self-gratification
Example Sentences
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Sacrifice and altruism are lost and it becomes all about immediate self-gratification.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Like clockwork, the Academy rides into the year on a tide of self-gratification, and, with a few exceptions, the results are unlovely.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 13, 2020
Crucially, these collected lyrics aren’t an exercise in self-gratification; Sondheim is insightful and unsparing about his own mistakes, even the ones that only he is smart enough to see.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2019
They may not use his particular cover and cast pitiless self-gratification as a healing touch.
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2018
All those things that depended on worldly ambition, self-gratification, physical pleasure, conceit, lust, hatred, passion, egotism, selfishness, vanity, avarice, sensuality and so on, are undermined and rendered paralysed by the germ.
From The Blue Germ by Maurice Nicoll
