When we had that meeting in the Caribbean, Jeffrey was holding his own and not only was he a pleasant host, he was pleasant guy.
However, in reality, this should be the norm, not a “pleasant surprise.”
The Internet is like booze—a little bit gives you a pleasant buzz.
That the Globes did this year, rewarding both Rodriguez and the series in Best Comedy, is a pleasant surprise.
Office workers have pleasant picnic lunches on the empty roads.
Yet the voice of Plato would be pleasant to my ears, as music on the waters in the night-time.
That he was constantly cheerful proved the matter of his musings to be pleasant.
His countenance is mild and pleasant, and has a highly intellectual expression.
We must now close our sketch of those diversified and pleasant volumes.
She had gone back to bed and fallen promptly into a pleasant sleep.
late 14c. (early 14c. as a surname), from Old French plaisant "pleasant, pleasing, agreeable" (12c.), present participle of plaisir "to please" (see please). Pleasantry has the word's modern French sense of "funny, jocular." Related: Pleasantly.