All 6 Uses of
gratification
in
Man And Superman
- To gratify you, I have resorted to the trick of the strolling theatrical manager who advertizes the pantomime of Sinbad the Sailor with a stock of second-hand picture posters designed for Ali Baba.†
Chpt Ded.
- The late Mr Whitefield would be gratified almost to impatience by the long faces of the men (except Tanner, who is fidgety), the silent handgrasps, the sympathetic placing of chairs, the sniffing of the widow, and the liquid eye of the daughter, whose heart, apparently, will not let her control her tongue to speech.†
Chpt 1
- I admit, myself, that there is an element of truth in what you say, grossly as you may distort it to gratify your malicious humor.†
Chpt 1 *
- The great central purpose of breeding the race, ay, breeding it to heights now deemed superhuman: that purpose which is now hidden in a mephitic cloud of love and romance and prudery and fastidiousness, will break through into clear sunlight as a purpose no longer to be confused with the gratification of personal fancies, the impossible realization of boys' and girls' dreams of bliss, or the need of older people for companionship or money.†
Chpt 3
- Shall he give up eating because he destroys his appetite in the act of gratifying it?†
Chpt 3
- And since she has plunged Tavy head over ears in love with her without any intention of marrying him, she is a coquette, according to the standard definition of a coquette as a woman who rouses passions she has no intention of gratifying.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(gratification) great satisfaction (pleasure)