All of which makes it that much more remarkable that he was able to dredge up his sexual and moral failings for public delectation.
One beggar asks for money for "the United Negro Fried Chicken Fund"; his companion displays the stump of his leg ("lost in Vietnam") for general delectation.
The younger Kim developed a keen sense of showmanship and mythmaking, says Mr Fischer, learned chiefly through his love of cinema.For his delectation, foreign films were pirated and dubbed at North Korean embassies around the world.
The economics blogging has proceeded so swimmingly that we've decided to put up a new blog for your delectation: Democracy in America, which will cover American politics in the run up to next week's midterm elections... and of course, the aftermath.
The acacias provide the ants with food, in the form of protein, fat and sugar secreted for their delectation by special organs called Beltian bodies, and also with homes, in the hollow thorns which give the plant its name.
Individual and collective Yoga and worship, conducted daily, fortnightly, and monthly "for the delectation of the deity," are of special importance.
Fielding the narrator buttonholes the reader repeatedly, airs critical and ethical questions for the reader's delectation, and urbanely discusses the artifice upon which his fiction depends.
The heads were then taken as trophies and offered to the gods for their delectation.
It's all very well having your own personal armoury of visual reference, but how do you arrange it for the delectation of others?
We've selected some of the funniest for your delectation.
Bottles of conquered spirits, cider and six pound Prosecco will adorn the shelves in your room like sporting trophies, drum and bass will keep you awake til the early hours of the morning and leftover pizza boxes will be a constant sight in the communal kitchen purely for the delectation of the local vagrant population – mostly made up of freshers with hangovers.
