derive pleasure

Example Sentences

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Perhaps because the multitudes derive pleasure from observing wealthy people getting dragged through the mud.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 1, 2026

There's a condition called anhedonia, which is where you really just can't derive pleasure from life.

From Salon • Jun. 12, 2022

I derive pleasure from suspending disbelief, imagining the characters I interact with as alive, their words and deeds organic and authentic, not a series of 1s and 0s strung together by someone else.

From The Verge • Jan. 11, 2022

They are trying to derive pleasure and comfort from time spent with friends and family and their shared experiences.

From Washington Post • Jul. 9, 2021

And, for this reason, we derive pleasure even from pains depicted on the stage: in so far as, in witnessing them, we perceive ourselves to conceive a certain love for those who are there represented.

From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint