The phrase "abiding delight" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express a lasting or enduring sense of joy or pleasure in a particular context.
Example: "The beauty of the landscape brought her an abiding delight that she cherished throughout her life."
Alternatives: "lasting joy" or "enduring pleasure."
No one since his death has come close to replacing his eye for mayhem as well as an abiding delight in impishness.
AN abiding delight of my college years, as I devoured Verdi opera after Verdi opera, was the thought that there was an entire repertory of such gems waiting to be discovered.
Although Mr. Sottsass abandoned the Memphis movement 18 years ago, he continues to adhere to its core philosophy: a deep inquiry into the emotional power of design and an abiding delight in experimentation.
The silly-sinister byways of government intrigue and power Buckley seems to know well, and the voyeuristic delight they yield is the one abiding pleasure of "Florence of Arabia".
The extent of the connectedness of things was an abiding interest to Peter, and his delight in discovery and in telling us about his discoveries showed an enthusiasm that was both persuasive and infectious.
But if you look past pandering hits like "The Graduate," you'll discover an abiding, very British penchant for playing with plays, a delight in demonstrating what theater can do that other forms cannot.
English was undoubtedly Britain's most valuable and abiding legacy to India, and educated Indians, a famously polyglot people, rapidly learned and delighted in it - both for itself, and as a means to various ends.
One abiding memory is of a meal in Cardiff, which somehow ended up with Tony, to the delight of all present, dancing to Abba and Elvis Presley with a diner on the next table, whom he had never met before.
All that follows — the delight that he takes in spreading menace as a notorious drug kingpin, and his self-damning need for recognition as "the one who knocks" — stems from an abiding sense of powerlessness and desperate shame.
Poverty is an abiding theme.
