Sentence examples for silly delight from inspiring English sources

Montaigne's rather silly delight in Venice and the bargains to be found there in 1580 like Pero Tafur's a century and a half earlier or Thomas Coryat's roughly 30 years later sounds uncomfortably familiar.

And honestly, anyone who can pull off a running joke about leeks that does not make you gag, and is in fact a silly delight, deserves..

The lyrics traffic in outlandish rhymes with open, silly self-delight, using brand names, celebrity names and a steady flow of obscenities.

"At first I thought it was a silly project," says Garner, "but I was delighted and surprised when people kept coming to play on it".

Do silly fun things for no purpose other than delight.

Add to this the truth that songs that delighted salons of backers bore audiences silly, and that the things that worked perfectly in rehearsal die a dog's death onstage, and you have a natural abyss of authority.

It was something more basic – a fundamental delight in watching someone doing something utterly silly and yet life-affirming – that had social media sites overflowing with love for O'Leary.

Then again, had I been surrounded by children rocking with laughter and squealing with delight as I was forced to say sillier and sillier things, my attitude might well have been different.

I didn't always grasp the rules that governed the alien invasion, but both Mary Elizabeth Winstead's sparkling performance and Jonathan Coulton's silly songs that served as the "previously on" segments delighted me.

Offerings are made of things that especially pleased the dead in life--tequila, rhinestones earrings, silly comic books--so that their souls may briefly delight in these pleasures once more.

But to continue with the cuddling analogy, I get so much delight from those one or two squares it seems silly to think about more.