Sentence examples for in gratifying from inspiring English sources

The action is authentic, in gratifying contrast to the grotesque romance of films like The Godfather.

Spectators might be baffled, maddened or bored, but Rainer was not interested in gratifying her audience.

But he never paused to ask what would happen to Greece when Macedonia had succeeded in gratifying Panhellenist dreams.

$16.99. Ages 14 and up) Set among the fields of Iowa, what could have been a standard last-summer-before-college drama is instead packed with insights and memorable characters you want to know better, chief among them a young gay protagonist who plays against type in gratifying ways.

The first wish I ever formed was to wander, and many a search I gave my parents in gratifying my youthful passion".

Of the main courses, only the duck and pork dishes (both served in gratifying, hearty reductions) can really hold their own against the gigantic reds.

Mr. Torres, having lived through the 1970's, when dancers abandoned salsa for the hustle in droves, finds the new interest in salsa gratifying.

I feel inordinately grateful that I have work that I enjoy for its own sake, and, being somewhat of an incontinent communicator, can enjoy the sense of relationship with my readers that is also, in itself, gratifying.

The results of our previous study are reflected in the gratifying success rate of patients attempting to have children despite the substantial evidence of gonadal dysfunction.

France, always happy for new evidence that it is, in every way, the most desirable of countries to be born in, was gratified when (in October 1995) Mrs Calment passed the lifespan of a Japanese who had previously held this most competitive of records.

There is something gratifying in writing the script, in finding a story that's important enough that you want to put yourself through that ordeal.