Climb up there today and you will still see how accurate that description is, but there are new sights that would perhaps provide William with further horror and perhaps, delight: bicycles.
Meanwhile, those of us who are clued into the dark side of rampant consumerism – how it leads to depression, drives ecological demise and replaces community values with individualistic ones – are likely to get up out of our seats and shake our fists, or perhaps delight in Ford's snarky response.
There was a lot of justified outrage (and perhaps delight) when Mark Zuckerberg's dream of bringing the Internet to rural Indians came crashing down recently, fueled by 457 companies and more than 800 startups that signed letters vehemently opposing Facebook's Free Basics initiative.
(Is it more encouraging as a source of pride, that the Habs have several fine former players in the Cup final, or a clear sign of awful talent management?) As to basketball, one final thing: many people seemed perhaps suspiciously delighted by the Mavericks gutty championship win last night.
The man who would perhaps be most delighted with a wild-card World Series is Commissioner Bud Selig, who pushed for the creation of wild cards.
And as the weather went, it was: 74 degrees and clear at first pitch, a turn that clearly delighted Sabathia, perhaps the only person in the visiting clubhouse cheering when Friday's game was postponed by rain.
Perhaps because they delight in details and see worlds within them, medievalists are uniformly possessed of an excellent if slightly juvenile sense of humor, which becomes more pronounced when they drink and their inherent social awkwardness wears off.
The DNC's parody may be a touch meta for average viewers, perhaps, but should delight political junkies -- and the producers of cable news chatfests.
That all-important members of Warren Gatland's Wales are failing to light up France can be seen as a worry – or by the Wales coach perhaps with delight.
As flashbacks spin off from the account of the trial, it soon becomes clear that Holden's primary concern is an exploration of the dangers -- and perhaps the delights -- of obsession.
