Throughout his two-game afternoon, Raftery -- with a stutter step and a little too much Reginald Van Gleason in his voice -- uttered mostly lucid, colorful, delightful phrases.
The story opens as Karl, Michael and Addy encounter Stillwater, a surprisingly large panda who carries a red umbrella and speaks, in Muth's delightful phrase, "with a slight panda accent".
Foster's Starling was a fighter, and Moore's calmer bearing makes her a less plausible product of the poor white South — "tornado bait," in Lecter's delightful phrase.
"Learn the delightful phrase, 'guys, gals, and non-binary pals.' Use it liberally".
But if you happen to visit on one of the 131 days it does rain, you can use one of the many delightful phrases the Brits have come up with to describe the fact that water is dropping from the sky.
Many of the stories in this collection target, inevitably, bureaucrats; and many, especially Tolstoy's "The Tale of Ivan the Fool", are shot through with the delightful turns of phrase found in folk stories and fables.
Rather than worrying about what his audience might like, he follows his own muse, creating shows that are full of delightful turns of phrase and soft-pedalled, big intellectual ideas, which often seem more like inspired piss-takes rather than big artistic statements.
Apple's terms and conditions for its iCloud service are blunt, for example, stating that there is "no right of survivorship" – a delightful turn of phrase in its own right – and that "any rights to your Apple ID or Content within your Account terminate upon your death".
Sittenfeld's turn of phrase is delightful.
She's infectious again, blossoming with pumped na-na-na's, pummeled piano phrases and delightful pop synths.
