My own situation here is more pleasing, or at least less displeasing, than I had feared.

To see others thus worried, denotes that you will be annoyed by some displeasing development.

The woman he loves will worry him and conduct herself in a displeasing way toward him.

Her lack of trust would be most displeasing to the mothers and a slap to Iliana.

To dream of seeing chimneys, denotes a very displeasing incident will occur in your life.

But the new shapeshifter still lives, and your mistress finds this most displeasing."

"So, then, you think I am very displeasing, Jeanne?"

"Denise you have been very displeasing."

Another disadvantage of low-pressure sodium lamps is that some people find the characteristic yellow light very displeasing aesthetically.

All disabilities were piled on that weak back--domestic misfortune, nervous disease, a displeasing exterior, empty pockets, and the slavery of vice.

Under the displeasing shell of allegory and mediaeval casuistry we have here the germ of psychological analysis of motive.

Their approach to foundations and donor intent should be no different, even when a strict constructionist approach to vaguely worded mission statements yields a displeasing result.

When the sacrifices were offered simultaneously to several ancestors each of whom was represented, the ceremony was found indeed to assume a displeasing likeness to a picnic."

"It's ghoulish and a little macabre," said Michael C. Clinch, Hyde Park's police chief, "but it's more esthetically displeasing than it is illegal."

This displeasing notion was advanced and defended with great tenacity over several centuries, and was one of the points orthodox Calvinists and Catholics had in common.

Nicandra ran towards all that beauty - although she could not tell her trouble nor make any mention of the displeasing butterfly, she could be close in the adored distance.

The author was implying that often times the defense mechanism is to retract from showing your self to much in a social setting so others do not see them in a displeasing way.

Koxinga promised the missionary death should he return with a displeasing answer; Coyett refused to surrender and Hambroek was executed on his return to Koxinga's camp.

If the prospect is so very displeasing, all she need do is to open this door and let the rest of the canaille have its way with her, with her father, her servants, and with you."

The German lecturer Brice vigorously criticized the Rivié Hotel: "Which achieves to disfigure all, it has a big opening in the middle, in a displeasing manner, without any proportion of its height with its width.

He placed two sacrificial offerings before the Olympian: a selection of beef hidden inside an ox's stomach (nourishment hidden inside a displeasing exterior), and the bull's bones wrapped completely in "glistening fat" (something inedible hidden inside a pleasing exterior).

There is no question put to the Sunderland fog that it does not thoughtfully consider; but just as God supplies even his most devoted disciple with a displeasing answer from time to time, so the fog responds with what Gustine wants least in the world to see.

Some girls thrive best with uncompromising barbarian masters who will put them on the oar or under the whip at the least sign of their being displeasing and others find that they did not truly understand helplessness and submission until they found their chain fastened to the couch ring of a gentleman.

Most simply, I had been displeasing to a free man.

Should I put to death every man that displeases me?

If we displease her, well, you know what she wall do to us.

And he knew better than to displease her, she had in the past done some pretty mean things to him.

"It is my hope that you do not find me displeasing."

"Clearly, though, some will not return at all if you displease us further."

I would rather sacrifice my own interest than displease him.

I will not eat the human unless she displeases me.

"And then he gave me a taste of what it would mean to displease him."

"Yet your hands were not entirely displeasing on my body," she said.

"Then you think I might not, under certain circumstances, at least, be found displeasing by another man?"

Your body, though at present too slim, will not displease them.

I wanted to come myself but changed my mind, knowing it would displease you.

He, after all, holds total power over them and they fear to displease him.

Would you displease the gods to hear it once more?

I have ways to deal with those who so displease me."

They all live in fear of displeasing me, and quite rightly too.

People kissing on the beach did not displease him, either.

His grin showed that the thought did not displease him.

That does not displease some of the country's museum directors.

"Of course - since you've brought him to displease my mother."

Along with the constant and very real danger of displeasing me.

Whatever the outcome, one thing is clear: it will displease many.

"Some men have found me not displeasing to their senses," she said.