Word: delightfullness
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And as he walked back up Mass Ave his mind played with the delightful image of City Hall exploding, belching yellow-orange-black flame-smoke from its windows, bloating at its middle, and then crumbling to the ground.
Oldenburg had gone on from plaster to vinyl and canvas. In 1962 he dreamed up monster hamburgers and bed-size pistachio ice-cream cones. Since then he has sketched a myriad of delightful "proposed colossal monuments" for Manhattan, including a giant Teddy bear for Central Park, and a mountainous baked...
Nabokov's prose is elegant and lucid, easy to read, and amusing. He is one of the few writers who can make a reader laugh out loud, even with "serious criticism" like his delightful essay "On a Book Entitled Lolita." In that essay he says, "After all we are not...
Despite several solvable problems, the Bach Society Orchestra is a delightful ensemble. Unpretentious, committed to an absolutely essential and shamefully neglected part of the orchestral repertoire, and capable of excellent work, the Society is unquestionably the equal of any musical organization at Harvard.
Amy Allen, on the other hand, is delightful as the maid Toinette who brings about the final happy conclusion. In front of Argan's weakness, her insouciance and her defiance of the father's pomposity are refreshing. Over and over Argan calls her "a slut." In essence she is, and...