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
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
"The Outsider" isn't the only current television series or movie that is toying with this idea of malignant entities that target children and then derive pleasure or sustenance from the surrounding communities' ensuing sorrow.
From Salon • Feb. 11, 2020
Bentham speaks of the pleasures and the pains of Benevolence, meaning that we derive pleasure from causing pleasure to others, and pain from the sight of pain in others.
From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Bain, Alexander
