Word: revelled
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...nearly 100 books were named to the Caldecott Honor list--a 1944 Mother Goose and 1 Is One, a learn-to-count book that charms even those who learned how long ago. Her simple couplets and light touch with watercolors compel readers to revel in nature's bounty and count the ducks, hummingbirds, apples and stars...
...eight other posters, each advertising an event just as mundane as my own.By senior year, I came to terms with my lack of fame. The people who I cared about knew who I was. If Gossip Geek was going to ignore my antics, there was nothing to do but revel in my obscurity. After all, if you’re famous, it’s much harder to get away with stuff like stealing teabags from the dining hall. Besides, most of the so-called celebrities at Harvard were more infamous than famous and were forgotten about by the time...
...times of every significant event of my personal life: the arrival of my college acceptance letter, or the last day of school. It was part of an obsessive compulsive desire to remember things in the future, a naïve hope that I could someday look back and revel in the fact that at 5:37 p.m. on a May 16, I took my last high school exam...
...comes a new aesthetic, and it’s remarkable to hear how the band has matured since trip-hop’s heyday. While that music ultimately strove to bring a sort of hypnotic order to a combination of sampled and original material, here the band seems to revel in imperfection. The best example of this kind of self-conscious disruption is the first track, “Silence,” where a bizarre Portuguese radio monologue gives way to a primal drum line. Its time signature is only complicated by intermittent vocals, bass, and strings, sliding...
...proud coterie of the Class of 2012 have begun to meet. These new victors of the high-school slaughtering grounds, these new members of the educational elect congregate here to share their varying shades of ecstasy at the news of their admission. It is a happy affair: they revel in the stories of their classmates-to-be and swap anecdotes about the euphoria of receiving an email with news they had been waiting, in some cases, a decade to hear. But splashed across these ecstatic electronic conversations are the worrisome seeds of hubris which may someday metastasize into the harsh...