There is something about a storyteller becoming rich and having a reasonably full private life that has a powerful potential to irritate so that, when things go wrong, it causes a very special kind of joy.

One word that Shakespeare gave potential to was " joy ".

He described his preparation for death in a poem, Zwingli's Pestlied, consisting of three parts: the onset of the illness, the closeness to death, and the joy of recovery.

The rising star's world beating cricketing exploits were to provide much needed joy to Australians through the emerging Great Depression and Post World War One recovery.

but this -- yes, terrible step I am about to take is lightened with an inundating joy by the new-found hope that here, in these poems, is treasure -- or at least some measure of beauty, which I did not know of ''.

Serenity, if one is fortunate enough to achieve it, is not so good as joy, but it is something.

Even a neat, plastic-covered plunge is not exactly a joy to behold.

Miss Hardwick speaks of his `` superb gift for intellectual friendship '', and it is certainly a joy to see the intellectual life lived so free from either academic aridity or passionate dogmatism.

Mr. Foy is a joy, having learned his dancing by practicing it until he is practically perfect.

Rieux returns to the theme at the end of the novel, after the epidemic is over, when the depth of the feelings of exile and deprivation is clear from the overwhelming joy with which long parted lovers and family members greet each other.

In the Catholic church, all who die in god's grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation ; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven or the final purification of the elect, which is entirely different from the punishment of the damned.

Misvan Gatu is the ' place of the mixed ones ' where the souls lead a gray existence, lacking both joy and sorrow.

The Dictionary of American Hymnology claims it is included in more than a thousand published hymnals, and recommends its use for " occasions of worship when we need to confess with joy that we are saved by God's grace alone ; as a hymn of response to forgiveness of sin or as an assurance of pardon ; as a confession of faith or after the sermon.

:" What a joy he is!

Ajaigarh is like a city of joy.

Thus, a heretic bearing the name of Sason (= Joy ) once remarked to him, " In the next world your people will have to draw water for me ; for thus it is written in the Bible ( Isaiah 12: 3 ), ' With joy shall ye draw water.

# Great Joy: It is said that being close to enlightenment and seeing the benefit for all sentient beings, one achieves great joy, hence the name.

A well-known instance of the " John Cardinal Doe " style is that in the proclamation, in Latin, of the election of a new pope by the cardinal protodeacon: " Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum ; habemus Papam: Eminentissimum ac Reverendissimum Dominum, Dominum ( first name ) Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae Cardinalem ( last name ), ..." ( Meaning: " I announce to you a great joy ; we have a Pope: The Most Eminent and Most Reverend Lord, Lord ( first name ) Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church ( last name ), ...")

Tacitus writes that the Praetorian Prefect, Macro, smothered Tiberius with a pillow to hasten Caligula's accession, much to the joy of the Roman people, while Suetonius writes that Caligula may have carried out the killing, though this is not recorded by any other ancient historian.

Piron is the author of a book in French, Le bonheur clés en main ( The Keys to Happiness ), which distinguishes among pleasure, happiness and joy.

But evolution from the standpoint of the creature, with his limited knowledge, limited power, limited capacity for enjoying bliss, is an epic of alternating rest and struggle, joy and sorrow, love and hate, until, in the perfected man, God balances the pairs of opposites and transcends duality.

A divine being is filled with perfect love, and desires to share these qualities because of the joy they bring to each individual soul.

Martin rather enjoyed the symbolism of the seasons, with summer as a time of growth and plenty and joy, and winter as a dark time where there is a struggle for survival.

And when all my hopes in them and in all men were gone, so that I had nothing outwardly to help me, nor could tell what to do, then, oh, then, I heard a voice which said, " There is one, even Christ Jesus, that can speak to thy condition "; and when I heard it my heart did leap for joy.

The joy of learning from some of the best German educators of the time were often overshadowed by his almost chronic lack of funds-Tveitt having to rely upon translation work and donations to support himself.

The joy of reunion is, however, quickly overshadowed by the report of the vast Vorlon fleet that has just destroyed Arcata 7, an inhabited planet of millions of sentients because it had harbored a Shadow force.

In episode seventeen, she reveals that she is pregnant with her second child, to the slight annoyance of Janet ( because it overshadowed her announcement of her engagement ) and Sharon ( because of her maternity rights ), although the other characters express their joy at her news when they realise it will mean another lengthy maternity absence.

During this time, the sensations of light, splendor and joy alternated with-and were often completely overshadowed by-sensations of fire, unbearable heat and bleak depression.

There must have been special feelings of joy and patriotism in the heart of Daniel Morgan too, when the news was received on April 30th of the recognition by France of the independence of the United States.

When East Germans fled to the West by the thousands, paeans of joy rose from the throats of Western publicists.

What a joy to realize that we, too, can claim this promise tendered by the Lord during His earthly ministry to a group of men who were very dear to Him.

Author James Basker states that the song has been employed by African Americans as the " paradigmatic Negro spiritual " because it expresses the joy felt at being delivered from slavery and worldly miseries.

Jones, whose work had been nominated eight times over his career for an Oscar ( winning thrice: For Scent-imental Reasons, So Much for So Little, and The Dot and the Line ), received an Honorary Academy Award in 1996 by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, for " the creation of classic cartoons and cartoon characters whose animated lives have brought joy to our real ones for more than half a century.

I know not how to describe in words the joy I feel before the spectacle of pulling down and destroying the idols by the very people who formerly worshipped them.

We can therefore distinguish in the epistle both a general purpose ( to increase mutual joy ) and a specific purpose ( to provide readers with test by which they might assure themselves of their salvation ).

As his first wife, actress and dancer Betsy Blair explained: " A sailor suit or his white socks and loafers, or the T-shirts on his muscular torso, gave everyone the feeling that he was a regular guy, and perhaps they too could express love and joy by dancing in the street or stomping through puddles ... he democratized the dance in movies.

In the immediate aftermath of the General Assembly's vote on the Partition plan, the explosions of joy among the Jewish community were counterbalanced by the expression of discontent among the Arab community.

on the other hand was elated and smiling, and registered her joy by dancing in company with the entire chorus.

These destructive acts, though often fuelled by drugs and alcohol, were Moon's way of expressing his eccentricity, as well as the joy he got from shocking the public.

On June 14, 1940, the day Paris was declared an open city by the French and occupied by German troops, Riefenstahl wrote to Hitler in a telegram, “ With indescribable joy, deeply moved and filled with burning gratitude, we share with you, my Führer, your and Germany's greatest victory, the entry of German troops into Paris.

In Chile, the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet forbade the creation of lesbian groups until 1984, when Ayuquelén (" joy of being " in Mapuche ) was first founded, prompted by the very public beating death of a woman amid shouts of " Damned lesbian!

Saint Thomas Aquinas described the Limbo of Infants as an eternal state of natural joy, untempered by any sense of loss at how much greater their joy might have been had they been baptized.

We live by faith and hope in the God of mercy and love who has been revealed to us in Christ, and the Spirit moves us to pray in constant thankfulness and joy.

The first known cultivation of opium poppies was in Mesopotamia, approximately 3400 BCE, by Sumerians who called the plant Hul Gil, the " joy plant.

In conclusion and as expanded upon in an epilogue, Tolkien asserts that a truly good and representative fairy story is marked by joy: " Far more powerful and poignant is the effect joy in a serious tale of Faerie.