Sentence examples for calm delight from inspiring English sources

Calm delight in her eyes.

The sentiment is not a million miles removed from Basil Bunting's At Briggflatts Meetinghouse, which opens with a recognition of the transience of civilisations and closes with a calm delight in that very condition.

He celebrates "the mental release, the physical heart-lift, the calm perilous delight of ballooning".

When she later found the ring again, it was with gratified calm, not buoyant delight.

"Valerie is a real woman, and more of a woman than I've ever played," Watts said, adding that she had played many characters in some kind of psychosis "since David Lynch" – referring to her breakthrough role in Mulholland Drive – and to play such a cool, calm woman was a delight.

As she talks, the daughter becomes calm, pleased, half‐drugged with delight, so much so that at last the two of them are musically whis pering "apples pears cucumbers!" into the night while the flashlight swings as lazily as the clapper of an old bell.

Gudjohnsen slotted the penalty in with complete calm to the huge delight of Bolton's fans, who were suddenly sensing another FA Cup upset.

He is smiley, friendly and calm; you'd be relieved and delighted if he turned up to deliver your baby.

There might as well not be anything else, because these things are enough to gladden the heart and calm the spirit; and we know they delight the body.

I can now understand the wisdom of Italy shutting down for the afternoon, and I delight in the peace and calm of a Spoletto afternoon alone.

Lisa, our cool, calm guide, couldn't stop herself squealing with delight as she brought the 4x4 to a halt.