Sentence examples for perverse gratification from inspiring English sources
The pass was good for Morocco, where Steinmetz experienced, for the first time, the perverse gratification of finite hardship — two-dollar funduqs, cheap lunches of pear cactus.
Nowadays, above all on the football field, Englishmen tend to discover a perverse gratification in this post-imperial character – no longer magisterial, that is, but still plucky and fair.
And Sue Sherwin-White, a therapist who has studied the phenomenon, agrees: 'In some schools, it is fashionable, exciting and even rather competitive - and it has the added advantage of scaring teachers and parents.' What starts as an experiment can become a perverse gratification that is hard to give up.
Judge Rupert Overbury described the victims as vulnerable children and told de Smith his offences were "plainly for your own personal perverse gratification".
The military and—I personally suspect a percentage of the population in countries like the UK and the US derive comfort and a perverse sense of gratification from praising us.
You practice delayed gratification.
"People want instant gratification.
So gratification delayed is gratification foregone.
