Sentence examples for artistic delight from inspiring English sources

Along with Hockney's public persona, as expressed in interview and broadcast appearance, the overwhelming impression is one of artistic delight.

Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades".

Vladimir Nabokov exhorted his students to measure the effect of literature in their bodies rather than their minds; the "seat of artistic delight", he asserted, "is between the shoulder blades".

Anyone who recognized her as P. L. Travers, the author of the Mary Poppins books, could have been forgiven for assuming that her tears were the product either of artistic delight or of financial ecstasy (she owned five per cent of the gross; the movie made her rich).

But that vanity isn't itself devoid of substance; rather, it's a transparent and self-revealing package for the director's own artistic delights and emotional inclinations.

The intellectual & artistic delights God gives us are visions & like visions we pay for them; & the thirst for the vision doesn't necessarily carry with it a thirst for the attendant suffering.

The city's goldsmiths and antiques dealers underpin the finances of this solidly bourgeois city, but it offers more than its share of artistic delights, the chief treasure being the glorious fresco cycle by Piero della Francesca in the church of San Francesco.

This elaborate display is the brainchild of Bompass and Parr, a company that makes artistic culinary delights.

Information and tickets: (212) 279-44888 (888) 374-6436 (outside New York), fringenyc.org; $15. (Anderson) NICHOLAS ANDRE DANCE THEATER (Friday and Saturday night) Nick Seligson-Ross, the company's artistic director, delights in exploring many ideas and styles, and he does so with choreographic vigor.

With this definition in mind, one may understand why Renaissance humanists and painters assigned themselves such self-consciously heroic roles: in their artistic ability to delight, to captivate, to convince, they saw themselves as enfranchised directors and remakers of culture.

But graffiti is also street art that enhances a piece of the cityscape, that can present an artistic vision that delights and enthralls, as well as allowing an artist a canvas on which to express himself.