pleasingness

Example Sentences

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It is 'the pleasingness of apparently equal differences.'

From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Münsterberg, Hugo

Doubtless the painter had noticed the pleasingness of such reflections, as repeating the human form, the supreme object of interest; but the interest stopped there.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 by Various

In outward appearance she was not remarkable, though extremely pleasing, and it was a pleasingness that grew upon acquaintance.

From The Necromancers by Benson, Robert Hugh

Then our speech will be with grace in the lower sense of pleasingness.

From The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon by Maclaren, Alexander

She had always liked the physical presentment of Joe, but it was a presentment of clothes, and she had thought the pleasingness of it due to the neatness and taste with which he dressed. 

From The Game by London, Jack