Sentence examples for joy someone from inspiring English sources

The Japanese word "tokimeku" means "to spark joy". Someone who is adopting my method of tidying must take a possession of hers and ask: "Does this spark joy for me?" This question is the sole basis for choosing what things to keep in one's home and what to discard.

A lady spoke up with a wistful touch of frustration, saying that every time she ever felt anything like joy, someone or something would snatch it away from her -- maybe a person, maybe a situation.

OK, so Wilco Van Dijk's studies found we get joy when someone's misfortune is deserved – there is justice – in other words, the punishment someone receives is fair.

Someone will always do that – you know who you are – and it ruins the joy for someone who may have found it funny.

"It's hard to explain that intense feeling of sheer joy to someone who hasn't experienced it," he wrote.

Her secret joy at someone else's misfortune is ghastly to behold.

I just don't take a lot of joy in someone's tragedy, even if it's sort of deserved".

Shamata, that twinge of joy for someone else's sorrow, is what much of the world seems to feel about Dubai's financial fall to earth.

For much of her third-round match at the United States Open on Friday, Maria Sharapova played with all the outward joy of someone watching her car being repossessed.

Donaghy has the calm joy of someone who knows that nothing matters in life but ambition; Baldwin brings deadpan gravitas to a giddy parody of business egomania.

Sure, not everything comes off, but in a TV landscape of carefully contrived sameyness, it's a joy that someone is allowed to try something truly different.