Sentence examples similar to a slight pleasure from inspiring English sources
It's ambitions are modest and ultimately unmet, thanks to a howler of an ending that spoils any slight pleasures offered earlier.
Convertibles get better mileage with the top up (although the slight pleasure for the mile or two per gallon sacrificed with the top down is cheap entertainment, assuming one has already paid the considerable extra money for a convertible).
Not even a little pleasure?
If this was the only show offered, one could argue that the company merely indulges in zany, slight pleasures.
I think she laughs at me, because maybe she takes just a slight glimmer of pleasure in how threatened I feel".
At first, viewers may feel a slight jolt of pleasure at the sight of a new visual effect, they say, but over time the intrusions contribute to the sense that the screen is far more cluttered — not just with ads, but with news crawls and other streams of information.
I wanted the total annihilation of the tree that was rooted in the little navel-less belly of some stupid first woman who didn't know what she was doing or what horrors we'd pay for her miserable coitus, which had certainly not given her the slightest pleasure".
He is addicted to all this, and the thought of doing without it is intolerable; yet none of these things brings him the slightest pleasure, and it is at the height of his success-ennui that Simmons learns that he has leukaemia and has one more year to live.
The young Eva was a slight, though formidable, girl with an infectious appetite for pleasure.
