Sentence examples for absurd gratification from inspiring English sources

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.

Vine is simply an exaggeration of this – a caricature of instant gratification in its basest and most obvious form, an absurd wanker factory that has more to do with Duchamp and Henry Ford than it does Belladonna.

Ego gratification.

You practice delayed gratification.

"People want instant gratification.

Gotanda smiled with gratification.

Will is delaying gratification.

It's immediate gratification.

So gratification delayed is gratification foregone.

They want immediate gratification.

I prefer the immediate gratification".