Sentence examples for gratification of a from inspiring English sources

Generally, the evening events that provide the instant gratification of a lively social atmosphere are not ultimately the most memorable.

One of the signs of the child's growing morality is the ability to control behaviour and the willingness to postpone immediate gratification of a desire.

Allowing for services that will violate the religious sensibilities of most of the Jews who pray at the site daily might afford some the gratification of a "victory".

MOUNTING the podium in London's Guildhall to receive her second Man Booker prize on October 16th, Hilary Mantel mused on the delayed gratification of a writer's life.

A guilty pleasure ever since has contained this element of gratification — of a need that's met, almost despite oneself, rather than a pleasure one freely chooses.

It was the stuff of which undomesticated male fantasy is made -- the slavish gratification of a carnal desire that had previously been associated only with extramarital license.

Dreams, drunkenness and teenage acting out are all used as narrative devices to delay the gratification of an answer.

He jumps off the page, to the palpable gratification of an author who is adept at sparkling quotation (in his own translations from the French) and punchy narrative.

"Entertainment is the rapid gratification of an immediate desire," he says.

Unlike stale, asynchronous comment reels on YouTube, Twitch gives an immediate gratification of community — a community its demographic craves, a community Amazon will need to keep independent and thriving.

I could smell the rich aroma of coffee beans from a time we made coffee without the instant gratification of throwing a pod into a machine.