"The Room" is a bitter tangle of egocentric desire — of a desire for the ego and other parts to be stroked, and of the display of money and power as the way to have the inner and outer selves gratified.
The show is always hosted by one of us, there's stand-up mostly delivered by Ben, Adam and Andrew, and I wrangle it all while Orvedahl broods over bicycles and repeats weird affirmations in the mirror, Ben does crossfit completing something called "inverted mongoose squats," and Adam drinks beer and self-gratifies to David Halberstam baseball books.
In court, prosecutor Brian Murphy said Castro used the women "in whatever self-gratifying, self-serving way he saw fit".
Fueling the intrigue was my self-gratifying read on the tweaky sitch: that we had a meth addiction on our hands, a whimsy confirmed by legitimate newsbreakers the National Enquirer.
It's also a chop-licking self-abasement, gratified by the patronage of grown-ups.
But as illustrated by the "FreeMilo" and "JeSuisMilo" hashtags, which have appeared on Twitter following his ban, Gamergate has been nicely manipulated into gratifying the self-image, the personal perspective, of Milo Yiannopoulos.
Therefore, the probability that narcissism does not enrich the substance of CSR owing to regarding social responsibility as a superficial means to prove oneself and gratify self-attachment is presumed to be high.
The resulting publications were gratifying events in my self-made, nonstandard, but still satisfying career.
Gratifying words to a self-described PANK -- a term I recently learned and embrace for its practicality if not its euphonics.
It appears that HMMs have a reduced ability for self-regulation in order to forego immediately gratifying rewards.
But hunting wayward tax revenues, gratifying though it may be for the self-esteem of analogue authorities, doesn't begin to grapple with the challenge.
