take satisfaction in

When we go to the Hollywood Bowl, we can take satisfaction in knowing that we got out of bed, we got in a car or on the subway, we walked up a hill.

“I do take satisfaction in informing others.”

Proponents of changing that rule may take satisfaction in humbling the justices ever so slightly, or believe that instituting term limits would forestall more radical change, such as expanding the size of the court.

But for this week, take satisfaction in seeing justice done and that the rancor and protest after Floyd’s death have turned to relief and hope that change, at last, has come.

While some U.S. rivals, including China, appeared to take satisfaction in seeing the United States in turmoil, traditional friends and allies offered resounding reactions of horror.