Sentence examples for seemed gratified from inspiring English sources

The company's full-time players and choristers seemed gratified to have some work to do for a change.

Investors who had long agitated for Ms. Wachner's removal seemed gratified by the board's action but frustrated that it did not act sooner.

As twilight fell, the little band seemed gratified by its good deed, though they despaired that they couldn't reach the globe because it is so high off the ground.

And she seemed gratified by the enthusiastic audience response, returning for encores by Gershwin, Brahms, Massenet and André Previn, whose anodyne "Song" from "Tango Song and Dance" (1997) sounded about contemporaneous with the rest.

Mr. Kasher seemed gratified by the response, but he probably would have been even happier to see the scene that unfolded a few hours before, in a convenience store on the next block.

He seemed gratified and touched that I had been to see him in Art, and was keen to know what I had made of it, apart from three men yelling at each other.

If he's fazed by this, he doesn't say; mostly he seems gratified, and happy.

Despite some weariness, she seems gratified to have won a wide audience through her originality, craft and sophistication.

There was a chorus of squeals nearly every time Mr. David opened his mouth, but he didn't seem gratified or unnerved by the adulation.

He says he regrets not winning another Stanley Cup but seems gratified by having helped broaden the game's appeal in the Sun Belt.

As for the grand finale, the audience seemed largely gratified, though far from staggered, when the top gong was handed to "The Shape of Water" — or, as it was labelled at the foot of the screen, "Shape of Water," which presumably heralds an industry-wide crackdown on definite articles.