MIAMI — Basketball's brightest staged a rigged game last summer in slanting and stacking the deck heavily toward the Miami Heat in the ultimate quest for instant gratification.
In their eternal quest for instant gratification, people have found that digital cameras have certainly helped, by providing electronic copies that can easily be transferred to a computer and e-mailed to friends.
Some readers may remember Kozmo.com's quixotic quest for instant gratification.
It also has equipped him with the perfect temperament for Atlantic salmon fishing, a sport in diametric opposition to our society's frantic quest for instant gratification.
Results might also have implications on whether stores should allow taste tests in the store or not, since this could affect the level of hunger and quest for immediate gratification among shoppers.
Though emotive and wistful, it is devoid of house music's sense of theatre: that life-or-death yearning for salvation that, in the genre's heyday, was forever pitted against the quest for sexual gratification.
If you find yourself wanting something expensive in the quest for immediate gratification, divert yourself with a small indulgence rather than giving in to the large one.
Many television viewers, of sports and other programming, are constantly surfing — among channels, even among mediums — in an endless quest for information, interaction, instant gratification.
For some of them, life is a never-ending House of Cards-esque quest for power, influence, controlled substances, and sexual gratification.
Our constant quest for convenience and collective expectations of instant gratification, where everything is just a click away, are increasing the technological pace.
Would you look for gratification elsewhere?
