It's one thing for the reader to take pleasure in the writer's achievements, another when the writer's own pleasure is apparent.
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The results are pretty much sensational from start to finish: you feel the warmth of a live show and the pleasure the men take in shaping the evening.
Yet the Elephants captain will take some pleasure if he becomes the first Chelsea player for 22 years to reach the 30-goal mark - as long as the team are winners.
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For those of you who take pleasure at the misfortune of attorneys, here is some red meat for you.
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We should take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, nor should we expect it to change much with respect to American foreign policy.
Hand in hand, my husband of 35 years and I have learned to take pleasure in the everyday: wandering through the woods in our area, inhaling the scent of our garden, watching the fluttering butterflies.
In fact, Ozzie Guillen, himself, seems to take pleasure in having the reputation of a troublemaker.
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Next time you feel tempted by something, take a moment to feel the pleasure of that tension.
Many of the ideas in the book relate to the pleasure we take from drinking beer, some more directly than others.
My walls and shelves are covered with souvenirs from all over the world, but none of them remind me as vividly of the pleasure I take from traveling as these small, quirky vignettes.
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The harsh, explosive consonants and the action-focused, verb-heavy monosyllables instantly immerse us in the hard, violent world of the goblins, who take pleasure in acts of cruelty.
In our business we don't need rocket science, you need a passionate community partner, you need the people who take pride and pleasure and happiness in serving other people and making a difference.
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The "pursuit of happiness" is more than pleasure, for we often take great pains in the pursuit.
Order vanished with a speed and treachery that shocked even Medan's residents, who can, in the best of times, take perverse pleasure in their city's famously brutal reputation.
Considering that and all the thousands of innocents often caught in the crossfire of the tax system, you may take particular pleasure in knowing that even a public tax official can have tax troubles.
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What a pleasure to see the superpopular, bizarrely doomed Dale Earnhardt take the checkered flag there in '98 after two decades of being a Daytona also-ran.
"It is a pleasure to be a winner again, to take it for the fourth time against such top opposition, " he said after the ceremony in Cairo.
"When it shall be your pleasure to repair hither you should take some pain to come early in the morning, that you may be gone again by seven o'clock, " it reads.
California's XCOR Aerospace also is developing a reusable vehicle that will take a pilot and a front-seat customer to the edge of space -- for pleasure or to transport scientific payloads that would benefit from microgravity.
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And while we feel a certain sadness that Senator Kennedy is not with us to honor her, let us also take pleasure tonight in knowing just how much he would have loved and admired Magodonga Mahlangu and the organization that she helps lead -- WOZA, which stands for Women of Zimbabwe Arise, and is represented tonight by one of its founders, Jenni Williams.
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The pleasure of sports, he said, is to let the joyous flow of a game take you over.
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