Pleasing has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
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| 1. | David has a keen interest in aesthetics — the qualities that make a painting, sculpture, musical composition, or poem pleasing to the eye, ear, or mind. | |
| 2. | The music of Mozart is always pleasing to me. | |
| 3. | That should be pleasing to anyone. | |
| 4. | The show was pleasing to the audience. | |
| 5. | It should be pleasing. | |
| 6. | Rows of houses, each of them different and pleasing with their spacious gardens, are replaced by purely functional blocks of flats which have nothing more to commend them than over-praised 'modern conveniences'. | |
| 7. | Green leaves in a park are pleasing to the eye. | |
| 8. | I did so with a view to pleasing him. | |
| 9. | I said so with a view to pleasing him. | |
| 10. | The art of pleasing is the art of deception. |