His countryside only exists as spectacle, for the delectation of people with motor cars.
The medieval church taught that morose delectation was a sin.
Whether it gave delectation to the bus driver at the wheel or to the conductor upstairs perhaps, on some private occasion, my noble friend will enlighten me.
Some few years ago the young ladies, for our delectation, had their hair cut short—they were shingled; and there has been a most abnormal boom amongst the barbering profession.
No doubt that is treated as a trivial matter, but it imposed additional costs on every motorist, to the pleasure and delectation of tyre manufacturers, of between £50 and £1,000.
It has been made clear that the millers are not in business for their own personal delectation.
The law is not a game which is expensively played by lawyers for their own delectation and benefit.
These details are not revealed for our delectation.
