Sentence examples for delighted man from inspiring English sources

But the most delighted man was Kalusha, who emerged at the end to hug the players, victorious as he might have been before, had it not been for the tragedy of 19 years ago.

And often, as I'm walking down the street, a delighted man, somewhere between the ages of twenty-eight and thirty-eight, will, as if we're brothers in a secret alliance, point at me and say, "I love Winnie Cooper too!" It's not exactly an anthropological study, I know, but you can't ignore a pop-culture reference that consistently elicits that sort of animated response.

Time and again the delighted young man — remember, he was teenager when he set out from Venice — found villagers lined up outside his tent offering their nubile daughters for his pleasure and their honor.

When I told him of the kindly family doctor who recommended that Craske went to live by the sea, because "only the sea can save him", the endocrinologist was delighted: "Wise man," he said, "the movement of the sea acts as a very good calmative for mental instability".

Though afterwards even I was not quite as delighted as the man I overheard telling his mate: "If I die tomorrow, I'll die happy".

Gay Muslim soldiers must be delighted today," and: "Man walks in to order a takeaway wearing a Mumford & Sons t-shirt.

In fact, most art swindlers have no grand intellectual design; rather, they are, as Thomas Hoving once put it, "money-grubbing confidence men, delighted to cobble up something that will get by in the rush for big profits".

Pavey's resurgence has taken everyone, perhaps even herself and her righthand man, by delighted surprise.

Ferguson said: "I'm absolutely delighted that the wee man has agreed to play in the game.

Mr. Edwards walks past, sees the camera, turns away, then snaps his head back, flashing the delighted smile of a man who just spotted his oldest friend.

The younger man soon delighted Ochs by expanding the foreign news service and securing a relationship with Guglielmo Marconi, whose wireless transmission of news by radio would prove invaluable to the paper.