Sentence examples for Pure gratification from inspiring English sources
The movie "Spotlight," which for many journalists provided a jolt of pure gratification, follows the canonical story line for news-biz triumphs.
For Mendelssohn, any "pure gratification of the soul must be grounded in the positive powers of our soul and not in its incapacity, not in the limitation of those original powers" (On Sentiments, Fourth Letter; Philosophical Writings, p. 19).
Her ambitions aren't always fully borne out, but a masterly design team — especially the director Katherine Kovner and the composer-sound designer Nathan A. Roberts — has managed to plug a few textual holes with pure aesthetic gratification (2 15).
Thankfully, a masterly design team — led by Katherine Kovner, the company's artistic director, and including the scenic designer Michael Locher and the lighting designer Ji-Youn Chang — has managed to plug a few textual holes with pure aesthetic gratification.
She sat in her room — it was a room, just like a dorm room, except that they locked you in at night — and stared at the walls, eating peanuts, M&M's, sunflower seeds by the handful, chewing for the pure animal gratification of it.
While the other children continued on in pursuit of mundane pleasures, Mr. Kelly found his vocation in a purer and more innocent form of gratification.
"Drug-taking," Hitchens writes, "is the purest form of self-indulgence," for it severs the link between hard work and reward, making "deferred gratification appear a waste of time and a foolish rejection of readily available delight".
Instantaneous gratification.
They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen".
