self-gratification
Example Sentences
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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
It will examine the pathology of power in the service of self-gratification and self-protection — from the law and from accountability.
From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2019
“There’s a lot of self-gratification in helping people. I can’t believe people send us thank-you notes for something we get paid to do.”
From Washington Times • Feb. 6, 2017
All these benefactions were made in a spirit of mingled charity and self-gratification, but to Mrs. Gerhardt they glowed with but one motive.
From Jennie Gerhardt A Novel by Dreiser, Theodore
