The animal-impulse of Miniature Golf rivalry can end in the victorious wallow of gratification or the blaze-of-glory, club-throwing tanty. |
Atrocities are happening all over the world due to the self-righteous, self-seeking gratification of particular groups. |
It fell to my lot, much to my gratification, to be assigned to the Plumas Forest in California. |
In addition, you don't want children who are so concerned with delaying gratification that they wind up as misers. |
This time last year I was living a life centred on myself, on things that would give me instant gratification and were sensually pleasurable. |
Conditioned to expect immediate gratification, these youth have shorter attention spans and also a low threshold for boredom. |