Sentence examples for a gratification from inspiring English sources

It is not a humiliation not to win, it is a gratification to arrive somewhere".

But the intention must be for true understanding, not for a gratification of the ego.

Some friends thought this too crude a gratification, too easy a triumph, and a sad declension into a lesser and ephemeral art.

Electronic intervention would dull the sensuous gratification I get from this process — a gratification I try to soak my prose in.

That's why "Suffragette," like many contemporary movies on the subject of the advancement of just causes, is a comfort to its viewers, but not a tool; a gratification, but not a stimulus.

"There's both a gratification and a kind of danger in identifying with a friendship like that, because we have to live our own lives and in some ways this friendship is insular," Carroll added.

The doctor is rewarded with a similar gratification watching a lifetime of education and experience redeemed in practice.

But in a town that doesn't accept a term like delayed gratification, a year can be a hard sell.

So it is a warm gratification to find the new Hemingway book, "Men Without Women," a truly magnificent work.

"This is not an instant gratification war," Mr. Bush sternly reminded a reporter in a Rose Garden appearance on Friday.

It is a useful gratification in grating times.