Sentence examples for even be grateful from inspiring English sources

"At first I couldn't even be grateful I had survived the accident, because I was so upset.

Maybe instead of looking at my new country neighbors as people to fence out, I should just concede that they exist and even be grateful that they want to be friendly.

Some celebrities are so desperate they would turn up to the opening of a tapas bar in Tooting; some would even be grateful for the free tuck; Biggins, meanwhile, would not have been invited.

"Mothers of America / let your kids go to the movies!" the poem begins, proposing a number of specious rationales before finding a true one: "they may even be grateful to you / for their first sexual experience / which only cost you a quarter / and didn't upset the peaceful home".

Various ultimate careers were predicted for him, the consensus being that his work would lie somewhere "in the humanities" if not precisely in the arts….He could even be grateful in a sense that he had no particular area of interest: in avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations.

By Oct. 27, many New Yorkers may even be grateful that the conductor Charles Dutoit, the pianist Martha Argerich and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra are adhering to a program titled "Salute to Argentina!" That Mr. Abbado turned to Beethoven symphonies so reflexively at this time of anguish did not show great musical imagination.

Is it likely that people can be made to see the tiger as something to be respected, or even to be grateful about?

The distinctly modern metaphysical picture of reality is one that makes it possible to regard this world as a cave filled only with flickering shadows and yet also to cherish those shadows for their very insubstantiality, and even to be grateful for the shelter that the cave provides against the great emptiness outside, where no Sun of the Good ever shines.

Still, even they should be grateful -- any time Microsoft makes clean, simple, foolproof software design its top priority, there's cause for celebration.

He is even able to be grateful for the ability to exercise "control over my life, the final and most precious inches of my life, for the last real time I was able to".

So for that alone, even Brits-haters should be grateful.