delight in something

Examples of delight

delight
He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in showing clemency.
I am always delighted when his poems catch the ' ' unevenness ' ' of the flow of day.
After observing the novel actions, the children delighted in performing them repeatedly to the exclusion of the familiar actions.
The local intendent was delighted : although he had already built two special coaches to carry the ill, he happily accepted another.
Rather than delighting in an arrested infancy, he was bristling with the violence of undirected and unloved adolescence.
Seeing the large and extremely interested crowds thrilled and delighted me.
The lad, nothing loath, would declaim before them, more often than not in a mock heroic strain that greatly delighted his workmates.
The teachers, few of whom have done any formal linguistics, have also been delighted to find that they know more than they knew.
Readers will be exasperated or delighted by the introductory section.
I was also delighted to find a satisfactory increase in legibility through a sharper type face and daring use of blacker ink!
Colleagues will probably find that the volume delights and infuriates, enlightens and obfuscates, in equal measure.
His book is intellectually stimulating; he delights in seizing an idea and worrying at it, like a cat toying with a mouse.
Towns were delighted by this trend as it gave them more authority and greater protection from the illegal encroachments of county justices.
How sad that we shall have no more delights from this livelyminded, erudite and cultured historian.
I am delighted to be characterised as a utopian, erring on the side of the normative.
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