Speaker phones may gratify the ego of a hands-free big shot, but to really get work done, a good headset is more than invaluable, it's essential.
It may also gratify Soderbergh's fans to see that, despite his absence from cinemas, the man who dedicated his 2000 Oscar win to "anyone who spends part of their day creating" appears as passionate about cinema as ever.
It may have gratified Reverend Parris.
It may be gratifying to attribute Honduras' problems to generals with sunglasses or to rigged elections.
While it may feel gratifying to post a dramatic Facebook status update announcing your departure, hold back until you put proper roots down in your new role.
CSFB added that, "So while it may be gratifying to see the Boards of Royal Dutch and Shell act decisively, this does not cure the problem by itself".
"Honouring debts is not only a constitutional but also a moral obligation," Alejandro Padilla, the governor, told investors earlier this month.Yet politically it may be tough to gratify bondholders if police, doctors and teachers go unpaid.
It may be more gratifying for people to regard themselves as victimized by a vast government conspiracy instead of ground down on a daily basis by an indifferent universe.
For instance: "However gratifying it may have been to her sense of victimhood, any view in which detached logic played a part -- and this, to be fair, was not her strong point -- would have shown her that all efforts I and others might make to reinforce her image as an independent but still royal operator was now ultimately bound to fail".
If the OPPOSE EVERYTHING strategy is employed, however gratifying it may be in expressing one's hostility and disgust for this atrocious president, the Trump supporters will simply dismiss that opposition as pure partisanship.
