With every reverse, or seeming reverse, that the Americans suffer, the schadenfreude in Germany reaches new heights, or depths. |
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It would take some black-hearted schadenfreude to gloat over the comedian's 75-second quickie divorce from his 18-month civil partnership. |
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Too often their misfortunes are met with glee, a schadenfreude that is quite horrifying. |
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This, on the other hand, is just pure mean-spirited snark, the more so as it invites us to feel political schadenfreude over geniune tragedy. |
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Our fascination with ostensibly harmless hoaxes stems, perhaps, from admiration for the ingenuity of the pranksters, combined with schadenfreude towards the duped. |
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Rubber-necking was, too, of course, along with that universal German vice, schadenfreude. |
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If you, like me, are one of those people who get a frisson of schadenfreude whenever critics whet their wordsmithery on a film they resent having to watch, I strongly recommend reading through the negative reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. |
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The Russians have no reason to feel any schadenfreude as a result of the difficulties faced by NATO and the United States in Afghanistan. |
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Across the aisle, France's majority Socialist Party has restrained its schadenfreude. |
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There was no shortage of schadenfreude, with Democrats joyfully noting just how dumb those silly, delusional Republicans were. |
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After having the issue taken away from them in 2012, their schadenfreude has been epic. |
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That is why those talking with schadenfreude because the Constitution is dead need to tell us how they will meet these challenges under the present circumstances. |
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I know schadenfreude isn't the most pleasant of concepts, but she really does come across as a deeply unpleasant human being. |
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These works treat the Middle Ages as risible and express not a small degree of what the Germans term schadenfreude. |
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On Twitter, I've already been accused of schadenfreude over the death of News Corp's soon-to-die, paywalled, tablet-only, once-a-day news venture called The Daily. |
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Perhaps they even felt some schadenfreude. |
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In reaction to the regime's schadenfreude over the UK riots, the top British diplomat in Tehran, Jane Marriott, wrote a letter to Iran's foreign ministry saying Britain would be happy to talk about human rights. |
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Untranslatable words, especially from big widely used languages, usually migrate untranslated: panache and schadenfreude are now English words, le weekend and das Briefing are embedded in French and German. |
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It gives me no schadenfreude to say, it looks like the latter. |
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His natural taste was for the comedy of violence and schadenfreude, and he took pride in having devised the moment in which Cleese gives Andrew Sachs's Manuel a sharp blow to the forehead with a dessert spoon. |
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On November 9th Twitter and tech-news sites reverberated with schadenfreude and told-you-sos after Adobe Systems announced that it would, in effect, stop working on its Flash video player for smartphones and tablets. |
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But a day or two to hang out on a pal's set, eat craft service and bask in the schadenfreude of their best friend's production nightmares? Who wouldn't want to do that? |
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This unremitting focus on just one race participant is understandable, but the hint of Schadenfreude in the tone was unmistakable. |
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With a quiver of delightful Schadenfreude, it turned out none had ever backed the PR firm's campaign. |
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Their deepest feelings about banks, whatever they may be, will be rewarded by a good double strength shot of Schadenfreude. |
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In particular, it ignores those emotions which involve higher cognitive processes, such as jealousy, envy, and Schadenfreude. |
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But skittishness about affirmative action does not begin to explain the degree of Schadenfreude on display over Raines's resignation. |
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From that time on, we have seen most of our allies stand aside and engage in Schadenfreude over our painful bog-down in the region. |
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How ironic that a German footballer should provide us with sport's finest example of Schadenfreude. |
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The Schadenfreude is indecent, but the confident historical assertion is still less justified. |
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Is it possible, given the Schadenfreude around his demise, that even if he were innocent, none of us would care? |
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We all like to call the old German clogger Schadenfreude off the bench from time to time. |
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With that in mind, I present to you Great Moments in Sports Schadenfreude. |
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All this is a bonus for the former BBC royal correspondent, who admits to a frisson of Schadenfreude when watching her replacement shiver outside those crested gates. |
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There is a thin line between Schadenfreude, which I take to be measured satisfaction in the discomfiture of opponents, and the sin of morose delectation. |
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But it is Schadenfreude, a mischievous delight in the misfortunes of others, which remains the worst trait in human nature. |
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Schadenfreude is an unvirtuous emotion of which we should be ashamed. |
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Schadenfreude or obtaining pleasure and joy over someone else's misfortune, isn't something strictly restricted to adults. |
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