self-gratification
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It will concern whether AIs have any independent right to self-fulfillment and self-gratification.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 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
Undoubtedly most of the subsequent chroniclers not only speak of his reformation, but broadly state that he had given himself very great licence in self-gratification, and therefore needed to be reformed.
From Henry of Monmouth, Volume 1 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth by James Endell Tyler
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