delight the senses

"What is a garden but a place to delight the senses?"

She is much skilled in the musical arts and knows many ways to delight the senses.

Environments that delight the senses and invite to relax.

Truly satisfying food doesn't just fill the stomach, it delights the senses too.

The autumn months delight the senses with the most perfect weather imaginable: cool nights and warm, sunny days.

They were vital, splendid creatures, many of them undoubtedly exquisitely trained to delight the senses of a master.

Flower gardens combine plants of different heights, colors, textures, and fragrances to create interest and delight the senses.

Nothing was ornamental- everything was stripped to its barest fundamental necessities-but every working part functioned with a smooth precision to delight the senses of any good mechanic.

Infiltrated by worshippers of the gourmet gods, McLaren Vale (37km from Adelaide) has plenty of ways to delight the senses.

He led the life of a sybarite in the famous palace and gardens of Azahara, surrounding himself with all that could excite the imagination and delight the senses.

Back on the road to Jaisalmer, one last splash of color delights the senses before you plunge into the desert: the fields are dotted with mounds of red hot chili peppers.

Others have seen in this dichotomy, the long-standing debate whether visual art is about theoretical principles and meant to narrate a full story, or a painterly decorative endeavor, meant to delight the senses.

The piece delights the senses and stimulates the mind, two of three characteristics of effective theater cited by Michael Pedretti, the founder and director of the festival, in a curtain speech.

This is where divine inspiration comes in: cinnamon, pineapple, licorice, coriander, litchi nut, coffee, strawberry - whatever delights the senses, sometimes in natural flavorings but usually (and more economically) in artificial flavors.

In other words, it retains the felicities of a bygone era when public places were designed to delight the senses, not just to pack people in like so many pickled pork hocks in a tin can.

Designed by E. Verner Johnson & Associates of Boston, and run by the Liberty Science Center Foundation, a not-for-profit group, the museum seems to spare no expense to delight the senses.

The Times described "an unceasing showing of the things that mechanical skill could accomplish," which "in many ways charmed and delighted the senses of the listeners, though it sometimes seemed almost as if it overburdened and wearied them."

True puzzle aficionados know that there's a whole universe of three-dimensional puzzles and riddles - some made out of wood, others out of metal, plastic or even fabric - that boggle the mind and delight the senses.

In the early 18th century, the Maharaja of Jodhpur-Marwar built a fabulous palace of pleasures within the mile circumference of its mighty walls, a place where water, light, sound, scent and gardens combined to delight the senses.

A yablock at Petrossian (listed under the heading "Teasers," which are defined as "something truly new, unusual combinations of flavor and texture that are guaranteed to delight the senses") contains green apple preserves, marinated carrot sticks, caramelized popcorn and fleur de sel.

It's a scene to delight the senses: the whir of a rocket catapulting through the night sky, a blinding white salute, an ear-splitting bang and finally a release of incandescent color that shoots through the heavens and then filters back to earth amid the faint aroma of sulfur.