(1) Everywhere I was treated with friendliness and kindness by service users, usually depicted as "low life" and "inadequates".
(2) A multivariate discriminate analysis of 13 variables on 91 healthy and 63 nervous dogs assayed at 3 months of age shows: (1) that much of our present behavioral testing procedures is redundant, and (2) that simple "friendliness to humans" in the dog is as effective for discriminating between the two groups as any of the 13 measures, taken either singly or collectively.
(3) Skipton's high street is a past winner of the Academy of Urbanism's ( academyofurbanism.org.uk) award for the greatest street in the land judged on criteria including user friendliness, local character and distinctiveness, environmental and social sustainability and commercial success and viability.
(4) The firmness of a handshake carries meaning as clearly as words, in the same way that a smile radiates confidence and friendliness.
(5) Its people ask very little but offer all they have - hospitality, warmth, friendliness and willingness to help.
(6) Most designations of bike-friendliness have gone not to proper cities but college towns: Davis, Boulder, Long Beach, Iowa City – places that, while pleasant enough, command little national, let alone international import.
(7) Attention is paid to the anti-decubitus quality, the users-friendliness for medical attendants, nursing attendants and the patient himself, the maintenance-friendliness and the cost-price.
(8) If you add the inauguration pivot to the president's other recent contacts with the business world, you get something that looks almost like friendliness.
(9) Significant improvements in the accessibility, operation and user-friendliness of the program have been made, facilitated by recent advances in microcomputer technology.
(10) The IMAGE image analysis language guarantees user friendliness, and, last but not least, the enormous amount of software offers accurate, reproducible measurements and dedicated evaluation programs.
(11) ", the mock friendliness sounding especially hollow.
(12) Especially on-trend these days is an ersatz, kitschy friendliness .
(13) A multicenter field trial is currently gathering data that will allow researchers to compare the performance characteristics of each set of criteria, including dimensions such as classification rates, reliability, and user-friendliness.
(14) It is argued that it is not helpful to view evaluation as a method for achieving user-friendliness, rather it should be seen as a participating activity within design and development.
(15) The "user-friendliness" and efficacy of this percutaneous filter makes it a treatment of choice in the partial interruption of the inferior vena cava.
(16) Given my tendency to wear women’s clothes, while looking like a man, I expect I could have got beaten up easily.” Six UK universities get top marks for gay-friendliness Read more However, Grainger says that universities can only do so much to support students.
(17) If the climate friendliness of the third runway depends on huge, politically unimaginable tax rises on flights by the UK government and an end to international buck passing, what is to be done?
(18) Thoughtfulness and Personal Relations showed cultural declines during the time period studied, whereas Friendliness showed a long-term cultural decline.
(19) Ghana was selected because of its friendliness, enthusiasm for the project, and helpful co-operation given in initial planning.
(20) Hostility decreased and friendliness increased in depressives after amitriptyline; upon recovery, there were no significant differences in hostility between depressed patients and control subjects, whereas such differences were striking during the illness.
Pleasantness
Definition:
(n.) The state or quality of being pleasant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facial expression, EEG, and self-report of subjective emotional experience were recorded while subjects individually watched both pleasant and unpleasant films.
(2) Subjects also rated the pleasantness of 29 foods listed on a questionnaire.
(3) Bloody odd combination but those Orange Foam Headphones would blast those magnificent records into my developing brain over and over again" chernypyos – Björk's Human Behavior and Sinead O'Connor's Fire On Babylon: "bjork's 'human behavior' and sinead o'connor's "fire on babylon" oddly stick in my head from that one evening walking in the woods, breathing the damp air, and feeling pleasantly invisible" Pyromancer – REM – Automatic for the People Blood Sugar Sex Magic Pearl Jam - Vs RATM's first album Portishead Maxinquaye by Tricky Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream "I used to go to the local library and take out a CD (50p for 3 weeks!
(4) It is pleasant walking, full of character and constantly changing views.
(5) At the end of the experiment, the concentration of salt in soup rated as tasting most pleasant increased in the group which added the crystalline salt to food.
(6) Some of the choices involved will not be pleasant ones.
(7) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
(8) He said Watts was a “pleasant lady” but described Wright as a “cold fish Craig”.
(9) Nearby there is a pleasant park with tables and a barbecue.
(10) In sensory-specific satiety, the pleasantness of the sight or taste of a food becomes less after it is eaten to satiety, whereas the pleasantness of the sight or taste of other foods which have not been eaten is much less changed; correspondingly, food intake is greater if foods which have not already been eaten to satiety are offered.
(11) The house she walks back to, and in which she and her husband, Geoff, live, is pleasantly unexceptional.
(12) Patients with Down's syndrome usually have mild and pleasant temperaments, rarely exhibiting temper tantrums or behavioral problems.
(13) One month later the subjects underwent a second recognition test, at the end of which they were required to give an evaluation of the pleasantness of each odour on a nine-point scale.
(14) The wipes were found to be pleasant and convenient to use.
(15) I am always pleasantly amazed by how the city continues to be improved.
(16) "The reality is that we've got a situation where the Conservative party is being run almost as if it's an exclusive coterie, and it's an exclusive coterie on the left of centre of the Conservative spectrum, allied with the Liberal Democrats who are, I think, much more pleasant to associate with from their point of view," he said.
(17) Branagh, who received his fifth Oscar nomination (all, incidentally, have been in different categories) declared himself "absolutely thrilled", adding: "It was such an enjoyable experience to make, and this is a very pleasant outcome."
(18) 205 subjects each chose a "most pleasant" sound delivered through an earphone by turning the control knob on a continuously variable audio oscillator.
(19) To determine the contribution of sensory stimulation to the changing hedonic response to foods, the effects of consuming very low-calorie and higher calorie versions of soup and jello on the subjective pleasantness of foods were compared.
(20) The motive seemed to be removal from prison to the fairly pleasant surroundings of the local hospital.