Sentence examples for awful pleasure from inspiring English sources

Gray affects a kind of grinning servility, a working-class good-enough-for-the-likes-of-me manner, while he takes his awful pleasure in reminding the medical men of their complicity in his crimes.

"It's not a necessity to beat us, but it gives them an awful lot of pleasure," Smith said of the Australians.

He took no pleasure in the awful acts that his Cerberus organization had to enact he believed that he had no choice, that fate had forced his hand.

"The work itself is never anything but pure pleasure, but there's an awful lot of peripheral stuff that I find it hard to be surrounded by.

If so, envy and pity could involve misperceiving that envied others have lives that are uniformly wonderful (overlooking that they still face smaller annoyances) and pitied others have lives that are uniformly awful (overlooking that they still enjoy smaller pleasures).

But to suppose the Legislature intended by section 19 of The Interpretation Act, 1995 that the chairperson and vice-chairpersons of the Board should be presumed to hold office during pleasure only is to suppose an awful lot.

The one aesthetic pleasure anyone could take in this awful website will be sucked away because no one who runs Twitter actually understands why people use it.

Either way -- Guilty Pleasure or Righteous Pain -- we feel awful.

I never forgot its awful history; on the contrary, that history sharpened my pleasure in wearing it.

"One of the things that's difficult is to know how to forgive yourself for taking pleasure in an experience that's an awful experience," Mr. Mack told him.

These awful dreams, he allowed, had nothing to do with the pursuit of pleasure and the release of tension that most dreams embodied.