Padre Manuel thought with immense gratification, "He likes me!"

And desire, to his immense gratification.

To blow up at the Pus Sisters would give him immense gratification, but it would, unfortunately, be short-lived gratification.

The main homam performed for this is the Sudarshana homam which brings immense gratification to the devotees performing it.

A smile came to his crimson lips, a masculine smile of domination and immense gratification.

Surely doing a job for which they are paid amply and which must give them immense gratification should be enough without having to tell each other how wonderful they all are to boot.

To the immense gratification of party bosses, the Federal Election Commission exercised vigilance over last year's record campaign spending with all the industry of a croupier making sure the players have chips at the ready.

Kibbutz members found immense gratification in bringing the land back to life by planting trees, draining swamps, and countless other hard-graft activities to make the land (invariably wetlands) productive.

I might have taken advantage of the situation but, added to the money, you afforded me an act of immense gratification.

To his immense gratification the floating roadway had survived intact under the severest of torsion, whilst the Hamilton Swiss Roll had been washed away, and the Hughes Caisson, too, had failed.