Word: delightfully
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...favorite dessert was nowhere to be found. Like so many food and beverage products in Japan's relentless market, it had been cast aside for newer fads: I found chestnut cream puffs, pumpkin cream puffs and green-tea cream puffs. But none of my vanilla-and-chocolate morsels of delight...
...happens when, she asks, "people don't pay their debts? Or can't pay their debts? Or won't pay their debts?" In the answers lie all the woes of humankind: crime, slavery, war, poverty, revenge, environmental destruction. Atwood admits she's no expert on the subject, but the delight of Payback is in watching a gifted storyteller discover--with impeccable timing--one of her most universal narratives...
...off.There is something instinctively appealing about Barlow’s determination to eat the whole pig. It speaks to the primal desire to triumph over the plate: “There comes a point...when the pleasure of tasting food gives way to a more visceral, almost delirious delight in the physical act of eating.” Just as Barlow feels compelled to finish the steaming bag of bones, the reader feels compelled to finish the book for the sheer pleasure of conquering it. Still, “Squeal” is not an entirely unappetizing adventure. Like Barlow?...
...unfocused, unclean, and inscrutable. The exception to this rule comes in a pair of images that Karsh took while on the set of the 1964 film “Zulu,” which show the actual Zulu warriors staring up at movie screens in expressions of pure delight, joy, and wonderment. Some of Karsh’s earliest work, while not quite so brilliant as those later portraits, prove to be interesting from the historical perspective of the evolution of the artist. Again, these photographs do not have the characteristic crispness yet—a portrait of an unidentified...
Palin, Sarah •Alaska is charged for children's travel expenses by •Beluga whale is declared an endangered species despite the objections of •delight at finding self in "pro-America area" of the country is expressed by •inability to explain what a precondition is of •ncreasing fears about and unpopularity of •long-time desire to have son named "Zamboni" is revealed by •release of medical records of is promised and reneged on by •self-identified as intellectual by •utter ignorance of the actual duties of the job being sought is displayed...