Sentence examples for public delight from inspiring English sources

Out of respect and amity for Roddick, Fish has been tempering his public delight at becoming the top-ranked American for months.

This was jarringly evident during the 2006 Football World Cup in which many Scots, including Mr McConnell, having no team of their own to support in the finals, took public delight in supporting any opponent of England's.

He was thrown into the Tower of London, but a week later, to the public delight, Lord Chief Justice Pratt ordered his release on the ground that his arrest was a breach of parliamentary privilege.

Of all the mind-blowing architectural concepts awaiting realization in Dubai right now — underwater hotels, rotating towers, artificial islands — it's hard not to root for the Cloud, the only flight of fancy intended for public delight.

Despite public delight at the success of the current robotic Mars missions, one of the earliest polls (by AP/Ipsos) on the idea of returning humans to the moon and then advancing to Mars suggested that most Americans think the money would be better spent domestically.

After its recovery, the portrait had hung, to much public delight, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which tried to keep it there.

The rivalry drives both men towards acts of madness and the film asks what it is that produces this urge to deceive and to puzzle, and why the public delights in being manipulated, fooled and astonished.

The public delights in that kind of titillation.

The apparent newsworthiness of pandas coming to Edinburgh zoo may be largely down to the public's delight in this distinctive bear.

"Museums exist to educate the public and delight them; it makes sense to feature these collections if you can," said John Ravenal, curator of contemporary and modern art at the Virginia museum.

Bristol has always had a proud, left-field edge to it; it's the kind of place that lets its main road be transformed into a giant waterslide – as artist Luke Jerram did, to the public's delight, last spring.