pleasantness

That’s the price of living in year-round Mediterranean pleasantness: We forgo the seasonal rejuvenation that inspires poets and songwriters.

The women were asked to rate the “pleasantness, attractiveness, masculinity, and intensity” of the sweat-infused samples.

The nail is almost gone from my mind, but the pie, with sugar and cinnamon sprinkled on top, hot from the oven, the cold milk, my grandmother’s soothing, melodic voice telling me in Norwegian that I—that it—would all be fine has filled the memory with such pleasantness, such joy that there is no room for the misery....

This multifunctional test is a card with a QR code that subjects scan to answer four questions that evaluate odor detection, intensity, identification and pleasantness.

“Moving On” takes refuge in pleasantness, and in the easy charm of its stars.