In theory, this is faster, more immediate, and initially self-gratifying.
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You are the brains-trust capital of Australia for self-gratifying, capitalist ethics.
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The suggestion that Mr. Gorka brings new insight is self-gratifying, grandiose malarkey.
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But Vampire Weekend's pastiches conveyed a sense of breezy lightheartedness rather than self-gratifying discovery.
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Our votes during this election should not succumb to self-gratifying dogmatic morality that dismisses contextually specific, socially responsible morality.
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Trevor's entire outlook on larger men proves he only sees them as self-gratifying objects, as opposed to fully fleshed out people with inner lives.
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But I think the question is, how can it not be totally individualistic and self-gratifying, somehow connect deeper with other human beings in a way that allows for a solidarity, especially with other people's pain?
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The administration's aggressive attacks on media organizations and individual reporters and news executives may be self-gratifying, but they are ultimately self-defeating and could bring about a premature end to the term of the incumbent.
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What they should ask is whether their emotions and energy are contributing to a behind-the-scenes effort to build local support across the country or whether they are merely a hollow, self-gratifying manifestation of the new political hobbyism.
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In The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Bell contends that the developments of twentieth-century capitalism have led to a contradiction between the cultural sphere of consumerist instant self- gratification and the demand, in the economic sphere, for hard-working, productive individuals.Liu, Eric. How Boomers Left Us With an Ethical Deficit, The Atlantic, September 24, 2010 ("When Daniel Bell wrote of the cultural contradictions of capitalism – that a self-denying work ethic leads to the affluence that gives rise to self-gratifying play ethic that ends up corroding the affluence – he could also have described the life cycle of the Boomers.") Bell articulates this through his "three realms" methodology, which divides modern society into the cultural, economic, and political spheres.
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Alex Wayman points out that the symbolic meaning of tantric sexuality is ultimately rooted in bodhicitta and the bodhisattva's quest for enlightenment is likened to a lover seeking union with the mind of the Buddha.Wayman, Alex; The Buddhist Tantras: Light on Indo-Tibetan esotericism, page 39. Judith Simmer-Brown notes the importance of the psycho-physical experiences arising in sexual yoga, termed "great bliss" (mahasukha): "Bliss melts the conceptual mind, heightens sensory awareness, and opens the practitioner to the naked experience of the nature of mind."Simmer-Brown, Judith; Dakini's Warm Breath: The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Buddhism, 2002, page 217 This tantric experience is not the same as ordinary self-gratifying sexual passion since it relies on tantric meditative methods using the subtle body and visualizations as well as the motivation for enlightenment.
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"Hollindale 205: "The last fifty years have seen a sea- change in historical fiction for children.... The first change came in England in the 1930s, most notably in Geoffrey Trease's groundbreaking Bows Against the Barons. Trease's novel, a left-wing representation of the Robin Hood story, signaled a dissatisfaction with romantic and patriotic stereotypes in historical fiction, and a belief that historical stories could be more politically sophisticated, more carefully researched, and more skeptical of self-gratifying national myths than stories of this kind had previously been." especially the imperialist works of G. A. Henty.Watson 7. Its modern prose style, egalitarian characterisation, and realist attention to the harshness of medieval life all mark significant departures from the aristocratic focus and romantic glamour that had dominated the genre since the 19th century.Watson 335 on "historical fiction": "In Britain in the middle of the 20th century, the innovations of Geoffrey Trease introduced a fresh modern style and a democratic point of view to a genre that had become fossilized.... As early as 1934, when he wrote Bows Against the Barons..., he was determined... to show not the glamour of its hero, but the brutal conditions in which the peasants lived.
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