self-delighting

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