Sentence examples for maximum gratification from inspiring English sources
She was the inspiration for the Marquis de Sade's unpublished 1813 novel Histoire secrete d'Isabelle de Baviere, reine de France about which Adams writes, "who, submitting the queen to his ideology of gallantry, gives her rapaciousness a cold and calculating violence ... a woman who carefully manages her greed for maximum gratification".
Networking has formulas and laws: Elihu Katz's uses and gratifications theory (UGT); Robin Dunbar's number (the maximum number of people with whom you can have a meaningful connection, 150).
Strauss and Mahler were also cranking up the tension in classical harmony to the maximum by creating ever more unexpected chord shifts and constantly deferring the listener's gratification, delaying the resolution of dissonance to consonance for as long as possible.
You practice delayed gratification.
"People want instant gratification.
Gotanda smiled with gratification.
Will is delaying gratification.
It's immediate gratification.
They want immediate gratification.
So gratification delayed is gratification foregone.
