Sentence examples for a gratifying exception from inspiring English sources

Almost throughout the match, the majority of the Parkhead players - in the first half at least, Aiden McGeady was a gratifying exception - seemed to have failed to make the distinction between fear and timidity.

Davit Karapetyan is a gratifying exception.

One gratifying exception is Beverley Grant as the couple's teenage daughter, Louise, a performance possessed of passion and speed that runs at the material almost literally head-on.

With the film industry's male bias once more in the headlines – a new study reveals only 15% of major releases feature a female protagonist – this week's top DVD releases are gratifying exceptions.

It was a gratifying tableau.

A gratifying pile of muck.

This outburst produces a gratifying silence.

Still, there was a gratifying naturalness about this "Missa Solemnis".

It's a gratifying -- and often disorienting -- sensation.

For Western viewers, it's a gratifying, redemptive ending.

The courses follow one another quickly, a gratifying novelty in the world of tasting menus.