In essence, McDonnell's argument is that all the gifts from Williams were legal, that such gifts merely engendered a "general gratitude" toward Williams and Star Scientific, rather than an explicit quid pro quo.
It seems simplistic, but it's true: gratitude engenders a sense of hope, which is all you need when you are working toward a goal and life threatens to get in the way.
As Blau (2008 150 [1964:94]) puts it, "only social exchange tends to engender feelings of personal obligation, gratitude, and trust; purely economic exchange as such does not".
The history of his family, as Polish Jews who settled in Britain in refuge from the Holocaust, and with a maternal grandfather, David Kozak, who died at Auschwitz, has engendered a strong sense of gratitude and rootedness in Britain.
How do you leave in a way that acknowledges your gratitude to the company and doesn't engender resentment? A. Give as much notice as you can — a month, for instance, is more considerate than two weeks, Ms. Pearl says.
To get your appreciation and gratitude in gear, for that is what will engender happiness and optimism.
"He was too wise to expect gratitude but perhaps too absorbed to anticipate the hostility he engendered," he writes in "Cutting for Sign", his 1993 account of life along the border.
"One can be left cold by the doctrines of the Christian Trinity and the Buddhist Eightfold Path and yet at the same time be interested in the ways in which religions deliver sermons, promote morality, engender a spirit of community, make use of art and architecture, inspire travels, train minds and encourage gratitude at the beauty of spring," de Botton writes.
