“... garden to meet him, wriggling out of skirt and blouse as she came. Tonight, the little squeaks of joy came with treble clusters of tintinnabulating piano chords … They were doing it in the dining-room, on the keyboard of their untuned Yamaha upright. Adventures outside marriage are equally unglamorous: Fluffysdoggingqueen had posted to say that she’d ...”

“... in London. The Hadfields arrived in the autumn of 1779, only months before the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots broke out in the capital. The family was not directly affected. They were as usual in possession of excellent connections with ‘the first people of fashion’, including Reynolds and Kauffman, and they settled in Hanover Square. It was an uneasy ...”

“... Albertina says. ‘Because it was all younger lads. And it was full of comedians. It was a joy to go into work. You’d rather go into work than stay off.’‘I started at the age of sixteen,’ Marnell says. I had a great apprenticeship. I started off on £3 3/3 a week – unbelievable. Only just paid the bus fare and the boat. That was if your ...”

“... of a much later age – such as ‘Toxotius’ and ‘Nicomachus’. He drew the conclusion. Hence joy and sorrow. Also efforts of evasion: aristocrats who bore those names in the second half of the fourth century no doubt had ancestors in the epoch of Diocletian and Constantine. In 1971 appeared the Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire. In certain respects ...”

“... in places, but Stewart is a good director of actors and there’s an excellent cameo by Kim Gordon playing a dominatrix. The film diligently follows its source material, Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir of the same name, in which a competitive swimmer turns to heroin to cope with childhood abuse before being saved by literature. There are lines ...”

“... Hanif Kureishi and directed by Stephen Frears, told the story of Anglo-Pakistani Omar (played by Gordon Warnecke) who, tired of being patronised and bullied by his family, decides to get ahead by opening a gleaming new laundrette in South London. Having acquired the necessary start-up cash by conning a family friend in a drug deal, he employs as his partner ...”

“... and they were pinpoints; they were tiny, little dots. It was like looking into a whole universe of joy and happiness and contentment.In the mid-1950s Pepper was arrested numerous times on possession charges and spent more than a year in various jails and rehabilitation centres. (He inevitably used his devious charm to hoodwink the docs into thinking he had ...”

“... despite having difficulties with walking. One thing that kept her going seemed to be her joy in being able to tell me that she could make more money going into the shop for four hours a day than I could as a writer working two or three times as long: it was like her permanent love of reminding me that she could always trounce me at cards. I think she ...”

“... The aim, in his view, of both socialism and science is ‘individualism expressing itself through joy’. The artist is the exemplary individualist: ‘Art is individualism and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force’; if the artist ‘does not do it’ – art – ‘solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.’ This isn’t ...”

“... for policy failures. The most spectacular example of this was Norman Lamont’s undisguised joy in the aftermath of the failure of the economic policies for which he had been responsible as Chancellor of the Exchequer in summer 1992, the collapse of which had nearly bankrupted the nation. (His wife was reported as having heard the former Chancellor ...”

“... a third attempt to produce a modern substitute for the Sea Songs: a work entitled Celebration, by Gordon Crosse; but this also failed to resonate with the audience in the Albert Hall or the public beyond. By this time, Colin Davis had had enough of the Last Night: he had never enjoyed the occasion, either in terms of music-making or speech-making. With ...”

“... strike certainly did. Whatever their trigger, context or duration, these collective eruptions of joy or rage were glimpses of unalienated life, anticipatory gestures towards utopia. Raoul Vaneigem’s version of the unalienated life was the ‘Totality for Kids’. Humans once existed in a primordial state of unity with nature and with the members of their ...”

“... surely known all along that Masood ‘is not that sort – no one whom I like seems to be’. The joy of shared desires is markedly absent. ‘Masood here for an hour – a hearse hilarious in comparison.’ Most of the affairs that Forster would go on to have were with bisexual, generally married men: with Mohammed el-Adl, an Alexandrian tram conductor, in a ...”

“... and the bottom line? In fact, as Leys and Player show, it was the governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown that began replacing the public components of the NHS with private ones, the effect concealed by large spending increases, long before Lansley and Cameron took charge. If the Conservatives and their Liberal allies are dismantling the NHS, it was ...”

“... She beamed like an Intelligent Angel, as she referred to Edna in Love’s Work: it would be a joy. ‘Gosh, yes, she’s very … enthusiastic,’ the philosophy man said when we told him, looking even more unhappy; there was something terribly grudging, I remember thinking, in the way he said it, inadequate entirely to the generosity and excitement with ...”