Sentence examples for To be gratified from inspiring English sources

Even viewers who knew the answer for sure stuck around, in order to be gratified.

Branson is bound to be gratified by his No 1 ranking.

Mr Khamenei is said to be gratified by Mr Ahmadinejad's hero status in the Arab world as a scourge of the Bush administration and champion of Palestinian rights.

Still, after seven years during which, even among our closest allies, contempt for Bush bled into resentment of the country that returned him to office, one would have to be an awful grouch not to be gratified by the sight of a sea of delighted Europeans waving American flags instead of burning them and cheering an American politician instead of demonstrating against one.

Well because, in my view, we need urgently to remind ourselves of – for want of better terminology – the difference between literary and genre fiction; because, to misquote the literary essayist Isaac D'Israeli, "it seems to me a wretched national compulsion to be gratified by mediocrity when the excellent lies before us".

These last, doomed flourishes of the ailing genius left opponents with the heartbreaking dilemma; run out a gasping Jackson as he flayed their bowling attacks around but struggled between the wickets or, as Frith put it, "spare him so that his obsessive but self-destructive love of batting could continue to be gratified; a harrowing choice of mercies".

The result had to be gratifying for NBC, which had watched as "The Voice" slid in the ratings the past several weeks.

I'm excited to be a part of these endeavors, and the success of what we've built continues to be gratifying.

While I expected public service work to be gratifying, what happened next was a surprise.

Ragogna: When people hear the message from your recording and it actually resonates, it's got to be gratifying.

Each episode is designed to be gratifying on its own, with a satisfying conclusion; however, it then provides a cliffhanger to "tantalize the player a little more".