STANLEY -- It seemed so clear ahead of time that "Coupling" was going to be terrible, simply because it was a rip-off of a British show, that it was gratifying to realize it really was just as bad as predicted.
Sex sells, and drawing does not come any sexier than Schiele's transfixing image, whose ultimate provocation is the way one of the women looks around at the artist to show that she is gratifying his fantasy.
Submitted to the Edinburgh court but kept from public view, the photographs reportedly showed a naked man gratifying himself and pictured her, dressed in nothing but three strands of pearls, performing a sex act on a naked man in the mirrored gilt and silver bathroom of her Mayfair apartment.
On July 29 Ducati released gratifying figures showing an overall second quarter sales jump of 31%, to 196.1 billion lire ( $108 million), with first-half revenues rising 23%, to $182 million.
William Michals, an actor and singer who performed in a gala on Nov. 8 celebrating the theater's first anniversary, and who has appeared in other productions at the theater, including a solo show, said the space was gratifying.
It's especially gratifying that the show has made better use of Hines, who has been able to give nuance and even sweetness to her goofy, clueless, overtanned character.
I've been doing a lot of traveling, and when you get out of Hollywood and you meet people who are actually watching the show, their enthusiasm is so gratifying.
As it stands, the show is more conceptually intriguing than visually gratifying (Johnson).
This was unfamiliar music to them, and to show such a spontaneous reaction was very gratifying.
It is time, while they are still alive, to show our gratitude through the simple, mutually gratifying act of volunteerism.
