Sentences with phrase «for sadistic pleasure»

I suspect the reality was that he didn't deliberately go out of the way to annoy someone by hindering their going about their livelihood or tire out his dad for no other reason than getting a rise out of them for sadistic pleasure.

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That's what's great about April Fools — the ability to take people's natural inclination to trust their fellow man and cruelly turn that on its head for no other reason than your own sadistic pleasure.

And to what extent on the other hand is this another piece of juicy gossip ripe for the appetites of any predatorial sadistic sense of pleasure for a reader or listener that comes hand in had with «sex sells».

Instead of etiquette lessons, they were burned, beaten, frozen or starved for the Countess» sadistic pleasure.

Although the public's appetite for this tacky subgenre seemed to know no limits, I quickly tuned out the endless string of copycat movies and TV shows about Horrible Inhuman Serial Killers, the kind that exist to derive sadistic pleasure from inflicting pain and suffering.

Whether or not the movie is ultimately «realistic,» the lack of any viable escape hatch, for the characters or the audience, touches on and deconstructs deeper truths about the genre: that its pleasures are fundamentally sadistic and, when taken to a logical end point, deeply unsatisfying.