What makes a great gift is one that brings a sense of joy, laughter, happiness, or gratitude on both sides.
The spontaneous outpouring of gratitude on the streets of Bamako and Timbuktu, during François Hollande's lightning one-day visit to Mali on February 2nd, was part of a storybook sequence that the unpopular French president could only have dreamed of.
Indeed, Sergeant Valentin came home, but it was not with gratitude on her mind.
They should be pictured with looks of surprise and gratitude on their faces.
"Try leaving a friendly trail of little sparks of gratitude on your daily trips," he advised in a typical passage.
His reward was a gratitude on the part of its students expressed in terms not far short of adoration.
So there he is at the end, his bags forgotten, a goofy grin of gratitude on his face.
Nowadays he accepts that book-banning is wrong, though he looks back with gratitude on the protests.
This was too much for Justice Antonin Scalia, who shot back, "And that does not — that does not evoke any gratitude on the part of the people?
Mr. Mukherjee, who mostly recently served as finance minister, expressed gratitude on Sunday for his victory, promising to "protect, defend and preserve" the Indian Constitution.
