Sentences with phrase «got schadenfreude»

It's got Apple, it's got schadenfreude and, of course, it's got a headline.

Or maybe I've just got the schadenfreudes because for the first time in my adult life the gap between Sonic and Mario's review scores is razor - thin.

Not exact matches

I am not a big fan of schadenfreude — that is, the act of getting joy from the suffering of others — but you can feel a little bit better about your own financial problems when you realize that few people are free of money stress.

At the center of a typical act of creation of the sacred there is a sacrifice, a murder, and those of us around it get excited — we derive from it meaning, scandal, satisfaction, Schadenfreude and so on.

«Permit me a bit of schadenfreude, but a few weeks ago, Mike was boasting that the Democrats» time in the minority would be short - lived, and then four Democrats defected and one of his biggest contributors got arrested for bribery and corruption,» was how one senior Senate Republican put it.

David Drew, the MP for Stroud and a long - term critic of Brown's leadership, said: «It just seems schadenfreude that the very person who set this up gets handed with a # 12,000 bill.

The problem with this schadenfreude is that the nice, solid, longtime citizens of Isole, Vermont, also get theirs when this storm hits.

There comes a kind of schadenfreude when their models blow up, where qualitative mangers get to say, «See, I knew it was too good to be true,» and in the newspapers, a kind of bewilderment at eggheads whose models failed them.

However, the Swissy also got lucky and some schadenfreude was going on because the Swissy benefited from the misfortune of the other currencies.

My gut on this: I do not mind Prince / Gogo getting their comeuppance — the schadenfreude quotient is high — but Prince is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to appropriation, and this ruling by Batts muddies the waters and complicates conventional artistic practice across the board.

These images are simultaneously funny and frightening; the cinematic gag of falling from a rooftop is usually cradled by some sort of comedic outcome, as the audience gets a tinge of schadenfreude watching the actor experience the inevitable result of their half - baked stunt.

At least some of us will get to say, «I told you so,» and enjoy the schadenfreude of hearing Watts admit he was not only wrong but stupid.

Next time Blair is in Berlin he should get that nice Angela Merkel to teach him how to spell schadenfreude.

There's definitely a bit of schadenfreude going on here, but if you owe money and get your private jet taken away from you because your kid took a picture of it, at least you know you can use all that time you won't be jet setting to practice being a better parent (or at least hire a more responsible au pair).