Sentence examples for seeks to delight from inspiring English sources

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Ordinary writing — the kind you read for fun — seeks to delight (and, sometimes, to delight and instruct).

Often, indeed, the painter seeks to delight us specifically with the animated play of the colors of gold, silver, velvet or fur.

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The haute couture sought to amaze, to delight but ultimately to distract.

Ms. Lopez sought only to delight.

Haidt seems to delight in mischief.

Literature seeks to give "instruction and delight": Dryden's tag, formulated three and a half centuries ago, has worn pretty well.

In many places in his letters he not only recognizes the outcry, he delights in it, and seeks to provoke it even more (Milne 1932 37, 12 May 35; 28 Jul 36).

Madonna seeks to shock.

America would never cede control of the world order, and in any case China would never seek to exert hegemony.China certainly delights in the notion that its global power is growing.

It was the second day that Mr. Romney sought to take up the mantle of change, seeming to delight in borrowing a slogan that Mr. Obama rode to the White House but now finds challenging to embrace.

"Are there sensible, political, social or aesthetic grounds for restoring banal architectural monstrosities which still manage to delight those who seek the aura of the Führer?" he asked.

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