"The flashes of Flannery O'Connor-like toughness are gratifying to the core," Joe David Bellamy wrote here.
For creatures so large, they are uncommonly graceful, not to mention sweet-natured, so it's gratifying to learn that a team of scientists, writing in the journal Science, has recently certified them as "cultured" as well.
Variety's Justin Chang wrote that it's "gratifying to see what [McCarthy] can do with a vehicle that's firing on all cylinders for a change".
Don Aucoin of The Boston Globe wrote that "It is gratifying to report that, based on the season premiere, The Simpsons promises to remain the most reliable half-hour of laughs on television".
The Washington Post agreed with his actions, writing: "It is gratifying to see the new president take seriously his promise to reverse the damage.
He wrote that it was "particularly gratifying" to have led the state party during Mr. Cuomo's successful campaign for governor and his first 17 months in office.
"A week after our first Media Watch Watch highlighted a woolly ABC radio story about sheep suffering from verbal abuse, it was gratifying to see ABC TV's Media Watch follow the case," he wrote.
How gratifying to see Stewart Friedman's longtime research, teaching and writing culminate in this new book where his mutuality mindset is so evident.
DAN KOIS So often the things we write sort of flicker and die, and it's been gratifying to watch this discussion spreading across the film-loving parts of the Internet.
Despite disagreeing with some analysis, Bird felt it gratifying for his work to be considered on many different levels, which was his intention: "The fact that it was written about in the op/ed section of The New York Times several times was really gratifying to me.
