Sentence examples for excessive gratification from inspiring English sources

Freud believed that adult emotional problems result from either deprivation or excessive gratification during the oral, anal, or phallic stages.

As played by Mr. Fessenden (the gifted director of "Habit" and the recent "Wendigo"), Max is an overgrown child himself, given to excessive oral gratification and poor impulse control.

With both children and adults, margins of dissatisfaction, perpetually resurfacing itches that never can be scratched just right, are to be explained, according to Lacan, through a clarification of the essence of the "love" demanded in all demands in excessive addition to the gratification of corresponding needs.

It is possible to consider any excessive behavior as a deficit in decision making, based on the recurrent choice of immediate gratification despite its long-term negative consequences.

An example would be an individual continuing with excessive or unhealthy eating habits given that the effects of obesity are delayed, but food consumption results in immediate gratification.

Ego gratification.

You practice delayed gratification.

"People want instant gratification.

Gotanda smiled with gratification.

Will is delaying gratification.

It's immediate gratification.