But the Barads say they find it equally rewarding to see visitors taking down the names of plants in their display.

It may seem silly for anyone, especially an experienced journalist and trained economist like Ms. He, to have ever believed the Communist Party line that market capitalism would equally reward all Chinese.

Equally rewarding was New York Theater Ballet's presentation of Antony Tudor's dramatic ballet to Chausson, "Jardin aux Lilas" ("Lilac Garden") (1936), at Gould Hall in May.

Equally rewarding was pork with shiitake mushrooms: two tenderloins, smothered with browned mushrooms in a luscious sauce, enhanced by veal stock and a suggestion of garlic.

But while his films are rife with cultural and scientific allusions, his unusual imagery possesses an accessibility that feels anchored in the shared language of the subconscious, making his films equally rewarding to the culturally hyperliterate and to those who simply enjoy visual stimulation.

The experience has been equally rewarding for Dr. Wachs's mother.

Worse, there were all those skeptics wondering why she would bother to stretch an amateur career that had been equally rewarding for her and those who watched her.

In it he made an "action film" out of the unedited passage of real time, creating an art that equally rewarded meditative patience and a two-second attention span.

Equally rewarding was the tasty crab cake, dense with crab meat, atop a bed of frisée.