The phrase "a certain gratification in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when expressing a specific pleasure or satisfaction derived from an activity or experience.
Example: "She found a certain gratification in helping others, which motivated her to volunteer regularly."
Alternatives: "a particular pleasure in" or "a specific satisfaction in".
We find a certain gratification in the passage of time between order and fulfillment, knowing that something is coming.
There is a certain gratification in doing something only for you, knowing that you have decided to do this because YOU wanted to.
Guys may well get off on the sight of these two women going at it, but the entire audience can take a certain gratification in the way they turn the tables on the devious and controlling men in the picture, including Hideko's uncle (Cho Jin-woong), a pervy old purveyor of Japanese erotica who keeps a collection of human genital parts in jars.
Painters, poets, novelists and other mischievous souls have long recognized -- and even admitted -- that there's a certain spooky gratification to be found in contemplating the ruins of someone else's grandiose home, castle or civilization.
Also, "you have a certain amount of instant gratification in this line of work," he continues, "where in many other fields, it takes you 15 years to get involved in some project with 15 co-collaborators".
There is a certain element of delayed gratification in this whole translation process.
An individual may choose instant gratification over their long-term interests, such that a commitment made in the present to behave in a certain way in the future will be broken when that time in the future comes; Departures from rationality (particularly in young people).
At a certain point in the infant's life the Balinese mother methodically began to frustrats its impulses -to tease it by leading it to expect gratification and then giving it none.
It is a useful gratification in grating times.
But most philanthropic organizations recognize that people like to have a certain amount of psychic gratification.
When a space is well-balanced, it is not only esthetically pleasing to the eye, but it also gives a certain internal sense of gratification.
