delectation


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Synonyms for delectation

a feeling of extreme gratification aroused by something good or desired

the condition of responding pleasurably to something

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Synonyms for delectation

a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction

act of receiving pleasure from something

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Called the Hall of Fame Prom, it served up a smorgasbord of classical music favourites in bite-sized morsels for our delectation.
YOU know those early rounds on shows like Britain's Got Talent, the ones where all the damaged, lonely, pac-a-mac'd haunters of night buses the nation over shuffle blinking into the spotlight for our derisory delectation? The librarian from Pontefract with the orthopedic shoe and cat hair on his cardy braying an out-of-tune version of You Raise Me Up, the tragic narcoleptic self-help group-turned-boy band who perform in cycle helmets lest stage-fright cause them to pass out and crack their skulls open, the elderly spinster whose oompah version of Hot Legs will probably make her a YouTube sensation for all the wrong reasons - they'll all be familiar to anyone who ever heeded their GP's advice to stop binge drinking and stay home on a Saturday night.
No not that, it had to do with the magazine's contents, namely the ads being presented for my delectation.
The waiter doesn't offer his name for our delectation, or inform us that he'll be taking care of us this evening.
Lisa Wyldbore of Darlington, whose father lost his battle with cancer aged just 54, has embarked upon her new venture, Delectation Designs, after being motivated by his last words - do what makes you happy.
PFP expressed profound concern over the discriminatory laws which bar people and political parties from delectation who don't express loyalty to the concept of Kashmir's accession to Pakistan.
Olly is, you see, a dedicated foodie; the only thing he loves better than eating a meal is introducing another person to some delectation or another.
"The bodies and faces of the Polynesian women Gaugnin incessantly painted were not simply offered up for delectation and the projection of fantasies.
Every part of the animal was cooked up and presented on a plate for our delectation - trotters, cow's tongue, tail and most of its insides - the lot.
What might seem a casual and somewhat passive gesture, the placing of common materials over a simple piece of wood, ultimately produces geometric cacophony; Pedigo here brings out hidden or overlooked details, as he often does, allowing surprisingly complex moments of formal delectation to come when one might least expect them.
And though the script only surfs the sexual implications of Manli and Sansan sharing the same body for Junchu's delectation, the pic spins an elegant, sometimes sensuous web of tangled emotions, underscored by Lee Xinyun's sinuous music.
VOUS vous plongerez alors avec delectation dans ce nouvel ouvrage de Franc Schuerewegen.
The real battle, as Karen Wilkin notes in her essay "Abstraction's moment," is not between figurative and non-figurative art but between a view of art that places "aesthetic delectation" at the center of our concern with art and a view that subordinates such pleasures to what Marcel Duchamp championed in his efforts to direct our attention to "regions more verbal." The triumph of that Duchampian model in many precincts of the art world has been tantamount to the sabotage of the aesthetic.
In contrast to The Simpsons, Futurama permitted the writers to let their mathematical fancies run wild and to cram in math references for their personal delectation, Keeler says.
I will leave your readers to the article itself for their personal delectation.