smirked so unpleasingly at him that morning in The Dolphin. ❋ Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 (1966)
A bas-relief of a fourteenth-century Mardian merely reminded her unpleasingly of Dame Alice. ❋ Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 (1956)
There is, indeed, no atmosphere to Middleton's mind; and the hard, bald caustic peculiarity of his genius, which is unpleasingly felt in reading any one of his plays, becomes a source of painful weariness as we plod doggedly through the five thick volumes of his works. ❋ Various (N/A)
Woman as being unpleasingly strong, but we should guard against being purposely weak, with an idea of its being pleasing; Thackeray's Amelia is hardly a good model, and Patient Grizzel did her husband an infinity of harm! ❋ Lucy H. M. Soulsby (N/A)
These teeth gave him an unpleasingly feminine appearance increased by his chilly old-maidish manner, which suggested that he lived in a state of perpetual offence. ❋ Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 (1940)
Though very thin, he is not unpleasingly so; the skin of his body is smooth and unwrinkled. ❋ Yogananda, Paramhansa, 1893-1952 (1935)
Something less unpleasingly oracular he tried to extract; but the old sea-Chiron, thinking perhaps that for the nonce he had sufficiently instructed his young Achilles, pursed his lips, gathered all his wrinkles together and would commit himself to nothing further. ❋ Unknown (1924)
The idea of re-conquering the Soudan presented itself indefinitely, but not unpleasingly, alike to the Government and the people of Great ❋ Winston S. Churchill (1919)
And I was presently fully persuaded he spoke a kind of English, and that not unpleasingly, with ❋ Walter De La Mare (1914)
The rows of children filed out, every head turning for a last unpleasingly speculative look at the outlaw. ❋ Unknown (1914)
One could see traces of sorrow in her face, which was exceedingly, though not unpleasingly, pale. ❋ Unknown (1908)
In the distance a group of dairy-maids were plying their task, which they accompanied throughout with snatches of Irish songs which, mellowed by the distance, floated not unpleasingly to the ear; and beside them sat or lay, with all the grave importance of conscious protection, six or seven large dogs of various kinds. ❋ Unknown (1880)
The news from Maxfield became unpleasingly damping. ❋ Talbot Baines Reed (1872)
