Word: delights
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...Perhaps no one else on the ship could understand why Shelley and I felt such a deep surge of excitement. We were back in China. Like nearly everyone else who has lived there, we felt it was a delight to return...
...stone steps, is the Cloud-Catching Pavilion. A little pleasance in Wusih has been known for 470 years as Leave Your Pleasure Garden-ever since the man who built it was summoned to high office in far-off Peking and, not being able to take his heart's delight with him, bequeathed it to the populace. The spectacular park in Soochow bears, after 41/2 centuries, the sardonic name of Humble Administrator's Garden; the grounds were constructed over 16 years by a corrupt official who was anything but hum ble. After his death it was gambled away...
...model for Ian Fleming's notorious character, Goldfinger, who attempted to monopolize the world's gold reserves. (Fleming and Engelhard had some business dealings in London during the late '40s, just when Engelhard was starting to build his gold empire.) Engelhard never denied this possibility, and often seemed to delight in the suggestion...
Bunuel seems to take a perverse delight in pointing up bourgeois foibles; with a hint of a sneer, he rips away the veils of middle-class civilization and urbanity. His knocking down of social myths proceeds largely along the class lines so clearly defined in modern European consciousness. One gets a sense, watching a Bunuel film, that he's not only shattering myths, he's mounting a vaguely Marxist attack on false consciousness...
...walks softly in this strange world because its mythical inhabitants neither think nor feel as humans do. Capriciousness and gratuitous cruelty are just as likely to greet the unsuspecting intruder as are delight and good fortune. Many are the helpful brownies who have transformed themselves into destructive boggarts when they have been offended or teased. Hence man has always placated faeries in general by calling them such names as "Good Neighbors" and "Mother's Blessings." When euphemism failed there were always such antifaerie ploys as displaying the Bible or a Crucifix and wearing one's clothing turned inside...