Sentence examples for delighted though from inspiring English sources

I am absolutely delighted, though, that the Chancellor has responded to my ongoing campaign to remove those under 21 from employer's NI contributions.

"I was delighted, though, that Warren said it, because at least it reminded people that there's this giant gorilla in the closet that has to be dealt with sometime".

Mr Cameron's critics claim to be delighted, though whether they have thought the issue through has to be doubtful.

Delighted though he was to do so well here, Mr. McCain must worry about the uncomfortable degree to which his advantage depended upon Democrats and independents.

I was delighted (though not surprised) to see that some doctors are acknowledging the invaluable mutual benefit to patient and doctor of making house calls ("House Calls: How Physicians Heal Themselves," June 4).

From those carefully monogrammed pages in the 1490s another man emerges: a music-lover, a delighted (though short-sighted) ogler of dancing maidens, an inveterate loser of tennis balls, and an amorous husband whose marriage to Elizabeth of York, cut short by her death in 1503, is depicted by Mr Penn mostly in sketchy flashbacks.

The deal is fine.' " The players, by and large, were delighted, even though their new conductor, older than Mr. Masur was when he took the job, hardly fit the bill of a young innovator.

And taxes on capital gains will be cut from 28% to 20% for assets held for 18 months, and then to 18% for assets purchased after 2000 and held for five years.Republicans are delighted, even though the House had to give up its proposal to measure capital gains against inflation.

I was absolutely delighted even though the only place such a lunch had taken place that day was in my dad's mind.

The coach, though delighted with Hsing's play, has actually been wistful throughout the tournament.

Even as he was sinking, Mr. Valyi had a grin of delighted disbelief, as though finding himself in a Tintin adventure.