Примери за displeasing

• To avoid displeasing the examiner, the candidate answered that it was the spiritual eye.

• However, it is not for the fine arts to accustom themselves to such absurd and displeasing practices, but rather to sweet and gentle sensations.

• Good dancing may therefore challenge the construction of the ageing body as undesirable and aesthetically displeasing.

• None of these examples, displeasing though they may be, can be criticised for not conveying what the speaker or writer wanted them to convey.

• If offense is defined in terms of displeasing activities (independent of the reasons why they are displeasing), its potential scope is vast.

• In such cases she has a degree of self-value that appears displeasing from the common point of view.

• This is apparent whether the musical extract is known or unknown, and also, but to a lesser degree, whether the musical genre is pleasing or displeasing to the listener.

• It is hardly surprising that some laypeople exploited this situation and probed the boundaries which separated them from the priesthood in ways that were displeasing to the ecclesiastical hierarchy.

• For example, a chair that may be beautiful to look at but which is uncomfortable to sit in is aesthetically displeasing, because its use brings discomfort.

• They could refuse, it is suggested, only at the risk of displeasing some of their customers.

• Whether it will be pleasing or displeasing is another question.

• They have been generous at the risk, sometimes, of displeasing the heads of the organisation which they serve.

• Generally, conifer forests can have a displeasing visual effect.

• Then it cannot be said that we shall in any way be displeasing the local authority associations if we take the fixed maximums out.

• It would be easy enough, if we were gerrymandering, to please them instead of displeasing them.