We try to come up with a gift to give in return —
not out of gratitude (after all, we didn't ask for it) or out of friendship (after all, we hardly even know this person), but because we don't want to feel guilty.
When the first sale rolled in at 8:05 the morning of March 1, 2012, I burst into tears at our kitchen counter — partially from exhaustion,
certainly out of gratitude, and mostly because I still had no idea what I was doing.
Instead of needing to think up new content ideas all the time, if you follow a hundred awesome indie authors, with or without big platforms, and reshare all their content, your own platform and followers will grow quickly and those authors are more likely to share your
content out of gratitude.
On rare occasions, they were given to lay
people out of gratitude for favours or services rendered, and slowly the breed spread to other parts of the country and beyond.
Whiting said he made the
ad out of gratitude, and says he hopes it will «humanize» a woman the New York Times called «America's deadliest D.A.» because of how often she sought the death penalty.
All of my internships were paid (one voluntarily paid me after the
fact out of gratitude), so it could also communicate that the quality of my work even as an intern merited remuneration.
I would like — would really like to think our elected ORE representatives would have a much higher moral standard and remain immune to appointments
made out of gratitude.
Movie mogul Jack Warner,
out of gratitude for Blue's moneymaking vehicles of the 1920s, saw to it that Monte was steadily employed at Warner Bros., and that his name would appear prominently in the studio's advertising copy.
I did not choose
it out of gratitude to the woman who would eventually make me a mother.
Out of gratitude, Herbie enables the luckless guy to win one race after another.
I did review one of Alex Cavanaugh's books on my blog, but I did so without him knowing in advance, and only because a) I thoroughly enjoyed the book, and b)
out of gratitude for all he does on - line to support writers and bloggers.
If anything, the sentiment was laid on a little thick: Buy a LEAF, and polar bears will make their way from the Arctic to hug
you out of gratitude for having done your part to rescue their home, along with the planet, from global warming.