Sentence examples for to gratifying effect from inspiring English sources

Eighteenth-century composers, for example, played with the relationship between dissonance and consonance, dissonance creating a tension which is then released, to gratifying effect, by a consonance.

When it happened, the effect was enough to gratify even an excessive ego.

These erratic trysts were hardly enough to gratify a woman of her socio-literary aspirations.

To gratify Pius, Cosimo in 1570 married Camilla Martelli, who had long been his mistress.

Surely that is a sentiment to gratify the owner of 20th Century Fox.

We use our children to gratify our own egos.

And we might initially decide to gratify the passions of benevolence from self-love.

When it comes to HD, Mr. Gelb has reason to feel gratified.

It may be gratifying to attribute Honduras' problems to generals with sunglasses or to rigged elections.

This can be immensely gratifying to some and intimidating to others.

106 While additional pernicious effects are always possible, it is gratifying to know that after nearly 90 years of clinical use of this therapeutic class, there has never been a "black box" label warning issued, or any evidence of increased malignancy or other serious "off-target" systemic effects related to the use of BAS.