delight

Some routinely put on a show: NYC0318, a whale also seen by AFP on a recent outing, often charms whale watchers with sensational lunge-feeds, breaching the water and prompting shrieks of delight.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb seems to take great delight in insulting you, especially after the politician River was supposed to protect gets hit on the head by a pot of paint and dies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

But Brook can delight and frustrate in equal measure, nowhere more so than on an Ashes tour when an average just under 40 was a disservice to his ability.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

Watch for rage-bait—social-media algorithms tend to amplify content that triggers strong emotions like surprise, delight and outrage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

Adams claimed to be fascinated by the new word upon the Common Principle of delight in every Thing We cannot understand.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Perry and her partner, Canada's former prime minister Justin Trudeau, sampled the delights of Mykonos.

From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026

Starr is criminally sarcastic, and delights in winding people up.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

Ms. Kavenna delights in dropping tantalizing clues that never build to clear conclusions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

For those very delights — oh, and the art too, yeah, sure — are why many people still want to go, a desire that watching “The Man Will Burn” will only strengthen.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026

To Jo’s lively fancy, this fine house seemed a kind of enchanted palace, full of splendors and delights which no one enjoyed.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

He said the size and walkability of the campus surprised — and delighted — him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

During a BBC Radio Oxford interview, she returned the penny to a delighted Mead so that it could stay in the house and "continue the story".

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

“Any time River gets any kind of small win, I’m delighted for him,” Lowden said in a video chat from his parents’ home in Scotland.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

Patterson said he was "grateful" to have a movie that will open in US theaters Friday and delighted that it was with such a stellar talent.

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

I liked to read what they liked to read: what they enjoyed, delighted me; what they approved, I reverenced.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Iran responded in the 64th minute with Rezaeian’s cross headed home by Mohammad Mohebi, tying the game and delighting fans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

The era when delighting the public and media and driving endless free publicity for the AI revolution is over.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026

It does what it says on the tin, delighting huge crowds with a nerve-jangling test for the best players in the world year in, year out.

From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2026

A film like “The Housemaid” delighting viewers this much and making boatloads of cash doing it is a sure sign of cinema’s vitality.

From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2026

So they both lived, delighting in their own devices, and feared no assault, nor wrath, nor any end of their wickedness.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien