Sentence examples for general gratification from inspiring English sources

As Dr. Johnson wrote, "a man accustomed to hear only the echo of his own sentiments, soon bars all the common avenues of delight, and has no part in the general gratification of mankind".

Four general gratifications were extracted among the three CMC technologies, including relationship maintenance, information seeking, amusement, and style.

This study seeks to address the issues by applying the uses and gratifications theory, and attempts to explore the general and specific gratifications sought from the use of three CMC technologies.

The extracted gratifications sought were then compared among the three technologies for concluding the general and specific gratifications.

Cyrenaics taught that a wise man (sophos) (one who always pursues immediate gratification) will in general live more pleasantly than a foolish man.

In general, Polynesians' balanced approach to sensual gratification seems just another reflection of a generally straightforward approach to the world.

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

Funder and Block draw a distinction between the ego-control model, in which delayed gratification is seen as a general tendency to contain motivational impulses (whether or not it is adaptive in a specific instance), and the ego-resiliency model (supported by Mischel's research), in which delayed gratification is seen as a skill that arises only when it is adaptive.

Even when patients did feel pain, they were cast as atypical: 'Unlike most patients of this sort, [this patient] was not amnesic or anaesthetic for these episodes in general, but cut and burned (with cigarettes) herself with conscious gratification in the pain she was inflicting and experiencing' (Burnham, 1969 225 66).

In general, this is what we have been doing, as we lurch from one "instant gratification" scheme to another, synchronized by "on my watch" politically driven policies and sound bites.

Judge Head said: "The general attitude of each of you was that your victims were worthless, there purely for your sexual gratification - young human beings you degraded and treated with a total lack of humanity and respect".