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...One of my favourite routes is the Motto della Croce-Capanna Monte Bar loop and after a tough, two-hour ride uphill it’s a joy to stop at one of the mountain huts, have a meal and just enjoy the view....
...Schadenfreude, to glean joy from other people’s misfortune, is a well-documented one, while Zugzwang is a zinger that captures the pressure-cooker moment of being forced to make a quick decision....
...“And out of this misery came a flame of joy in my life. I always wanted to be a sculptor; I’d always wanted to try it.”...
...She says “it is a joy to onboard when you already know some of the people”. This was especially so after joining two organisations in the pandemic. “This is my third remote onboarding....
...“It was her free spirit, sexiness and joy that captivated me....
...Now it feels nothing short of a beacon of joy to light up dark times. “I hope it will bring the wearer a sense of subtle confidence, empowerment and optimism into the everyday,” she says....
...Portraits of his wife Anna in joy and pain — sturdy, fiercely beautiful, then convulsed, despairing, dying — are sensuous, shocking....
.../ From Gaffney J Feskoe, Woodbury, CT, US...
...Not since Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton turned up on the red carpet wearing lockets containing each other’s blood has jewellery been so intimate....
...Photograph: Paul Gaffney...
...What with Vanity Fair immersing what must be a record number of celebrities for glossy spreads — Whoopi Goldberg, Angelina Jolie, Miley Cyrus, Jon Hamm — and Kate Moss having spent, surely, a third of her...
...Besides the acquisition of jolie laide footwear, my favourite thing in life is a television crime drama....
...my classics teachers, and the subject, were not what is now called “sexy”; though experts on the use of the ablative absolute and the middle voice, they seemed to have had what Yeats called “spontaneous joy...
...David Gaffney worked as a debt counsellor for 12 years in Manchester and Birmingham. His comic thriller about multiple debt problems, ‘Never Never’, is out now...
...Best to worst value: Matt Damon, Jennifer Aniston, Angelina Jolie, Tom Cruise 16. Jeff Koons, “Hanging Heart” 17. Damien Hirst claimed to have sold “For the Love of God” in August 18....
...Pearl’s wife, Mariane, is played by Angelina Jolie, who is rumoured to be coming to town....
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