Word: delight
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Roger Gould is unabashedly cynical about his lack of success at the typewriter and willingness to kill for what he wants. He glibly throws off lines as convoluted as the plot, to the delight of the audience and to the ill health of his wife who cringes when he offers to meet Anderson at the train station and "run you over." When forced to plot a second murder to cover up his first. Bruhl's terror is real as he starts down the path so many have found; that evil only leads to further evil...
...campus scenes and references to Harvard drew crows of delight, such as a Crimson editor's tip to Toby when she is about to write her first article. "This is Harvard, expect a high level of comprehension...
...Americans have been resuming their love affair with big cars. Sales of option-loaded large and luxury autos jumped 26%, to 1.79 million vehicles, in the 1983 model year that ended last month. Mid-size autos like the Chrysler Le Baron and Pontiac Phoenix were up 20%. Such results delight Detroit, because full-and mid-size cars are the most profitable. Meanwhile, sales of U.S.-made small cars totaled 3.23 million during the recent model year, up just...
Formidably acute and full of zest for life, she found no event too humble for her observation: haymaking, a ramble in the woods, the delight of fresh Breton butter. At the same time she produced brilliant set pieces of aristocratic life: Fouquet's trial and imprisonment on dubious evidence; the suicide of the maitre d'hotel when fish ordered for the King's banquet failed to arrive; the execution of a marquise for mass murder...
National Velvet is not merely sure to delight children and the child in most adults; it is also an interesting psychological study of hysterical obsession, conversion mania, preadolescent sexuality. Twelve-year-old Elizabeth Taylor, a beautiful little girl who has hitherto had minor roles in Lassie Come Home, Jane Eyre, etc., is probably the only person in Hollywood who could bring to this curious role its unusual combination of earthiness and ecstasy...