Word: delightfully
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...loudspeaker announces that those with yellow tickets are next in queue. Then the orange are up--the herds to my right baa in delight. Some are prematurely excited because they think they have orange, but they actually have a painfully deceptive salmon-peach. A random voice on the loudspeaker calls for the lavender tickets, but hesitates and admits a mistake. Someone holding a lavender ticket probably has a mild heart attack and doesn't realize...
...continued to count among his closest friends a number of liberal-minded priests and monks. He also remained fascinated by church history and ceremony long after he became one of the most famous atheists of all time. His thorough knowledge of the institution he personally refuted and took great delight in mocking established him as that most dangerous of heretics, a blasphemer with a purpose. Though many of his most noted works shine a spotlight on the hypocrisy of organized religion, he balanced this viewpoint with the acknowledgment, in "Nazarin" and "Viridiana," that the principles of Christian charity are noble...
...machines, were thought to favor Gore. Worse, the board moved into a smaller room that cut off public observation. "They denied our legal rights," says Paul Crespo, an ex-Marine and coordinator of a group called Young Professionals for Bush. "We cried foul." In fact, the Republicans, who justifiably delight in throwing 1960s chants back at Democrats, began shouting, "The whole world is watching...
...phases of the moon) or Wei Guangqing's "Suicide Series" (a series of photographs demonstrating different ways of killing oneself) are at once emotionally haunting, spiritually probing and subtly ironic. It is this whimsical refusal to accept easy categorization which both characterizes conceptualism and makes this exhibit such a delight...
...Somewhere in Asia, Bill Clinton, the Hannibal of p.r. coups like this one, is cackling with delight. Because Al Gore will get his day as America's bigger man, the first to personally make any meaningful proposal in front of the nation. Bush is nowhere to be seen; he scheduled and then canceled a press availability Wednesday morning. Now Bush will be hard-pressed to stand up and turn both proposals down without sounding like he's trying to silence Florida voters by stopping recounts "already begun...