Sentence examples for Secret joy from inspiring English sources

Her secret joy at someone else's misfortune is ghastly to behold.

In the foreword to a 1931 collection of newsbreaks, he wrote, "There is a secret joy in discovering a blunder in the public prints.

Such phenomena gave me a secret joy to contemplate, and, with the lessening intensity that applies in my old age to all sensations, they still do.

By contrast, Ditto replicates all the secret joy of accidentally leaving your phone at home, with none of the accompanying panic.

And could any interior really represent "manifestations of the secret joy felt by a man listening to the faintest of inner voices"?

I have refused to confine or label my children in any way, and sometimes I tell Cascade that his penis is called a vagina, just so I can watch him pound his tiny head against the wall with secret joy.

He knows the secret joys of their jobs: "When you're cooking you're kind of eating in your mind the whole time".

While there is pleasure in the latter (it is, to quote from the subtitle of the book, one of the secret joys of bureaucracy), it is the former that excites him as an antidote to our form‑filling red-taped society.

He knows the secret joys of their jobs: "When you're cooking you're kind of eating in your mind the whole time". And he knows their secret dependencies: "To serve the kind of food that has earned worldwide acclaim, Keller..

Perhaps Graeber's most interesting claim, though, is that our expressed hostility toward bureaucracy is at least partly disingenuous: that these thickets of rules and regulations are a source, to quote from his subtitle, of "secret joys" for most of us.

Hidden by trees near Esmeralda Avenue in Bernal Heights is a semi-secret joy ride where daredevils can propel themselves.