"It's gratifying to go into a house that was a total wreck, where you said, 'My God, this is impossible,' " he said, "and six weeks later you say, 'I could live here.' ".
There has been much discussion of the character of Mark Zuckerberg, as he's portrayed there; he's obviously a genius, both in the realm of programming and, more significantly, in the realm of understanding people, deeply but abstractly and collectively, in terms of the desires they seek to gratify by going online.
It was gratifying for Peter, going to the new comprehensive up the road and knowing that everyone recognised him as the son of the man who did the Tetley tea men.
Still, it's gratifying that what goes around comes around.
"It's really gratifying because the guys went home in the off-season and used what happened in September as a motivational tool," Jones said.
In general, a high proportion of supposedly philanthropic giving goes to gratifying people's egos rather than to helping the poor.But something else may best explain the current unease: the fact that, so far, American philanthropy has drawn too little on the money and ideas of the new generation of entrepreneurs that is currently reshaping American business.
They might slip into melancholy and self-pity or decide that since their days were numbered, they were simply going to gratify all their senses and do whatever they want.
While Roof reportedly said he had to slaughter African-Americans because they "rape our women" and are "taking over our country, Tillman said southern whites would lynch any African-American who would go about "gratifying his lust on our wives and daughters".
Finally, her greatest desire was gratified: symbolically, she went home.
Venture capital, not just taxpayers' money, has long poured into technology designed to invade our privacy, so it's gratifying to see some investment going into ways to protect it from snoops of all kinds.
