pleasingly
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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
We sipped glasses of his flagship dry cider made with Baldwin, Jonagold and Northern Spy apples for a drink that’s pleasingly yeasty and fresh, and the color of early-fall sunshine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
The silence that ensued was stunning in its fullness: a pleasingly counterintuitive demonstration of the fierce adulation she was just barely holding back.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2024
And Total Film's Jamie Graham said Watkins' "shrewd, engrossing and pleasingly nasty" imagining is unafraid to push the source material in new directions, with McAvoy "perfect... for this particular brand of Alpha male brute".
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2024
The night is pleasingly long—about 59 Earth days long—but nothing of the astronomical universe would be visible if you looked up into the night sky of Venus.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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