Grand Central, the brochure proclaimed, is "a place where one delights to loiter, admiring its beauty and symmetrical lines — a poem in stone".
The famous waltz, for one, delights our ears and then floats out of earshot; it goes down the throat smoothly but doesn't leave much of a taste behind.
Whether one is delighted that one's own unfashionable thoughts have been voiced, or thrilled at the opportunity to rehearse one's own rectitude by pouring scorn on someone else's imbecility, controversy services a human need.
Eschewing many of the musical's traditional visual delights, Doyle's production relies on one delight that is rarely called upon by the Broadway musical these days: the imagination.
If one has to make an association to the written word, a movie is closer to the poetic form, full of subliminal impulses, which is why the great ones delight both the child and the aging adult who imprisons him.
Recent ones that delighted me the whole way through were "The Flamethrowers," by Rachel Kushner; "The Call of the Wild," by Jack London; and "Office Girl," by Joe Meno.
And I for one am delighted to be here.
I suspect he is to take the place of Jon Snow as our hero and I for one am delighted by this.
Whether he planned it that way, Andrew Cuomo sent a Feast of the Epiphany message about lockstep Catholicism, and I, for one, am delighted to see my fellow Catholic and new governor come out of the gate fighting this fight.
Mike Hargrove, for one, is delighted that he has reappeared.
