Sentence examples for were particularly delighted from inspiring English sources

So it's understandable that people were particularly delighted by the heart-shaped Tombaugh Regio and its metaphorical possibilities; we are, after all, a species of signs and symbols.

They had some success and were particularly delighted that a couple of the Uruguayan players took the trouble not just to sign their name but to write messages, an act of kindness particularly notable given that they had just lost 4-0.

Stacey wrote that the populace were "particularly delighted to find their city freed in part by men from Canada".

The Samurai Shopper is particularly delighted this week with eye primers.

She is particularly delighted by the West 77th Street location for the statue.

I'm particularly delighted for Ryan, who has put a lot of effort into this horse.

Our son was particularly delighted when a spice stall owner let him hold its resident chameleon (a shrewd sales technique).

The Telegraph thinks Osborne is responsible for a "genuinely important budget" and is particularly delighted with his "finding the money to increase the defence budget in real terms and meet Nato's requirement of spending 2% of GDP on defence".

He will be particularly delighted if the DMGT's monopoly ends, and not just for business reasons: the Daily Mail calls him a pornographer with some justice, since he owns The Fantasy Channel, which screens adult programmes.Most paid-for papers are doing badly, in both circulation and profitability, while free papers are doing rather well.

I loved everything about it: the plot, the magic, the glorious way she put words together, and was particularly delighted by the information in the cover letter that she was writing a novel set in the world of the tale, and that it would be called Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell – so delighted that I sent the story to an editor of my acquaintance.

For example, I was particularly delighted when the number 0 – here represented as the corner of the Argand plane (an x axis of real numbers and a y axis of imaginary numbers) – turned into Humpty Dumpty: it makes the occasional weirdness of mathematics compellingly tangible.