Sentence examples for strange pleasure from inspiring English sources

So I took a strange pleasure in a literary parallel that emerged in this last episode.

He talks about the strange pleasure of searching for the patient whose experience of illness is most like his own.

Like all of them, it's a unique and strange pleasure in its own right.

I once had a boyfriend whose mum took a strange pleasure in her family going to sleep.

I had seldom thought about Mrs. Haymond's hatred for me in the years since, or of the strange pleasure I got from provoking her.

There was some strange pleasure to be had in the spectacle of people not being who they seemed to be, some comfort in the idea that you didn't have to be who, in those stressful times, you actually were.

"To write is to be naïve, and one of the strange pleasures of the solitary monologue is the discovery that one has said aloud to oneself what other people are saying silently," Pritchett wrote in a letter to Elizabeth Bowen in 1948.

There has been no time for her to slowly suck on the possibilities of human life, the weird connections, the overlaps, the deep, strange pleasures.

There is joy in mastering difficult skills and a strange tactile pleasure in feeling a pulsating heart or velvety liver.

Then I felt hope and joy — the triumphant beginning of the Obama era included the strange, visceral pleasure of seeing George W. Bush, that deeply flawed President, reluctant and overmatched by his role, plucked out of the whole scenario, airlifted off to Texas, to the relief of just about everybody.

In depicting the horrors of slavery, Tarantino underlines a historical record that, I imagine, he considers unfamiliar — but seems to take a strange, furtive pleasure in doing so.