Sentence examples for gratifying surprise from inspiring English sources

Roasted vegetables -- root vegetables in particular -- have been a particularly large and gratifying surprise, gaining new levels of richness and sweetness.

So it was a very gratifying surprise.

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.

''No wonder Spenser socked him.'' ''But it wasn't what G. G. said about Spenser,'' Oakwood said, gratified to surprise her with yet another bit of new information.

Indeed, I'm gratified and surprised that so many people are interested in dinosaurs, the Large Hadron Collider or alien life – all blazingly irrelevant to our day-to-day lives.

No matter how thoroughly you prepare, there is always an element of discovery and surprise, sometimes gratifying; more often, unfortunately, otherwise".

"For staying at Yale, the out-of-pocket would have been $6,000 or $7,000". Mr. Lim called the saving "a pleasant surprise" -- especially gratifying since he would have otherwise paid for his daughter to take an expensive European trip after graduation.

While I expected public service work to be gratifying, what happened next was a surprise.

So when a student recommended Long's work to the German gallery owner Konrad Fischer in 1968, Long says he was gratified but not surprised.

The new government's determination has left the relatives of the disappeared and human rights groups here and abroad surprised, gratified and even a bit baffled.

Clearly Lady Bracknell would be most gratified — possibly not surprised, either — if she opened her eyes to discover that Mr. Worthing had had the good breeding to obey her unspoken command and disappear.