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9 Sentences With "taken pleasure in"

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It cannot be a random mishap that so many unpleasant people have taken pleasure in his work.
At a little kitchen table, over tea served in the indestructible handmade earthenware mugs of the seventies, she commented, somewhat defiantly, that she had always taken pleasure in cooking and keeping house.
Mayor Bill de Blasio has taken pleasure in noting his stark differences with President Trump, but on Thursday he admitted that they had at least one thing in common: They have both ridden between the cars on the subway.
On 2 January 1892, Maupassant tried to commit suicide by cutting his throat, and was committed to the private asylum of Esprit Blanche at Passy, in Paris, where he died 6 July 1893. Maupassant penned his own epitaph: "I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing." He is buried in Section 26 of the Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris.
Assirati was known as a vicious competitor. He is said to have taken pleasure in injuring his opponents, and often refused to play along with the predetermined nature of professional wrestling. Many promoters were reluctant to book him, because of his reputation for double- crossing his opponents, and many wrestlers were said to be afraid to wrestle him. Assirati stated that Lou Thesz was one of the wrestlers afraid to face him.
Forms of this ballad are very common in Scandinavia and Germany.Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, v 2, p 204-6, Dover Publications, New York 1965 The ballads, Lord Thomas and Fair Annet and Fair Margaret and Sweet William contain some similar themes, but in those ballads, the hero is actively fickle, seeking another bride.Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, v 2, p 204, Dover Publications, New York 1965 A closer equivalent to this ballad is Lady Alice, Child ballad 85.Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, v 2, p 279, Dover Publications, New York 1965 Child complained that "Lord Lovel" is prone to parody: "Therefore a gross taste has taken pleasure in parodying it".
In 1680, his widow lived in the house of La Guinoisellerie, inherited from Marie Beaugrand; she died there in 1690; he left six children François, sieur du Fresne, architect like his father and grandfather; Pierre, master surgeon Adrien, soldier in the King's army, Catherine, wife of François Huguet Françoise and Marie, single dead, the first on 16 September 1715, the second on 4 January 1736. Corbineau had a son, Gilles who received with his stepbrother the lessons of his father and was an architect like his fatherOn the death of his parents, Marie Beaugrand inherited a house adjacent to the porte Beucheresse. On February 9, 1627, the household moved there. The Count of Laval, Henri de La Trémoille, seemed to have taken pleasure in making this residence pleasant to his architect.
As the questioning comes to an end, Wolfe asks that the four players who were drugged remain behind, along with Kinney, Soffer, Durkin, and Chisholm, and comments that one fact has come to light and drawn his attention. Realizing that he had previously seen Lila seated in the stands and looking pleased at the Giants' poor play, Archie leaves the stadium and finds her and a friend sitting in her parked car a few blocks away. He claims that her behavior may lead the police to think that Moyse was paid to drug the drinks and fix the game, but learns from her friend that she was angry at Moyse being left on the bench throughout the entire Series and had taken pleasure in their loss. Lila insists that Moyse had nothing to do with the drugging or the murder, but admits that the two of them had been approached by someone who wanted Moyse to fix the game: her uncle, Dan Gale.
Since this is one of the rare fables without human or animal characters, the subject has been a gift to artists and illustrators. From the earliest printed editions, the makers of woodcuts have taken pleasure in contrasting diagonals with the verticals and horizontals of the picture space, as well as the textures of the pliable reed and the sturdy tree trunk. Among 16th century emblem-makers there was even a prescription for how the scene should be presented. According to Hadrianus Junius (1565), ‘The way the picture should be drawn is straightforward: in it, one of the winds is blowing with puffed- out cheeks, breaking up the huge trees in its way, pulling them up, uprooting them and flinging them around; but a patch of reeds survives unscathed.’ Other contemporary examples of this approach are in Bernard Salomon's illustration in Les Fables d'Esope Phrygien (1554, see above) and the Latin poems of Hieronymus Osius (1564).

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