It sounds brutal, but the people-pleaser is lying for poignant reasons: not in order to gain advantage, but because they are terrified of the displeasure of others.
I believe I have now told you every thing. It is a relation which you tell me is to give you great surprise; I hope at least it will not afford you any displeasure.
Mammy likewise viewed with displeasure the nurses that came and went, for she was jealous of any strange negro and saw no reason why she could not care for the baby and Wade and Ella, too.
I quote: Nihilism appears at that point, not that the displeasure at existence has become greater than before but because one has come to mistrust any " meaning" in suffering, indeed in existence.
These members of the Writers Guild of America are out here in front of Netflix in Hollywood, to voice their displeasure with contract negotiations and saying that they're on strike because they need to make a living wage.
There followed Haig explosions right and left over appointments, or statements of policy, which he had not authorised: fearsome times when the general turned purple, pounded the table and roared his displeasure.
She did not like it, but the impulse that made her turn it over was not one of displeasure but fear, because for a minute she fancied the paper was the Volcano.
" I suppose now you'll have a lot of bloody delayed trains as well, " he says and looks with particular displeasure at the chaotic press of people on the platform.
That he did not, upon the whole, think it advisable to interrupt her conversation with Wildeve, without being prepared to bear the whole weight of her displeasure, was obvious.
For years the trade was overseen by top officials, tycoons and their families, until international attention and even the Cambodian prime minister's displeasure put a clamp on things.
To define what we did, withdrawing one's ambassador is, in diplomatic terms, an extremely serious measure, a sign of great displeasure with a country's policies.