Sentence examples for expected gratification from inspiring English sources

The expected gratification of accomplishment never arrives because the goals were not meaningful.

At a certain point in the infant's life the Balinese mother methodically began to frustrats its impulses -to tease it by leading it to expect gratification and then giving it none.

Not that they expected instant gratification, but two more years of childlessness seemed like two years too long.

In an age of iPads, high-speed Internet service, A.T.M.'s and self-service check-in at airports, consumers expect instant gratification.

To those expecting immediate gratification and hoping for swift progress, it is probably small comfort that this year Jeter is off to only the second-slowest nine-game start to his career.

"It's become an education in how to live with the land and not expect instant gratification," said Nora Bock, who helped start a buying group last year in her building on East 28th Street in Manhattan.

Some students, however, expect instant gratification and celebration of their snowflakey uniqueness.

After all, polling evidence indicates voters aren't expecting instant gratification.

He also said, "Consumers expect immediate gratification across every product category from accommodation to ground transportation to travel activities….[Previously,] this was impossible for activities, as most inventory existed only on paper calendars.

Societal impacts and current media trends have had the effect of teaching people to expect instant gratification.

Tapping into the unnerving uneasiness felt at the other end of an IM window in respite, the pie serves as a perfect marker of a society that expects instant gratification.