"The nature of the case McBride has taken on... is revealed slowly and cryptically, a bit of writerly delayed gratification that keeps your attention but isn't particularly rewarding," wrote Hale, according to a screenshot of the original review archived by the Wayback Machine.
Some of her most rewarding writing has been to help create and write Christian curriculum for overseas, unadoptable orphans.
Meanwhile, Dizzee Rascal long ago discovered that it was far more commercially rewarding to write about his bonkers showbiz lifestyle than the east London estate he grew up on, and chronicled so extraordinarily on his early albums.
It is always rewarding, Amis writes, "to spot a would-be... infiltrator".
The goings-on are "surprising and rewarding," Maria Russo wrote in the Book Review last year.
Though not pleasant, Sean Penn's film is "deeply, scarily rewarding," Stephen Holden wrote in The New York Times.
"Disch is an eloquent storyteller and polemicist" and his book "is consistently rewarding," Alexander Star wrote here in 1998.
"I think there is a difference between paying people to get the whole going versus paying people to do the parts that volunteers apparently don't find rewarding," she wrote.
"Something that I find is the hardest thing about composing, but also the most rewarding, is writing something that instantaneously has nostalgia," Tyler said.
"The substitute for rewarding food is often other rewarding food," he writes, though what could compensate for the loss of Nacho Cheese Doritos he never really explains.
