Word: delight
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...October 1 panel produced a lively discussion on Smith's performance. Randall Kennedy, professor of law, expressed his "delight, curiosity, and admiration" for the performance: delight at its artistry, curiousity about Smith's biases, admiration that the biases were so unidentifiable. Kennedy praised "the way in which you were so generous with your characters," bringing "a profound empathy to each and every one." Nathan Glazer, professor of education and social structure, reflected on the ways in which the Black and Jewish communities were represented. He commented that the Lubavetch community, while very noticeable in Crown Heights, is statistically a small...
...Tricky Two-Step. Complex sentences are a duplicitous politician's delight. Suppose a candidate plans to oppose kumquat subsidies. Saying so outright to a group of farmers would reap no votes -- just permanent enmity. Instead, the aspirant might try to finesse it like this: "No one in the Senate is more keenly aware of the courage and the grit of kumquat growers than myself, but we should never lose sight of how the federal deficit is robbing our children." It is an example of that classic two-step -- a sonorous lie followed by a fleeting glimpse of unpleasant reality...
...question of entertainment or enrichment. These are complementary concerns and presuppose each other. The story that entertains without enriching is superficial and escapist. The story that enriches without entertaining is simply dull. The story that does both is a delight...
...Tibetan monk (on hand for Buddhist duties in the Olympic Village) noted, "More will lose than win." And the losers were already finding reasons for reassurance, ways of measuring themselves against the insuperable, sources of delight. The Angolans, for example, seemed almost flattered when American Charles Barkley jabbed an elbow into one skinny Angolan. It suggested to them that Barkley was taking them seriously, treating them as roughly as he would his professional opponents...
...latest variation on the "motherof all Jawbreakers," Nicolet's standard product.This giant spherical delight takes 30 days to makeand seven days to eat. Nicolet said only onecustomer has ever challenged this data--a teenagegirls who wrote to him claiming she's stayed upall night and completed her jawbreaker. Nicoletsaid he doubts her methods were scientific...