The many dispatches that followed, filed by telegram from all over the globe, were filled with delightful descriptions: "Dazed-looking, wan-faced people" on a transatlantic steamship; roads "as smooth as a ballroom floor"; rubies in Ceylon "like pure drops of blood".
This is potentially a sombre and depressing theme, so I'm starting the playlist on a lighter note with a cowboy song and a delightful scientific description of the physiological function of blood, Blood On the Saddle.
Delightful passages like this description of a Viking village dry-docking a long ship for winter are sprinkled throughout: "What a night!
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The descriptions of meals are delightful, despite the anomaly at the heart of her book: during the Soviet period, there was almost nothing decent to eat, unless you were a party official.
Delightful," reads the caption on Airbnb's neighborhood description of Chinatown.
His descriptions of Maxwell as patient editor are delightful and instructive.
Most of Angelou's anecdotes no longer focus on the famous or her family, but on Ghanaians; for example, according to Lupton, her description of her houseboy Kojo is her most delightful character sketch in the book.
Peck: She clearly loves food and there are tons of descriptions of snacks and meals in here that were delightful.
A hundred ways with a neep may excite a few and depress many, but McNeill's use of quotation and description to portray a nation's food ways is artful and delightful.
