I don't know what it felt like watching Mathewson pitch, but watching Bumgarner is like feeling an expertly administered epidural nip in between a couple of vertebrae and deliver bliss: it's a gliding, almost eventless slide through the innings, with accumulating fly-ball outs and low-count K's marking the passing scenery.
A brilliant neuroscientist in Canada has invented a helmet that delivers the divine bliss of religious epiphany using not God, but magnets that stimulate the frontal lobe of your brain.
This inauthentic restaurant had delivered authentic sandwich bliss.
Asami and Wao sounded magnificent together in "I Am My Own Best Friend," the ode to self-sufficiency that closes Act I, and by the end of the show, appearing together in front of a gold Mylar curtain, they seemed like a dream pairing, delivering synchronized showbiz bliss in Fosse's dazzling "Hot Honey Rag".
I like to think he would be the first to recognize that the Kindle delivers a new kind of bliss.
£22, johnlewis.com 10/10 Neom Complete Bliss: Organic Bath & Shower Gel This range bills itself as "complete bliss" and it delivers; the sweet rose scent combined with citrusy lime and a black pepper kick makes for a luxurious oil that manages to be relaxing and invigorating in one.
That's a taste of what to expect from Offshore Sailing School's three-day "Learn to Sail" course: a highly caffeinated blend of alarm and exhilaration, humiliation and triumph, bewilderment and bliss, often delivered within the same minute.
Canonical quibbles aside — but hardly suppressed, since they constitute an unending debate on the meanings of the twentieth century — the lavish representations of the giants (eighty-two Picassos, fifty-two Matwelve, twelve Brancusis, sixteen Mondrians), challenged by best-case examples of less dominant artists, deliver an education in bliss.
It was meant to guarantee the impossibility of the worst — not to deliver Europeans to postmodern bliss but to save them from the hell that began almost a century ago in 1914 and did not really stop until the Continent lay in ruins in 1945.
Together with his longtime friend and indispensable straight-man, Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks delivered 45 minutes of bliss to a sold-out American Cinematheque audience Friday night.
