Word: delight
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...pedestal. She prefers a simple 'Wendy,' she doesn't like too much meaning ascribed to her plays, and she definitely won't pontificate about technique. "I like to lock myself away in an Inn or spend the day on the telephone," she quips to the delight of a loving audience. "And I write everything out by hand first...
...honor Foster's delight in humor, one friend shared a joke which played upon the Harvard-Yale rivalry. His roommates described high-strung games of Axis and Allies, which Foster, a history concentrator, always...
Imagine tough-tender Chili's delight when the demands of business and the dictates of pleasure combine in the form of a trip to Tinseltown to collect some overdue debts. His pursuit of one deadbeat provides him with a pitchable story idea, while the pursuit of another one brings him into the presence of a producer and a star who, in his naivete, he thinks may be able to help him. Harry Zimm (Gene Hackman) may be a schlockmeister down on his luck, and Karen Flores (Rene Russo) may be famous mainly for the authentic terror with which she invests...
...Alcott's success in the genre of pulp fiction is the mischievous side she's not afraid to show. You can sense Alcott's delight in debauchery throughout the collection...
...film cannot bring to life Austen's narrative voice, which is the real delight of all her novels, it can-and does-provide a more immediate sense of the feeling of daily life. The film goes out of its way to show us that, when these characters go on a long walk through the fields, they come back wet and dirty, their hems torn and stained. At night, there isonly candlelight, casting everything into shadow. And, in sharp contrast to usual Hollywood practice, nobody looks like a model; the women wear no make-up, the men are paunchy and badly...