Sentence examples for a strange joy from inspiring English sources

It's still a strange joy to use today.

He imagined, with a strange joy, the narrow life they would lead.

I found myself overcome with grief, but also a strange joy, as I wept in the presence and comfort of the brotherhood.

As an adult, I find a strange joy in re-experiencing that feeling and pledge to hold on to it in 2007.

"You know when you are in the middle of battle and mortars start slamming the earth around you, you forget all your fears and there is a strange joy and happiness.

The subject is awful, almost unthinkable, but you feel a strange joy in the writing, the serene satisfaction of exactitude in the sound those two adjectives, "dire, hurtling," make as they tumble into place.

Meanwhile, Sonia sheds her silence to confess a sudden, strange joy, inspired by the shy hope that her love for Dr. Astrov (Igor Chernevich) might somehow be returned.

Somehow, though, state leaders seemed to take a kind of strange joy in describing their dour prospects, especially the newly elected governors who are not likely to shoulder responsibility for whatever decisions brought their state to that point.

That dumbness, however, is part of the fun, and there is a strange, befuddling joy in responding to a film with mouth agape, one finger pointing heavenward, as you struggle to formulate a question that will not come.

But if you can't find a strange, masochistic joy in the really dull bits, working in the media, and certainly publishing, is never going to make you happy.

So why, then, this strange joy?