When he's firing a low-level Apple staffer because the employee doesn't care enough about computer type fonts, it's both funny and painful (and, yes, a bit gratifying).
Talk bride to be, she may perhaps just want an unwinding time at a health spa or maybe something a bit more gratifying.
IT is a bit embarrassing, though gratifying, to announce that I have won my own contest.
A bed of roses in full bloom, especially if it is a bit wild and overgrown, gratifies in me a repressed yearning for colorful, sensual disorder.
The new additions to the extant corpus of antiquity's greatest female artist were reported in papers around the world, leaving scholars gratified and a bit dazzled.
The new government's determination has left the relatives of the disappeared and human rights groups here and abroad surprised, gratified and even a bit baffled.
Such an outing may be gratifying if not a bit daunting for Mr. Dunham, whose state of mind when he's working is so meditative that, he said, "The only reason I know it happened is I have all these paintings around".
"It's a little bit more gratifying to be here as a coach," said Scott, who is in his second year with the Nets.
But still, it's both gratifying and a bit surprising to see that this CIA-shaped jingoistic celebration of America's proudest moment of the last decade - finding bin Laden, pumping his skull full of bullets, and then dumping his corpse into the ocean - ended up with the stigma it deserves.
Marsh, trying to decipher the lyrics of the song, felt after reading the correct lyrics from the song's sheet music that "what I imagined was quite a bit better (at least, more gratifying) than what Nirvana actually sang," and added, "Worst of all, I'm not sure that I know more about [the meaning of] 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' now than before I plunked down for the official version of the facts".
Mr. Sarrazin said he was gratified by public support and a bit surprised by the degree to which his peer group — the political leadership — has shunned him.
