To read this biography as a calendar of cocktails, club lunches and swordsmanship is to miss its point and its reason for being, which is the discipline involved in turning drunkenness, bonhomie and lechery into the sources of serious literary delight.
The legal implications of granting planning permission in this case would be particularly serious and we are delighted for our clients Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust as well as for the whole community that these points will be looked at properly at last".
"Oh, it has to be Baby Jake," he said, beaming with delight, having been serious and sombre for the previous hour.
Gradually, though, their gooey looks of delight turned to serious interest and finally to pleasure, the deep pleasure of seeing something rare and fully resolved and resistant to syllogisms.
This year's submission unusually blunt for a government agency is a taxpayer's delight: "The most serious problem facing taxpayers is the complexity of the Internal Revenue Code.
I also saw the Coen brothers' A Serious Man, which amused and delighted me.
Daum's enormous comic gift -- and her ability to use it in the service of fundamentally serious issues -- is an unexpected delight.
Meanwhile, Ms. Frittoli, sounding defensive, has been telling every interviewer who will listen that Mr. Bocelli is a serious artist with whom she was delighted to work.
Mateship is a seriously serious topic for many Australians, while others delight in taking the mickey out of a concept which has often been reduced to a cliche.
Marsha Gordon, president of the Business Council of Westchester, described the strike as "a very serious impediment to Westchester County business," and expressed her delight it was over.
