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  • I am gratified that Working Dogs is of some assistance, and not a futile documentary effort.†   (source)
  • I was gratified to see genuine surprise and pleasure.†   (source)
  • Here it is, for your enjoyment and instruction, for your gratification and edification, the show you've been waiting for all your life, THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH!†   (source)
  • By the 1980s, he had developed a solid business that didn't generate a lot of extra money but afforded him a gratifying degree of independence.†   (source)
  • Hermione turned away, smiling at the horseless carriages that were now trundling toward them up the drive, as Krum, looking surprised but gratified, signed a fragment of parchment for Ron.†   (source)
  • But in a dispute between herons and patriots, the herons are not generally favored to win; the bombardment proceeded, as planned—the night sky was brilliantly set afire, and the explosions gratified us all.†   (source)
  • Bud is gratified, but not that impressed.†   (source)
  • His ascendants had indulged in hashish, but he preferred a different kind of gratification.†   (source)
  • I think waiting a long time for something makes it more gratifying.†   (source)
  • The effect on Lola was gratifying.†   (source)
  • Deep inside Phillip Garrido is a very selfish man, looking only to gratify himself as much as possible while still projecting to the world a selfless and caring man.†   (source)
  • As the husky voice scraped inexorably on, she ventured to raise her head a little, and was gratified to see that Judith too was peeking.†   (source)
  • Still, he knows that each component of a building, however small, is nevertheless essential, and he finds it gratifying that after all his years of schooling, all his crits and unbuilt projects, his efforts are to have some practical end.†   (source)
  • "It's often suggested that as a culture, we're only interested in immediate gratification.†   (source)
  • "It is most gratifying," it said, "that your enthusiasm for our planet continues unabated, and so we would like to assure you that the guided missiles currently converging with your ship are part of a special service we extend to all of our most enthusiastic clients, and the fully armed nuclear warheads are of course merely a courtesy detail.†   (source)
  • The stunned silence was gratifying for a few seconds, but Piper felt ashamed of herself Everybody turned and looked at The Poster, her dad flexing his muscles for the whole world to see.†   (source)
  • "New York," I said —and was gratified at his silent double-take, his lowered eyebrows that said: very cool.†   (source)
  • But anyhow there was uplift, and indeed it was observable, both in the resolute set of their faces and in the gratification that shone in their eyes.†   (source)
  • As one of very few people gifted with a cool and analytical mind, he knew that only a small number of individuals were strong enough to reject happiness and gratification in order to shape the history of the world, and he was one of them.†   (source)
  • "We could always work out together," I joked halfheartedly, and was gratified to hear the sound of her laugh.†   (source)
  • I was gratified to hear that you defended him with your words.†   (source)
  • Father, on the other hand, was probably all deeply gratified, just gratified up one side and down the other.†   (source)
  • Ruth was amazed and gratified that her mother had put so much heart into naming her.†   (source)
  • He was so delighted to see me, I couldn't help but feel gratified.†   (source)
  • He said of Pitezel, "It will be understood that from the first hour of our acquaintance, even before I knew he had a family who would later afford me additional victims for the gratification of my blood-thirstiness, I intended to kill him."†   (source)
  • I was gratified by the eruption of hot flame, just like Miss Riley's experiment, except mine was pink rather than green.†   (source)
  • The work in Athens was not nearly as gratifying, but the pay was good, and it afforded me the luxury of taking weeks and months off at a time for my volunteer work.†   (source)
  • The world was a series of fleeting gratifications.†   (source)
  • Jace assumed an air of mellow gratification.†   (source)
  • I had explained my position as succinctly as possible, adding that I would be most gratified to be guided towards a good inn.†   (source)
  • So you see, Anita, it was gratifying to hear Gertrude talk this way to me, exactly the kind of support teachers need.†   (source)
  • The pregnancy news was gratifying, but there is still so much I don't know.†   (source)
  • The three of them rendered their accounts at dawn, prostrate at his feet to beg forgiveness for their meager profits, and the only gratification they sought was that he go to bed with the one who brought him the most money.†   (source)
  • That Krupp's-private-shim fantasy gratified me for a while, but then it wore off and I saw it was just being vindictive.†   (source)
  • In retaining the identity of our race, we held fast to those characteristics most gratifying to sustain and least troublesome to maintain.†   (source)
  • Soon her gratifying fingering and her lilting voice would lull me to sleep again.†   (source)
  • There was nearly as much commotion over the saving of the sinners as there had been during the gratifying melodic sermon.†   (source)
  • Service at the Brigham was so gratifying to him that he sometimes wondered aloud if he should give it up.†   (source)
  • He called the police and that was the start of a three-day siege of the cabin, blanket coverage by the media, with Blomkvist in a front-row seat and collecting a gratifyingly large fee from an evening paper.†   (source)
  • It has been deeply gratifying to see the audience for this book continue to grow, and meanwhile we have watched with fascination as perceptions of the material have changed with time.†   (source)
  • But speculation such as these, though they absorbed Dewey, did not gratify him or give him a sense of "getting somewhere."†   (source)
  • The regent was anxious for me to attend Fort Hare and I was gratified to be accepted there.†   (source)
  • Though it's not regulation, I lift my hand in salute as I pass him, gratified when he nods in return.†   (source)
  • Finally, in despair, she ended up in her old denim maternity jumper, gratifyingly loose, which she had sworn she'd never wear again.†   (source)
  • To feel that rabbits were competing to risk their lives at his orders gratified Woundwort, although he believed—and so did his Council and his Owsla—that he was giving the warren peace and security at a price which was modest enough.†   (source)
  • The previous notion that disposition is everything — that the cause of violent behavior is always "sociopathic personality" or "deficient superego" or the inability to delay gratification or some evil in the genes — is, in the end, the most passive and reactive of ideas about crime.†   (source)
  • Of course when a girl like John gets a little taste of social contact and recognition, she may go to considerable lengths to gratify her desire for it.†   (source)
  • The door closed with a gratifying swish.†   (source)
  • I showed off my own tattoo, which got gratifying oohs and aahs.†   (source)
  • Newt wasn't tired, and as he became less scared he began to imagine how gratifying it would be to ride into Lonesome Dove with such a large herd of horses.†   (source)
  • She argues that ubiquitous gang rape in civil wars isn't about sexual gratification, but rather is a way for military units--including their female members--to bond, by engaging in sometimes brutally misogynistic violence.†   (source)
  • For Smith, the trip to Maryland was gratifying.†   (source)
  • I felt the gratifying recoil of my rifle.†   (source)
  • The bat makes a gratifying crack as it sends the apple soaring, flying high on a lucky combination of direction and possibility.†   (source)
  • Mortenson, by then, had come to admire Musharraf, gratified to see that Pakistan's government was prepared to fight for the education of its girls.†   (source)
  • I don't want to give him the gratification of seeing the tears that are making their way down my cheeks.†   (source)
  • He smoked a peace pipe—a custom unknown to the Pima, but gratifying to the newsreel cameramen—and declared that the dam would save the Pima nation from poverty.†   (source)
  • He spoke 'a few suitable words', as they would have said in the Shire: _We are all very much gratified by the kindness of your reception, and I venture to hope that my brief visit will help to renew the old ties of friendship between the Shire and Bree;_and then he hesitated and coughed.†   (source)
  • In any case, the child's free spirit and rebellious nature were gratifying to Pedro Tercero.†   (source)
  • 'That's right,' said Colonel Korn, nodding, gratified immeasurably by Yossarian's guileless surprise and bewilderment.†   (source)
  • Later, he trotted back alongside her, roll in mouth, looking proudly from side to side, gratified by the attention he attracted from the passersby.†   (source)
  • He let Thomas close the skin, and he was gratified to see him use both hands and take his time.†   (source)
  • Your problem is that you misunderstand sentiments intended merely for self-gratification.†   (source)
  • I caused hurt and sorrow to those closest to me by living my life with my own gratification as the guiding principle.†   (source)
  • The string player somehow looked both impassive and gratified, and launched into another, this one noticeably faster and loud enough for Seivarden to safely whisper to me again.†   (source)
  • Yours very truly, Jeremy Stone John Black Samuel Holden Terence Lisset Andrew Weiss Response to the letter was gratifyingly prompt.†   (source)
  • "I am sure," she said, "that every one of us here will be gratified to learn that after four weeks of unremitting effort and patience on the part of our friend the goose, she now has something to show for it."†   (source)
  • "We are soldiers who devote ourselves to arms not for the invasion of other countries but for the defense of our own, not for the gratification of our own private interest, but for the public security," Greene had written in another letter to Samuel Ward.†   (source)
  • That instant gratification.†   (source)
  • The same self that learned to anticipate instant gratification, if I use the phrase correctly.†   (source)
  • The colonel's pride was gratified by the presence of Elinor Mompellion at his table.†   (source)
  • She could see the effect it was having on her mother and found it gratifying.†   (source)
  • I wanted instant gratification.†   (source)
  • It was gratifying, how obvious it was that I was the new and improved version.†   (source)
  • The progress is most gratifying.†   (source)
  • The mother of a corporal in the 8th Pennsylvania Cavalry was probably not gratified by a letter from her son that listed his duties in the following order of priority: "first my God, second my country, third my mother.†   (source)
  • For the most part, women are the objects of his own gratification.†   (source)
  • The particular residents had fluttered gratifyingly in response.†   (source)
  • I cannot say how gratified it makes me.†   (source)
  • It is at once a buoyancy and a steadying, allowing for the simultaneous gratification of whatever is centrifugal and whatever is centripetal in mind and body.†   (source)
  • Coffee would furnish only temporary and personal gratification.†   (source)
  • Jean and George were much less gratified, as no-one took any notice of them.†   (source)
  • So after a bit she began to speak to him about it, gratified by the emotionless, truly pedestrian tone she was able to sustain.†   (source)
  • Gratifying, yes, when you came to us and could not spell your name, to accomplish so much here in a few years, but always an Irish battle.†   (source)
  • To gratify this Curiosity, which is so natural to a Reader, I design this Paper and my next, as Prefatory Discourses to my following Writings and shall give some Account in them of the several persons that are engaged in this Work.†   (source)
  • The girl was pleased: gratified that in his difficulties he'd turned to her.†   (source)
  • I knew that faking the tears would gratify her and end the punishment, but I refused.†   (source)
  • Then it is unanimous, and I must say it is extremely gratifying that my students are sharing such a great concern for the rest of mankind.†   (source)
  • "You forget what ego-gratification I get out of honesty," Will said.†   (source)
  • How does he force her to submit, why does she surrender, why does she gratify his wishes and delight him with her quivering unconcealed shame?†   (source)
  • He felt so well gratified that he dabbed each cheekbone with lather and took off the little half-moons of fuzz.†   (source)
  • …who was beautiful but did not look with favor on any of the black men who lusted after her, not wishing to exchange her mother's cabin for one of theirs and to raise their children and so go down, toil-blasted, into as it were a common grave, reinforced in Deborah the terrible belief against which no evidence had ever presented itself: that all men were like this, their thoughts rose no higher, and they lived only to gratify on the bodies of women their brutal and humiliating needs.†   (source)
  • My election as President of the United States was not half so gratifying to my inmost soul.†   (source)
  • Then he looked back to the bird, and he thought if it would look at him a dread penetration would fill and gratify his heart.†   (source)
  • MORE I'm gratified.†   (source)
  • So strong was my desire, that I thought a gratification of it would fully compensate for whatever loss of comforts I should sustain by the exchange.   (source)
  • he held it rather a punishment, than a gratification, to endure our company   (source)
  • Americans are accustomed to instant gratification.
  • The ability to delay gratification is an outstanding predictor of success.
  • "It's very gratifying," he said, often repeating the remark in the course of the evening.   (source)
    gratifying = pleasurable
  • Don't you care a little to gratify your daughter?   (source)
    gratify = give pleasure or satisfaction
  • A thoroughly good sermon, thoroughly well delivered, is a capital gratification.   (source)
    gratification = pleasure
  • He remained steadily inclined to gratify so amiable a feeling;   (source)
    gratify = satisfy or please
  • "My opinion!" she cried, shrinking from such a compliment, highly as it gratified her.   (source)
    gratified = pleased
  • She has not often a gratification of the kind, and I am sure, ma'am, you would be glad to give her the pleasure now?   (source)
    gratification = pleasure
  • These were anxious considerations; enough to sober her spirits even under the prospect of a ball given principally for her gratification.   (source)
  • For her own gratification she could have wished that something might be acted, for she had never seen even half a play, but everything of higher consequence was against it.   (source)
  • She took it, however, as she spoke, and the gratification of having her do so, of feeling such a connexion for the first time, made him a little forgetful of Fanny.   (source)
  • They were relieved by it from all restraint; and without aiming at one gratification that would probably have been forbidden by Sir Thomas, they felt themselves immediately at their own disposal, and to have every indulgence within their reach.   (source)
  • As for the ball, so near at hand, she had too many agitations and fears to have half the enjoyment in anticipation which she ought to have had, or must have been supposed to have by the many young ladies looking forward to the same event in situations more at ease, but under circumstances of less novelty, less interest, less peculiar gratification, than would be attributed to her.   (source)
    gratification = pleasure or satisfaction
  • She was too indolent even to accept a mother's gratification in witnessing their success and enjoyment at the expense of any personal trouble, and the charge was made over to her sister, who desired nothing better than a post of such honourable representation, and very thoroughly relished the means it afforded her of mixing in society without having horses to hire.   (source)
    gratification = pleasure
  • It was all known at the Parsonage, where he loved to talk over the future with both his sisters, and it would be rather gratifying to him to have enlightened witnesses of the progress of his success.   (source)
    gratifying = pleasing
  • "Nothing could be so gratifying to me as to hear your opinion of it," was his answer; "but I fear there would be some disappointment: you would not find it equal to your present ideas."   (source)
  • Each sister could echo the wish; and Henry Crawford, to whom, in all the riot of his gratifications it was yet an untasted pleasure, was quite alive at the idea.   (source)
    gratifications = pleasures
  • He remained steadily inclined to gratify so amiable a feeling; to gratify anybody else who might wish to see Fanny dance, and to give pleasure to the young people in general;   (source)
    gratify = satisfy or please
  • William's promotion, with all its particulars, he was soon master of; and with such a secret provision of comfort within his own breast to help the joy, he found in it a source of most gratifying sensation and unvarying cheerfulness all dinner-time.   (source)
    gratifying = pleasurable
  • She hoped it was not wrong; though, after a time, Susan's very great admiration of everything said or done in her uncle's house, and earnest longing to go into Northamptonshire, seemed almost to blame her for exciting feelings which could not be gratified.   (source)
    gratified = satisfied
  • "I shall be most happy to play to you both," said Miss Crawford; "at least as long as you can like to listen: probably much longer, for I dearly love music myself, and where the natural taste is equal the player must always be best off, for she is gratified in more ways than one."   (source)
    gratified = pleased
  • It would really be gratifying to see them all again, and a little addition of society might be of infinite use to them; and as to yourself, you must feel yourself to be so wanted there, that you cannot in conscience—conscientious as you are—keep away, when you have the means of returning.   (source)
    gratifying = pleasurable
  • The Doctor was very fond of eating, and would have a good dinner every day; and Mrs. Grant, instead of contriving to gratify him at little expense, gave her cook as high wages as they did at Mansfield Park, and was scarcely ever seen in her offices.   (source)
    gratify = satisfy or please
  • She had no doubt that her note must appear excessively ill-written, that the language would disgrace a child, for her distress had allowed no arrangement; but at least it would assure them both of her being neither imposed on nor gratified by Mr. Crawford's attentions.   (source)
    gratified = pleased
  • It was the only thing approaching to a letter which she had ever received from him; she might never receive another; it was impossible that she ever should receive another so perfectly gratifying in the occasion and the style.   (source)
    gratifying = pleasing
  • There was no longer anything to disturb them in their darling project, and they congratulated each other in private on the jealous weakness to which they attributed the change, with all the glee of feelings gratified in every way.   (source)
    gratified = satisfied
  • The division of gratifying sensations ought not, in strict justice, to have been equal; for Sir Thomas was fully resolved to be the real and consistent patron of the selected child, and Mrs. Norris had not the least intention of being at any expense whatever in her maintenance.   (source)
    gratifying = pleasing
  • Edmund watched the progress of her attention, and was amused and gratified by seeing how she gradually slackened in the needlework, which at the beginning seemed to occupy her totally: how it fell from her hand while she sat motionless over it, and at last, how the eyes which had appeared so studiously to avoid him throughout the day were turned and fixed on Crawford—fixed on him for minutes, fixed on him, in short, till the attraction drew Crawford's upon her, and the book was closed,…   (source)
    gratified = pleased
  • Now so long divided from everybody who knew the place, she felt it quite the voice of a friend when he mentioned it, and led the way to her fond exclamations in praise of its beauties and comforts, and by his honourable tribute to its inhabitants allowed her to gratify her own heart in the warmest eulogium, in speaking of her uncle as all that was clever and good, and her aunt as having the sweetest of all sweet tempers.   (source)
    gratify = please
  • Mrs. Price talked of her poor sister for a few minutes, but how to find anything to hold Susan's clothes, because Rebecca took away all the boxes and spoilt them, was much more in her thoughts: and as for Susan, now unexpectedly gratified in the first wish of her heart, and knowing nothing personally of those who had sinned, or of those who were sorrowing—if she could help rejoicing from beginning to end, it was as much as ought to be expected from human virtue at fourteen.   (source)
    gratified = satisfied
  • Miss Crawford knew Mrs. Norris too well to think of gratifying her by commendation of Fanny; to her, it was as the occasion offered—"Ah! ma'am, how much we want dear Mrs. Rushworth and Julia to-night!" and Mrs. Norris paid her with as many smiles and courteous words as she had time for, amid so much occupation as she found for herself in making up card-tables, giving hints to Sir Thomas, and trying to move all the chaperons to a better part of the room.   (source)
    gratifying = pleasing
  • Miss Crawford appeared gratified by the application, and after a moment's thought, urged Fanny's returning with her in a much more cordial manner than before, and proposed their going up into her room, where they might have a comfortable coze, without disturbing Dr. and Mrs. Grant, who were together in the drawing-room.   (source)
    gratified = pleased
  • …Sir Thomas, feeling, moreover, his own replies, and his own remarks to have been very much to the purpose, was exceedingly happy to give the particulars of their conversation; and little aware of what was passing in his niece's mind, conceived that by such details he must be gratifying her far more than himself.   (source)
    gratifying = pleasing
  • I ought to have sent you an account of your cousin's first party, but I was lazy, and now it is too long ago; suffice it, that everything was just as it ought to be, in a style that any of her connexions must have been gratified to witness, and that her own dress and manners did her the greatest credit.   (source)
    gratified = pleasurable
  • She gave the history of her recent visit, and now her raptures might well be over; for Edmund was so struck with the circumstance, so delighted with what Miss Crawford had done, so gratified by such a coincidence of conduct between them, that Fanny could not but admit the superior power of one pleasure over his own mind, though it might have its drawback.   (source)
    gratified = pleased
  • And it had been the beginning of a truly gratifying friendship.†   (source)
  • I felt gratified that I could make him squirm, but I tried not to smile.†   (source)
  • I'll admit I found the satyr's reaction gratifying.†   (source)
  • 'Very gratifying,' said Dumbledore mildly.†   (source)
  • Enter the Dolphin, he mused, gratified his fifty laps a day were good for something.†   (source)
  • But as you rightly point out, it's rather gratifying to have consorted with him.†   (source)
  • "That is a wise attitude, and I commend you for it," said Jace, looking gratified.†   (source)
  • She returned it fiercely, and was gratified when he turned away.†   (source)
  • I am gratified by your interest, and, I hope I may say, by your trust.†   (source)
  • When he came back in he had a gratified expression.†   (source)
  • I was surprised at how gratifying I found their enthusiasm for our work.†   (source)
  • How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses.†   (source)
  • If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.†   (source)
  • We've been gratified when we've heard their confusion or noticed it in an email.†   (source)
  • The crowd applauded, which would have been gratifying if I'd actually done anything.†   (source)
  • Their wavering cries gratified her; it was only right that her food should fear her.†   (source)
  • "I am gratified by his success," Aro mused.†   (source)
  • "It's much more gratifying to come up with a decision on your own.†   (source)
  • Carol is more and more gratified the more bewildered I am.†   (source)
  • His look of utter astonishment was momentarily gratifying.†   (source)
  • I am gratified, though, that you appreciate our hospitality.†   (source)
  • I have to admit, the surprise on my mom's face is gratifying.†   (source)
  • This is so deeply gratifying that I do it again.†   (source)
  • "President Adams seemed highly gratified," recorded Eliza Susan Quincy.†   (source)
  • The awe they displayed at meeting Glaedr gratified Eragon.†   (source)
  • I had not seen Winnie for over a year, and I was gratified to find that she looked well.†   (source)
  • I wish treating humans were this instantaneously gratifying.†   (source)
  • Zalachenko was feeling wonderfully gratified.†   (source)
  • It is gratifying to have my suspicions confirmed.†   (source)
  • Nabby recorded that she had never known her father so gratified by a visit of any kind.†   (source)
  • Praise from the great Blomkvist was extremely gratifying.†   (source)
  • The noticeable improvements he had brought to the farm were highly gratifying.†   (source)
  • They cannot deprive me of comfort without gratifying my vanity.†   (source)
  • "Has it rained that much?" she said in a gratified way.†   (source)
  • To let her loose upon an unsuspecting public would be irresponsible to the last degree, as it would merely afford her the opportunity of gratifying her bloodthirsty tastes.†   (source)
  • Well, that's … gratifying.†   (source)
  • Scapegoats have been notoriously useful throughout history, and it must have been most gratifying for these Handmaids, so rigidly controlled at other times, to be able to tear a man apart with their bare hands every once in a 307 while.†   (source)
  • I was surprised to find that the subject of my freedom was suddenly not as gratifying as it had been just a moment ago.†   (source)
  • I've seen you fall three stories and land like a cat, jump from the ground to a roof— Hearing my achievements recited is certainly gratifying, but I'm not sure what your point is, Alec.†   (source)
  • After four hours or so of sitting—watching other teams pass me—I fed them another snack, got ready to go, and was gratified to see Storm pick up the stick.†   (source)
  • He may have sensed that he had been used, or his disinterest may have been an indication that I was less than gratifying.†   (source)
  • The gratifying thing was, Edgar had chosen to speak those first words to Glen because he knew he had contributed to, if not caused, Pop's death.†   (source)
  • An equally gratifying (if ignoble) memory was Pippa's slight, shocked pause when I'd broken the news to her on the phone.†   (source)
  • This gratifying certainty increased Florentino Ariza's eagerness, for at the height of pleasure he had experienced a revelation that he could not believe, that he even refused to admit, which was that his illusory love for Fermina Daza could be replaced by an earthly passion.†   (source)
  • It's gratified her to go to all this effort—to make a final, celebratory meal for her children, her friends.†   (source)
  • I felt gratified.†   (source)
  • Only the steady pounding of rain on the roof is gratifying, sounding as if old Huracan were beating on the building for all the crimes engineered inside.†   (source)
  • As she went along the corridor with the boys to their room, first one then the other put his hand in hers and she was surprised to find herself so gratified.†   (source)
  • I couldn't help feeling gratified, obscurely, that he'd noted this detail, oddly important to me, with its own network of childhood dreams and associations, an emotional chord—"the board is thicker than you'd think.†   (source)
  • Dr. Juvenal Urbino, gratified once again by the generosity of Uncle Leo XII, did not wait for the weather to clear, and without thinking he accepted the umbrella that Florentino Ariza lent him for walking to his carriage.†   (source)
  • Simon looked gratified.†   (source)
  • Some of the tales were funny, a few were pathetic, but all were amusing or gratifying to me, for the Black man, the con man who could act the most stupid, won out every time over the powerful, arrogant white.†   (source)
  • While exciting and very gratifying, the Supreme Court rulings on juveniles created all sorts of new challenges for us.†   (source)
  • It was overwhelming but gratifying.†   (source)
  • It was gratifying to be able, finally, to address some of these issues through our new project and to articulate the challenges created by racial history and structural poverty.†   (source)
  • It's rather gratifying.†   (source)
  • Just ahead, the thicket of guava branches clears, and there is the footpath, and beyond, the gratifying sight of the car still on the side of the road.†   (source)
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