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72 Sentences With "taking pleasure in"

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I don't ever feel guilty about taking pleasure in something.
I was taking pleasure in the water on my skin.
It's turns out my neighbor ... I can see you taking pleasure in that.
He drew in graphite and colored pencil, taking pleasure in rendering specific objects.
Trump has an unseemly habit of taking pleasure in the troubles of US democratic allies.
"I have five or six brothers and sisters," Lonergan told me, taking pleasure in the imprecision.
And most of all, keep taking pleasure in the food you eat — crunchy, chewy, smooth and creamy.
And in taking pleasure in his outings, he's evidently a source of pleasure for lots of other creatures.
Extreme sadism — taking pleasure in others' pain — actually gets its own personality disorder, aptly named sadistic personality disorder.
Scores of basic values were also assessed: helping others, tradition, taking pleasure in life, achieving success, and excitement.
People should not be hoping the President fails or taking pleasure in his failure on the global stage.
It's a machine of a track to put a hole in something along to, taking pleasure in the bruising.
They take mainstream loathing as a badge of honor and wind up taking pleasure in their most unattractive instincts.
He's never shown taking pleasure in others' suffering, or spending money to make the lives of the poor worse.
But the distinction hardly matters: they behave as racist psychopaths, lusting for blood and taking pleasure in their kill counts.
Throwing doors open, laughing and talking loudly, taking pleasure in the disapproval and apprehension of white folks and older blacks, too.
"This person is stimulated by violence, looking to break the norms of society, taking pleasure in the suffering of others," said Lipman.
On "Scandalous" he sings in his serrated falsetto, "Tonight I'm gonna be your fantasy", purposefully objectifying himself, and taking pleasure in women's pleasure.
But instead of doing what lawyers usually do and working to solve his client's problems, Giuliani seems to be taking pleasure in making things worse.
Today's moon in Cancer illuminates the sector of your chart that rules your daily routines and rituals, and you're taking pleasure in getting your tasks done.
Hygge (pronounced HUE-gah) is a Danish word that describes a mood or feeling that comes from taking pleasure in making everyday moments more meaningful or beautiful.
The popularity of the Borja cultural center and the Museum of Bad Art nods to a deeply human quirk: taking pleasure in, and empathizing with, others' mistakes.
After several seasons of Bojack understandably despising his abusive mother, and taking pleasure in her bouts of confused dementia, we finally see him let go of his resentment.
Friendship, which is, as Aristotle argued, critical to human well-being, is about looking out for each other, just as it is about taking pleasure in each other's successes.
Even when there's a flurry of instruments playing at once, they usual shirk drama in favor of delicate ornamentation, taking pleasure in a moment, finding the beauty in each swirling note.
But this idea of an "Emotional Terrorist" holding a set hostage while raging on and taking pleasure in making people cry while others go on the offensive only to claim victim status??
The privileged highborn bastard of Roose Bolton, Ramsay took to his father's murderous ways, taking pleasure in killing those loyal or disloyal to him — it really didn't seem to make a difference.
I found myself almost taking pleasure in this judgment—like the pleasure of pushing on a bruise—and the ways it became a consolidation, a shoring-up of selfhood: I am not that.
Aside from taking pleasure in the feeling of moving untethered through the years, they may have wanted to make sure their careers were on track before starting a family during a rocky economic period.
But it is impossible for someone like Weisner, wildly successful at every level and at the end of a remarkable season at Oregon State, from taking pleasure in what happens when you play Connecticut.
As he drank a bottle of red wine in his apartment in the Windsor Terrace section of Brooklyn in the first days of the year, Mr. Bozic acknowledged taking pleasure in recounting his life's episodes.
Trump, a Republican, referenced the North Korean criticism in a Twitter post on Saturday in which he mentioned Biden, initially misspelling his name as Bidan and taking pleasure in the North Korean leader's sharp rhetoric.
A couple of hours later Venus changes signs to enter rational Aquarius, which finds you taking pleasure in reading and writing from March 1 to March 26, a beneficial planet to have here during tax season.
Working in a modest scale with commonplace materials, while taking pleasure in the act of making, Clippinger and D'Arrigo find ways to pull us into the domain of emotion, which can be unsettling, embarrassing, and funny.
Despite her dedication to the genre, the truth (which she has readily admitted in so many words) is that she's embarrassed to be seen in public taking pleasure in a literary tradition that typically gets written off as trash.
In his tweet, the president, who is running for re-election in 2020, knocked his potential Democratic opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, misspelling his name and taking pleasure in the North Korean leader's sharp rhetoric about a fellow American.
Whether she is baking a honey cake, frying anchovy-stuffed sage leaves or poaching a whole chicken to make soup, she believes that taking pleasure in food is an inherently nourishing act, that to cook yourself dinner is to be good to yourself.
I only wonder this: the episode treats the "museum" (run by Rolo Haynes, who is played by Douglas Hodge) as essentially a stand in for the larger systemic mechanisms for taking pleasure in the destruction of black men, and by extension all black people, and in the financial profiteering from such entertainment.
I baked it in a ring pan, of course, although it's fine in a Bundt, and now that berries are in season, I've taken to folding some in, allowing them to rise or fall as the batter bakes and taking pleasure in how their sweet-tart flavor turns up unpredictably in each slice.
Roughly half of the stories in You Know You Want This center on a woman or group of women or girls taking pleasure in being vicious, conniving, or simply gross, the last quality being the result of Roupenian's narrative doctrine to allow her characters "equal opportunity" to be disgusting, as she told Elle.
Chris Kraus documents her narrator taking pleasure in the intoxicating (and generative) force of an unrequited crush in "I Love Dick" (1997) and Kathleen Stewart explores daily sources of relief in "Ordinary Affects" (2007) — one car paying for the toll of the car behind; sleepy strangers gathered around the free breakfast buffet at an airport hotel.
The album presents a list of classic American archetypes that Clark twists around in unpredictable ways as she finds new shades of subversive meaning in familiar vernacular expressions, taking pleasure in the mild poker face that has replaced aggression as the new female stereotype in Nashville, and suggesting that the blandness implied by this role might just be a put-on.
The book follows Hans Volkenborn's experiences in the German army during World War I. He initially goes into the war with some enthusiasm, taking pleasure in the camaraderie with his fellow soldiers. This eventually turns sour as he goes through the toil and bloodshed of war.
He then swears off love dedicating himself to self-improvement. The result is a person of calm resignation, taking pleasure in music and literature. He grows into a man who has taste in music, clothes, and literature. He is successful in his career and seemingly content.
Riḍā, the final station, is a word that only roughly translates to "acceptance" in English. Along with this is also means taking pleasure in something or someone. Acceptance is said to be the greatest gate to God and is seen as heaven on earth. The station is divided into three parts.
Damon Salvatore is a vampire, turned by Katherine Pierce 145 years prior to the series' debut. He is the son of late Giuseppe Salvatore, ripper Lily Salvatore and older brother of Stefan Salvatore. Damon is portrayed as charming but cruel, taking pleasure in killing and feeding on humans, while Stefan satisfies his vampiric hunger by feeding on animals.
It is later revealed that English Boy is a sexual sadist, taking pleasure in torturing his partners and taking advantage of his boyfriend's masochism for his own pleasure. It is also revealed that American Girl had an abusive sexual relationship with a superior officer. It is implied that these relationships may have furthered the main characters' descent.
First issue Alberta Antique Auto license plate. First issued from 1963 until 1975 Some consider such collectibles be a form of investment. Buying a particular antique car is then done primarily in view of profit in a future sale and not of enjoying a drive or taking pleasure in restoration work. The market for antique cars fluctuates wildly over the years.
Demons in the series are generally portrayed as cruel and sadistic, often taking pleasure in causing humans pain. They are also, as series creator Eric Kripke deems them, "erudite and sophisticated".Knight, Nicholas, Season 1 Companion, p.115 While the "tyrant" Azazel commanded the demons in the first two seasons, demons as a whole became the villains of the third season.
This is a good example of how Xiang Jing shows a sense of violence through her work. The woman is taking pleasure in the fear and fear of the other woman. The woman who is in fear is vulnerable because of her fear of death. The women are in modern clothes, Xiang Jing is trying to show that some women live in this sort of fear in the modern day.
His father said while Maskepetoon was revelling in the glory of his accomplishments in battle, > The glory you are now seeking will be short-lived. Delighting in war, taking > pleasure in the spilling of man's blood, is all wrong. If you want to be a > great man, if you want to be remembered long, turn about and work for peace. > This is the only thing that will give you true fame.
Hargett 1985, pp. 74–76. One of the earliest known records of taking pleasure in travel, of travelling for the sake of travel and writing about it, is Petrarch's (1304-1374) ascent of Mount Ventoux in 1336. He states that he went to the mountaintop for the pleasure of seeing the top of the famous height. His companions who stayed at the bottom he called frigida incuriositas ("a cold lack of curiosity").
Schadenfreude means taking pleasure in the misfortune of others and can be understood as an outgrowth of envy in certain situations. Envy and schadenfreude are very similar and are linked emotional states. Both emotions are considered very complex and oftentimes looked down upon, which is understandable considering they are both antisocial behaviors. Given the detrimental states of these emotions, it is very important to understand their development in the early stages of childhood.
Excluding those presumed to be prostitutes, who might be either slaves or infames; Parker, p. 283. In his work on the interpretation of dreams (c. 170 AD), Artemidorus takes a symbolic view of the sexual value of slaves: to dream of having sex with one's own female slave was a good thing, "for slaves are the dreamer's possession; therefore taking pleasure in them signifies the dreamer's being pleased with his own possessions".Artemidorus, p. 88.5–12 PackPotter (2009), p. 340.
Rosa Bonheur did all three. Bonheur never explicitly said she was a lesbian, but her lifestyle and the way she talked about her female partners suggests this. Weaning the Calves, 1879 Bonheur, while taking pleasure in activities usually reserved for men (such as hunting and smoking), viewed her womanhood as something far superior to anything a man could offer or experience. She viewed men as stupid and mentioned that the only males she had time or attention for were the bulls she painted.
He is aggressive, cocky and rowdy, brutally taking pleasure in slaughtering pathogens and unhealthy cells. He especially looks down on white blood cells forming relationships with non- white blood cells, like Neutrophil's close friendship with Red Blood Cell. He is the sergeant of the Killer T Cells and is a harsh teacher to his students, the Naive T Cells. He has negative relationships with Helper T Cell and NK Cell, the former being his superior in the Killer T Division.
In the work is present the author's typical parodistic opening where he uses sophisticated detachment and understatement to make the sad fate of a child at the hands of his nurse seem tragicomic. Also present is the hero's public confession before his descent into madness. This short story explores Ibsen's idea of a life-sustaining lie. Here it is present in Herr Friedemann trying to live out a life without a romantic relationship, by taking pleasure in art and nature.
In the novel, Brown is portrayed as the 17-year-old leader and enforcer of a small-time gang in the Brighton underworld that runs numbers and protection rackets for Colleoni, the local kingpin. A violent sociopath, he brutalizes and murders people, even his own henchmen, without remorse, and is incapable of feeling love or taking pleasure in life. Brown is depicted as severely neurotic. He regards everyone he meets with hatred and contempt, and yet envies them for feeling emotions he cannot experience.
As a dubstep and dancehall song, "Cockiness (Love It)" features dancehall stylised vocals and a rap bridge by Rihanna. Claire Suddath of Time Entertainment noted that the speed in which Rihanna delivers her vocal is so fast that it blends in with the composition, which she wrote "becomes the basis for the beat." The instrumentation of "Cockiness (Love It)" consists of vocal whoops, cracking drums and bawling horns. Throughout the song, Rihanna sings in a taunting nature, taking pleasure in being able to tease the listener.
Plutarch, Life of Pelopidas, 4. Plutarch says that this incident firmly cemented their friendship, and Pelopidas would be Epaminondas's partner in politics for the next 20 years. Epaminondas defending Pelopidas at the Siege of Mantinea (385 BC). According to Plutarch's Life of Pelopidas (from Plutarch’s Parallel Lives in which Pelopidas‘s life was paired with the life of Marcellus), he lessened his inherited estate by showing constant care for the deserving poor of Thebes, taking pleasure in simple clothing, a sparse diet, and the constant hardships of military life.
In the chorus he laments no longer taking pleasure in the singing of the laverock, the skylark. He gained the patronage of General Scott of Malleny, and dedicated to him Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect (Leith, 1819). Thomson also published A poem, chiefly in the Scottish dialect, on raising and selling the dead, and the melancholy spectacle which was presented to the inhabitants of Currie, on their taking two dead bodies from a cart in its way from Lanark to Edinburgh (Leith, 1821). Thomson lived until 1832, in reasonable prosperity.
200 or "Cosmopolitan Bibliophile Society".Harald Leupold-Löwenthal, Ein unmöglicher Beruf: über die schöne Kunst, ein Analytiker zu sein Arbeiten zur Psychoanalyse, Böhlau Verlag Wien, 1997, , p.153 The victim, a married woman, is raped by a stranger in a locked railway compartment and, in a trope common in later Victorian pornography, is depicted as ultimately taking pleasure in the act:Mark Bracher, Lacan, discourse, and social change: a psychoanalytic cultural criticism, Cornell University Press, 1993, , pp.86-87 she is then flagellated by her brother-in-law for the latter transgression.
Regarded as the second best Wetboy in Cenaria after Durzo, and the master of Viridiana Sovari. Hu is described as butcher, taking pleasure in spilling as much blood as possible, innocent or not, as an offering to his god Nysos. A violent and arrogant drug addict and murderer, he sleeps with several women and usually beats and murders them, but he claims to be in love with Vi despite frequently raping and beating her since she was a child. He was responsible for the slaughter of Logan's family, and everyone in Gyre estate.
Burns plays the dual roles of both God and the devil. The devil—Harry O. Tophet—(Tophet is a Hebrew word for "Hell") is a lively character, taking pleasure in petty acts of PG-rated malice, such as making a waiter fall into a pool. The movie tells the story of a struggling rock musician/songwriter, Bobby Shelton (played by Wass), who cannot get a break. Bobby, desperate to support his wife, Wendy (Roxanne Hart), and start a family, muses that he would sell his soul to the devil to get ahead.
Her memory was supposedly damaged in the aftermath of her dramatic appearance; any remainder was wiped out by S.T.A.R. Labs. Indigo displays a very naive personality, guilelessly taking pleasure in the simple things in life, like doing laundry for friends, bowling, and silent movies. She often struggles to learn how to behave in society, and takes her cues from those she lives with. As she grows more integrated in her quest to earn the acceptance and forgiveness of Nightwing and her teammates, she even manages to find love with Shift.
Nietzsche describes this as a more complete possession. A still more refined desire to possess her prompts a concern that she might be willing to sacrifice what she desires for a mistaken image of her lover. This leads some lovers to want their women to know them deep down so that their sacrifice really is a sacrifice for them. A similar rank-ordering applies to statesmen, the less refined not caring whether they attain power by fraud, the more refined not taking pleasure in the people's love unless they love the statesman for who he really is.
248 In concentrating on the security of the empire's core territories he tacitly abandoned some peripheral regions, notably in Italy, which were lost. However, the hostile reaction of the Roman Church and the Italian people to iconoclasm had probably doomed imperial influence in central Italy, regardless of any possible military intervention. Due to his espousal of iconoclasm Constantine was damned in the eyes of contemporary iconodule writers and subsequent generations of Orthodox historians. Typical of this demonisation are the descriptions of Constantine in the writings of Theophanes the Confessor: "a monster athirst for blood", "a ferocious beast", "unclean and bloodstained magician taking pleasure in envoking demons", "a precursor of Antichrist".
A Greek statue showing the bitting and bridling system In the next section, Xenophon describes how to make a horse showy, with a great and noble bearing. Ahead of his time, he emphasized that the rider should not pull on the bit nor spur or whip the horse, as this type of riding causes the opposite effect, simply distracting and frightening the animal and causing him to dislike being ridden. Instead, Xenophon urges, the horse must enjoy himself. He should be trained to be ridden on a loose rein, to hold his head high, arch his neck, and paw with his front legs, taking pleasure in being ridden.
By contrast, after his Mysteronisation he is an almost stereotypical villain, taking pleasure in the acts of murder that he commits; in one episode, he leaves Captain Scarlet chained up next to a doomsday device, complete with digital countdown. However, on some occasions (for example, in the episode "Best of Enemies") Scarlet is able to educe Black's original personality, nearly to the point of breaking the Mysterons' conditioning. In "Dominion", the series finale, Black is knocked unconscious while attempting to destroy a nuclear facility. On recovering, he claims to have been liberated from Mysteron control, and asks Scarlet to return with him to Mars to launch an attack on the Mysteron city.
Angela Lipton (Angela Kinsey) and Oscar Martinez (Oscar Nunez) call Angela's husband Senator Robert Lipton (Jack Coleman) to inform him that the documentary will probably out him and reveal that Angela slept with Dwight. Andy Bernard (Ed Helms) becomes obsessed with online comments regarding his brief appearance in the promo, posting lengthy replies and even uploading his own video in response to negative reactions. The documentary crew discovers that Nellie Bertram (Catherine Tate) has left at least some of the negative comments, taking pleasure in Andy's annoyance. Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson) starts dating a Brussels sprout farmer, Esther Bruegger (Nora Kirkpatrick), while negotiating the purchase of a tractor with her father Henry (Allan Havey).
It is shortly after this Moll starts up her criminal career as a means of making her own way and paying for room and board, pawing stolen silver with The Governess. She begins apprehensively, taking a silver cup from the street and working her way up to stealing fabrics off store shelves with a hook lined cloak. As she learns new tricks and tips on how to steal and not get caught, Moll eventually develops a taste for the con world and even grows to enjoy it, taking pleasure in the costumes she adorns. In one specific encounter, she is dressed like a young Spanish woman, complete with a red dress and brown wig.
Anything that goes beyond what is necessary for this restoration, then, is cruel; the peace and harmony is not balanced with excessive punishment or violence—the scale of wrongdoing merely tips to the other side. For example, the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution prohibits cruel and unusual punishment, which means that we must “inquire into a prison official’s state of mind […]” when determining that the agent is not taking pleasure in inflicting pain and that punishment does not exceed the crime. The third conception is victim-subjective, in which the “element of cruelty rests in the victim's intense experience of suffering”. Here, the pain or the sense of degradation and humiliation experienced particularly and uniquely by the victim is considered.

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