Sentence examples for a perverse satisfaction from inspiring English sources

Blatter, who faces arguably the most critical weekend of his 13-year reign as Fifa president, said that it was wrong to assume that he took a "perverse satisfaction" in the corruption charges against Bin Hammam and Warner.

There's a perverse satisfaction to watching Elaine confront her compromise-prone boss, President Garcetti, who won the primary with his message of hope, by convincing the voters to choose him over a woman who ran a bad campaign, and who knows that she's ill-suited to press the flesh, to schmooze, to lie.

In "Prices on My Head," he takes a perverse satisfaction in describing the iron laws of a ruthless universe (with "hustlers" substituted for a racial epithet): You see these [hustlers] get out the pen, and think it's good, Go get a pack and come right back to the same hood.

I wave, with a smile that hides a perverse satisfaction.

Although sometimes I wish I were, because I get a perverse satisfaction when I see an old guy with a perky-boobed 20-something.

Success does not sit easily with us, and more than one English fan I know took a certain perverse satisfaction in seeing England lose a one-day series 5-0 IndiadIndia

When we mutter "Typical!" we are expressing annoyance and resentment, but also a sort of grudging, humorous forbearance and there is even an element of perverse satisfaction: we may have been inconvenienced by the rain and the endless queues, but we have not been taken unawares.

When we mutter "Typical!" we are expressing annoyance and resentment, but also a sort of grudging, humourous forbearance – and there is even an element of perverse satisfaction: we may have been inconvenienced by the rain and the endless queues, but we have not been taken unawares.

The Year of Water For those who have lived with China's air pollution, it has been a source of some perverse satisfaction to watch, this year, as the world fully acknowledged the impact of China's epic smog.

"Motorola management may have achieved some perverse satisfaction from a New York Judge's ruling against the owners of Telsim.

Yes, he agrees, much to her perverse satisfaction; they're a little flabby.