Sentences with phrase «culture of instant gratification»

In this culture of instant gratification, it is often hard to convince someone to wait until they are ready before doing something as important as publishing a book.

Lee - Chin says he was always «on the side of right,» and that it was a culture of instant gratification that sank him.

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To suggest otherwise is to devalue human struggle and extol a culture of immediacy and instant gratification.

The answer to an instant gratification culture isn't to simply discard technology but to subvert the very values of a society that calls you to produce and consume more, more, more and do it now, now, now.

The author considers the dangers of TV's tendencies toward over simplification, instant gratification, and sensationalism, and concludes that when religious buys into the TV culture, it runs the risk of distorting not only life, but also religious faith.

No New Age proponent of the culture of death and instant gratification would risk a potentially cheesy postscript in which the ideal of happiness is not the celebration of occult power or the human ego, but ordinary family life.

After all, we live in a culture of accumulation and instant gratification.

Our instant - gratification culture bombards us with images of «how we should look» and has us comparing ourselves to everyone else.

Not because there's lack of singles in that age group that are interested in dating, but because there's a distinct lack of places you can go to meet them, the bars, clubs, cinemas, all has been invaded by new culture that is more focused on speed dating and instant gratification then on what a mature person is looking for, a stable relationship.

To some extent, «Shame» follows in the tradition of «The Lost Weekend» and «The Man with the Golden Arm,» as well as «Last Tango in Paris,» but McQueen's work seems broader, more resonant in our instant - gratification, must - have - it - now culture.

This grounding in magic rather than pseudo-science mirrors the larger difference between the two films, that He Ain't Heavy is steeped in local tradition and culture (however made - up for the purpose of the film the plot is, the Mid-Autumn Festival is surely a thing) while Future values the present above all else, about instant gratification.

Doing so can be difficult when the media, working in concert with an instant gratification culture of consumerism, often distracts people from tried and true principles.

In the end, there won't be a silver bullet solution to developing more sustainable packaging practices, as modern packaging itself is based on a culture of disposability, waste and a mentality of instant gratification, with little thought to the life cycle of all that stuff.