Sentence examples for sustained delight from inspiring English sources
The movements back and forth from the simple drawing to the explosion of imagination, all keyed to particular colors, garments and actions, make what at first seems an insubstantial volume a source of sustained delight.
History painting, too, was transformed: Bonington's "Henri III and the English Ambassador" (1827 28; Wallace Collection, London), while testifying to a sustained delight in the medieval world, already betrays commensurate interest in period detail and the finer points of human insight.
The food must please, sustain, fulfill, delight and leave in peace -- all within the same porcelain circle.
Her features were instead suffused with a pure and infectious delight, sustained by a composure that confirmed Grainger – already, before these Games, Britain's most decorated female rower – as a natural born winner.
"These are only the first steps on a long journey," was the Guardian's verdict, adding that "Labour begins that journey sustained by enormous national delight".
If the purpose of any food is to sustain, nourish and delight, then to describe a particular dish as "comfort food" is tautologous.
And yet the poems that frame his Rimbaud show how deeply the sustained technical achievement - and delight in an imagery of extremity - that characterise "The Drunken Boat" play their part in Jenkins's own verse.
"We were up for it tonight - we played some good football and I was delighted that we sustained that," he told BBC Sport.
The Observer praised "the sheer delight of his style – that sustained, lucid, precise and subtly cadenced prose that can keep you inside the dynamic thoughts of one of his characters for as many pages as he wants".
"It has been like a sustained carnival with its quieter moments of disbelief and delight.
