Still, the books' principal audience remains what it has been from the beginning - travelers who share a perverse joy in the miseries of the road.

There was a perverse joy in shooting at someone, hearing them scream, and watching them dance in circles holding the wound, trying to get rid of the sting.

(In private, advocates do express some perverse joy in the jammed highways that promote their cause.)

If Tuvok didn't know better, he'd think the captain was actually provoking the ambassador for the sheer perverse joy of it.

I had a strong desire for a smoke and felt a certain perverse joy in the fact that I was out of tobacco.

Worthing's eyes glowed with perverse joy.

Moll could tell that Jayme took perverse joy in the change in Bobbie Ray's self-satisfied expression once the tour-bubble began to sink underwater.

It gave Oscar a perverse joy to sow these doubts.

It takes perverse joy in getting hard at the wrong time, causing its owner no end of embarrassment and inconvenience.

One derives a certain perverse joy from watching Adams and Laughlin struggle to construct Saganesque comparisons.