If he meant to disconcert me, he was succeeding nicely, but I resolved not to show it.

It succeeds nicely.

And like restaurants themselves, the Web sites with the greatest ambitions frequently fall short, while those content to serve a niche succeed nicely.

I don't know who you are or why you were so determined to interfere with my application, but you succeeded nicely.

And he succeeds nicely in making Bigger sympathetic, which is impressive, considering the character's quick temper and his tendency to put his knife to the throats of even his close friends.

He succeeded nicely.

Last year our reviewer, Hugo Lindgren, found it a mostly familiar rehash of the Internet age, but said it "succeeds quite nicely" in a few areas.

Raphael Mostel's "Travels of Babar," based on the second of Jean de Brunhoff's Babar books, succeeds nicely.

The company succeeded nicely in the eyes of many analysts.

Analysts who believe the Federal Reserve's persistent credit-tightening over the last year is succeeding nicely in slowing the economy also acknowledge, however, that inflation is likely to continue at fairly high levels.