pleasingly
Example Sentences
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The Italian feature is a droll, Coen brothers-style exercise in deadpan absurdity, with a zigzag plot that caroms off a pleasingly demented cast of oddballs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
The mixture of digitally warped instrumentation that emphasizes its artificiality and cinematic string arrangements that evoke the melodrama of old Hollywood is pleasingly jarring and disorienting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
Clash's Robin Murray gave the record eight out of 10, hailing it as "pleasingly eclectic" and "frequently ambitious" in its style as A$AP raps over everything from trap beats to jazz piano.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2026
With many key functions still in development, Threads even had a pleasingly lo-fi ambience.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 2024
None of it was true, but it made for good, salty rumor, and it made Smith pleasingly terrifying.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
