Sentence examples for gratifying a from inspiring English sources
That is, serving others may produce the same sort of pleasure as gratifying a personal desire.
The result for Mr. Charette has been gratifying — a surge in applications to Quebec.
But Hollywood, obsessed with gratifying a young audience, no longer has much use for drama — at least, not in big-budget movies.
Another Power study, which looks at "how gratifying a new vehicle is to own and drive," ranked Land Rover ninth, well above the industry average.
When a judge granted an injunction -- gratifying a $10 million copyright infringement suit filed by Margaret Mitchell's estate -- halting publication of Alice Randall's daring novel, Ms. Strothman felt like she had "been kicked in the stomach".
It was as gratifying a surprise to come across Hughes's high literary excursions in Time, or Janet Malcolm's clairvoyant profiles in The New Yorker, as it was to find James Wood's unforgettable briefs for a more ontologically vivid fiction in The New Republic.
"Gratifying an addict's sense of specialness".
These erratic trysts were hardly enough to gratify a woman of her socio-literary aspirations.
Instantly gratified: a copy of "Lolita" sits on the top of the pile.
Thus, films like The Killer Inside Me could be seen to gratify a predilection.
A few very rich families might gratify a whim for a custom-grown human, but such families are unlikely to indulge in mathematical prodegies.
