But since, as they say, one person's modus ponens is another's modus tollens,[9] a critic of Edwards will simply reply as follows: No fair-minded person would find satisfaction in someone's experiencing eternal torment as punishment for even the worst of sins; therefore, such torment is not what justice requires.
"I get a huge sense of satisfaction seeing someone like Scott or David Horsey coming though the way they did.
"I never get any satisfaction in someone else's misfortune," said Bob Tasca of Tasca Ford in Cranston, R.I.
When the speech ended, Ms. Weir was met with thunderous applause, and across the room there was a widespread sense of satisfaction that someone was saying what needed to be said.
The improvement was equal to the level of life satisfaction of someone whose annual income was $13,000 more a year, said Jens Ludwig, a professor of public policy at the University of Chicago and the lead author of the study.
As Pentheus' tragically deluded mother, Joan MacIntosh speaks of blood-letting revels with the prosaic satisfaction of someone fresh from a cutthroat sale at Bergdorf's, and even a veteran scene stealer like André de Shields, playing the blind prophet Teiresias, doesn't leave much of an impression.
It was a Zionist plot, yet the opposition press was full of commentaries expressing deep, even gleeful, satisfaction that someone had finally punished the Americans for their self-serving and hypocritical stance on Palestine and Iraq and all that mattered most to Arabs.
Someone who has just lost a friend but still thinks of herself as having more friends than her peers will tend to report higher life satisfaction than someone who has just gained a friend but who still thinks of himself as having fewer friends than his peers.
Our housing unit (which, like most prison housing units, usually sounds like a zoo) is often dead-quiet these days, save for an occasional grunt of satisfaction when someone accomplishes some goal in one of the games, or gets into an argument of their own about how to turn it on.
We procure a sense of self-satisfaction when someone else is envious of our life.
