Word: delight
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...Rogue's Trial is a comedy, a parade of entertaining literary personages in whose characters the audience is expected to delight. As such, it is the individual characterizations which make or break the production and which give it its air of unevenness...
...McInally's antics conceal a sensitive interior. He says, "I respect serious, quiet people like Jimmy Stoeckel. But I don't want to burden people with my problems, I'd rather give them delight...
...their bras and pill-sized sensors that transmitted temperature data from the vagina by way of a "bio-belt" worn around the waist. The experiment was designed to find out whether weightlessness and re-entry forces like those experienced by astronauts affect females more severely than males. To the delight of the test subjects-and of NASA critics who have charged discrimination in the selection of astronauts-the space agency announced last week that the results were "approximately the same for this group as in previous all-male groups...
...simple matter for the conscience of an ethical intellectual to handle. Harvard people, therefore, need to lie, first to themselves, then to one another, in order that they may keep on with their routine lives without remorse. If they did not, they could not possibly explain the ease, delight and satisfaction of their own well-fed existence, and the relative penury of those who sweep the basement floors, and clean the toilet bowls, and set the tables in the dining hall. It is for this reason that the Myth of Intellectual Hard Work ("higher endeavor," "more noble, more exacting, less...
...another man, such a compromise might have seemed weak or self-serving. But Kelly, though an undeviating liberal, never viewed himself as a crusader. He was embarrassed when admirers took him or Pogo too seriously. "It is delight which causes laughter," he said, insisting that his political messages were secondary to comedy...