The phrase "and a gratifying" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that brings pleasure or satisfaction, often in a context where you are discussing experiences or outcomes.
Example: "The project was challenging, but the final result was rewarding and a gratifying experience for the entire team."
Alternatives: "and a fulfilling" or "and a satisfying".
They didn't reward our "generosity" with cherubic faces and a gratifying tear.
Nor to make sense of a story without an ending, a crime without a solution and a gratifying villain.
Because of 2007's phenomenal snook fishing and a gratifying resurgence in the estuary's spotted seatrout population, I had not targeted reds for months.
While marginally less refined than its Japanese rivals, the Cobalt does have a strong engine, engaging steering and a gratifying transmission.
That more or less describes the themes, which he bundles together with unadorned prose, a heavy serving of dread and a gratifying, blunt, O. Henry-like kicker.
But Kennan also loved poetry, sailing, Russian literature, and the guitar; enjoyed the life of a gentleman farmer near the improbably named town of East Berlin, Pa.; and forged an enduring marriage and a gratifying, if sometimes complicated, family life.
As a result, she had to distance herself from them and found a gratifying project--opening her home to tourists for whom she could prepare her gourmet dinners.
"The average gift was $689 -- and that's a gratifying 10percentt higher than last year".
When the Prince of Wales nearly died of typhoid fever in 1871, the public was treated to a gratifying mother-and-prodigal-son reunion.
The obstetricians described pregnancy ultrasound as a gratifying and often also an enjoyable part of their work and they appreciated the tool for the new possibilities it heralded as the capacity of the ultrasound machines constantly developed.
Two complicated people, moved by a common goal -- to produce the best possible writing -- had found each other, and apart from the minor irritations that inevitably arise between author and publisher over a long collaboration, they progressed through the next 17 years from a gratifying and productive professional relationship to a true meeting of minds.
