Sentence examples for gratifying them from inspiring English sources

Though her cinema was more obviously thematic than her choreography, Rainer remained more interested in confounding viewers than gratifying them.

The philosophical school known as the Cyrenaics advocated increasing desires and seeking ever new ways of gratifying them.

By Kelefa Sanneh Pop-punk is designed not to affront listeners but to gratify them.

Blumenthal has faithfully done the people's business all these years, in a way that has apparently gratified them.

The results probably gratified them, for the casualty list included some sixty-five thousand red-winged blandbirdstarlingsrlingstarlings

Incense was employed to counteract disagreeable odours and drive away demons and was said both to manifest the presence of the gods (fragrance being a divine attribute) and to gratify them.

Indeed, back in February 2008, Mr Siegel said there would be no recession that year and that profits, the stockmarket and the financial industry would all do well.Companies are well aware of investors' biases and strive to gratify them.

Pop-punk is user-friendly, designed not to affront listeners but to gratify them; some traditionalist punks consider it at best a guilty pleasure and at worst an abomination.

"Class Notes" (I need hardly emphasize the intention of the title) collects some of Reed's sturdier polemics against the "race men" of black America and the enabling liberals who gratify them by attending overrespectfully to their interpretations.

I felt that Lea's respect for the demonstrators' strong desires was a way to justify her giving in to some of their wild requests, because when you lack desire completely and see someone else who is able to want something badly, the temptation to gratify them can be very strong, no matter the circumstances.

Not that some in the audience will care much about the writer's needs by then, having sat by and watched as he gratified them while neglecting everybody else's — including, in the case of Jeffrey Lent's third novel, "A Peculiar Grace," the presumptive desire of his protagonist (a middle-aged, stoic loner named Hewitt Pearce who loved and lost and must learn to love again).