The phrase
"great delight" means being extremely happy or enjoying something very much.
Full definition
If you partially hide an object such as a favourite soft toy on a low shelf or under a cushion, your little explorer will take
great delight in finding it.
The expression of gratitude from employees is always a matter of
great delight for any boss.
Eventually I worked my way through my stuff and
found great delight at having only what I needed in my little nest.
I watched with
great delight as they spilled gasoline thoughtlessly in the lake around the dock.
This movie is also a great satire on 80's action movies, and seems to take
great delight playing with the audiences» expectations.
-- wrote two more, and with
great delight created a family saga that centers on Josephine Rimaldi and her children and grandchildren.
From time to time, individuals and groups will receive fresh inspiration, and
experience great delight, as they rediscover in the Bible and elsewhere the cultural treasures of the Christian past.
In Commons debate after Commons debate, Tories will find
great delight reminding the new leader and their front bench team that they too voted for these measures.
For his part, the Grandmaster is a wonderfully eccentric leader with the role being played with
great delight by Goldblum, who seems like the perfect fit.
Evans quotes Mark Twain to his
own great delight as he waxes nauseating about how amazing the children were, how complicated was the editing process to put the final glow on that masterpiece, and how deeply personal the experience was.
And while you could visit Napa and easily spend a whole week just taking sips in the tasting rooms, you shouldn't miss out on its
other great delights, such as the spas, parks and hiking and cycling trails.
«2014 was one of the most demanding years in memory of, and has allowed us to produce high quality wines that are
offering great delight.
The Labour party in the south - west was last night taking
great delight at the end of the Ashdown era.
Apple and Google may be pushing the entire mobile industry toward wireless audio, but LG is proving that the headphone jack can still be a source of
great delight on a smartphone.
Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who
finds great delight in his commands» (Psalms 112:1).
My late husband
took great delight in telling me, (and anyone else within earshot) laughingly, of course, that Mark Twain always said that a woman preacher was like a banjo - playing dog: you hardly ever saw one but even if you did, it wasn't very good.
From what I've heard so far, it does not seem to go beyond what the IFS have been saying about government spending plans, but, as George Osborne pointed out
with great delight on the Today programme this morning, the internal Treasury assumptions are very hard to square with what Gordon Brown was saying in the House of Commons earlier this year.
One of
my greatest delights of parenting is holding a title out to a child with the words, «I remember loving these books when I was about your age.»
I completed formal therapy in 1994 and I was baptized again, on purpose and with
great delight, in the local church I attended.
Has Yahweh as
great delight in burnt offerings... As in obeying the voice of Yahweh?
«One of God's
great delights in beholding his universe is, as we may well suppose, to witness the unknown choices and moral developments of free agents, to witness their displays of faith and heroism and spiritual valor, and to watch the unfoldings of vast and various enterprises» (FG 245).
Yes Nathan... the bad guy takes
great delight in the fact you don't believe he exists.
The song of mutual admiration ends as the woman reflects on her time apart (her «playtime») with her beloved: «With
great delight I sat in his shadow, and his fruit was sweet to my taste» (S. of S. 2:3).
So we took
great delight in charging the UCC with a generic faith.
This series is now one of
the great delights of my life this year.
«Has the Lord as
great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, As in obeying the voice of the Lord?
Shouldn't we take
great delight in the knowledge that we will be complete, in need of nothing?
I believe that this Gardener would take
great delight in a small shoot growing out of a formerly dead stump — all the more if that vine had been cut back 40 years before.
Luther took
great delight in making the rite as nearly as possible adequate to that which it signified.
Thus, Jonathan «took
great delight in David,» foiling King Saul's attempts to arrange for David's death (1 Samuel 19:1).
We've grown up with really healthy attitudes re:
the great delight in our sexuality!
Continuing our search for local food, we tried with
great delight the Planter's Buffet at Brown Sugar in Bridgetown.
We've picked more than 7 kg (15.5 lbs) last weekend and surely ate at least 1 kg more straight from the bush So since then, our diet mostly consists of blueberries to
my great delight.
I used a tin of whole, unpeeled, unroasted Datterini tomatoes (Lidl) that I cut before hand to
great delight.
I even found a whole internet site dedicated to spanish recipe, which gave
me great delight and thought I really should to share with your readers.
Phrases with «great delight»