Word: delighted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rational Sharpness. Short of such majestic challenges, Olivier is as sure in his work, and as sure a delight to watch, as any living artist. No other actor except Chaplin is as deft a master of everything which the entire body can contribute to a role; few actors can equal him, in the whole middle register of acting. He takes such little words as My father's spirit in arms! and communicates and is worthy of their towering poetry. He can toss off lines like For every man hath business and desire in a way to make Shakespeare congratulate...
...else. Most whodunit fans will find Blood on the Dining-Room Floor an elaborate leg pull. It is also an expensive one. Beautifully printed from handset type, handsomely bound, the initial edition (626 copies) sells for $6. As an example of the bookmaker's art, it is a delight to hand & eye. But anyone who buys it merely for the plot deserves to have his nose rubbed in three of Author Stein's sentences: "Out of what. Out of nothing. Silly that...
...mellow tones of both the land and the Glee Club will descend over the Yard tonight concurrently with the nostalgia-heavy Cambridge dusk to the delight of several thousand seniors, guests, and reunioning alumni...
...pace (he runs just as well that way), he looks lethargic and uninterested. Once he gets in front, the jockey has to keep reminding him that he is in a horse race. With the odds 1 to 10, Arcaro played his little game again with Citation, to the delight of the fans. He let other horses sneak up on him, then clucked. The gangbuster won by ten lengths-clipping if seconds off Garden State's mediocre mile-and-a-quarter track record...
passing by, You will see a sight that will delight...