And in each fantasy, his triumph had been deliriously witnessed by family, friends, and the world around him.

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And you might spot their descendants, alive and at play, in the city's smattering of old-fashioned restaurants and deliriously fun nightclubs.

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Her house hasn't been cleaned in decades, and she thinks she can win the heart of a doctor who treated her dying mother in the early 1950s, deliriously believing her then infatuation was actually reciprocated.

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After their athletes topped the medals table with 14 golds at the winter Olympic games, some 100, 000 flag-waving locals took to the streets of Vancouver and the nearby ski resort of Whistler, deliriously singing the national anthem.

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Set in America in the not-too-distant future, the novel braided countless characters and ideas into a deliriously strange and self-consciously literary plot, involving a tennis academy, a recovery facility, a dysfunctional family and a debilitatingly gripping film.

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"The evening only achieves the kind of deliriously silly and joyous lift-off that you really, really want from this kind of show - and more than once - at the encore, " summed up Paul Taylor in The Independent.

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