take pleasure
Example Sentences
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Aristotle recognized that we take pleasure in viewing fictional representations of tragedies, suffering and mutilated corpses that would repulse us if we confronted them in reality.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
If you are one of those feeling smug because you predicted this, did you take pleasure in the 4-0 defeat four years ago, or the 4-0 before that, or the 5-0 before that?
From BBC • Dec. 25, 2025
He seems to take pleasure in making everything personal.
From Slate • Nov. 8, 2025
Few of us who are good human beings would take pleasure in that.
From Salon • Aug. 25, 2023
For a while I could almost detach myself from the place and its history and take pleasure in it purely as an archaeological site.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
