Sentence examples for delight in causing from inspiring English sources

True, too, of boxing's Mike Tyson, a convicted rapist who seems to delight in causing pain.

Of one Kennedy operative, who, in "an attempt at reverse psychology," likely mailed thousands of crude anti-Catholic pamphlets to Catholic voters, we're given the amused judgment of Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.: "He took cheerful delight in causing trouble and in reorganizing the truth".

I don't like what it stands for, the opinions its presenters express, their casual delight in causing offence, their contempt for anything that doesn't reflect their smug, moneyed worldview (though I suspect James May might be OK – the occasional programmes in his Toy Stories strand often end up reducing me to tears with their joy in their Sisyphean pointlessness).

Sure, there are some power-hungry jerks working in IT, taking great delight in causing consternation and frustration to hapless users.

The feral youths who arrogantly swagger around our communities delighting in causing terror, mayhem and nuisance to ordinary decent people trying to live their lives in peace, have been with us for a very long time.

It's the nature of the machine, we believe, to crave notice, and it delights in causing as much outrage and annoyance as possible, all in the hope that someone will take it apart.

She is a vigorous campaigner for Jamaican self-esteem and one of the champions of a linguistic drive to chart a uniform phonetic orthography of the Jamaican dialect.David Heron also delights in causing a stir.

If anything, this lavish delight in language perhaps caused the narrative to flag slightly.

O'Grady said: "It won't have been an easy decision for hard-pressed public sector workers to vote to lose a day's pay this week, nor will they take delight in any disruption caused to the public.

O'Grady said: "It won't have been an easy decision for hard-pressed public sector workers to vote to lose a day's pay this week, nor will they take delight in any disruption caused to the public". "But if the government continues to hold down pay, our public services will struggle to hold onto and recruit skilled and dedicated staff.

Of course bombing will cause delight in Islamic State, where it will form the only entertainment.