Seemingly, contemporary Chinese college students may be adopting a perspective of dating and intimate relationships which focuses less on paths toward marriage and more
on immediate pleasure and gratification (Yang 2011).
Per definition, a «hookup culture» is a culture in which casual dates are accepted, focusing
on immediate pleasure rather than long - term commitment...
Not exact matches
Of course, if a government punishes sexual promiscuity in a certain segment of the population with death the people will become less promiscuous since it focuses everyone's attention
on the reality that aside from the
immediate pleasure, there can be serious negative consequences.
If you can overcome your tendency to focus
on present,
immediate pleasures (like having those cupcakes) and instead delay your gratification and in fact find
pleasure in new healthy behaviors (like eating dark chocolate squares instead), you will be setting yourself up, ironically enough, for more short term AND long term good health!
Rather than focusing
on bullets traded and blows landed with shaky, «
immediate» handheld photography, director Gore Verbinski relies
on the
pleasures of unexpected motion occurring within a static frame: a character falling off a train to land
on an unseen horse, or our dynamic duo finding themselves swinging in circles after the chains
on their hands get caught
on an overhead cable, or, most famously, Tonto bridging up
on a ladder in the «middle» of a fight between the Ranger and William Fichtner's Butch Kavendish.
The house is small (1350 sf), oriented due east / west yet quite shaded at times because of trees and an overhang
on the house, but my still
immediate pleasure when I get up in the morning is to walk through the house and open every curtain along the way to bring the outside in.