Sentence examples for expectation of gratification from inspiring English sources

As with any life ambition, you'll have to practice obsessively, relentlessly, and without any expectation of gratification any time soon.

"The fact that anybody is coming out when there is no expectation of immediate gratification is really unusual," said Mr. Cowan, who is in Moscow this week as an analyst for the American government.

Result: A culture of entitlement, the expectation of instant gratification.

"You have your love," we're told, but unless the wellspring of love is regularly refreshed, the reservoir of acceptance, warmth, and forgiveness can dry up, and in today's world with it's ever quickening pace, the common expectation of instant gratification, and the constant high-level of stimulation, that drying up can begin amazingly quickly.

Our constant quest for convenience and collective expectations of instant gratification, where everything is just a click away, are increasing the technological pace.

Aah, this is the honeymoon period, in which the writer has not a care in the world; just every expectation of the ultimate in gratification - selling the script.

Ran Kohn New York, New York One important variable in these delay of gratification experiments is what's known as "trust expectation".

Attention in delay of gratification.

"We have a generation that believes instant gratification is the only form of gratification," Ms. Ward said.

First came the delay of gratification.

Nachman felt a surge of gratification.