gratifyingly
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Mr. Järvi led a scorching performance, with the orchestra and both choruses gratifyingly unconstrained.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025
To Walter Kerr, also writing in The Times, she was “that cousin of bullfrogs and consort of weary gods,” described as “discreet, dangerous … and gratifyingly funny.”
From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2024
Given the mixed festival reactions to Glazer’s earlier triumphs “Birth” and “Under the Skin,” it feels gratifyingly right to see “The Zone of Interest” already getting its due.
From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2023
After cooling, each center was sunken and gratifyingly chewy.
From Salon • Jan. 21, 2023
Radio-sodium had a gratifyingly lengthy half-life of fifteen and a half hours and gamma ray energies that Ernest calculated at about 5 million electron volts.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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