A sweet current of power flowed through her, a gratifying sense of being in control for the first time all day.

I know that Mr. Pike, dragging his feet down the hall past my open door, gave me a very gratifying sense of safety.

For Alison N. King, 34, a television producer and consultant, being a member of a black salon offers a gratifying sense of community as well as a venue for intellectual discourse.

The closest you can come to comparison shopping (and to a gratifying sense of thrift) is if you know how much what you are about to buy cost originally.

It wasn't an amused smile, but it was one that sent her away at a brisk and confident walk towards the house, and with a gratifying sense of being respected and appreciated.

How many of us still do work that engages us in a dialogue with the material world and ends - assuming the soufflé doesn't collapse - with such a gratifying and tasty sense of closure?

Now I saw how much time I had spent in gratifying sense; again, I will not give you details.

With a new cast and conductor, there was a gratifying sense that, whatever the results, this repertory staple had been approached afresh.

She became absorbed in the task, and her reward was a gratifying sense of power and control over him, however fleeting it might be.

As he surveys the jumbled rooftops of nighttime London, he is filled with a gratifying sense of the order of things.