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Sentence Examples The experience far surpasses a pony ride at a county fair, and children will delight in the adventure. What is lost, some say, is the experience of serendipity and the delight in finding things that you would not naturally seek out. Readers will delight in the amazing illustrations from bestselling novels around the world. They are traitors, and we delight in calling them scabs as they drive into work. As with other Scandinavian countries, Icelanders take great delight in stories of trolls, elves, and fairies. Foreign businessmen and tourists who delight in the country's sylvan charm and uncrowded cities need not fear impending overdevelopment. He continued to take a twisted delight in showing us the scariest creatures of the deep. While his own writing style remains highly readable, he takes obvious delight in occult details and Borgesian tricks. A very smart bunch who appeared to take great delight in posing and trotting about the place. The film's delight in gangland slang and its sharp eye for fashion and London locations made it an unexpected box-office success. Rather a nasty, brutish man, he seems to delight in tormenting Harry Potter. Wilson has a distinctive voice, and his delight in language communicates itself readily to his readers. Let us not delight in making others squirm by humiliating or embarrassing them in public. Adults, with a hankering for childish humour, will delight in his misadventures. I went with the flow, and discovered simple delight in empathising with the fresh and heady Helen. We care for the same reason that we love okapis, delight in the fossil evidence of trilobites, and mourn the passage of the dodo. But the Holy Spirit wants to raise our minds to our heavenly Father so that we can look at him and delight in him, just as he delights in us. Now we delight in our supposed freedom to baptize without catechizing, and to receive communicants without repentance. Children will also delight in the baby piglets, kittens, ducks, and hens that roam free. Call us selfish, snobbish even, but there's an undeniable delight in stumbling upon something no one else seems to have heard before. Show More Sentences Simply enjoy the inscrutable logic of the subconscious, or delight in the discovery of what the vision is trying to tell you. Where many actors hide behind their characters, you do seem to delight in revealing yourself. The NSW artist's meticulous eye and delight in her surrounds continually inform her work. Irvine and Rita cleverly cashed in on Glaswegians' profligate delight in dressing up and swanking it up. He seems to delight in being a churl, but his disrespectful comments about Babe Ruth demonstrated his ignorance of baseball history. He was one of the Roman humanists who took a delight in conversing in the language of Horace and Virgil, of Cicero and Martial for its own sake. He is a past master at this, taking delight in embarrassing his rivals on the road. Much as I delight in really dramatic sunsets, there's a special, quiet joy to be had when the sky is clear of clouds. Politics, in many ways, does not delight in a clear conscience and clean hands. Dry statistics are seen as destroying both the imaginative faculty and the human delight in invention. And while most people are happy to keep a sensitive condition under wraps, some delight in the perversity of its exploitation. This is a common approach for a duo who delight in blending seemingly incongruent but ultimately believable material into their performances. The cat in question takes great delight in sharpening her claws on the corner of our sofa and on the piano stool's fabric top. Although I value my roots at home in England I delight in communing with nature in the wilderness. Thoreau was wedded to Nature not so much for her beauty as for delight in her high companionableness. People express more obvious delight in the pier arcade than in a museum or art gallery. And not only are the men fond of it, even such insentient creatures as plants and trees have become infected and take delight in it. Certainly, running boards and helping nurture companies still fires him, as does his delight in seeing young people progress. Another characteristic of the reportage is the delight in grotesque and vulgar pornographic images. Isherwood's bright-eyed alertness, his lack of malice, his genial delight in the foibles of others all make him lovable. Show More Sentences Some sharp-tongued commentators even take delight in instigating crowds and fomenting a rebellion. I do not dance well, but I delight in watching couples dance together, especially older couples. We like to keep it footloose and fancy free and take delight in the fact that the performance can take many twists and turns. The almost-familiar music is great fun and the major source of delight in this show. Ahmed took great delight in fixing an assortment of dainty little sandwiches to serve at this daily ritual. Though our worship and praise add nothing to God's glory, we know that he takes great delight in it. He takes great delight in preparing a game plan and watching his players execute it. Emily especially had a gleesome delight in these nooks of beauty her reserve for the time vanished. Their obvious unfettered delight in denigrating these two prominent citizens made me feel sick. I still delight in the rare moments when just the two of us can get together for a gossip. At the same time, it sets up a clear formula, so that we can delight in the heroics of the good guys and the devilish mischief of our main man. I take delight in the flaming stoves and gleaming brass vessels in wayside dhabas. Thus McCarthy occasionally came across as gruff or grouchy in this World Cup and some reporters took delight in this. Their discreet designer labels send out waves of attitude like bullets, but secretly they delight in the attention. We need to teach our children to delight in energetic activity, not enervating entertainment. It was received with especial delight in the Netherlands and cultivated with great care. But Trotsky's faith in the socialist future, and his exultant delight in life, survived all failure. And through it all is an exultation, a sheer delight in growing more and more attuned to the living, breathing world. There is both a politics and a delight in this, and both are contingent on abnegation. Shots rang out, mixing with shouts of delight in the player's home town of Split on the Adriatic coast. Show More Sentences You'll delight in the colors and fragrances of the climbing white stephanotis vine, yellow allamander and oleander. There had been relish and delight in his voice when he spoke of those possibilities. I wouldn't be picking on the French if they didn't take such delight in zinging the United States. He took delight in game hunting, dousing himself in good drink and revelry. The table is set as usual, with great attention to detail, with glimmering silver and shining crystal, but today I cannot find any delight in it. Common to all the entries is the author's delight in the riches of our surviving heritage. On a weekend trip to Seattle in January 2002, my friends and I delight in noticing the peculiarities of American behaviour and ritual. The historic, red brick building was a delight in itself and the interior, especially downstairs, had a feeling of intimacy and romance. The evening in question, I'd been cornered by a trio of thugs, who took great delight in roughing me up. They delight in outfoxing people, or seducing them, and they love the riskiness of rule-breaking. Rather football followers should delight in the euphoria of Thierry Henry, who tore off his shirt and twirled it joyously around his head. My friends and colleagues seem to delight in my Australian mannerisms and question me constantly about customs at home. It is a joy to be able to delight in somebody else's good fortune rather than be envious of it. It is a theme that pervades this seductive book, with its delight in the arcane and ordinary. Odolorosa gioia is emblematic of the composer's almost self-flagellating delight in the pain dealt by a cruel lover. On Monday a beaming headteacher spoke of his delight in getting the backing of the DFES for the new school. It would seem impossible to do this without drowning in sentiment, or exaggerating a delight in Beverly Hills excess. A seraglio of harem girls seemed to take unfathomable delight in passing my place of confinement. How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge? But the worshippers and admirers of these gods delight in imitating their scandalous iniquities, and are nowise concerned that the republic be less depraved and licentious. Show More Sentences They cheer US forces for bringing down a despised regime and delight in their newfound freedom to talk frankly or celebrate long-forbidden religious rituals. Connoisseurs of traditional Hungarian cuisine delight in its range of piquant flavours and aromas, and dishes which are spicy and often rather heavy going. All that is gone now due to a few selfish bikers who rip round all over the field, taking a delight in churning every path up and making walking a very dangerous occupation. I was never, ever allowed to live the incident down by my housemates, who took great delight in reciting it to everyone who came round for the rest of the year. Some people seem to take great delight in hearing about the misfortunes of others. The photograph confirms there was also unmistakable delight in the eyes behind her goggles. Long after he had shed much of his Neoplatonism, his treatises remained filled with dense punning that displays his delight in language and his verbal virtuosity. Because of her delight in flouting traditional or fashionable bottoms and tops, Morrison has been taken to task by feminist critics for not supporting the party line. Those who claim to speak for a vengeful Allah take great delight in smashing idols wherever and whenever they can get to them. Despite what you might think, I do not delight in celebrity breakups. It is the characters' many-sidedness, their irreducibility to a formula, that he believes accounts for readers' continuing delight in Joyce's narrative. Both are uxorious men, both delight in their young families. She took a great delight in telling everybody she spoke to that it was my birthday and even tried to pass me off as five years younger than I actually was. One of the Cape's most numerous and widespread songbirds, goldfinches delight in dining on dandelion seeds, thistles, and weed seeds found amongst the beach grass. With his propensity to date openly white women and his apparent delight in beating white fighters, Johnson educed universal disgust among white boxing fans. We've come to delight in having a few tealights burning of an evening. Our patients expressed sheer delight in participating in this effort. Moreover, the pictures employ a lush tonality and fussy delight in detail, not the austere formal economy associated with modernist photographic aesthetics. His childlike delight in God's works and his susceptivity to the poetry of the natural world took whatever he said out of commonplace and stamped it with fresh beauty. Some of us are belligerent, some are coaxers of the ball, some delight in hearing the ball smash against the hoardings, others love to steer the ball wide of fielders. Show More Sentences I think he took great delight in showing us poor city boys how it is done. As ascetic as Aries is, you delight in luxuries now, indulging any urge to splurge. It feels like you delight in the atmospherics, but you want to stay away from the violence. Bevin, along with state and national Democrats, delight in trying to drive a wedge between McConnell and Paul. We saw nothing less than wicked, abandoned delight in each other's eyes. They find a secret delight in abasing themselves before men of violence. She has taken 6,000 small cubes of Turkish delight in different colours, and pinched them with short sticks on a styrofoam board, that way creating a splendid mosaic. You can walk over rough slabs, cannon-ball boulders, limpets and bladderwrack to delight in the over-the-waves-views all the way to the white cliffs of Flamborough Head. French Rugby players provided similar knowing delight in their Dieux du Stade calendars. He took huge delight in his peaches and limes, French beans and peas. The transformation scene, done with trick camerawork, doesn't match Barrymore's, but March's manic delight in the emergence of his simian side has a superb energy. Sitting in the mall as my wife meanders through Macy aisles in search of a half-priced handbag, my eyes do not even delight in the resplendence that surrounds them. Collectors delight in the range of dolls available throughout history, from Dutch dolls with articulated limbs to the lavishly dressed French dolls of the nineteenth century. It's a volume for those who delight in exploring the backwaters of nineteenth-century opera. He and Segismunda enjoy happiness and prosperity and eventually take delight in great-grandparenthood. Edward took particular delight in appropriating the royal home of the Gwynedd dynasty. But it is Schadenfreude, a mischievous delight in the misfortunes of others, which remains the worst trait in human nature. One suspects whether or not, she won't stop, and in decade a menopausal Millican will delight in sharing many more wincingly personal moments. Writing for an alien community which takes only exotic delight in your life is probably the surest route to unremembrance. You've got your clock-watchers, an indoor breed that delight in detail and can veer towards the eccentric. Show More Sentences Just like his Slipknot soulmate Corey Taylor, Jordison takes obvious delight in his secondary musical family. It is the unexpected in the mundaneness of life that should make art recipients delight in the art work or to smile at it in acknowledgement. Until then, delight in the footage of the day I got drunk with Hanson. Cynics, convinced that they are being realistic, delight in deflowering young minds. He respected tradition in the theatre, but he also took great delight in breaking tradition, which is what made him so unique. They delight in blue frock-coats and grass-green Newmarkets, and white hats with mourning-bands. She enjoyed dancing and took great delight in organising masques. Along with traditional favorites, delight in innovative combinations featuring sauteed shrimp, teriyaki steak, seafood, tempura, sushi and much more. On one level, of course, as an outsider, one is tempted to follow Bowra's own prescription and delight in the comedy of it all, the dottiness of human behavior. The richest can be regularly seen enjoying a vada pav from the roadside for 40 fils and the poorest taking delight in his household's Ganapati festival celebrations. Children can't get enough of the WaterWorks fun park, taking great delight in dragging unsuspecting parents under its power drencher bucket and the exhilarating slides. And to delight in the fact that a hole on the backboard side means that you're safe because you're sitting on the starboard side seems to me to be less than clever. Some of us pure laine types are slow learners, but I would like to think most of us delight in the variety of people God has made and more specifically, has made Presbyterian. These cricket bat-wielding dib dib dibbers take small boy delight in capturing and interrogating Conrade using nothing but a glove puppet and a lighter. If you have ever had the delight in sitting next to a family of Lady's Slippers you may have noticed your nervous system become instantly integrated. Examples from Classical Literature So that the tears that are shed out of all these many French eyes are tears of pure, unmixed delight in happy reminiscence! There are some people who delight in pillorying the immortals and shying dead cats and rotten eggs at them. Thus, no one ever combined a delight in good works with a taste for good things so successfully as Mrs. st john Deloraine. There were throes of love within her, of aspiration, of an ineffable delight in being. She had a wicked delight in the defeat of his strategy which she could cleverly conceal. Children delight in chalking the blinds of their carriages in various colours and labelling them 1st, 2nd, or 3rd Class. They lambaste impartially and with a certain Irish delight in doing the job thoroughly. Newbury's delight in her, his tender worship of her, seemed to enwrap and encompass her. Metrical students will delight in the double rhymes of the octave, which play so great a part in the suspensive music. He took a great delight in seeing her walk, enjoying, though with no idea of libertinage, the grace of her movements. Thou'st no delight in following the hounds as an Englishwoman should have,' said the gentleman. Sixty years ago there ruled in Bukhara a cruel Emir who took a delight in torturing human beings. Not apt to arts or crafts, they had, and have, an unrefined delight in bright colours. To tell the truth, she's more than half afraid of me, and I delight in mystifying her all I can. In many places it strives to famish them, or takes delight in annoying them. He was brought to his own house at Holmby, in northants, a place he had taken much delight in. Talking about Farquharson was second only to his delight in talking about volcanoes. But men have a saying, My only delight in being lord is that no one withstands what I say. After writing these words I read to G. the proem and opening scene of my novel, and he expressed great delight in them. From his father lister learned as a boy to delight in the use of the microscope. Show More Sentences He followed me and gambolled like a dog, rolling over on the turf and exhibiting his delight in a hundred ways. There seemed to be genuine delight in Rockford's greeting as he hurried over. And the Vignerons' delight in living was displayed in all candour. The lovers delight in endearments, in avowals of love, in comparisons of their regards. This it is which administers to his delight in the manifold forms, and sounds, and odors and sentiments amid which he exists. It came in a most casual voice, despite the dancing delight in her face. With a fierce delight in his own realism he described the woman who had opened the door for him. Our boys took especial delight in corralling the machine guns. Then a cloud settled over his face and dimmed the delight in it. But it is the scraggy ones who seem to delight in displaying their angles. Being strollers in the streets, we delight in this extempore illumination. Casaubon and her sister than his delight in bookish talk and her delight in listening. It must have been more delightful than bull-fighting.They sneer at our bull-fighting, yet do they delight in the shedding of blood. What induces the Utopian child to work is, in brief, delight in his work. But I found a fierce and feverish delight in suckling my child. As for my children, they, jocund in youth, delight in present existence. It is for this rare, precious quality of truthfulness that I delight in many Dutch paintings, which lofty-minded people despise. I am afraid I took a rather unchivalrous delight in picturing your desire and resolve to go back eventually to your native jungle. I do really delight in your society, and I only want to show you that I contended for a principle. Even the most ghoulish among us will take little delight in seeing a vastly overmatched opponent systematically getting his clock cleaned. Show More Sentences It's easy to grow and can be planted straight in the ground for some delight in the summer and beyond with its distinctive pepper-pot seedheads. I cannot suppose that Sir Galahad found any delight in the quips of fools. His gods are not philosophers, but delight in deeds, justice, rulership. Micawber taking a bland delight in extending his patronage to Uriah. Irwin's living blank slate of a man is bristly, occasionally emotional and able to take real delight in the rediscovery that he was once a smoker. The goggle-eyed hench-creatures can be a deranged delight in small doses. The pupil takes the same delight in subordinating every thing to the new terminology as a girl who has just learned botany in seeing a new earth and new seasons thereby. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of delight in? What is the past tense of delight in? Translations for delight in Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words delightfulness delightfully delightfull delightful delightedly delighted delighting delights delightsome Delilah delimit delimitate