On an admittedly higher level, this is the kind of thing Nabokov delightfully did with "Pnin," about another émigréstruggling to master a second language.
Given how laid-back Guy is, it doesn't make sense for him to have been the killer, and sure enough, it turns out that the true villain was Pasha, who demands a fair hearing for his senseless crimes and, delightfully, doesn't get one.
And as the perfect colour and sound gradually asserted their power on me, they seemed finally to fasten me in the old article of Jewish faith, that things done delightfully and rightly were always done by the help and in the Spirit of God".
Thankfully, though – and as ever with a Davis novel – the narration of these horrors is done so delightfully that the final impression is curiously warm and uplifting.
And while 18th-century light-heartedness is not banished, it is represented among other pictures by one of the most delightfully poetic landscapes ever done by Jean-Baptiste Pillement.
This delightfully candid couple don't necessarily disagree, making no secret of their continued ambivalence over their choices.
Solving was in the family; in his autobiography, the delightfully titled I Didn't Get Where I Am Today, he writes with pride of his 95-year-old mother "doing the Daily Telegraph crossword (and not their quick one) every day".
Delightfully, Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers has done nothing we know of that requires redeeming and is rewarding the Packers' early faith in his ability to replace Brett Favre, writes Jeffri Chadiha on ESPN.com.
One was the "crispy cod," fried fish nuggets done with a magically and delightfully light touch.
As soon as I saw the wrapper of a delightfully pungent, runny-centered bucheron, I knew my dinner was done.
