Throughout the show there's a powerful sense of deferred gratification.
Rubina, with her tidy ponytail, is all responsibility and deferred gratification.
Too much of this episode was all hugs, all learning, all deferred gratification.
Making it, as Mr. Obama told me, "requires diligent effort and deferred gratification.
They are trotted out with dull Protestant regularity: sobriety, deferred gratification, self-restraint, patriotism.
Clive King's Stig of the Dump taught me the agonies of deferred gratification.
There is also deferred gratification to overcome; until employees reach their 40s, retirement seems an awfully long way away.
But the Camino is a fantastic antidote to our stressful lives – and a lesson in deferred gratification.
In the book he bemoans the fact that today's materialistic generation don't understand the virtue of deferred gratification.
"The Wait," installed with 11 other rarely seen holdings in the collection show "Singular Visions," is a provocative (if gimmicky) meditation on age, patience and deferred gratification.
The arduous period of childhood deferred gratification for the whole month, tested by thoughts of those green triangles and big, purple caramels.
