Sentence examples for gratified him from inspiring English sources

Though being displeased, often vociferously, was what I suspect really gratified him.

It would have gratified him to see his ideas so thoroughly tested and to see so many of them confirmed.

The most important discoveries — Mendel's genetics and the structure of DNA — would almost certainly have gratified him because they reveal the physical basis for the variation underlying evolution.

"No one had ever been afraid of Dermot before, or not to this degree," Rendell writes, "and it gratified him to have caused someone this amount of fear without violence or even the threat of it".

They variously hurt, arouse, bore, move and gratify him.

The place came to be known as Casa Verdi and is still operating, which would surely gratify him.

What gratifies him about the success of Apple products, beyond the fact that the Apple design chief, Jonathan Ive, is one of his best friends, is that it has vindicated the value of design.

The prospect of a retrospective would doubtless gratify him, although the skeptic in him would be astounded: I don't know what will be left of me fifty years from now.

He is not bisexual because you cannot gratify him sexually and he is not bisexual because you have failed him.

Mr. Clinton may not have any tattoos and his brain is intact, but the spectacle of Bill 24/7 would certainly be entertaining for us, and gratifying for him, giving him all the attention and love he craves.

The inquiries from students gratify him, because they suggest that the scientific world is coming around to his point of view.