Sentence examples for perverse enjoyment from inspiring English sources

"I got a perverse enjoyment from it," he says.

Those of us who derived a perverse enjoyment from "The Restaurant" can only pray that Jeffery Chodorow, Mr. Dispirito's former partner, is one of the guests.

(The flat south facade is comparatively conventional, and some may find perverse enjoyment in the fact that the building presents its backside to Wall Street).

But dynamos are exhausting, and Obama had reached his exhaustion point early on, after which he seemed to take perverse enjoyment in undercutting and humiliating his special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan.

At Texoma, I met Anthony Villalobos, Jr., one of Berry's cohorts... Game-fowl breeders seem to derive perverse enjoyment from being accused, usually by animal-rights activists, of "training" otherwise pacifist birds to fight.

(Perverse) enjoyment of administration.

According to George Smith, author of The Virus Creation Labs: A Journey into the Underground, many virusmakers he interviewed experienced a "perverse enjoyment at seeing their creation spread to the extent that it was noticed by the media or remarked upon by antivirus developers".

Whereas desire is stuck with its dissatisfied drifting from object to object and ever onward (in a structured movement akin to the "spurious/bad infinite" as per Hegel), drive derives a perverse enjoyment from this desire-fuelled libidinal circling around the vanishing point of the impossible-qua-unattainable.