Earning a sum is a pleasure on its own, and watching your in-game currency pile up is rather gratifying — so give your player the ability to enjoy it.
It is rather gratifying, when meeting a band who have sold 80m albums and are about to headline the world's biggest music festival for the fourth time, in front of a global audience of millions, to find out that things were not always like this.
Story means pleasure, as distinct from art; it would rather gratify than edify.
Ultimately, failing to challenge but rather gratify the probable grandiose part of Breivik's disturbed mind can be of little comfort to surviving victims or relatives and friends of those killed.
Rather than gratifying desire in a feedback loop, they represent desires of which the viewer is yet unaware.
But it's also concerning because it's a con, an attempt to persuade people not with reason, but rather by gratifying our all-too-human hunger for easy answers.
Thus when a beautiful new pottery teacher, Sheba Hart — a "wispy novice with a tinkly accent and see-through skirts" — chooses Barbara as a confidante, she is deeply, even rather sinisterly, gratified.
And although every other muscle hurts, it is in a way that is gratifying, rather than crippling.
In addition, through his continued correspondence, Talese provided affirmation of Foos' activity, helping him maintain the myth that his actions served some higher purpose, some noble societal goal, rather than simply gratifying his own sexual desire.
The human imagination will eventually burst out of the most worn-down exam-passing machine, but it would be gratifying if education unlocked rather than restricted this aspect of life.
The Writer Responds It is gratifying that readers generally favor more rather than less public oversight of our huge intelligence establishment.
