Tyrion is a randy, dissolute, appealing dwarf compelled by circumstance to become Machiavellian and military, despite his understandable preference for bedroom pleasures over going toe-to-toe with Westeros's many sword-wielding nutjobs.
Thus, it is understandable that some might take pleasure in exacting revenge by pointing out my own lapses -- mistakes that I've made or permitted to appear in the puzzles.
Amis's father was a clerk in a mustard-manufacturing firm, so his pleasure in spotting arrivistes is understandable.
Above all, certainly all of us can share the goal of the book: "demystifying the world of science" (p. 14), making it understandable and accessible to everybody, because understanding is the basis of an informed and conscientious citizenry and because it can give you pleasure and joy.
He suggests that art evolved as a byproduct of other human skills and needs, including conspicuous consumption, and that aesthetic pleasure originates in our practical appreciation of "cues to understandable, safe, productive, nutritious or fertile things in the world".
Cruise has played Ethan Hunt so often it would be understandable if he phoned it in, but one of the pleasures of "Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation" is that he doesn't.
His lectures offered an enormous intellectual pleasure because he tried to communicate mathematical ideas in an understandable way; he clearly had a "mathematical mission".
This now seems to give her so much more pleasure than acting, and considering her next role is in Iron Man 3, that's understandable.
Ben Affleck had never before been invited to the Baftas, let alone nominated for one, so his obvious pleasure in Argo winning best film and him winning best director at the awards was understandable.
