Sentence examples for derive gratification from inspiring English sources

My question is why hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of women apparently derive gratification from exchanging sexual talk and pictures with strangers.

During the first postnatal year, libido is initially focused on the mouth and its activities; nursing enables the infant to derive gratification through a pleasurable reduction of tension in the oral region.

Sydney nurse Mary Wallace was allegedly strangled by a convicted rapist who derived gratification from choking women, a court has heard.

(Woman in community mixed sex FGD) Men indicated they yearned for and derived gratification from success in their expected roles.

Millions, he writes, "derive profound gratification from the prospect of humiliating their former masters and overlords".

Masochistic behaviour is the tendency to derive sexual gratification from being physically or emotionally abused.

He had derived sexual gratification from the killings, he said.

Ms. Marling is right: there is something in human nature -- from Romans watching gladiators feed on helpless humans to 19th century readers addicted to the crime-filled penny press -- that derives psychological gratification from the misfortune of others.

But who are these pixel perverts deriving sexual gratification from anonymous 16-bit color exchanges?

However, Bowlby rejected psychoanalytical explanations for early infant bonds including "drive theory" in which the motivation for attachment derives from gratification of hunger and libidinal drives.

Before we can grasp at any one of the cursory handles to meaning extended by Slavick's citations, the handle is cut from us, preventing us from deriving any gratification from the citation before we are handed the next one and the next after it.