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self-delighting - definition and meaning
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A sleek master of gyrating, torpedoing, somersaulting "aquabatics," Mijbal becomes an indefatigable symbol of everything that is playful and self-delighting in the universe.
Dispatches From the Natural World 2011
"It is more like the gratuitous, self-delighting detail children use when inventing fantasy worlds."
Gratuitous 2010
It is more like the gratuitous, self-delighting detail children use when inventing fantasy worlds.
Gratuitous 2010
It is more like the gratuitous, self-delighting detail children use when inventing fantasy worlds.
February 2010 2010
Auden said that there were two modes of poetry; that of Ariel, singing private, formal lyrics of 'self-delighting beauty'; and that of Prospero, who hopes to hand down improving moral truths.
Archive 2007-08-01 Adam Roberts Project 2007
Auden said that there were two modes of poetry; that of Ariel, singing private, formal lyrics of 'self-delighting beauty'; and that of Prospero, who hopes to hand down improving moral truths.
Working-class Ariel Adam Roberts Project 2007
So moving are these poems, and in a sense so self-delighting , that the reader too feels calmed and blessed at second-hand, endowed while he reads them with the same sort of self-acceptance.
The Way We Write Now Bayley, John 1998
Beholding so many supple somersaults of energy and deathless feats of superexuberant vitality, all self-delighting
Touched with Fire Kay Redfield Jamison 1993
Beholding so many supple somersaults of energy and deathless feats of superexuberant vitality, all self-delighting
Touched with Fire Kay Redfield Jamison 1993
Beholding so many supple somersaults of energy and deathless feats of superexuberant vitality, all self-delighting
Touched with Fire Kay Redfield Jamison 1993
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