Sentence examples for it gratified from inspiring English sources

As wealth accumulated, those who possessed it gratified their senses by patronizing literature and the arts".

"No one had ever been afraid of Dermot before, or not to this degree," Rendell writes, "and it gratified him to have caused someone this amount of fear without violence or even the threat of it".

It gratified me that even if I was a very marginal player in his drama, nevertheless he accorded me all his warmth and cleverness and kindness, if only for an evening.

There is a lot of local interest because there is a lot of material about Manchester in it," said the gratified artist.

When she later found the ring again, it was with gratified calm, not buoyant delight.

He didn't name many countries, Guardian Washington correspondent Paul Lewis (@PaulLewis) writes: Kerry said the US should feel "confident and gratified" that it is not alone in its condemnation of Syria and belief that something should be done.

Peter Neufeld, a lawyer for two of the shooting victims, Danny Reyes and Leroy Jermaine Grant, said tonight that he had told them both of the decision "and they were both extremely gratified by it".

"We are very gratified that it is now being made public," she said.

"I feel very humbled and gratified but it's not an occasion of feeling joy over a bill that is signed," Eggman said.

I don't know if Oregon has a higher regard for cooking than other states, or if restaurant food in out-of-the-way places has vastly improved over the past 18 years, but one thing I recall from cycling cross-country in 1993 was that when I stopped randomly for a meal I was rarely gratified, to put it kindly.

This was something the South Koreans felt gratified to hear, but it also prompted Japan's deputy chief cabinet secretary to declare that the issue is not a "diplomatic subject".There was another rocky moment with Japan.