Sentence examples for the obvious delight from inspiring English sources

The obvious delight Mr. Xie took in portraying the 1930s louche life in Shanghai, his hometown, probably didn't help.

(Though the obvious delight that the Duggars, parents and children alike, seem to take in their existence makes them a relatively weak example of the Repugnant Conclusion).

For instance, Ken Griffey Sr . and Ken Griffey Jr. the only father and son to play in the majors at the same time, were introduced back to back, to the obvious delight of the crowd.

As they sat down to watch Dinner for One on TV, it blew a fuse, so they decided to act out the sketch for themselves – to the obvious delight of the audience.

Barnes though penalises John Hayes for not binding properly, and S Jones lines up the penalty, and then spanks it well wide to the obvious delight of the crowd.

In the meantime, the life of Watermill is a bustle of intense creative activity, driven in no small measure by the obvious delight of his collaborators at having rare sustained time with him.

The Democrats took obvious delight in the new round of attention paid to Mr. Cheney and two others they view as symbols of the past, Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, and Mr. Limbaugh, the conservative talk show host.

The Democrats took obvious delight in the new round of attention paid to Mr. Cheney, Mr. Gingrich and Mr. Limbaugh, none of whom, it seems fair to say, are graduates of the Happy Warrior school of politics.

Here Galileo (Will Badgett) sings lines from a talk he gave to intellectual fellow members of the Lynx Society in Florence -- words Mr. Zimet mines from the text with obvious delight ("a fifth is like a nibble on the ear, both kiss and bite") -- to a thrilling dance with harpsichord and cello.

Showing a visitor out, Mr. Thomas removed a framed manuscript miniature from the wall and played through it twice at the piano with obvious delight.

As much as the house is about the big picture, there is obvious delight in the details.