Ugly things are less pleasing, annoy you more, raise your stress level, and generally make things harder for you.

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Enormously pleasing, although you might struggle to see the point.

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You ought to be able to attract fortune and prosperity with beautiful and asthetically pleasing ads more than you can with ugly ads.

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There's an automatic mode to BMW's SMG, and it happens to be a very pleasing system, with adjustable shift speed so you can dial in how smoothly gears change.

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This is pleasing and people like it, no matter what you might have to say about the 15% alcohol content.

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The low roofline and squat windows feel claustrophobic at first, but the interior is so spacious and pleasing, particularly in the extended XJL Portfolio edition, that you quickly forget about it.

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"Every innkeeper you talk to is someone who, by nature, wants to provide a pleasing experience that is, in and of itself, special, " he explains.

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Whether this was the greens and blues of the jungle, or the radioactive orange of an alien ship, and whether you were playing on PC or Xbox 360, 2012 was a good (and aesthetically pleasing) year for the genre.

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