When you try it, you may go through five different emotional stages: Bafflement, Experimentation, Sudden Comprehension, Delight — and Showing Off to Your Buddies.
He is slight, frowning, thoughtful; gloomy about himself, with sudden uprushes of delight.
He knew better than to expect a sudden attack of delight, or words falling over themselves to get put on paper.
The year veered between much-heralded showcases and sudden pop-up delights.
Have you not designed a strange tall house in Google SketchUp, and did you not make a sudden cry of awed delight the first time you saw the planet begin to turn and loom closer in Google Earth?
As with his gleeful little jig in Grand Central, he keeps finding new ways to harness the electric power of abrupt surprise; he'll be soft-spoken, low-key, and measured during a set, ambling slowly across the stage, and then all of a sudden, he'll explode, delighting his audience.
In delight, at the sudden, novel gift of self-awareness.
Warm, witty and effusive, she conveys a combination of incredulous delight at her sudden success and steely determination to make the most of it while she can.
The jazz players knew their musicianship deserved acclaim – yet it still felt too good to be true, and their delight at their sudden validation wrestles with an instinct to distrust.
The well-paid panel of talking heads murmured their assent, relieved that Brown had turned out to be such a decent guy, saying the expected things about changing the world instead of simply pumping his fists in delight at his sudden payday.
Surely a Fitzgerald scholar like me must be delighted by this sudden bonanza of Fitzgerald finds?
