That is the beauty of yuppies: We are greedy, but never gratified.
"Sure, I fooled around, but I never felt gratified myself," he says, as if arguing the finer points of doctrine.
Some will be familiar, having been corralled in "Work Suspended and Other Stories"; others, including a trove of juvenilia, were never easy to unearth, and it is gratifying to find them so readily to hand.
I never thought it would happen... it's unbelievably gratifying for me; I'm so happy".
His rise is gratifying to read about, partly because he never sounds as if he's crowing.
Eventually, the time came for me to find other athletic outlets equally gratifying and consuming, though I swore I'd never take up any sports that fat people do well.
"As an organisation that is trying to reduce emissions and improve efficiency it is always gratifying to see results from our work, but we never dreamed we would have this kind of impact".
With a drone camera shooting video of these degrading, yet gratifying events and youtube taking it viral, Assad would never be able to show his face in public again.
For many years Gore Vidal was a "comrade," worshiped by Hitchens as much as Rushdie et al. But now that he has taken the wrong line on Iraq and September 11, we have to be told that Vidal "always liked to boast that he has never knowingly or intentionally gratified any of his partners".
It's always gratifying to stumble on some tiny, cohesive internet subculture that you never knew existed; it's like picking up an ordinary-looking rock to find that the earwigs have built an entire functioning miniature city underneath.
