Word: delightfullness
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COMPULSIVE GAMBLING is Bob's other chief bane, which similarly threatens to send him reeling unpredictably. He has a slot machine stashed in his closet. Behind his eyes always lurks the image of a gamble, regardless of whether it is a sure thing or a long shot. His firm sense...
"This isn't enjoyment," Earl Weaver has been insisting all season and for much of the 15 years that he has been the most durable, deranged and delightful manager in baseball. "This is just my way of making a living. It's work. It's research." He...
Byplay becomes foreplay. They fall into each other's arms and then violently push away. She taunts him with gossip about her former conquests: Shakespeare, Aristophanes, T.S. Eliot, everyone, in fact, whom Miles might hopelessly wish to emulate. He wonders aloud why she will not transform herself more frequently...
In the early Council Scene, I wonder whether Hamlet would really remain sitting on the floor when speaking with the Queen. But later there no doubt that Hamlet is feigning madness--a topic of endless controversy over the generations. Gilbert (without collaboration from Sullivan) wrote a delightful burlesque of Hamlet...
The resentful tone echoes Vargas Llosa novels in which Peru was often depicted as a parody society. Those books had powerful intentions, but they also had moments that recalled Peter De Vries' line about the writer who puts readers into a diving bell and takes them down three feet...