(n.) The act of gratifying, or pleasing, either the mind, the taste, or the appetite; as, the gratification of the palate, of the appetites, of the senses, of the desires, of the heart.
(n.) That which affords pleasure; satisfaction; enjoyment; fruition: delight.
(n.) A reward; a recompense; a gratuity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aesthetic surgery crosses the dividing line between surgery for reconstruction and alteration of deviations (which do not in themselves constitute objective deformities) and is sometimes even performed without medical indication, but just for the gratification of individual vanity.
(2) This shift is thought to parallel the oscillation between unconscious instinctual gratification and conscious attempts at reparation which is the main dynamic feature of the compulsive neurosis in waking life.
(3) Bell pointed to the virtual dissolution of the work ethic for instant gratification, and to the inability of liberalism to deal with the consequences.
(4) The significant changes seen among women who had undergone a laparoscopy after the longterm evaluation were in faking orgasm and in seeking different outlets for sexual gratification.
(5) My feeling is that much, if not all, of Savile's gratification came not from the sexual attacks themselves, but from their continuing confirmation that he was a national puppetmaster.
(6) In the era of instant gratification, it was perhaps inevitable that retailers would eventually offer same-day grocery delivery, and it’s hardly surprising that it’s Amazon that is leading the way.
(7) We have a society accustomed to the pursuit of prosperity and individual gratification, often resentful of immigrants, and possessing a perilously skin-deep attachment to democracy.
(8) The gratification comes from realizing that the results of distal sensory nerve repair exceed those obtained after repair of other nerves.
(9) This mythology, embodied over those decades in the Horatio Alger stories consumed particularly by upwardly mobile young men and in the phrase "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps", consistently held out that American promise by equating hard work (along with other good Puritan values such as delayed gratification, temperance, saving and self-reliance) with economic success.
(10) Its essential shielding function has evolved from oral fantasies of gratification at the breast, and this origin places it in the context of other phenomena, including the Isakower phenomenon.
(11) People have come up to us and expressed their gratification.
(12) A factor analysis was performed on the SDMI and six levels of sexual decision making were defined: Object Constancy, Ambivalence, Need for Merger, Need Gratification, Low Self-esteem, and Narcissistic Gratification.
(13) Several dimensions of impulse control (i.e., delay of gratification, reflectivity, and motor control) were related to intelligence, mental status, and adjustment among 91 institutionalized aged women.
(14) They obtained social gratification through group activities.
(15) It's not been a surprise, but it's a matter of some gratification."
(16) It is a special collaborative effort that requires continuous monitoring and assessment in order to maximize gratification for both parties.
(17) Although many trans-sexuals derive some gratification from assuming roles appropriate to their desired gender, a substantial number are convinced that only sexual transformation can bring meaningful relief of their feelings of despair.
(18) A new pattern of health care in developing countries promises to meet the needs of rural people and still provide reasonable gratification for health workers.
(19) Controlling for age, education, and their interaction, high intimacy motivation in women was associated with greater happiness and gratification, whereas in men it was associated with lack of strain and lack of uncertainty.
(20) The results are consistent with clinical observations that ADHD children are less willing than others to accept "delayed gratification" and that methylphenidate increases the control of delayed reward over their behavior.
Sensuous
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the senses, or sensible objects; addressing the senses; suggesting pictures or images of sense.
(a.) Highly susceptible to influence through the senses.
Example Sentences:
(1) This pair likes to eat well; it is in French restaurants that they find sensuous enjoyment together, perhaps the one place now where there is real collaboration and exchange between them.
(2) The movement was at once highly cerebral and perfectly sensuous, saturated with emotional expression and absolutely controlled.
(3) Bergé got Yves out of hospital and back to work, helping to set up the label whose three sensuously entwined initials would revolutionise Parisian fashion in the 60s, scandalise the world in the 70s and stamp themselves imperiously across the 80s.
(4) One critic described Clark's photographic technique as 'drawing you into the moral void of gorgeously sensuous squalor'.
(5) Most brilliant of all, however, were two series from the 1990s (now in Tate Modern and the Museum of Modern Art in New York), which evoked the four seasons, and the stages of human life, with sensuous colours and characteristically enigmatic writing.
(6) With that the remained rests of the still from world categories imaginaried connection get powered (transcendence, sensuousness, settlement by Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Schütz for example) to conceive the body as not inferable absolute origin being.
(7) The emotionally expressive power of art--not to be confused with the artist's own emotions--has to do with the way sensuous esthetic forms highlight the rhythmic changes of tension and release inherent in ordinary perceptual experience.
(8) Her second novel, a great doorstopper of a murder mystery set against the New Zealand gold rush of the 1860s,, looks at first sight very different; but it carries forward both her epic ambition and commitment to the sensuous pleasures of reading.
(9) Sensuous, anthemic and as spellbinding as ever, Running Up That Hill represented Bush at the peak of her powers.
(10) At Dulwich there's an assiduous School-of-Raphael-style battle drawing from 1625 and more attractively, a 1628 canvas, The Arcadian Shepherds , echoing Titian at his most sensuous and poetic.
(11) "It seemed to me that Sylvia, being very forthright and loving to play roles, pretended to being more sensuously involved than she was willing to be," says Gordon.
(12) Her evocative portraits of Lili and other sensuous women were considered, by some, too outrageous for Denmark, but she rose to fame in Paris.
(13) … the audience called us out at least seven times amidst unanimous applause … my future is secured.” Caruso, born in 1873 to a poor family, became the most famous and highest-paid singer of his generation, still revered for the sensuous, lyrical quality of his voice.
(14) In those cases in which withdrawal into mutism and only sensuous play has occured by the age of 5 years response to treatment has been minimal.
(15) Challenges to belief as well as to disbelief, faith as well as lack of faith, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Vampyr, Day of Wrath, and Ordet all take place in a highly sensuous material world where the mysteries of human personality supersede and arguably overwhelm most questions about the supernatural.
(16) Similarly, my daughter is an incredibly sensuous little girl, and will sometimes strike poses that are rather erotic, as most little girls do.
(17) River Man is easily the album’s finest track: an utterly hypnotic guitar coda played with a kind of deceptively ambling sensuousness, almost throwaway lyrics edged with an oblique mysticism that acts in exactly the way that Kirby states, and then Kirby’s stunning string arrangement that suddenly swells up and levitates spiralling upwards and out, it is Drake at his most supremely spine-tingling effective.
(18) The second topic addressed is liposuction of the sensuous triangle which is at the junction of the lateral buttocks, lateral thigh, and posterior thigh.
(19) One mode is termed the rational-active, and the other sensuous-receptive.
(20) Two new approaches in suction lipectomy of the buttocks region are described: liposuction of the "banana" and liposuction of the "sensuous triangle."