Sentence examples for small satisfaction from inspiring English sources

Finally, I gave myself a small satisfaction.

I mean, the riots were a small satisfaction but it didn't bring any form of joy.

The small satisfaction of hearing the keyboardist Page McConnell splash rainwater chords around Mr. Anastasio's puddle-stomping guitar solos.

(The very drawing up of a bucket list might provide its own small satisfaction: at least that's done).

But we took some small satisfaction in knowing that we had two things New Yorkers did not.

"In fact, I could definitely eat more, what do you say, Talia?" "This," my mother added, with no small satisfaction, "is God's revenge".

When the fishing is tough and technical, sometimes you have to take pleasure in small satisfactions.

"Somehow these small satisfactions seem to give them a disproportionate measure of self-esteem".

Once television bombarded the household with the insatiable demands and ambitions of consumerism, those small satisfactions lost their potency.

Those in Kander and Ebb's "At the Rialto" and Flaherty and Ahrens's "My Garden" have stepped off the merry-go-round to lead circumscribed lives in which they rely on their inner resources to make the most of life's small satisfactions.

By Nicholas Lemann These days, life's small satisfactions seem to mean more than they used to, so I got quite a lot of pleasure from discovering that the Washington office of the RAND Corporation looks just how you'd want it to look — which is to say, very "Mission: Impossible".