"It's both gratifying and intimidating," said Mr. Cray, who will play both Friday and Saturday nights.
To Mr. Pomodoro, all this may be both gratifying and somewhat beside the point.
It is both gratifying and a little frightening when a play you had consigned to the crypt returns as a living prophecy for our times.
Having slow-burned into many music fans' ears over a decade of record making, it was both gratifying and odd that – having had seven lauded albums already – Merriweather proved the tipping point for many converts.
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.
That episode was a lifetime ago, and the subsequent years brought another big move in the late 1990s plus a continued professional trajectory, which was both gratifying and fully recognized.
It's rare these days to hear something that sounds genuinely new, and rarer still to hear music that is both immediately gratifying and compelling in the long term.
Most feel that the time, money, and energy they spend on nurturing a network of professional and personal contacts are both essential and gratifying.
Such enthusiastic reactions have been, for Lanier, both gratifying and disorienting.
Eleanor Cooper, co-founder of Pathstream, a startup partnering with higher education institutions to provide business software training, notes that millennials and Gen Zers are "accustomed to Instagram-like platforms which are both intuitive and instantly gratifying.
