When a crop is at its height, the harvest can be rewarding, even overwhelming.
To have had such an impact when you're just one person is rewarding, even humbling.
But even a simple formula can be rewarding when the mix is just right, as at Pace/MacGill's "In the cloud," in which Stieglitz's "Equivalents" meet Paul Graham's shots of the skies over troubled areas of Northern Ireland.
(Zachary Woolfe) ★ Emanuel Ax (Thursday) This superb pianist is rewarding to hear even when the program he has planned is not as fascinating as the one he offers for his next visit to Carnegie Hall.
Digging for "Lulu" can be rewarding and may even be necessary.
For engaged audience members, it's rewarding when a sentence takes even a tiny unexpected turn.
"It's rewarding when it's repaired; the finished product is rewarding," Mr. Summers said as he allowed himself a moment to admire the job.
Even just chatting with people hanging around the site can be rewarding.
It can be harrowing and gruelling, but relationship-based work, to which I hope we will now return, is hugely rewarding, even on those occasions when the outcome involves the necessary removal of children.
What is so rewarding about a Wes Anderson film, though, is that even when it appears to slip into the second category, your instrument may still detect exquisitely subtle thrums of life.
