Sentence examples for grim satisfaction from inspiring English sources

Moncayo watched me with grim satisfaction.

"Contact," Martha said at last, with grim satisfaction.

Meanwhile, George derives grim satisfaction from watching me lose it.

Conservatism takes grim, or not so grim, satisfaction in demonstrations of human folly.

In the foreground, onlookers, some with children in tow, mill around in grim satisfaction.

But Sylvester Schieber takes some grim satisfaction from the reforms that took place.

These days it offers a grimmer satisfaction, something thin-lipped and Spartan.

Windfall taxes might even bring a grim smile of satisfaction to voters' faces.

But he can take only a grim kind of satisfaction in his prescience.

So last week's news that teenage birthrates inched upward late in the Bush era, after 15 years of steady decline, was greeted with a grim sort of satisfaction.

It wasn't jubilation, exactly, but there were grim nods of satisfaction that after so much bloodshed on their side, these images were of dead and wounded Israelis.