Sentence examples for perverse joy from inspiring English sources
Its protagonists are all equally obnoxious but the film takes a perverse joy is showing up their shortcomings.
The various mind-sets that make humor work -- the perverse joy of incongruity, the detached contempt of satire -- suddenly were nowhere to be found in the American psyche.
By Winthrop Sargeant The New Yorker, March 14 , 1959P. 91 The word referred to by psychologists as algolagnia means deriving a perverse joy from inflecting or submitting to the most squalid sort of human suffering.
DECEMBER is 13 months long, July's one afternoon, the poet Alden Nowlan boasted in "Canadian Love Song". It's an attitude Canadians embrace, taking a perverse joy in the length and severity of their winters, inventing or adopting defiant, robust pastimes to heat their blood from November to March.
(For other examples, see Cicero's brief essay 'Paradoxa Stoicorum'.) Though it seems clear that some Stoics took a kind of perverse joy in advocating views which seem so at odds with common sense, they did not do so simply to shock.
That's the perverse joy of it.
One of the somewhat perverse joys (and arguably awful indulgences) of living in San Francisco is a lifestyle subsidized by venture capital.
Yet, like so many Romantics before him, Sibelius took a perverse pleasure in surrendering to melancholy, and finding joy in darkness.
And one even derives a perverse sense of joy knowing that the superfluous work he does contributes in however small and however insignificant a manner to preserving and perpetuating some of the most useless things ever thought of.
He's a leading man who is expert at infusing his roles with illicit feelings, and he can also bring a perverse cuddliness and joy to his gloomy characters.
