Sentence examples for ugly thrill from inspiring English sources

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There's a certain ugly thrill in seeing these Lakers fail, but it's not a lot of fun, at least if you like basketball it's tough to take much joy in watching all these great players playing so poorly and unhappily, even with the leavening knowledge that their ill-tempered awfulness is probably preventing Jack Nicholson's latest horrifying boner.

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She told me most of the guys who came in were dumb and ugly, and they were thrilled to have someone like me donate.

Peaky Blinders (BBC2) | iPlayer Grayson Perry: All Man (C4)| 4oD Forest, Field & Sky: Art Out of Nature (BBC4) | iPlayer Veep (Sky Atlantic) Birmingham's Small Heath can never have looked uglier nor more thrilling.

Greta becomes an ugly portrait of a beautiful woman thrilled to be so close to a famous man, showing off her décolletage and going in for the kill.

It was a rare ugly win for one of Europe's most thrilling sides and one that cynics would suggest they ultimately got away with.

Merrick presented an extreme case: The huge and ugly growths of flesh and bone frightened and thrilled those who paid to gawp at him.

No one emerges with much credit from this ugly story of emotional blackmail – ALM doesn't, the thrill-seekers wracked with guilt don't, and nor do the hackers who disingenuously claim to be acting in the public interest.

Leave it to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to end a thrilling NFL regular season on a sour, ugly note.

"A year ago, before marriage reared its ugly head, I think the gay world would have been thrilled across the board to have civil unions," Mr. Kramer said.

Verdi himself wasn't too thrilled with his eighth opera -- "this one is truly ugly," he said later in life -- but with hindsight, the piece takes on additional interest as an early entry in a major operatic canon.

Dundee United midfielder Stuart Armstrong is thrilled his league-leading side have found a way to win ugly this season.

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