Sentences with phrase «took much delight»

She took much delight in Ed's win.

Despite their frequent tension, however, they seemed to take much delight in each other.

Not exact matches

But we have our own purity codes these days — people we cast out from our communities or surround with Bible - wielding mobs, labels we assign to those who don't fit, conditions we place on God's grace, theological and behavioral checklists we hand out before baptism or communion, sins real or imagined we delight in taking seriously because we'd like to think they are much more severe than our own.

«As particularly those fruits and effects of pride that discover themselves in the vanity and superfluity of apparel; which I took too much delight in.

That it was so much a delight as it was, especially in the latter part of the job, was partly because of a second piece of luck, Paul Weiss's turning up to help with a substantial part of what, as a one - man job, would have been excessively difficult and have taken up too large a portion of the career of one as eager to do his own writing as I (or as Weiss) was.

And I was much taken with Stu Inman, the player personnel director, who loves teams with colorful nicknames and delights in scouting the Maine Lumberjacks, the Hawaiian Volcanoes or the Anchorage Northern Knights.

It even takes us back to a time shortly before and during World War I when the Sox actually won the World Series regularly, much to the delight of saloonkeeper Michael T. («Nuf Ced) McGreevey and his Royal Rooters.

West Brom's win over Manchester United very much fell into the «never knew they had it in them» category, but while their fans will presumably be delighted at such an unexpected victory, they might also wonder why it took them this long to pull out that sort of performance: West Brom are still almost certainly doomed, nine points from safety with just four games to play.

Whilst a number of top European soccer leagues take a break over the Christmas and New Year period, the Premier League continues to serve up a feast of festive fixtures, much to the delight of sports fans around the world.

This took the game away from the host's as the Stadium of light was filled with resounding boo's at the full time whistle much to the delight of the travelling Arsenal supporters.

It might so easily have been a bigger win but a one goal lead is always somewhat precarious so there was very much an element of relief as well as delight when referee Kevin Friend finally blew his whistle for the last time to signal three more points and take our total to 87 with two games still to play.

The edges of this nursing cover are reinforced along the hemlines to hold tight, no matter how much baby kicks with delight as she takes her milk break.

My children when they were much younger always used to delight in helping prepare the tray or basket that we would take the food in.

It's a delight to see how passionately Prof. Dan and his assistant explain scientific topics, and how much fun the children have in taking part.

I was reminded of how much suffering is taking place around us and delighted to reaffirm that yoga practice can have a profound impact on preventing certain diseases, managing the symptoms and improving the quality of life.

One comment, it was much longer than I realized when I bought it, at my height, it looked like a short dress, so had it taken up 3.5 inches and am delighted with it.

Director Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend) steps in and takes over the franchise to much delight as he has made a sequel that is even better than the original.

Since making his international breakthrough in the mid -»90s, the French writer - director has built a career of messy, novelistic ensemble mosaics like A Christmas Tale and Kings & Queen that don't so much move from A to B as zigzag wildly across the entire alphabet, taking special delight in discursively swerving off course, into backstory and expository side business.

Piñeiro delights just as much in the erotics of the voice: few directors take so much tangible pleasure in the sheer sound of voices speaking, even (especially) if they're simply repeating the same words over and over.

This weekend might be all about Black Panther, Marvel's much - anticipated, 18th entry in its ten - years - and - counting cinematic universe, but that's no reason to ignore the other visually expansive, comedic delight arriving in in multiplexes: Oscar - winner Nick Park's (Chicken Run, Wallace & Gromit) latest foray into stop - motion wizardry (his first as sole director), Early Man, an unexpected, if no less welcome, ode to the joys, excitement, and wonders of the «beautiful game» («soccer» to less enlightened Americans, European football everywhere else) set against the backdrop of a future - hanging - in - the - balance, winner - take - all Stone Age vs. Bronze Age football match that's almost as thrilling and exhilarating as watching Real Madrid vs. FC Barcelona or Manchester United vs. Manchester City play in front of paying fans (i.e., in the real world with real - world stakes).

The reverential tone and slow pace take some warming to, but there's much to delight in as Tale of Tales takes hold, not least Garrone's belief in the power of these stories to travel through the years.

After the team went through the scrutineer process and then had their «official» team photo taken, Doug asked for a moment in which the entire team donned berets and fake mustaches and posed for an «unofficial» photo much to the delight of the fans.

But it took a nasty tumble by an official to finally stop the last Corvette — much to the delight of the howling audience.

All of Villa Kubu's one - bedroom villas are seamlessly serviced by an expert team of staff — nothing is too much trouble and service is always accompanied by the famous Kubu smile — whether taking the daily á la carte breakfast in your villa, ordering our silver - service in - villa dining, booking a chef for our poolside barbeques and banquets or sampling the delights of the onsite Spa Venus.

Then one day, much to my delight, I get a Facebook message from a Texas class mate asking if I wanted to take her friend's place for an upcoming surf trip to Nicaragua.

Jorge Giannattasio, chief operating officer at sbe, commented: «We are delighted to now be in a position to take bookings for Mondrian Doha, and are very much looking forward to opening our first hotel in the middle east in Doha, Qatar, which is one of the most dynamic cities in the region.»

Much to the boy's delight, a miniature Mega Man pops up on top of one of the cabinets and starts to blast bug - eyed enemies, take other robots» weapons, and pretty much anything that comes with the territory of being Mega Much to the boy's delight, a miniature Mega Man pops up on top of one of the cabinets and starts to blast bug - eyed enemies, take other robots» weapons, and pretty much anything that comes with the territory of being Mega much anything that comes with the territory of being Mega Man.

This 15 seconds shows Goku step forward to challenge Bills (much to everybody delight), Bills taking on Super Saiyan Vegeta, and Bills charging a small ki blast.

Very much to their credit and my delight, Dick Wolf, Rene Balcer and the rest of the writers — the people who weekly call this fiction that's Jack McCoy into being — took his whole character with them when they moved him into the head office.

Rosemary Martin, Group General Counsel & Company Secretary, Vodafone Group, UK and Chair of the GC100, an organisation which did much to prompt the review of the rules on disclosure, said on the launch of the draft rule: «The GC100 members are delighted that the Working Group has taken the task of revising the disclosure rules so seriously and with a much more radical attitude than many were expecting.

It has been described as a «resounding success» and «amazing few days» (much to the relief and delight of everyone at TavistockMedia) and over the next few weeks Legal IT Insider will be bringing you the major take aways from the keynote talks and round table discussions at Legal Leaders IT Forum 2016 in a snowy Gleneagles.

I also take special note of guests» specific likes / dislikes and ensure that during future visits I add a personal / special touch for each guest, much to their delight!