Sentence examples for wicked pleasure from inspiring English sources

At the end of the 19th century, that era of truisms and conventional thinking, the world discovered the wicked pleasure of turning truth upside down.

Even if there are occasional echoes of Round the Horne parody, there is still a wicked pleasure in watching James Fleet's patriarch, Clive, banging on about the way women are "dark like this continent, mysterious".

"I don't know if it's provocation, but there is a wicked pleasure to the film," Mr. Nolot said on a warm May evening at Le Select, the famous literary cafe in Montparnasse, not far from where he lives.

For example, I know that I was not the only international economist to have some fun pointing out the absurdities of the Maastricht Treaty, and was not above some wicked pleasure when the ERM crisis I and others had long predicted actually came to pass in the fall of 1992.

Or so it seems from A SHORT LIFE ON A SUNNY ISLE (Hightrees/Prism, $24.95), a mystery written with such artlessness by Hannah Blank that it's a wicked pleasure to read -- if not for the silly characters and labored plot, then for the innocence of it all.

When the wicked pleasure of negativity yields to the righteous urge toward pedantry, the satirist reaches the limits of his form and, perhaps, of his audience's patience, threatening to become a know-it-all reformer who's due for a little satirizing himself.

But during the restless years immediately before World War I, they rediscovered the city -- i.e., Berlin -- as a place of avant-garde nurture with its no-holds-barred literary, political and social climate and its noirish potential for wicked pleasures.

Wicked Wicked (Young Vibez).

Her father died when she was 15 months old, after which she described a childhood short on love, made colder still by the arrival, when she was seven, of a wicked stepfather who took pleasure in criticising her beaky looks.

There is at times a piquant sense of wicked indulgence in one's pleasure in Wharton's sharp eye, and in her pleasure in writing about the exploits of the rich and the ruthless - their steam yachts, their extravagant meals, their lavish entertainments.

You see wicked people who thrive in pleasure and good people who wallow in misery.