Sentence examples for sinister pleasure from inspiring English sources

In his biography of the emperor Tiberius, the Roman historian Suetonius paints a shocking portrait of the tyrant as a dirty old man, telling how Tiberius created a sinister pleasure island on the isle of Capri where he committed brutal outrages – and collected pornography.

Instead, it is the sinister pleasure the voyeur feels when exhibiting power over his victims.

The black magician also took pleasure in the suffering that his sinister practices apparently brought to local villagers.

But other qualities have an edge, more kink than quirk, such as the way he keeps a full bladder ("his bricked-up bubble") for quasi-sexual pleasure, or the increasingly sinister cast to his refrains.

"His knowledge and experience are so wide and deep, from an unexpected film or the sinister aspects of an organic cafe to the pleasure of ancient architecture.

What begins as a novelty that gives him pleasure, ends up pushing Dutilleul toward more sinister pursuits.

Weaver learns that even his own identity has been stolen to serve the organization's sinister ends: a fellow Tourist, a cold-blooded assassin who derives "real pleasure in planning a murder," has employed it to eliminate a nosy reporter in Budapest.

For all its strict aesthetic formalism (Kim studied painting in Paris), there is a lingering sense that the film has arrived by accident and that its tender pleasures are mere by-products of an altogether more sinister endeavour.

Lazorchak described the album as having "an updated '70s hard rock approach that echoes Blue Öyster Cult at its sinister best", and found the opening song "Flashback" to be a "head-crushing pleasure".

You get a real sense of the wolf being truly threatening, sinister and cunning, but this is almost immediately dispelled, a few lines on, by his childlike pleasure in having managed some shopping on his own.

The Alps themselves are sinister in their forbidding, implacable vastness and so, somehow, is the activity of skiing – an ecstatic, solitary pleasure and an escape from the boring cares and responsibilities of family life.