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Example sentences for: gratification

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He mentions, for example, names that honor persons, names that have a religious background, names that express ego gratification and toponymic habituation (in which familiar names from the homeland are adopted to make a place seem a little less strange), names which show evidence of discovery, etc.
He and his great cinematographer, Caleb Deschanel, focus all their energy and resources on the task of lyrically withholding your gratification.
Mandela may lack the rousing American oratory of a President Kennedy, Martin Luther King or Jesse Jackson, but his manner and his unflappable dignity show him as a disciplined, persistent leader who is willing to sacrifice short-term gratification for long-term achievement, the kind of moral leadership we need everywhere.
Congress, where "the idea of bombing Iraq has really fallen into trouble," is equally confused, says Fred Barnes ( The McLaughlin Group ). Will explains the appeal of bombing: It provides "gratification without commitment."
This kind of picture has one of two thrusts: It either sides with the suffocated housewife who, like Ibsen's Nora, strives to break free of a repressive patriarchal hold, or it demonizes a culture that tempts men and women to put their own gratification before their responsibilities as parents.