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delightful and tropical
The Naples Botanical Garden is creating a world-class paradise that combines delightful cultivated tropical gardens with beautifully restored natural habitats.

delightful and has
Sometimes it takes several `` eatings '' of avocado to catch that delightful quality in taste that has made it such a favorite throughout the world.
Producer John Holmes has chosen a delightful comedy for his season's opener at Matunuck in Jean Kerr's `` King Of Hearts ''.
We can all breathe more easily this morning -- more easily and joyously, too -- because Joshua Logan has turned the stage show, `` Fanny '', into a delightful and heart-warming film.
Among later writers, ambrosia has been so often used with generic meanings of " delightful liquid " that such late writers as Athenaeus, Paulus and Dioscurides employ it as a technical terms in contexts of cookery, medicine, and botany.
The guitars of the Magic Band mercilessly bend and stretch notes in a way that suggests that the world of music has wobbled clear off its axis ," with the lyrics demonstrating " Beefheart's ability to juxtapose delightful humor with frightening insights ".
The similarity to Atlantis has led some to conclude that Akallabêth is one very long setup for what Tolkien would have considered a delightful pun, but Tolkien described it as merely a happy coincidence.
Named for a Mohegan word meaning " good, fine, pleasant, delightful ," Wauregan has a long history as an industrial village.
Nothing On is set in " a delightful 16th-century posset mill " that has been converted to a modern dwelling for which renters are solicited ; the fictional playwright is appropriately named Robin Housemonger.
It consists of some translations of Livy and Seneca, and of a very large number of interesting and admirably written letters, many of which are addressed to Peiresc, the man of science of whom Gassendi has left a delightful Latin life.
The actors have given us a charming rendition of a delightful play, and your appreciation has been most intelligent.
The general air of festivity, which predominated in this place, so far remote from all those regions which the mind has been used to contemplate as the mansions of pleasure, struck the imagination with a delightful surprise, analogous to that which is felt at an unexpected emersion from darkness into light.
It has delightful evocations of the landscape, and strong characterizations which reveal the inner psychological conflicts of the characters.
It has been suggested that Cinerama could have been an intentional anagram of the word American ; but an online posting by Dick Babish, describing the meeting at which it was named, says that this is " purely accidental, however delightful.
" The Hindu argues, " if ever there is a film that is positive, realistic and yet delightful, then it has to be Dream Production's latest venture directed by Gurinder Chadha [...] Light hearted, without taking away the considerable substance in terms of values, attitudes and the love for sport, the film just goes to prove that there are ways to be convincing and honest.
Fey, the sitcom's star and creator, has said that " he was so funny and delightful to work with ".
Nature has provided the people with a deep sense of beauty which finds delightful expression in their songs, dances and crafts.
His delightful children's book " Kon-Tiki and I " appeared in Norwegian in 1949 and has since been published in more than 15 languages.
Kolhapur has a some good traditional dishes prepared from " Mutton " ( goat meat ) which are very tasty and delightful.
Of this piece harpsichord scholar Edward Kottick writes, " The sensuality of effortlessly achieving tenths is so strong, so delightful, that one cannot really claim to know the piece unless it has been played on a short-octave keyboard.
Time magazine's Richard Corliss wrote, " Though set in the ' 90s, Slacker has a spirit that is pure ' 60s, and in this loping, loopy, sidewise, delightful comedy, Austin is Haight-Ashbury ".
:" The reservoir has all the appearance of a lake ; and when the timber that surrounds it shall have arrived at maturity, it will be a most delightful spot.
He has been described as a writer of " delightful dialogue ", a genius at portraying everyday life, " the greatest pure storyteller ", and " a master manga artist ".
The path has been a popular sight-seeing excursion for centuries due to the spectacular views of the Cleveland area from the summit ; as early as 1700, travellers were recommended to visit the peak to see " the most delightful prospect upon the valleys below to the hills above.
Nevertheless, his letter to the RGS ends: " I have to thank the Society for assisting me in what has been, despite all drawbacks, an instructive and delightful experience.

delightful and become
Although the fairies say that they cannot stop Strephon, they have become very much attracted to the peers, whom they find handsome and delightful.
" Spider Robinson, however, praised the novel as " delightful, with a rigorously consistent internal logic that doesn't really become apparent until the very last chapter.
Baudrillard has cynically attacked the sentimentality of Western humanitarianism, suggesting that ' in the New Sentimental Order, the affluent become consumers of the " ever more delightful spectacle of poverty and catastrophe, and of the moving spectacle of our own attempts to alleviate it "'.
Like most Season 12 episodes, the program doesn ’ t become truly delightful, but it does more right than wrong, so it ends up as a decent success.
Considered " one of the great and delightful eccentrics " of the South Australian parliament, Langley was an old style Labor politician who had become disillusioned with the direction his party had taken under Don Dunstan on social issues like liberalising homosexuality laws.

delightful and well-known
The well-known architectural commentator and author Marcus Binney, writing in the London Times in 2006, describes " Poulton House " built in 1706, during the reign of Queen Anne, as "... Queen Anne at its most delightful ".

delightful and past
The church is home to the Monkey Park-which was once home to a menagerie kept by a past Reverend of the Church, but is now a delightful garden.
He scored his third goal against in a delightful counter-attack move, with Touré making up 90 yards to latch onto the ball and fire if past the goalkeeper, with Manchester City eventually winning 4 – 3.
Kenilworth also has a delightful ' Living History ' Museum with a theatrette which shows a history of the district to visitors, together with displays covering many areas of history past.

delightful and thirty
… if you consider the Historical Playes of Shakespeare, they are rather so many Chronicles of Kings, or the business many times of thirty or forty years, crampt into a representation of two hours and a half, which is not to imitate or paint Nature, but rather to draw her in miniature, to take her in little ; to look upon her through the wrong end of a Perspective, and receive her Images not onely much less, but infinitely more imperfect then the life: this instead of making a Play delightful, renders it ridiculous.

delightful and years
Many years later he would write to William Henry Harvey, who was considering emigrating there, that " some of the pleasantest botanizing he ever had was on Devil's Mountain, near Cape Town, and he thought I could not pitch on a more delightful field of study.
Clive Barnes of the New York Times stated: " For everyone who wishes the world were 50 years younger ... the revival of the 1925 musical No, No, Nanette should provide a delightful, carefree evening.
Quiroga worked for the next two years on a multitude of stories, many were about rural terror, but others were delightful stories for children.
Over the years, he transformed the venerable art of telling allegorical tales for children into a personalized narrative and musical form that conveyed both wisdom and delightful humor to adults and children alike.
Adams ' phenomenal memory and experience, in combination with a delightful sense of humour, made him a very popular teacher for many years.
At the back of the house is a beautiful 0. 8 ha ( 2 acre ) Victorian walled garden with interesting and rare trees, delightful summer houses and fruiting orange trees, thought to be 300 years old, roses, herbaceous borders, fernery, croquet lawn and 17th-century reed thatched barn.

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