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Word: delightful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reparable) judgments. She's probably never going to get anywhere very grand, but she's going to get there intact. You suspect her child--her only true love--may do better than that. Meantime, we have this movie--full of acceptant, sidelong glances at human quirkiness--to delight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Travels with Mommy | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

While it is certainly unreasonable to expect all student performers to exhibit the kind of stage presence that Augustine shows off to such delight, this moment serves as a reminder of all that this production could have been, and all that it usually fails to achieve...

Author: By Dan L. Wagner, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: All That Buzz: the Son of God in Song and Dance | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

...truly cares what happens to him. While Jeffery E. Fowler '00 turns in an admirable performance in the title role and his voice is quite strong, he seems to have been offered little in the way of character direction. For a brief moment, Fowler demonstrates to the audience's delight that he is, in fact, an energetic and charistmatic dancer, but a less than appreciative direction misuses his appeal by having him spend the majority of his time on stage in undefined wandering and characterization...

Author: By Dan L. Wagner, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: All That Buzz: the Son of God in Song and Dance | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

Less than three months after graduating, Gore enlisted in the Army, much to the delight of his father, a U.S. Senator from Tennessee. The decision surprised his friends, who said that Gore had always opposed...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gore Spent Undergrad Years Away From Politics | 11/17/1999 | See Source »

...miscalculated) and cultivated an eccentric passion for dreary weather. I decorated my notebooks with the Union Jack (explaining to my classmates in the strongest of tones that it was not the logo for Reebok) and used my pocket money to buy the Economist. I beamed with delight when relatives humorously referred to me as the "English gentleman." The view of the Big Ben stirs emotions rooted in my deepest childhood...

Author: By Alejandro Jenkins, | Title: The Queen In Parliament | 11/17/1999 | See Source »

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