You don't have to slave and toil to earn all of life's gratifications. |
Her major gratifications were seeing the many social services she was instrumental in initiating come to fruition, among them day care for senior citizens. |
While we moderns have lost the distinction between the pleasures and the gratifications, the ancient Greeks and the Romans of Hellenistic bent were keen on it. |
I'm no slave to pleasure myself, but I know the gratifications of playing sport are as intense as any. |
In ordinary English we fail to distinguish the gratifications from the pleasures. |
The apparently immoralist heroine gradually establishes, over the course of these central 150 pages, both the shallowness and the cost of purely physical gratifications. |