How To Use Gratify In A Sentence

Andwhile chart success is gratifying, B.o. B is just as pleased that he's been ableto achieve it on what he has come to realise are his own terms. B.o.B: The rapper who put the romance back into hip-hop
Being with my patient over an 18 month period was not always easy, or gratifying.
Its practice of paying the men their cash wages only once a month—a violation of Nevada law, which mandated semimonthly pay envelopes—guaranteed that the demand for scrip would remain robust and thus that the company store would continue to do “exceptionally good business with very gratifying profits,” as the Big Six board was informed that summer. Colossus
How the members of any pleasant evening-company might astonish or amuse each other by narrating together the contradictory views the same voluble discourser has unfolded to them successively during the passage of one hour! so easily we bend and conform, and deny God and ourselves, to gratify the guest we converse with. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863
Turning over a new leaf How gratifying to learn that lots of us have disgusting salad drawers. Times, Sunday Times

As soon as we encounter rules, it seems to be human nature to start to get very clever about finding ways to gratify our desires even within the parameters of the rules.
The most gratifying thing about starting this blog has been the opportunity to get acquainted with so many smart and charming people.
There are about 220 students following the courses and the epistolary relationship with the students is both edifying and gratifying.
As a young man, St. Augustine was well practiced in gratifying the desires of his fallen nature.
Is there anything more gratifying than accepting a wrongdoer's humble apologies with Queenly dignity and good nature? Times, Sunday Times
It is gratifying to learn that you were a revolutionary in your youth. Times, Sunday Times
On the grounds of Disneyland itself, the food is the instantly gratifying kind - loaded with fat, like hot dogs, potato chips and deep-fried chimichangas, or sugar, like the ubiquitous soda pop and ice cream treats.
Those scruples and that refinement against which he warned her, she herself thought might be overstrained, and to gratify unnecessary punctilio, the short period of existence be rendered causelessly unhappy. Cecilia
And the people who are back here now are mostly eally determined to make this work, despite the obstactles, a certain gratifying stubborness at work. Hip Hip Hooray!
As a gratifyingly sheepish look passed over my hairdresser's face, I basked in my brief moment of triumph.
It was gratifying that people in the district were appreciative of the services that Pride Zambia was providing and that they were playing their part by repaying the loans.
The gratifying aspect of this was that each position was contested and resulted in the following being elected.
I had thought it should apay [gratify] her to know the same; but my words had the contrariwise effect, for she looked more frightened than afore. In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers
Not only a commanding physical presence, the former WWE wrestling champion brings a gratifying level of depth and humanity to the role first seen on the screen in 1973.
What consoles gratifyingly , the government Department responsible for the work will have established even more, the consummation emergency communication mechanism to propose the agenda.
It's character-building, and gratifyingly cheap. Times, Sunday Times
However, Singh has also long been seen as an enfant terrible, an incorrigible roué. There is something gratifying about such an image, and I don't particularly judge him for cultivating it.
In the end, the reversal of fantasy and reality propels the narrative mystery of Mulholland Drive, and sustains the central character's obsessive - but gratifying - worldview.
It's not true, but it was gratifying to hear it said like that. The Times Literary Supplement
It was while the shadow of this calamity, unparalleled since the beginning of British rule in India, was over the land that the most gorgeous "durbar" ever held in India was ordered for the purpose of gratifying a whim of Queen Victoria, who had induced Round the World
This was unfamiliar music to them, and to show such a spontaneous reaction was very gratifying.
Shall do a courtesy to our wrath] _To do a courtesy_ is to gratify, to comply with. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
The support was considerable and very gratifying.
In the end, however, he found a most gratifying resolution.
I have heard him, upon other occasions, talk with great contempt of people who were anxious to gratify their palates; and the 206th number of his Rambler is a masterly essay against gulosity.
In other news, it's oddly gratifying to take a Belle and Sebastian CD out of your changer and put in Poison's greatest hits, but that's a story for another time…
He only gave his consent in order to gratify her wishes.
The gospel of Christ is not accommodated to the fain fancies and lusts of men, to gratify their appetites and passions; but, on the contrary, it was designed for the mortifying of their corrupt affections, and delivering them from the power of fancy, that they might be brought under the power of faith. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
Lord Acton's erroneous idea, that Ridolfi was employed by Pius V to obtain Elizabeth's assassination, seems to have arisen from a mistranslation of Gabutio's Latin Life of St. Pius in the Bollandists Cecil eventually discovered the intrigue; Norfolk was beheaded, 2 June, 1572, and the Puritans clamoured for Mary's blood, but in this particular Elizabeth would not gratify them. Mary Queen of Scots
In the series, the southerners are portrayed as wussy appeasers and the South Carolina representative, Edward Rutledge, is especially played as a priss which is somehow gratifying after campaigns in which the South is portrayed as the home of martial and American values. Matt Cooper: John Adams: Good for McCain -- and Kerry, Dukakis
But how refreshing, and gratifying, to hear it treated in loftier fashion. Muti and Chicago Rekindle the Flame
the performance was at a gratifyingly high level
Having nothing else to amuse his solitude, he employed himself in contriving some plan to gratify his curiosity, in despite of the sedulous caution of Janet and the old Highland janizary, for he had never seen the young fellow since the first morning. Waverley
Taking advantage of whatever techniques were already available, Porter and I worked out enough improvements in microtomy and tissue fixation to obtain preparations which, at least for a while, appeared satisfactory and gratifying. George E. Palade - Autobiography
It's gratifying to note that already much has been achieved.
We believe that argument to be absurd and fallacious, and hope that defenders of liberty will recognise that it is exactly this kind of panic-stricken measure that will most gratify the killers.
He adopted their methodological starting point, the assumption that rational actors ‘seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion.’
Lucullus, Catulus, and Hortensius, to Cato and Brutus, he finally adopted the suggestion of Atticus to gratify Varro by giving him a share in the dialogue together with Atticus and himself (_ad Att. _ xiii. 13, 1, 'commotus tuis litteris, quod ad me de Varrone scripseras, totam Academiam ab hominibus nobilissimis abstuli transtulique ad nostrum sodalem et ex duobus libris contuli in quattuor'). The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
It is gratifying too that the link between school and university is strengthening. Times, Sunday Times
I liked the challenge of suiting the garments to the women who wanted them, of making a fit, of gratifying harmless desire. LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
My sincerest wishes for a salubriously beneficial and gratifyingly pleasurable period between sunset and dawn.
Whilst thus the world will be whole and refuses to be disparted, we seek to act partially, to sunder, to appropriate; for example, to gratify the senses we sever the pleasure of the senses from the needs of the character. V. Essays. Compensation. 1841
Few other paediatric illnesses are as gratifying to diagnose and as uniformly responsive to treatment.
Being offered several times, refusing politely, then at last "Maybe just one, they look soooo good!" was supposed to gratify the hostess into thinking that she really was such a good cook, she'd managed to overcome the ladylike appetite ( "I only exist on air") of the visitor, and the visitor maintains her rep for not being greedy. Mrissa: It gets early early here, too.
I have given my consent, intending to gratify her wishes in this respect only for a short while.
After I broke it off, I got involved in an incredibly unhealthy on-again off-again thing with my only neighbor that was so, so sexually gratifying specifically because it was unhealthy.
We believe that argument to be absurd and fallacious, and hope that defenders of liberty will recognise that it is exactly this kind of panic-stricken measure that will most gratify the killers.
Yes; you will no doubt be astonished to hear that the plain "seedsman" at the town end, who sells you your roots and bulbs and seedlings, keeps in his pay a staff of plant-hunters -- men of botanical skill, who traverse the whole globe in search of new plants and flowers, that may gratify the heart and gladden the eyes of the lovers of floral beauty. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains
(26 May) was thought a fitting opportunity for asking for a further loan of £100,000 to enable her majesty to pay and "gratify" the seamen who had so gallantly warded off invasion and to refit the fleet. London and the Kingdom - Volume II
There was the sound of water lapping - a pool, a jacuzzi - the sight of a coffee shop; gratifying smells. THE IMAGE OF LAURA
There is much, too, of his brother's marriage; and in a separate letter to the sisters there are individual acknowledgments of each article of the equipment, gratifying the donor by informing her that the 'cutaway' coat was actually to be worn that very evening at a dinner party at the Chief Justice's, and admiring the 'gambroon,' which turned out to be the material of the cassock, so much as to wish for a coat made of it for the islands. Life of John Coleridge Patteson
We don't need much inducement to eat, wash, beautify ourselves, or gratify our needs, but for many of us, honoring other people doesn't come easily.
Is it unwise for me to gratify a desire for beautiful things, which will be a constant joy to my friends and my children as they grow to appreciate them, as well as to myself, when it is done in so quiet and unostentatious a manner? The Splendid Spoils of Standard Oil
Gratifying for activists, but Murray found herself disengaged from the discussion, including the very large Facebook group that formed, Fair Copyright for Canada. Archive 2009-04-01
Anyone who abuses young girls in order to gratify their sexual desires can and must expect custodial sentences to mark the public abhorrence of this type of behaviour.
To gratify my curiosity, do tell me what it is.
This may not always be easy but it is certainly very gratifying and you will emerge at the end as a more confident and self-assured person. POSITIVE THINKING: Everything you have always known about positive thinking but were afraid to put into practice
We took a chance and we've won. It's very gratifying.
It was very gratifying to see his dark side unleashed for purposes other than butlery or pure rescue missions. AnimeBlogger.net Antenna
The roar of the crowd was gratifying as the ball soared through the hoop, upping the score to 90-59 in our favor.
Economic cooperation to mutual benefit made gratifying progress and yielded concrete results.
Their victory over difficulties affords the most rational cause of triumph, and the attainment of new ideas leads to incalculable riches, such as gratify the glorious avarice of aspiring and comprehensive minds. The Borough
It was somehow gratifying to know that this brilliantly original writer had chosen to live in South Africa. The Times Literary Supplement
It is gratifying for ambitious Asians to examine the FT's new masthead on the page opposite.
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In addition to enriching our knowledge of the culinary art, we shall be doing our share of gratifying our gustatory lusts.
It was of these luxuries that Margaret was especially fond; and her grandmother, with an instinct that those tastes of Margaret's proved her indeed a lady -- and made it impossible that she should marry, or even think of marrying, "foolishly" -- had been most graciously generous in gratifying them. The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel
It was a highly gratifying idea; the incommunicability of one stratum of animal life with another, -- though Hedger pretended it was only an experiment in unusual lighting. Youth and the Bright Medusa
We had a fire incident in late October in the early evening and the assistance we received from the public in extinguishing the flames using fire extinguishers at our building was gratifying.
It's gratifying to note that already much has been achieved.
The linoleum in front of the washstand is very gratifying indeed, my lord, if you will excuse my mentioning it. Whose Body?
Hell not three weeks ago Mitt was running radio adverts denouncing the stem cell bill in terms gratifying to any witch doctor. The Chimes at Midnight
For my own mother, the baleful daughter of Tyndareus, hath cast me forth from her house to gratify her lord; for since she hath borne other children to Aegisthus she puts me and Orestes on one side at home. Electra
Whenever he came into a new territory, he established what he called his chamber of claims, a most convenient device, by which he inquired whether the conquered country or province had any dormant or disputed claimsany cause of complaintany unsettled demand upon any other state or provinceupon which he might wage war upon such state, thereby discover again ground for new devastation, and gratify his ambition by new acquisitions. IV. On the Refusal to Negotiate with France
What is more calculated to gratify a carnal mind than a strong delusion leading one to think himself a Christian, and yet not disturbing his lusts?
This film is enjoyable and visually gratifying.
It appears that art as an activity contributes nothing to the upkeep of the individual; it rarely obtains for him a sufficiency of money for rent and food, and does nothing to gratify sexual requirements.
After the difficulties of birding in deep forest, these were gratifyingly co-operative creatures. Times, Sunday Times
All he saw in me was a way to gratify his greed and voracity.
Materials Technology Division showed significant advances over last year which are particularly gratifying given the management attention focused on this business.
There was a fresh easterly breeze blowing when the double canoe -- or raft, as they agreed to term her -- cast off from alongside the _Mohawk_, and under its influence the craft, with one leeboard down, slid across the Javari at a speed that was as surprising as it was gratifying. In Search of El Dorado
Another mother described herself as 'constantly upset', but making a Herculean effort to gratify her year 14-year-old daughter anyway. Susan Shapiro Barash: Our Daughters at Holiday Time
Therefore, he lives each day at a time, gratifying whatever desires turn up.
The influence of punk is quite sweet and gratifying.
Your bumbling is particularly gratifying because times were tough before this happened. Times, Sunday Times
He knew exactly what would happen: Dervishton and Falkland would spend the entire ride to the Snaid trying to outjockey one another, which would gratify Caitlyn Hurst’s vanity to no end. The Laird Who Loved Me
The key to what makes this novel so gratifying is character. Rabid Read-Along: "The Shining" by Stephen King
Journalism is short-term and gratifying in a fast way, and inherently interactive.
I will find joy in indulging the moods and gratifying the desires of all the poor who suffer. Daily Readings with Mother Theresa
One of the things that we find most gratifying is that everyone who hears about BillMonk immediately “gets it”; social money – informal debts between friends – has always been a thorn in everyone’s side. First mention in the press « Notes from the BillMonk
But seeing as you asked in such a gratifyingly timorous manner, I'll give you a three word clue: Topshop gift certificate. What should I get my 14-year-old niece for Christmas?
Emotionally, such an attack would doubtlessly be gratifying - fulfilling a general desire to ‘do something’ and a clamour for action rather than words.
So, whether a person is traveling for the first time or for the nth time, it is still best to keep in mind safety traveling tips so that the experience will be a gratifying one.
It is most gratifying for me to know that my work has been useful.
Your good marks gratify me very much.
We are beholden to those of our mothers who wanted to keep a beautiful home (no matter how much or how little money they had) and to Martha Stewart and also to Cheryl Mendelson (and her wonderful and very informative book, Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House) to a new understanding that housekeeping is a gratifying and civilizing activity. January Organizing and Housecleaning
Trim, smiling, pretty girls, all looking rather like French maids in a play, happily plied their light agreeable tasks; and, in especial, the cheeks of poor Miller (who had stoutened gratifyingly) were observed to blossom like the rose. V. V.'s Eyes
In a rewardingly international week, this was as gratifying as anything. Times, Sunday Times
So when you've had so many ups and downs, it makes it all the more gratifying when something special like this happens. Times, Sunday Times
But these statistics, although gratifying, have proved also to be unsettling for many homebuyers. Times, Sunday Times
Having Walter mooning over her and being frustrated was gratifying in a selfish way.
In a gratifyingly short time she demonstrated how allomorphism might be banished from the Haluk genome. Perseus Spur
Most gratifying of all is the price. Times, Sunday Times
His asymmetries make the kind of gratifying sense that symmetry makes in classical art.
It has been gratifying to observe staff volunteering information on incidents involving medical devices, rather than simply trying to hide the event.
Nor does she depict adolescence as a period of mental instability, characterized by mercurial moods and impulsive, self-gratifying actions.
The outpouring of support that I have received in this effort has been a truly gratifying experience.
It's instantly gratifying and extremely addictive. Times, Sunday Times
How gratifying it is to be working with analogue, manual controls—to see the mechanics at work, rather than trust to invisible and incomprehensible quantum wizardry.
On the other hand, it would be gratifying to assume the disappearance indicates that those responsible for the current series have decided to acknowledge that though much separated the upper and lower classes in English society during the period covered, the classes by dint of living under the same roof were inevitably intertwined. David Finkle: First Nighter: Upstairs Downstairs Makes Sparkling PBS Return
Since we are able to diagnosticate with the utmost precision the various affections of the heart, and since the discovery of certain specific medicines which exert most beneficial effects, we are enabled to treat this class of maladies with the most gratifying results. The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
Four courses of food so invigorating and so gratifying, and yet you leave feeling lighter than your lime semifreddo.
And my husband will be happy in the enjoyment of every expensive taste which a poor man call gratify, for the first time in his life. Little Novels
The word footman does not refer to that class of servants who are badged and dressed in livery to gratify the pride of their masters, nor to that description of foot-soldiers or infantry, whose business is designated by the blood-stained colour of their clothes. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
They are intended to stimulate reverent inquiry, not to gratify idle speculative curiosity; and when the event shall have been fulfilled, they will show the divine wisdom of God, who ordered all things in minutely harmonious relations, and left neither the times nor the ways haphazard. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Yet I have heard him, upon other occasions, talk with great contempt of people who were anxious to gratify their palates; and the 206th number of his Rambler is a masterly essay against gulosity [2]. Life Of Johnson
Old portraits and any kind of inartistic picture or print were brought forth to gratify the eye unaccustomed to such monotony. Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood,
Hey, hitting the flippers and watching my giant iron ball crush hundreds of little troops was oddly gratifying, what can I say?
Under colonialism, a nation is a ground on which men may gratify their desires for control and honor.
They're going to be making subsistence wages, but they're doing something very gratifying until the job market improves," University of Wisconsin career counselor Randy Wallar said.
They are extremely responsive to romantic attention, which is very gratifying to their ever-hungry ego, and as such they can suffer from rash romantic liaisons that are impetuous and unsuitable on a long term basis.
Having nothing else to amuse his solitude, he employed himself in contriving some plan to gratify his curiosity, in spite of the sedulous caution of Janet and the old Highland janizary, for he had never seen the young fellow since the first morning. The Waverley
This he did not say merely out of vanity and arrogance, or that he were willing, without any advantage, to offend the nobility; but the people always delighting in affronts and scurrilous contumelies against the senate, making boldness of speech their measure of greatness of spirit, continually encouraged him in it, and strengthened his inclination not to spare persons of repute, so he might gratify the multitude. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
But the mythical basis for these gratifying notions is, once again, deeply disturbing.
The yogi forsakes stealing, lying, cheating, killing, and other exploitative and self-gratifying behaviours.
But all those things which a man eats and drinks are devoid of any such intense and well-marked quality, such as bread, cake, and many other things of a similar nature which man is accustomed to use for food, with the exception of condiments and confectioneries, which are made to gratify the palate and for luxury. On Ancient Medicine
Joy Cygnet Restaurant Management Company makes every effort to become China's number one brand for specialty food and its hard work has been gratifying.
I'm rather dubious about my chances of making it straight to heaven, unless I die heroically as a martyr or saving lives— which of course would be too gratifying, which is why it probably won't happen. Archive 2005-11-01
Theatre is never as gratifying to watch as it is to perform, so it's only natural that I am unable to muster the same excitement over this play as the actors.
It is gratifying to know that I provided much amusement to motorists as I attempted to tack my way to the Milner Road turn-off.
Nonetheless, there would be a gratifying postscript to the Honey story.
A year before that talk would have been highly gratifying and flattering, but now I read with a critical eye, and while I could find no fault with the sentiments expressed, the form of the expression irritated me. David Malcolm
Her emotional maturity should be such that she does not have to gratify personal needs at the patient's expense.
But Poetry Inn's allure is also compounded from smaller pleasures, small being the operative word in this mountainside bandit's hideaway: There are five guest rooms and a staff of ten, including three innkeeper/concierges who possess gratifyingly detailed memories for what pleases you. Dream Hideaways: The World's Top Microboutique Hotels
Such an amount of good will and neighborly kindness also went into the mess, that I never could find the heart to refuse, but always received it with thanks, sipped it with hypocritical relish while he remained, and whipped it into the slop-jar the instant he departed, thereby gratifying him, securing one rousing laugh in the doziest hour of the night, and no one was the worse for the transaction but the pigs. Hospital Sketches
At one time a considerable amount of mining was done by the Emerald and Hiddenite Mining Company in search of these gems, and with gratifying success, as crystals of hiddenite and chrome-green beryl of exceptional size and conspicuous beauty were obtained. North Carolina and its Resources.
She did not propose to gratify Gloria's curiosity any further.
How gratifying it is to be working with analogue, manual controls—to see the mechanics at work, rather than trust to invisible and incomprehensible quantum wizardry.
Mavis is the classic narcissist: cut off from objective reality, lacking any concern for other people, insecure in private but willing in public to ride roughshod over anyone and everything in order to gratify her whims. Govindini Murty: Charlize Theron's Young Adult and the Crisis of Narcissism in Our Popular Culture
Then he let me exonerate Harold from the charge of intemperance, pointing out that not even after the injury and operation, nor after yesterday's cold and fatigue, had he touched any liquor; but I don't think the notion of teetotalism was gratifying, even when I called it My Young Alcides
The simulation model can gratify the need of analyzing the performances of the MTD radar.
With me, indeed, this question is one of sacred accountableness; whereas with my opponents, I have good reason to say that it is an occasion for gratifying a spirit of worldly opposition. Middlemarch
Given the intrusion of the presidential race on the crustacean calendar early last week, we and other pectinophiles delayed gratifying our jones for Nantucket Island's only distinctive export (besides hand-woven "lightship" baskets) until Wednesday. New England's November Delicacy
Also, we just cannot gratify every desire that arises, because to do so would destroy civilization by breaking down its necessary restrictions.
She did not propose to gratify Gloria's curiosity any further.
Materials Technology Division showed significant advances over last year which are particularly gratifying given the management attention focused on this business.
These lady nuns must be of patrician lineage and of fortune enough to defray their expense in the convent, which is of the courtliest origin, for it was founded eight hundred years ago by Alfonso VIII. “to expiate his sins and to gratify his queen,” who probably knew of them. Familiar Spanish Travels
My personal favorite is Chobani all-natural non-fat Greek yoghurt; it's gratifyingly thick, not too tangy, and has tons of protein. Neil Zevnik: You Say Yogurt, I Say Yoghurt, They Say Yaourt
Is there anything more gratifying than accepting a wrongdoer's humble apologies with Queenly dignity and good nature? Times, Sunday Times
What has been so gratifying is knowing – and seeing – the results of what would become a personal lifelong mission to spread the good word about hunting to other women while also doing my best to convince men that yes, women belonged beside them in the field. Guest Blogger: Kathy Etling On Why Women Hunt
All in all, this self-seeking sojourn has been gratifying.
Looking at the evolutionary history of four everyday domesticated plants (apples, tulips, marijuana and potatoes), he argues that their success stems from their ability to gratify human desires.
Barbarians accustomed to place their freedom in gratifying the present passion, and their courage in overlooking all future consequences, turned away with indignant contempt from the remonstrances of justice and policy, and it was the practice to signify by a hollow murmur their dislike of such timid counsels. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
To be identified as the new hegemons was gratifying evidence that the opposition's nerve was cracking.
Using this as a basis, the oligarchic man resembles the oligarchy in many ways, such as prizing money above everything else, gratifying only his desires and refusing to make expenditures for anything else.
They also enable us to treat many cases of nervous diseases heretofore regarded as almost hopeless, such as locomotor ataxia, paralysis, epilepsy and spinal affections, with a degree of success which has been very gratifying alike to physicians and patients. The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
the project advanced with gratifying speed
It will be very gratifying indeed to see such a fine speech as that followed up by a vote that is in line with her own rhetoric.
Resemblance among objects of the same kind, and dissimilitude among objects of different kinds, are too obvious and familiar to gratify our curiosity in any degree:
For years referenda were discredited in the public mind by plebiscites organized by totalitarian governments which inevitably produced a gratifying majority.
Turning over a new leaf How gratifying to learn that lots of us have disgusting salad drawers. Times, Sunday Times
If the sole motive is enjoyment then your destination should gratify your desires.
Such jurisdiction allowed them to gratify their desires for lavish living.
The success rate in the exam was gratifyingly high.
Unlike some other notabilities, he did not immediately unbonnet himself to display his capacious forehead, nor did he pause and look around to attract and gratify his admirers.
Alex: Yeah I don't think we think about the "forefront" - ness or history of it at all too much - it's just very exciting and gratifying that people are listening to and writing about and caring about or music in the first place. Artrocker -
Shades, like iPods, give you the gratifying sensation that you are starring in your own movie - not to mention a host of other exclusive benefits.
We journeyed together by the steamer 'Columba' to Rothesay, where, on entering the beautiful bay, crowded at this season with pleasure craft, the first object which attracted our attention was the very vessel for which I was bound, the 'Diana,' one of the most magnificent yachts ever built to gratify the whim of a millionaire. The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance
found her praise gratifying
She dilated on the beauty of the park and the Hall to gratify him.
Such a mission, he believed, would not only advance the cause of science but enhance American prestige, polish the Navy's image and "gratify the whole Christian world" not to mention impel his own becalmed career. Old Salt, Dead Sea
MY beloved daughter imposes on me a task, which however agreeable to myself, may not, perhaps be entirely so to you; as the cold inanimate prolixity of an old woman, will form a great contrast between her descriptions, and that of so sprightly and elegant a penwoman as Mrs. Butler: you must however, accept of my wish to indulge her, and gratify you; and take matter for manner. Agnes De-Courci: a Domestic Tale
As the person answerable (at least in part) for the Lemonheads cover of "Luka" - as I remember it, I started strumming it incessantly on acoustic during the long drives on tour … and by the time we got back to Boston, we had decided to add it to the set-I can't tell you how gratifying it is to hear that the author actually liked our version. Expecting Rain
It played six performances to packed houses at Sydney's Conservatorium, and attracted gratifying media attention.
Such a mission, he believed, would not only advance the cause of science but enhance American prestige, polish the Navy's image and "gratify the whole Christian world" not to mention impel his own becalmed career. Old Salt, Dead Sea
Emotionally, such an attack would doubtlessly be gratifying - fulfilling a general desire to ‘do something’ and a clamour for action rather than words.
Watching grandpa give grandson his first shooting lesson was gratifying to say the least.
It is such a gratifying and easy task to chat about life and times using literary works as a basis, just as it is more gratifying and easier to copy from a plaster cast than to draw a living body.
Bad enough that some House Democrats took the November results as permission to gratify every pent-up urge, no matter how unstimulating. Rick Horowitz: Those Republicans Know How to Throw a Party
Lucullus, Catulus, and Hortensius, to Cato and Brutus, he finally adopted the suggestion of Atticus to gratify Varro by giving him a share in the dialogue together with Atticus and himself (_ad Att. _ xiii. 13, 1, 'commotus tuis litteris, quod ad me de Varrone scripseras, totam Academiam ab hominibus nobilissimis abstuli transtulique ad nostrum sodalem et ex duobus libris contuli in quattuor'). The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
What consoles gratifyingly , the government Department responsible for the work will have established even more, the consummation emergency communication mechanism to propose the agenda.
What was so gratifying and set me on a different trajectory was that I built a team and a successful business. Times, Sunday Times
This sounds remarkably similar to George's ‘fundamental law of political economy’ that ‘men always seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion.’
Women, like men, were equally entitled to gratify their sexual desires in the most beneficial and pleasurable way possible.
Thick bucatini jeweled with bacon, Pecorino cheese, tomato, and peppercorns is even stronger and more gratifying.
He witnessed firsthand the rigorous but gratifying demands of entrepreneurship.
Owner Warner LeRoy's original plan was to create a restaurant to gratify the diverse tastes and pocketbooks of any park stroller who happened by, whether hungry for a burger with fries or sole amandine.
In this landscape ringed by red-rock hills that take on a spectacular hue at sunset, small pleasures - fleeting glimpses of roadrunners, stretches of freshly paved road - are unexpectedly gratifying.
This is gratifying - but simultaneously confirms the intensely effortful nature of this lark. Times, Sunday Times
Only gratify their bellies in the matter of appetite, and you will succeed in winning much from them. 297 But ambitious, emulous natures feel the spur of praise,298 since some natures hunger after praise no less than others crave for meats and drinks. Oeconomicus
It helpfully reasserts the book's argument; and by its resort to invective — "jeremiad," "screeds," "emotionally gratifying," "capitalist hobgoblins," etc. — his letter offers an instructive insight into Reich's own thought processes. 'Supercapitalism': An Exchange
Calling in a gobbler is especially gratifying when you do it with a peg you've made. How To Make A Custom Turkey Call Striker
The support was considerable and very gratifying.
It is gratifying that Bassam Tibi, a leading scholar of Damascene origin, has republished his seminal work on fundamentalism in the wake of September 2001.
Hence an important means towards happiness is the control of our desires, and the extinction of those that we cannot gratify, which is brought about by virtue. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI

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