Sentence examples for savage delight from inspiring English sources
With its glut of references and lavish veneer, seeing the complete work is akin to being left to wander alone aged 13 through the National Gallery; it has the savage delight of a fairy tale.
The Boston Globe published an article titled "President a Slayer Not Lover of Animals", while the same missive was called "Long Will Combat Roosevelt Until Latter is Whipped" in Philadelphia's Public Ledger; in it, Long wrote: "Roosevelt is a man who takes savage delight in whooping through the woods killing everything in sight".
But whether on the air or off, Mr. Savage delights in being provocative.
The one where the islanders play manic, isolated savages driven wild with delight by the crying of the defenceless beasts and Sir Anthony Hopkins plays a sadistic environmentalist daddy at bedtime is probably my favourite.
(Certainly he would have been delighted with the savage left-wing tweets that greeted his untimely passing, just as I suspect Hitchens would have been much more pleased than Roiphe with the way some of his longtime antagonists sped him off into the undiscovered country).
Jaws dropped at savage jandals/singlet/speedies combo, and we took great delight in yelling cheerful salutations as we left each bewildered group in our dust.
"To Jack's great delight we have seen the first of the wild Indians here — naked savages from the Xingu," Fawcett wrote to his wife.
The thrill of Money, which is turbo-charged with savage humour from first to last page, is Amis's prodigal delight in contemporary Anglo-American vernacular.
Aspinall, chair of the Hillsborough Family Support Group, said that although the families' loss would never fade, she was "delighted" at the unequivocal, "profound" apology given for Hillsborough's savage failings by David Cameron.
It's another savage kingdom in which Herzog can seek ecstasy and the sublime among the entrancing horrors and delights.
