Mr. Obama's advisers said they were startled, if gratified, by the jubilation that greeted the news of Mr. Obama's victory in much of the United States and abroad.
Their blame campaigns can yield easy, tangible victories if their targets succumb especially gratifying if the quarry is another politician.The trouble is that it is not always the worst or most culpable people who are targeted for blame or offered up to appease it; it is sometimes the weakest and most expendable instead.
After graduation, he moved to Hollywood and spent several years finding steady, if not exactly gratifying, work in front of and behind the camera.
Ertijaal could run at the July Festival at Newmarket, but it would be gratifying if Hanagan did not have to wait until the blossoming of this colt's raw talent for the milestone he craves next.
From an adult's perspective (which hardly counts), it would have been gratifying if Norman J. Grossfeld, who conceived the show, and Michael Slade, who wrote it, had created some new themes.
The human imagination will eventually burst out of the most worn-down exam-passing machine, but it would be gratifying if education unlocked rather than restricted this aspect of life.
Such an outing may be gratifying if not a bit daunting for Mr. Dunham, whose state of mind when he's working is so meditative that, he said, "The only reason I know it happened is I have all these paintings around".
Asked if it felt gratifying to play so well the day after the trading deadline, Childs, who before the game said, "I'm here in New York until the end of the season and who knows what will happen this summer," answered with a terse, "No".
Besides, in a theater season that has felt like a boys' club of male movie idols from abroad (Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman in "A Steady Rain," Jude Law in "Hamlet"), wouldn't it be gratifying if one fearless woman — with fewer stage credentials than the guys but almost as much tabloid exposure — walked away with the laurels?
Still, Booker's assured account of the ways that literary servants do more to repress than to represent the realities of servant lives is salutary, if not always gratifying.
It would be gratifying if they would find the courage now to declare that standing firm on women's rights is as important as staunchly defending the freedom to satirize, to stroll on the Promenade des Anglais, to sit at a sidewalk cafe, to attend mass safely or to go to a concert at the Bataclan.
