Sentence examples for gratification of it from inspiring English sources

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Curiosity is linked to desire and, as Aristotle wrote, "it is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it".

She sat in her room — it was a room, just like a dorm room, except that they locked you in at night — and stared at the walls, eating peanuts, M&M's, sunflower seeds by the handful, chewing for the pure animal gratification of it.

Maybe to some of you hardcore gamblers I'm talking about chump change here, but as Thomas put it, sitting in his car in a somber line of traffic, "It's not even all the hundreds of dollars I lost that gets to me; it's the gratification of it.

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People with compelling video, for example, may want the instant gratification of putting it on YouTube, the giant video site owned by Google, or some other site.

Consumers should be delighted by new discoveries of products, instant trial and immediate gratification of bringing it home.

Father Aylward, who was never criminally charged, admitted under oath in a deposition more than two years after the episode that he had wrestled with young boys for years and gotten sexual gratification out of it.

The incremental benefit of an IWF is that it protects the public from being tricked into seeing child porn (this is a benefit, make no mistake, though a lesser one than preventing children from being exploited or preventing the gratification of paedophiles) and it may discourage particularly unresourceful paedophiles who don't think to try P2P or a private site to get their kicks.

Could this just be placebo or the simple gratification of him having created such a thing?

It doesn't provide the instant gratification of toys or books, it's harder to understand than airline tickets, and insurers themselves have lots of reasons to resist change.

Physically it turns me off, but the instant gratification of the monetary aspect of it causes that rush I mentioned earlier.

Money set aside for gambling is ultimately a greedy, selfish service to your own personal gratification; donating part of it to people who really need it will build good will for gamblers.

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