Sentence examples for sort of delight from inspiring English sources

What matters now is that the least of his writings offered a bygone sort of delight: a sorcerer's scintillant dignity made of every sentence a potentially magic occasion.

The press likes a horse race; the press likes outsize personalities; the press favors an underdog; and the press even takes a strange sort of delight in being ruthlessly attacked.

In a Comment on the death of Vladimir Nabokov, in 1977, John Updike wrote, The least of his writings offered a bygone sort of delight: a sorcerer's scintillant dignity made of every sentence a potentially magic occasion.

— October 11 , 1976From Notes and Comment, on the death of Vladimir Nabokov What matters now is that the least of his writings offered a bygone sort of delight: a sorcerer's scintillant dignity made of every sentence a potentially magic occasion.

— October 11 , 1976________ From Notes and Comment, on the death of Vladimir Nabokov What matters now is that the least of his writings offered a bygone sort of delight: a sorcerer's scintillant dignity made of every sentence a potentially magic occasion.

It's 12" and is great for holding all sorts of delights - not just the baked variety.

Loos offers all sorts of delights – curried octopus, braised pork, fried eggs and so much more (£3) – that they serve on rice with curry sauce and lor, which is a thick, sticky, sweet-ish soy gravy.

There is a sort of timeless delight in them.

Readable in a few hours, the book is the sort of unexpected delight one hopes to find in an old hotel, and it deserves to do well.

In it, she promises every sort of earthly delight — access to her bed and perhaps (who knows?) to the eagle's throne itself — if he will agree to follow her as yet unspecified instructions.

"This is good news for a change," said Jin Xiaoming, science counselor at the China Embassy, at a crowded arrival ceremony, bubbling with the sort of innocent delight last exhibited by Washingtonians at Monica Lewinsky sightings.