Sentence examples for taken some pleasure from inspiring English sources

"I've taken some pleasure out of being the little guy who has beaten the big fellow," Runyan once said.

It must have been worse for James because the down-the-stretch hero was Terry, writes Jeff Caplan on ESPN.com, who is among the Mavericks who have taken some pleasure in playing with James's mind.

Of course, we don't know if the Leather Man could not communicate or chose not to, if he would have taken some pleasure in his notoriety or hated it.

These Runyan quotations were from "Gettin' to the Dance Floor: An Oral History of American Golf," by Al Barkow (Atheneum, 1986): *"I've taken some pleasure out of being the little guy who has beaten the big fellow".

Commentators in the Indian press, such as a former permanent representative to the United Nations, Hardeep Puri, now a member of Mr Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party, have taken some pleasure in chiding the West for its part in spreading instability in the Middle East.

But I take some pleasure in just ridiculing Al Qaeda.

But Mr. Giuliani, who takes some pleasure in defying traditional political rules, was anything but a recluse.

Just to fumble enough that average Russians could take some pleasure in Washington's public humbling.

"He was taking some pleasure in giving the sofa where he made love to his girlfriend to his wife.

Was he a determined pessimist, who took some pleasure in his reputation as the Cassandra of the Fens?

The artists seem to take some pleasure in their chapter of the church's long history of artistic patronage.