Sentence examples for delicious pleasure from inspiring English sources

It is a delicious pleasure to hear Derek Trucks play the guitar on "Songlines.

What a joy it is to see Margaret Atwood taking such delicious pleasure in the end of the world.

Split in half and smothered with homemade jam and clotted cream ($7), they are a simple, delicious pleasure.

Much like a whirlwind romance, reading chick lit is a delicious pleasure while it lasts but a harsh jolt back to reality when it's over.

False modesty, of course: there's a rotten joy in Milo's shenanigans despite his personal joylessness, a kind of delicious pleasure, with only a hint of rancidness, that accretes to us in his miserable ­wallowing.

"The thud of a corpse falling into a freshly dug grave gives him a positively delicious pleasure," Mr Wilson notes, but he also has a taste for fine art and fine music.

Over time — and this is one of the play's most delicious pleasures — the students acquire a critical vocabulary and a point of view.

Readers must have been startled indeed to find dozens of accounts, ostensibly submitted by subscribers, describing the delicious pleasures of having a maid lace them into tight corsets, or expressing how grateful they were to have been flogged at boarding school, with details of how this well-deserved punishment was carried out.

But Paris in winter is still a magical place, and to savor one of its most delicious pleasures, you have only to walk into a cafe late in the afternoon when the windows fog over from the warmth of so many people sitting knee to knee.

(Her daughter's strenuous disagreement hardly fazes Missy). So watching the perfectly groomed older woman sweat under the strain of suspicion and arrest is a delicious guilty pleasure for readers — and for Joe.

There is certainly a delicious, childish pleasure to be had in seeing a sculpture called Hahn/Cock (hahn means "cock" in German and carries the same double meaning) in such an august location, waving his tail-feathers at the National Gallery and aiming his beak at Nelson's sniffily turned back.