Word: delights
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...they had some lovely moments. John Pym (Elbow) is one of those clowns who looks like he's going to pull the same funny gesture twice and stop your laugh -- and then never does. He's the one with the rubbery face and the fedora. Charles Degelman, always a delight on stage, played Luciao in blue stripes. His friends, also dressed modly, performed less and paraded more. In larger parts, Mary Moss as Isabel and John Appleby as Angelo brought out the best in each other. She was passionate. He responded. She recoiled violently -- she wanted to save a brother...
...nothing could delight us further," he continued, "than having the notoriety of being banned in Boston...
Cheerful & Talented. Though their styles differed, the Peales shared a common delight in painting one another. Husbands painted wives, daughters did fathers, nephews did uncles, everyone did in-laws. Charles Willson Peale painted one picture of James studying a miniature done by James's daughter Anna of Rembrandt's daughter Rosalba (herself a landscapist). He did another of James at work, probably on the portrait of his first wife Rachel, in miniature. "There was a happy cheerfulness in their countenances," observed old John Adams, viewing an early portrait by C. W. Peale of his family...
Ensconced in his panelled study, surrounded by teacups and undergraduates, Finley takes unabashed delight in describing the advantages of an earlier time, the time of which his entire manner is a gracious remnant. "In my day," he says, "college was like a dirt country road with grass growing in the middle. Now it is like Route 128, and graduate school is like a turnpike. But what if you don't want to go to Albany...
...Pictures, I thincke none other goe beeyond them, ... All in generall striving to adorne their houses ... with costly peeces, Butchers and bakers ... yea many tymes Blacksmiths, Coblers, etts. [etc], will have some picture or other by their Forge and in their stalle. Such is the generall Notion, enclination and delight that these Countrie Native[s] have to Paintings...