Sentence examples for derived a pleasure from inspiring English sources

It was as if he derived a pleasure in his notoriety, while he carefully avoiding saying anything that could be seen an as explicit admission of guilt.

She derived a vicarious pleasure from this.

It is common to say that a novel is what a reader makes of it, irrespective of the novelist's plans, yet readers of The Little Stranger have clearly derived a special pleasure from working out what Sarah Waters is up to.

There is something in the intellectual psyche that is vaguely masochistic, and so I think some literature buffs derived a frisson of pleasure from being paid attention to, even if they were scolded.

"She knew the difference between 'that' and 'which,' " said Ms. Diaz, who acknowledged deriving a seductive pleasure from well-formed sentences.

Still, writers are a perverse lot and will derive a skew pleasure in attempting to use the unusable.

At the same time, he seems to derive a perverse pleasure from the aura of intrigue that surrounds him.

Moving among them, sorting them out, watching them appear on the page, from this I derive a considerable pleasure.

Woods might derive a little pleasure from that, although his own challenge is far from a formality.

He'd ask others to bleed him with lancets, deriving a sexual pleasure from sharp blades – though he seemed to have little understanding of sexual intercourse, thinking a pregnancy lasted nine years.

Later, Connell looks at the lights strung up outside their home and thinks of happier Christmases, "trying to derive a simple pleasure from the lights, trying to forget that they and the hundreds more inside had not prevented the encroaching of a fathomless darkness.