The Stoics call a passion like distress a fresh opinion that something bad is present (Andronicus, 65B): you may have been excitedly delighted when you first saw you'd won the race, but after a while, when the impression of the victory is no longer fresh, you may calm down.
I grew up wistfully and excitedly delighting in intricate Christmas light displays, listening to Christmas music in department stores, and playing, in numerous orchestra concerts, Christmas music from Leroy Anderson's Sleigh Bells to Handel's Messiah.
He hovers, fidgeting a bit while Floella says goodbye to me and then apologises to her profusely, for stopping her, embarrassed and excited and grinning with delight.
Then the president-elect waded into the throng, which parted as he advanced, until he reached his bashful muse, and, as one reporter described it, "gave her several hearty kisses... amid the yells of delight from the excited crowd".
Dabbling in side-projects aside, ultimately Vince is most excited about creating products which will delight his Ecotricity customers under his "green" brand, Ecotopia.
Wallace says rather coyly that he's done "very well", and that he's "very excited", but he's manifestly handspring delighted.
The Bauer managing director, David Goodchild, said: "We are delighted that Julia is joining Bella and are extremely excited about the ideas and experience that she will bring to the magazine".
Well in his eighties now, Mr Kratina was too excited to say a thing, but his Serbian wife Zora, 75, said she was delighted with the "unique opportunity" to travel with her husband to his native town of Zenica, close to Sarajevo.
