Shelley writes about this in Rambles, using the trope of a pilgrimage; she believes that travelling to Italy and revisiting the scenes of her youth will cure her of her depression, writing, "Besides all that Rome itself affords of delightful to the eye and imagination, I revisit it as the bourne of a pious pilgrimage.
The general air of festivity, which predominated in this place, so far remote from all those regions which the mind has been used to contemplate as the mansions of pleasure, struck the imagination with a delightful surprise, analogous to that which is felt at an unexpected emersion from darkness into light.
Eric Michael Gillett, the award-winning co-instigator of this delightful madness, has the most creative imagination in town.
The iconic character, created 60 years ago, was chosen to be the star of his own app because the spud's interchangeable parts and outfits "make a delightful touch-based mobile app that promotes imagination-driven free-play," says Callaway Digital Arts CEO Rex Ishibashi.
Past and present, reality and the domain of theatre and the imagination go cheek by jowl in Erica Whyman's delightful Dream.
Whatever bumps in the road may be presented by the text are minimized by talent, imagination and -- it must be said -- a pretty delightful dog.
It's hard to overstate the eccentricity of all this, and so much of it is delightful that "Snow in June" is worthy simply for its adventurous and idiosyncratic imagination.
Combining imagination with solid historical grounding, Marling's analysis is both erudite and delightful.
It can provide that sudden delightful shock that often precedes a deeper understanding -- humor derived from the courage, imagination and willingness to question, play, and poke fun at ideas we take for granted.
There's not a lot of representational imagery in the first section, but a delightful little stoneware vessel in the form of a dragon-tortoise hybrid from the early sixth century attests to a lively mythic imagination.
