All 6 Uses of
gratification
in
Anna Karenina
- The liberal party said that marriage is an institution quite out of date, and that it needs reconstruction; and family life certainly afforded Stepan Arkadyevitch little gratification, and forced him into lying and hypocrisy, which was so repulsive to his nature.†
Part 1
- He read, too, that Count Beist was rumored to have left for Wiesbaden, and that one need have no more gray hair, and of the sale of a light carriage, and of a young person seeking a situation; but these items of information did not give him, as usual, a quiet, ironical gratification.†
Part 1
- 'I'm much obliged for the gratification, my humble respects'—that's all the tragedy.†
Part 1 *
- Folding the letter and smoothing it with a massive ivory knife, and putting it in an envelope with the money, he rang the bell with the gratification it always afforded him to use the well arranged appointments of his writing-table.†
Part 3
- And what he saw in this mirror did not gratify his self-esteem.†
Part 4
- But at that instant Konstantin Levin was not in a condition to feel all the gratification of making such an acquaintance.†
Part 4
Definition:
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(gratification) great satisfaction (pleasure)