As a character, she delivers pain to the young couple; as a performer, brimming with concentrated virtuosity in her speech and in her physicality, she causes in her audience, less schooled in control than she, an unbounded, over-the-top pleasure.
It is determinedly over the top, a pleasure palace where marble steps doused in gobs of brown paint appear to be overflowing with melted chocolate.
"One of the top 10 pleasures in life is watching your electrical meter go backward," he said.
It's directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, who made the gleefully outrageous Crank films with Jason Statham, and the announcement that they'd be teaming up with Nicolas Cage – who can be pretty outrageous himself – promised a ridiculously over-the-top guilty pleasure.
The guilty pleasure Top 10 is dominated by the most radio-ready pop artists — Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl," several tracks by Lady Gaga.
Needless to say, being a whisker from the top is a pleasure mitigated only by the awareness that such positions, once reached, must be maintained or increased.
You use food as your top source of pleasure.
After a while, the tops of two pleasure cruisers began to emerge over the gate.
It is now a public garden and small museum, and a visit this time of year is one of Westchester's top seasonal art pleasures.
"Some of the Clark's children's shoes ads I worked on were aimed at women - stupid things, like walking around making farty noises with ketchup bottles, or popping bottle tops and getting pleasure out of the little things.
The Irish government hugely subsidises Croke Park and the GAA so there was political pressure for the decision and the association itself is going to charge the IRFU and FAI top whack for the pleasure.
