Sentence examples for grateful feeling from inspiring English sources

There were hugs and the grateful feeling of being around people who are like family.

Ellie was gazing around the garden as if she were not so much excited as interested by the turn of events, and Henry was surprised by the grateful feeling of admiration that rose from somewhere beneath his feet and rushed toward his heart.

The attempts to keep up conscientious conversation; the mediocre food; and then the speech by the toastmistress, and then the president, which is surprisingly agreeable; and finally the departure and the promises with former classmates to lunch with them, etc. and the merciful escape and grateful feeling that it is all over.

The commemoration will be itself a sufficient proof of our grateful feeling, and he himself would not thank us, if in recompense for a service which consisted in speaking the truth, we should abuse his memory with a false and counterfeit narration.

Two points are worth noting, however, regarding obligation and grateful feeling and belief.

When we respond critically to a beneficiary's act of ingratitude or lack of grateful feeling on some particular occasion, we are often criticizing his character rather than some specific action or inaction or decision on his part (Wellman 1999b: 285).

Other philosophers suggest that thanks might be sincere even if a beneficiary lacks the requisite grateful feelings and attitudes at the time of thanking.

A man might be reliably predisposed to form and maintain grateful feelings, beliefs and conations in response to benevolence from strangers, but radically disinclined to form them in response to, say, a sibling or a parent.

Conceiving of gratitude as a virtue thus allows us to attribute gratitude to a beneficiary who may not be experiencing any grateful feelings, beliefs or motivations in a given moment.

Hold tight onto the grateful feelings and keep expanding on them.

We should as charities stop being "grateful" and feeling obliged to accept anyone who is willing to volunteer as a trustee.