In fact, it's well worth hiding away your favourites for a few years, just for that feeling of sheer delight when you dust them down and say hello again.
The entire event, in a fake fairytale castle with plastic turrets and flagstone floors, would have been hilarious – ridiculous fake wigs and orange makeup – if it weren't for the look of sheer delight on my daughter's face.
When Coachella announced their highly anticipated lineup for 2011 last week, the internet virtually imploded on itself out of sheer delight and excitement.
It's a moment of sheer delight, before my dream dance, when I'm presented with a dress — a real dress — in a box, for the first time.
Then with a look of sheer delight, he approached Shallam Meiers, Miss September 2002.
It was the laughter of sheer delight, which is ageless, and that was Steve Allen.
For until then no living soul had seen upon the stage such weird, eccentric, yet intensely human beings .... [They] conjured into existence a hitherto unknown comic world of sheer delight".
Couperin is a composer whose work pianists and music-lovers should know and understand, not just for its importance in the history of keyboard music, but for sheer pleasure and delight.
In the European Teams Championship in Batumi, Georgia, Spain entered an only slightly-better-than-average lineup that placed 19th out of 36, but Shirov, playing as ever for glory and for the sheer delight of it, had the highest score on Board 1, 6 points in 8 rounds.
If Cannes is a showcase for glamour, Sundance a showcase for deal-making, and Venice a showcase for Venice, then Berlin is a showcase for the sheer delight in film by a city full of movie lovers.
This wasn't just for navigation purposes, or Dad showing off, but for the sheer delight, the ancient delight, of translating something that's beneath your fingers (the fascinating pattern of lines and curves and colors and names) into the reality spread out in front of you.
