Quite the contrary, its failure to sell triggered a Schadenfreude epidemic throughout the art world.
But schadenfreude, however tasty at the time of consumption, consumes a bit of us, too.
So Charlemagne is willing to take quite a lot of continental schadenfreude on the chin.
Schadenfreude because Mr. Cameron hasn't gone out of his way to make friends in Europe.
The news of the Treasury's spending review has been greeted in Whitehall with some Schadenfreude.
Is it simply Schadenfreude or is the real-time news firehose rendering the once-immutable paradigm of reputation capital obsolete?
SCANDAL-HIT businessmen wounded by the attacks of outraged newspaper editors may have felt a keen Schadenfreude this week.
They may be sorry about the damage inflicted on workers and savers, but there is also Schadenfreude galore.
Europeans should temper any Schadenfreude at the tales of woe across the Atlantic.
Perhaps it's true what they say: the British are the only people capable of feeling schadenfreude about their own misfortune.
To engage in a little Schadenfreude, cronyism is also the reason Big Law firms are falling like termite infested redwoods.
It seems with a mixture of Schadenfreude that useful loanword from German that describes pleasure derived from the misfortune of others and trepidation.
How well they do is based on the statistics of real professional players or teams and a whole lot of schadenfreude.
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" That schadenfreude explains why people still claim that the Chevrolet Nova bombed in South America because, when translated into Spanish, Nova means "doesn't go.
Most of the national papers traditionally hate the BBC and would like to see it broken up, so this is a marvelous opportunity for schadenfreude.
There has been much Schadenfreude about America in Germany, for instance.
That is one of at least three flies in the Schadenfreude.
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Nonetheless, the Schadenfreude of onlookers is as misplaced as are many of the lessons that the world's instant moralisers have hurried to extract from the affair.
While the U.S. may not be pleased that its gross domestic product (GDP) will soon be overtaken, schadenfreude over the current slowdown in China would be misguided.
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Enjoy the schadenfreude while it lasts, you bears and skeptics.
But Europe's own troubles are undermining any sense of Schadenfreude.
We'd still like to know just why the app got there in the first place, but we'd also caution against delighting in any schadenfreude if you're of the Android persuasion.
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In any event, as Ewanick and GM now move in separate directions, their unusually precipitate split is more likely to be the subject of schadenfreude than sympathy in the industry.
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And so HeTexted joins the many spaces on the Internet that some of us go to for dating advice and the rest of us go to for relationship schadenfreude.
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California has gotten its share of media attention (and Schadenfreude) over its poor economy and poorer fiscal situation though to be fair, it was among the bigger contributors to 2011 US GDP.
But this week's hammer-blow will unleash waves of Schadenfreude.
Boeing has insisted that it takes no delight in Airbus' timetable woes, but it would surely be impossible to conceal pure Schadenfreude if its European rival were late with yet another planned aircraft.
As David Cameron emerged blinking into the sunlight of the New Year, he had, if not reasons to be cheerful, then cause to experience a little schadenfreude at the problems mounting for Gordon Brown.
This is a wonderful read for anyone given to Schadenfreude, but at the same time it is a useful lesson for those who think there is anything easy about direct investment in brand-new markets.
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