Sentence examples for inordinate pleasure from inspiring English sources

(His father gets inordinate pleasure from telling this story).

Douglas Melini appears to take inordinate pleasure in painting masking-taped lines.

The books in it also tend to the canonical and "must-read", often full of language in which I take inordinate pleasure.

In their old bed, "if passion returned they burst out laughing"; they take typically inordinate pleasure in their young grandson, Manny.

But while the Australians took inordinate pleasure in bashing the Poms, they still had enough faith in the Empire to extol cricket's unifying powers in Ken G Hall's 1931 documentary That's Cricket, which included speeches by captain Bill Woodfull and star player, Don Bradman.

A central question for actors and directors is whether to present Timon as authentically noble in his belief that friendship is only true when it is tested by want ("O you gods, think I, what need we have any friends if we should ne'er have need of 'em?"), or as a self-regarding egoist who takes inordinate pleasure in his ability to patronize his friends.

This movie delivers an inordinate amount of pleasure, and, in the end, even Miranda escapes our censure.

A few weeks ago, I posted about the critical response to Richard Bernstein's "The East, the West, and Sex," and noted how reviewers were taking an inordinate amount of pleasure in coöpting Bernstein's sexy vocabulary while bashing his book, including Johann Hari, in Slate: "Only a hundred or so pages in, the scent of testosterone and spent semen soaked into its pages becomes bewildering".

Become a lifelong learner:I find an inordinate amount of pleasure in reading, in learning about new things, in enriching my knowledge as I get older.

These produce what Pope John Paul II decried in his 1995 encyclical "The Gospel of Life" as a spreading "culture of death," which sees "so-called quality of life... primarily or exclusively as economic efficiency, inordinate consumerism, physical beauty and pleasure".

At a time when publishers are under inordinate pressure to justify all their purchases, and backlist and author longevity seem increasingly to belong to the past, the idea of professional editors returning to titles that gave them joy as children, and reviving them so new readers can share the pleasure, seems like a good deed in a naughty world.