Sentence examples for concealed pleasure from inspiring English sources

Her stepmother had seemed unsurprised; she'd taken a barely concealed pleasure in the news.

Amid the conjecture surrounding Zynga's financial state, and the barely concealed pleasure with which detractors have reacted to the company's troubles, Pincus (quite naturally) is still talking about growth and ambition… There are 290 million Zynga players in the world – is there a chance you've peaked?

And yet he couldn't quite conceal his pleasure.

He cannot entirely conceal some pleasure in the realisation of his prophecies of euro doom.

He does not much conceal his pleasure in provoking his earnest questioners.

Russian officials have had trouble concealing their pleasure at the perception that the West is in strategic decline due to Middle East quagmires and cascading financial crises.

The aides on the plane were like Tiller — committed members of a cheerful, overworked microculture who could barely conceal their pleasure in Presidential propinquity.

"I'm just keeping, as some have heard me say, my powder dry until we find out what the deal is". And yet he couldn't quite conceal his pleasure.

"Instructions for a Heatwave" dutifully draws the reader through the keeping, and then the disclosure, of what has been concealed, but the novel's pleasure and urgency lie in the indelibly familiar.

Concealing the very obvious pleasure we took in each other's proximity led to some rather baffling improvised choreography, involving cushions and hats.

Our usual word for this is "plot", to whose pleasures we succumb when we recognise the signs of a concealed – but slowly revealed – design in a novel.