Mr. DeCurtis, who had spent a 40-year career in railroad work, relished working the late shift, his relatives said.

He relished working on the character's back story as it confounded the expectations of both him and the audience.

Mr. Bergman clearly relishes working with the Dramaten's 80-member permanent company.

Mr. Crutchfield, for one, relishes working repeatedly with the same singers in Caramoor's intimate setting.

The two relished working on a small-scale project following Evita.

I did not relish working in front of everyone, let alone revealing to all how intimate my connection to the Prince was.

"I have enough information now to know you're not the kind of person I relish working for."

Powell, who says he relished working with such an engaged client, remembers his first meeting with O'Neill in 1993.

But sure, I'd relish working for Thomas Jefferson.

"I would relish working with a man of your qualifications."