self-gratifying

But sadly it ducked the tough issues and dealt only with self-gratifying ones.

Has the Net turned otherwise nurturing souls into self-gratifying surfers?

Once out of hypnosis, with a fully conscious self-gratifying mind in control, they are less reticent.

He kidnapped the women "to be used in whatever self-serving, self-gratifying way he saw fit," the court heard.

De-extinction, then, is a uniquely self-gratifying brand of conservation.

"You are nothing, other than selfish, self-serving, self-gratifying monsters.

"The attitudes and life styles of singles are reflected in their purchases; they spend more freely on self-gratifying products and services."

Critics call it "self-gratifying," arguing it is more about making humans feel good than for the good of the deextincted species.

In the late 1800s, Toni Nelson argued that some daydreams with grandiose fantasies are self-gratifying attempts at "wish fulfillment."

I did two others in the 1990s, then I decided to never do a book again because they were self-gratifying and showing your muscles isn't part of my character.

If the damage was actually done by a standardized, self-gratifying culture of megaconsumerism, his crystal ball may have been clouded, but he was still on the mark.

Dan does not lionize or demonize his father, nor does he indulge in the self-pitying or self-gratifying aspects of memoir.

Homerbuctas personifies the artist as self-gratifying wildman (think Picasso, Pollock and Matthew Barney).

I was transformed from a self-gratifying musician who performed solely for my own ego to one who wanted to show God's beauty to everyone through my music."

In our infantile, self-gratifying culture, any tricky conflict between what children want and what those in charge of them believe they should get is likely to go one way.

For people not sensitive enough to detect the subtle differences, the markings served as some sort of self-gratifying justification, though for what I've never been able to figure out exactly.

Love of God and neighbor are harmonious and magnify each other, and it is through this selfless love, not the pursuit of self-gratifying pleasure, that we find true peace.

He represents a struggle not only within Mr. Hancock himself but within modern art in general: how to reconcile artmaking's self-gratifying pleasures with expectations that art have social value.

Why should parents eschew a technology that allows them to fulfill the demands of their lives - not a self-gratifying fulfillment of one's grand destiny, but a grueling necessity for survival?

This would prevent the punishment of the population through self-gratifying and brutal economic sanctions while escalating pressure in less crippling ways, always one at a time, one power at a time.

Before sentencing, Sims' lawyer, Chris Collins, asked the judge for mercy, saying there are times in life when "it just takes a moment of being selfish or self-gratifying to lose everything.

And, whilst the torch that bears our flame of pride must continue to burn, the flame of self-gratifying praise must be doused in the hope of a better tomorrow.

This man although said to be unhealthy, possibly even morbidly so in terms of appetites, resembles more the self-gratifying ancient Roman Caesars whose power grew rather than abated as age progressed.

Mr Murphy said that Castro, 52, made "premeditated, deliberate and depraved decisions" to snatch the girls from the streets between 2002 and 2004 for "whatever self-satisfying, self-gratifying way he saw fit."