Sentence examples for a gratification of the from inspiring English sources

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

It's a finger-flicking hymn to the instant gratification of the smartphone age.

Every time a wish is granted, the skin shrinks, eventually disappearing with the gratification of the last wish.

This term doesn't just apply to the gratification of the Smartphone Tango.

It's good gratification of the work I've done since January.

A bonus of stove-top custard is the immediate gratification of licking the pudding pot while it's still warm.

The good people are not ignorant of this adulteration — but they prefer it to wholesome bread, because it is whiter than the meal of corn: thus they sacrifice their taste and their health, and the lives of their tender infants, to a most absurd gratification of a mis-judging eye; and the miller, or the baker, is obliged to poison them and their families, in order to live by his profession.

The dividend-tax break gives investors a choice: the instant gratification of dividends over the productivity-enhancing and job-creating effects of long-term development.

But we don't support a Lasix ban that would inflict unnecessary pain on the horses that we love and that would serve no purpose other than the ego gratification of a few of the 1 percent.

Only five studies explored delay of gratification, of which the two methodologically strongest studies found no group differences.

Browsing in a real store, the instant gratification of a physical purchasing experience and yet the item can be redeemed as soon as the redeemer wants to pick it up.