Gratify

If the sole motive is enjoyment then your destination should gratify your desires.

It represents something which is universal and compelling: the freedom to gratify desire.

Under colonialism, a nation is a ground on which men may gratify their desires for control and honor.

Such jurisdiction allowed them to gratify their desires for lavish living.

In the second case, there is a need to gratify the craving, regardless of the risk.

He adopted their methodological starting point, the assumption that rational actors ‘seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion.’

Looking at the evolutionary history of four everyday domesticated plants (apples, tulips, marijuana and potatoes), he argues that their success stems from their ability to gratify human desires.

This sounds remarkably similar to George’s ‘fundamental law of political economy’ that ‘men always seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion.’

As soon as we encounter rules, it seems to be human nature to start to get very clever about finding ways to gratify our desires even within the parameters of the rules.

Also, we just cannot gratify every desire that arises, because to do so would destroy civilization by breaking down its necessary restrictions.

Anyone who abuses young girls in order to gratify their sexual desires can and must expect custodial sentences to mark the public abhorrence of this type of behaviour.

Women, like men, were equally entitled to gratify their sexual desires in the most beneficial and pleasurable way possible.

All he saw in me was a way to gratify his greed and voracity.

Now, the more the audience is told about the hero, the more their legitimate, indeed, induced desire isgratified , the less they care.

The mass-produced fairytale gratifies this desire by emphasising the sense of familiarity achieved through the outward material and ideological sameness.

Thus far, we are extremely gratified by the results, but the road has not been easy.

This year’s harvest has been gratifyingly rich.

Indeed, I am gratified that he condescended to address one of three seminal questions which I directed in response to his treatise on electoral systems and good governance.

It’s an understatement to say that I’m gratified by the response generated by the inaugural podcast.

Simplifying, downshifters sacrifice money for time, deferrers sacrifice time for money, and gratifierssacrifice money later for money now.

But, as Thomas gratifyingly points out, newspapers are too dependent on revenue from movie-industry advertising to publish too many honest considerations of film.

Therefore, he lives each day at a time, gratifying whatever desires turn up.

Secondly, agreement on many matters is a relatively cheap gratifier .

And she was gratified to see the people becoming disillusioned with capitalism.

And I was ultimately gratified to get an acceptance letter from her anyway about two months later.

I was very gratified by the response that we got.

You look so well, they all cooed, gratifyingly unaware of just how dog-rough I was feeling on the inside.

So, I didn’t know how it would be received, but I was gratified .

Because we use the same verb to characterize what pleases and what gratifies us, we are inclined to expect, erroneously, that the liking comes from the same source.