What's the difference between felicity and pleasing?

Felicity


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of being happy; blessedness; blissfulness; enjoyment of good.
  • (n.) That which promotes happiness; a successful or gratifying event; prosperity; blessing.
  • (n.) A pleasing faculty or accomplishment; as, felicity in painting portraits, or in writing or talking.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones play the couple in The Theory of Everything.
  • (2) Since then Felicity has left her course and moved back to her parents, and is paying of the debt caused by the damage her ex caused, which he has never paid for.
  • (3) The prime minister has been urging all Australians to remain calm in the face of increased terrorism threats,” said the society’s reef campaign director, Felicity Wishart.
  • (4) Photograph: Felicity McCabe The drought is just one part of the climate puzzle in Somaliland.
  • (5) Crèche (six months to five years) €135 for five full days with lunch included, skipeak.net Felice Hardy is co-editor of ski information website welove2ski.com
  • (6) When officers arrived the man admitted what he had done and was released on bail on condition he didn't contact Felicity, didn't return to the property and paid for the damage.
  • (7) They either just sign the contract or walk away.” Under the guise of ‘flexibility’, Hermes is delivering a raw deal for its workers | Felicity Lawrence Read more Newman said he had seen similar clauses before, but not in the other technology companies under the spotlight.
  • (8) Felicity J Lord charges £165 per property "for tenancy agreement" and £65 per person "for reference checks", a £60 "admin fee" and £120 "check-in fee".
  • (9) Women’s vice-president Felicity Wilson is the NSW deputy executive director of the Property Council of Australia .
  • (10) Photograph: Irene Baque for the Guardian A leading international lawyer, Felicity Gerry QC, had hoped to halt the move with an emergency injunction and a judicial review, but that proved to be impossible for legal reasons.
  • (11) Gibraltarians have a history of reinventing themselves,” says Ian Felice, a partner with the local law firm Hassans.
  • (12) Photograph: Felicity McCabe for the Guardian What does she think of Theresa May ?
  • (13) How can he, of all people, hymn bourgeois notions such as commitment and conjugal felicity?
  • (14) · Felicity Lawrence is the Guardian's consumer affairs correspondent and author of Not on the Label: What Really Goes Into the Food on Your Plate (Penguin)
  • (15) We never called for an ‘in danger’ listing as we want it protected and if it had been on the danger list it might have led to complacency,” said Felicity Wishart, reef campaign director for the Australian Marine Conservation Society.
  • (16) The first assistant secretary of the pharmaceutical benefits division, Felicity McNeil, the increase to the general co-payment meant some medicines would no longer be subsidised by the PBS and that was factored into the budget's forward estimates.
  • (17) Felicity Kendal's agent Dallas Smith was unable to reach his client, who was on holiday.
  • (18) It is therefore imperative that responsibility for nutrition be handed back to an independent agency, which is not affected by changes in government, ministers or political lobbying.” A regulator that serves the food industry rather than the consumer | Felicity Lawrence Read more A Conservative party spokesman said: “The UK now has the lowest salt intake of any developed country and our work on salt reduction is world-leading.
  • (19) But there were reasons to admire the Everlys other than their vocal harmonies: with their giant quiffs and Hollywood smiles, Phil and Don exuded American cool, while their songs (many written by Nashville husband and wife team Felice and Boudleaux Bryant) mixed sweet ballads like Devoted To You with sly high-school tales ( Poor Jenny ) and teen angst wails such as When Will I Be Loved .
  • (20) The presence of a zeta globin gene deletion [A. E. Felice et al., Hum.

Pleasing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Please
  • (a.) Giving pleasure or satisfaction; causing agreeable emotion; agreeable; delightful; as, a pleasing prospect; pleasing manners.
  • (n.) An object of pleasure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I can see you use humour as a defence mechanism, so in return I could just tell you that if he's massively rich or famous and you've decided you'll put up with it to please him, you'll eventually discover it's not worth it.
  • (2) We are pleased to see the process moving forward and look forward to its resolution,” a Target spokeswoman, Molly Snyder, said in an emailed statement.
  • (3) The prerequisite for all champions is the refusal to cave in, so City's equaliser with only three minutes remaining was pleasing.
  • (4) When Vladimir Putin kicks back on New Year's Eve with a glass of Russian-made champagne, and reflects on the year behind him, he is likely to feel rather pleased with himself at the way his foreign policy initiatives have gone in 2013.
  • (5) Chikavu Nyirenda, a leading political analyst, said: "She neglected to look at the local scene but spent a lot of time to please the west and promote herself."
  • (6) 3.14pm BST 14 mins: It's quite a pleasing thing that, some 22 years after the passback rule was put in place, fans still applaud a player heading the ball back to the keeper.
  • (7) I am pleased with that but disappointed with the result.
  • (8) Speaking about the player, who scored crucial goals for England during qualification for the 2014 World Cup, Hodgson said: “Andros was unlucky to lose his place in the squad when he wasn’t getting a regular game and he’s gone to Newcastle, got a regular game, and done very well there.” Expressing his delight in being selected, Townsend tweeted: “Huge honour to be named in provisional England squad for the euros ... Will give my all over next few weeks to try to make final squad!” Hodgson also declared himself pleased to include Jordan Henderson, who returned to action for Liverpool in Sunday’s 1-1 draw with West Bromwich Albion having been out since early April with damaged knee ligaments.
  • (9) This is a very nice drug and I’m sure Merck are feeling very pleased with themselves.” Matt Kennedy, who led the trial at Merck, said: “Today there are very limited therapeutic options available for people with Alzheimer’s disease, and those that exist provide only short-term improvement to the cognitive and functional symptoms.
  • (10) And he pleased the audience with an acknowledgement that social work is a tough job and social workers only human.
  • (11) [The prime minister] is very pleased we’ve been able to secure this arrangement.
  • (12) In the email King sets out ways jobcentre staff can catch out claimants, saying: "You should consider every doubt – if you are unsure then please conference with me."
  • (13) Angela Merkel says she's very pleased to accept the invitation to Davos, at a time when global economic growth is modest.
  • (14) Ladies and gentlemen, please put your hands together for Charles Antaki, he's here all week, try the Imodium.
  • (15) "This has been a challenging time for the BMJ but I am very pleased the panel has taken the view that we acted appropriately," said BMJ editor in chief, Dr Fiona Godlee.
  • (16) Two British throwers up there, it's unheard of, I'm pleased with where the sport's going."
  • (17) • If you have experiences relating to this story that you would like to share, please email us in confidence at inequality.project@theguardian.com
  • (18) As the embattled NHS chief executive was grilled in the televised hearing, committee member Valerie Vaz told him: "Please don't feel that this is a trial."
  • (19) Please, forgive me,” Choi Soon-sil, a cult leader’s daughter with a decades-long connection to Park, said through tears inside the Seoul prosecutor’s building, according to Yonhap news agency.
  • (20) "Really, really pleased," said the world silver medallist.