He had to navigate a maddening bureaucracy, which made him grateful for Ms. Boutin's help.
And so Zora's laughter, in conjunction with her beauty, doomed him a little, made him grateful beyond reason.
On a recent visit, Dana says, her son told her that his time in pretrial confinement has made him "grateful that he came back, at least".
By offering him a face-saving way out, Moscow thinks that it is doing him a favour, hoping to make him feel grateful and indebted.
During the last week, as he celebrated his elevation in the church with 21 other new cardinals, he said he had learned about the problems that Catholics face in repressive nations like China - revelations, he said, that make him more grateful than ever to be an American.
Guardiola's reputation was sealed during that extraordinary managerial debut but he stresses: "I always went that season to see Johan to try to make him feel how grateful I was to him.
If you are going to forgive then do so in such a way that makes him feel grateful that he has you again.
" His supporters said Mr. Sobchak had keenly felt the betrayal of many of his old allies, which made him all the more grateful for the loyalty of others -- like Mr. Putin, who stood by the former mayor after his defeat in 1996.
Though he speaks no English, knows nothing of computers and email, and understands only that Texas will be colder than anything he has ever known, this child will enter a US high school system with only one picture of his family, but a depth of survival experience that has made him strong, resourceful and grateful for life.
In 1994, he was so influential in the Republican Congressional landslide that the grateful winners made him an honorary member of the G.O.P. freshman class.
