Word: delightful
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Carpentry is still Ford's hobby and, as he describes it, his delight. Han Solo and Indiana Jones made him rich. "I am very, very rich," he tells a reporter. "That's what you wanted to hear, isn't it? Usually, I just demur. People would like to know exactly how rich I am, but it's none of their goddam business." Of course not, but it is safe to guess that he is probably rich enough to buy Louis XIV's favorite armchair--and everything else in the palace of Versailles. But who would want such froufrou when...
Gromyko also strengthened his personal ties to Brezhnev, taking up hunting so that he could join Brezhnev at his favorite sport. Until then, Gromyko had limited his exercise to morning workouts with barbells and occasional walks. If his hunting started as a political avocation, however, it became a real delight to him. I have never seen him as cheerful as he was one Sunday in 1972 when he entered his Vnukovo dacha before lunchtime proudly bearing a mangled duck he had brought down that morning, smiling with a sincere pleasure he rarely, if ever, shows the world. Through Brezhnev, whom...
...feel that the most erotic condition of all could not be that of any man or woman, or of any child, or of a human being with two sexes, but that of a very young and effeminate male angel...Such a being may give and take a guiltless delight, wield limitless sexual power without sexual politics, feel all the pleasures of sex with none of the personal risks, can never grow up, never get wise, and never grow...
...discussion." Like argon, the Piedmont Jews behaved eccentrically, never combining with other elements. They spoke the rough Piedmontese dialect inlaid with Hebrew --"sacred and solemn, geologic, polished smooth by the millennia like the bed of a glacier." As deftly translated by Raymond Rosenthal, the oddities of speech are a delight. So is the "inexplicable imprecation" for which Levi's great-grandfather was famous: "May he have an accident shaped like an umbrella...
Speechless with delight, Roby enveloped McLaughlin in a bearhug as the last four seconds of the game ticked away and the squad found its way into the history books...