Sentence examples for complicated pleasure from inspiring English sources

I take a perverse and complicated pleasure in listening to all the mean, manipulative things those people say.

There's a similar, more complicated pleasure in THE LONDON TOWN GARDEN, 1740-1840 (Yale University, $60), by Todd LongsTodde-Gowan.

The complicated work was part of the complicated pleasure, the waste of time integral to the feeling that it was well spent.

Refuelling has been nectar to strategists at the expense of fans who enjoy the less complicated pleasure of wheel-to-wheel racing.

Boxing heightens this complicated pleasure because the outcomes can be so drastic: a bad loss can derail a fighter's year, his career, his life.

The pleasure of "On Tangled Paths" is not the thrill of watching a female character struggle against social convention, as so many great heroines of nineteenth-century literature do, but the perhaps more complicated pleasure of recognizing a character who knows when to give in.

No Knives in the Kitchens of this City is intricately plotted, chronologically complicated and a pleasure to read.

It is easy to rage about the various distractions that complicate the pleasures of museums, but selfie sticks and all the rest are part of a great democratisation of culture.

Mr. Keith does not have a complicated relationship with his pleasures, or his politics: bluntness is his métier.

"No one's saying that sex can't be complicated and perverse, its pleasures reliant — for some — on riffing on old power imbalances," wrote Traister in that same 2015 piece.

But the logistics of the plot are complicated beyond the point of pleasure, primarily because the story is built on the bones of an earlier case, solved in a previous book.