There is a perverse kind of pleasure in identifying the losers, duds and Williams Jennings Bryans of the smartphone world -- just ask any film critic who has taken time out of analyzing "Citizen Kane" in order to discuss "Plan 9 from Outer Space".
The reader takes pleasure in identifying the traits of the escalating communication: the time stamps between messages shorten; the confessions in the body of each e-mail lengthen.
Whenever I find myself whining about worries in my life, I tell myself that God has blessed me with two working feet and hands, as opposed to taking pleasure in identifying the shortcomings of others.
Reading John Waller's book, I found much vicarious pleasure in identifying with a Blincoe at the forefront of the labour movement.
It is the most approachable of Sōseki's novels, and the Japanese found pleasure in identifying themselves with the impetuous, reckless, yet basically decent hero.
James Bond, Mission Impossible – whatever your franchise of choice, the pleasure is in identifying with some mysterious, ultra-competent, ultra-slick protagonist, whose body is a weapon.
Pleasure is identified as mediator of the effect between valence of pictures and learning performance.
Driving for pleasure was identified by 48percentt of the American population as one of their primary outdoor recreational activities in a national survey on recreation and the environment.
Pleasure is identified with the sensation of self-preservation, pain is the sensation of destruction (DRN book VII, ch. III; vol. III, p. 10).
Santayana, for example, as we have seen, while still gesturing in the direction of the object or experience that causes pleasure, emphatically identifies beauty as a certain sort of pleasure.
