Sentence examples for chief joy from inspiring English sources

Courtship is sweet until it turns sad; love is life's chief joy, the deaths of others its chief grief.

His chief joy and satisfaction derived from the planning of the two-month Prom season.

I'll find my chief joy finding the right person and withdrawing behind the camera".

His chief joy and satisfaction derived from the planning of the two-month Promenade season.

The chief joy of Micro Men may have been the bad hair, ugly ties, constant smoking and retro-electronics that went into conjuring up the late 1970s.

If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy".

Its chief joys, though, lie in its fine-tuned pacing and acting and its delight in its own verbal agility.

Watching a man clearly better suited to raising a boy than a girl struggle with this responsibility is one of the movie's chief joys.

After eating Haworth's version, however, I realise one of the chief joys of this dish is the way the potatoes that have come into contact with the gravy dissolve into a rich, meaty mash, while those on top go crisp and golden – for which one needs a floury variety such as, indeed, a maris piper.

I have, and hence one of the chief joys of any party for me is dancing as often as I can, since one invariably has one's pick of whoever's in attendance.

Although he achieved enough skill as a violinist to set up as a violin teacher in later years, his chief musical joy was to improvise at the piano, and it was a piano piece, a waltz by Chopin, that gave him his first ecstatic encounter with music.