She whined happily and came closer, pressing her trunk against my leg and rippling her body in that puppyish movement that communicates joy better than anything we can manage, so that I brought my other hand to her as well and scratched along both her sides, feeling bits of leaf and pine needles and accumulated grime.
ADAM GOPNIK Calvin Trillinn and I once did a whole program, in San Francisco as it happens, about this topic: how do you manage to communicate the joy of family life — which for some of us is the biggest joy we know — while still being careful that what belongs to your kids stays theirs.
We know it gives him joy — he continues to live on what he once called "blues power" — but he's only rarely able to communicate that joy, or convey what it was like to be a part of the mad hot ballroom that was the British pop music scene between 1963 and 1970.
It is difficult to communicate what joy this raucous, boisterous, impossibly chaotic assembly can bring.
What Walton does, that so few of his innumerable imitators achieve, is to communicate the joy and ultimately the peace that angling gives.
How do we communicate the joy and the importance of these discoveries, not just through dry scientific and scholarly papers, but through the arts?
The genesis of the campaign was to "find a compelling way to communicate the joy when kids come to Toys 'R' Us," Mr. Reiner said, and how the retailer "makes it really easy for Mom to become that holiday hero".
David B. Devan, the executive director of the company, said the link came his way when the company was trying to figure out "how we communicate the joy of singing to people who never go to the opera".
But just as pioneering sex researchers Masters and Johnson endlessly monitored people making love in the lab, so this programme aims to see whether couples in a postcoital glow are better able to recall, share and communicate their joy in sex than otherwise.
