A toxic individual is out for a quick gratification and is incapable of handling the ups and downs that come with a long-term relationship".
They share, too, a deep concern: that our industries have become riddled with short-term thinking, a desire for instant gratification, a lack of vision and unbridled greed none of which support a culture of innovation, which had been America's core strength.
Also, the intensive marketing sparked by thousands of new condominiums may have stoked a desire for immediate gratification and a tropism toward brand-new apartments.
(The first lyric of its first song: "Why wouldn't you ever go out with me in high school?") And its scrappy, two-fisted title character (played by the lean, mean Benjamin Walker) is presented as the perfect national avatar of the period: an angry, enthusiastic and very hungry overgrown boy with a need for instant gratification and a whopping sense of entitlement.
That sex is most what we crave it to be when it is not used simply as a tool for personal gratification, but as a means for creating a bond between two people and even, new life?
Having said that, there is a lot of room for improvement – I don't even own a reusable water bottle, and I'm a sucker for immediate gratification, which means a lot of takeaways, single-use cutlery, coffee cups and supermarket vegetables.
Rice also sponsored a bill to make the invasion of privacy for sexual gratification a felony if committed by someone who has previously been convicted of a sexual offense or if the victim is a minor.
I would hold an unopened letter for a while, delaying gratification.
But he also requires a tolerance for deferred gratification, shipping only twice a year, once in the spring and once in the fall, when Rimmerman says extreme heat or cold are less likely to destroy the wine in transit.
But he twisted the familiar formula – substituting the usual jingle concerning a yearning for sexual gratification with lyrics about a yearning for death, or the redemption he believed that it promised.
