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Guilty enjoyment of a clunky line of the week?
But the enormous guilty enjoyment I recently found in reading a play-prop Mandy has reawakened the kraken.
And it seems to me that sense of guilty enjoyment, translated into theatrical terms, is a large part of what Punchdrunk is trying to elicit here.
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It's not just down to nostalgia or the guarded enjoyment of a guilty pleasure.
The first Hot Tub, a spirited Hangover derivative, qualified as a guilty pleasure; five years on, any enjoyment this afterthought generates may necessitate a lifetime of Hail Marys.
If one of the officials calls a touchdown and another throws a flag because Seattle receiver Golden Tate is guilty of offensive pass interference, how much enjoyment would everyone have been deprived?
And I refuse to refer to my enjoyment of pop culture as a "guilty pleasure" – because as far as I'm concerned there's no guilt involved.
The enjoyment of gangster pictures is a guilty pleasure, and, in the early thirties, Hollywood could not distribute these movies without at least making a show of contrition.
Morgan and Firth stress that enjoyment of fashion should not make people feel guilty.
Indeed, I could say much of the Swayze oeuvre were guilty pleasures, but then again I feel no guilt at my unalloyed enjoyment of so much of his work.
I'm guilty of judging, too, though, despite the creeping feeling that scrutinizing people's enjoyment of specific things music, movies, TV shows, whatever has something inherently classist about it.
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