Sentence examples for peculiar satisfaction from inspiring English sources

Victorians found peculiar satisfaction in empire and war, nature, reason and nation.

One peculiar satisfaction of being a reader is seeing an author you have followed for a long time finally break into the big time.

Millions of people in the world, including many who grasp the underlying assumptions of modern science, continue to cling to the peculiar satisfaction that the ancient story provides.

One peculiar satisfaction of being a reader is seeing an author you have followed for a long time finally break into the big time.

But there is a peculiar satisfaction, especially at a time when few people feel comfortably in control of their lives, in seeing a woman like Maggie arrange her destiny with such unconditional assurance.

There is thus a mystery and a peculiar satisfaction surrounding the fact that Woolf, at nearly eighty, began to publish an autobiography that was immediately hailed by reviewers, won an important literary prize, and, in the almost half century since the first volume appeared, has seldom been out of print.

The beauty of the tale is that the horror-weary editor isn't surprised either, and even takes a peculiar sort of satisfaction in the fulfillment of his direst expectations.

(Which, by the way, is not nearly as drastically different as I think most readers of the book will have imagined, but that's another story). In the theater, I looked at the reveal with a peculiar mixture of satisfaction and letdown.

For viewers of the original 20-hour Danish TV drama The Killing, there was a peculiar moment of satisfaction in the last episode with the recognition (but of course!) that there had been a crucial clue to the identity of the murderer in the very first – apparently inconsequential – dialogue in the opening episode.

Ryan's Premises was founded in 1871 by James Ryan, the son of an Irish immigrant who in early photographs looks like a Thomas Nast cartoon, corpulent and exuding that peculiar brand of self-satisfaction found chiefly in mercantile kings.

Nevertheless, young readers who enjoyed Birdman's sense of adventure and peculiar characters may still find satisfaction in this new outing.