Sentence examples for peculiar delight from inspiring English sources

Certainly he has avoided the canonists, although over the decades such near canonical pronouncers as the critic Benjamin DeMott and the novelist Anne Tyler have registered the peculiar delight he gives them.

Approbation is "a peculiar delight" (T, 298) and a "particular kind of pleasure" (T, 472).

Mr. Di Leo is far from being a meticulous craftsman, but these movies have a rough immediacy and emotional amplitude (not to mention the peculiar delights of Italian interior design of the period) that make them compelling.

And in this unbelievably delightful and timeless collection of short pieces, we can recover the delight of ordinary, uncondescending appreciation, places where the vacant-minded stroller can take "peculiar pleasure".

And what they experience as tedium is, for us, a rare and peculiar form of delight.

The resulting book elicits sadness for the birds that have been lost, along with admiration for Mr. Steadman's art, but mostly the kind of delight so peculiar to an appreciation of birds: the thrill of colors and flight that squashes envy and leaves a lover of the natural world in open-mouthed joy.

And it struck instant delight in Ms. Pfahler's peculiar heart.

The peculiar ways of the American eel will delight anyone with a taste for natural history, but Schweid is just as interested in the nexus of eel and humankind.

It isn't a matter of whether he loves or admires his characters; they amaze him, and he delights in revealing the folds of their peculiar stories.

But Maloney also brings out Hamlet's peculiar mixture of spiritual grace and calculating cruelty: he delights in the fact that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern go to their deaths unshriven even though that was his father's precise fate.

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