How To Use Graceful In A Sentence

After the almost funereal beginning of the first movement, the clarinets introduce a lyric second theme, which is treated in the graceful manner of a siciliana. NPR Topics: News
Just as she reached the stairs to enter the house, an ugly gelding cantered to a stop and the rotund rider ungracefully dismounted.
Then the pleasant little surprises of all kinds that we imagined; and the pleasant looks that greet us when we condescend to accept them; the patience that can translate our most unwarrantable "crossness", because there has been some trifling difficulty in obtaining the half of a star or the corner of a moon which it had pleased us to require, into "such a good sign of being really better"; and then our appetite (which the gods know is at that season singularly keen), how is it not tempted with unutterable dainties and friande morsels, all sorts of amateur cookery in our behalf, where Love himself has not disdained to turn the spit, and look into the stewpan! and all served up so gracefully on the small tray, covered with its delicate white damask cloth, arraying with more than mortal charms the moulds of crystal jelly and pure-looking blanc mange! Zoe: The History of Two Lives
It scales brilliantly, degrades gracefully, supports optional categories and ‘beaming,’ and is configurable to an unlimited number of options.
That most people walk in an ungraceful, ungainly and awkward manner with a forward inclination of the body does not mean that it is the normal way of walking.

Every now and then a graceful movement of his left arm through the air preceded his entry into the music, as though he were offering a cue to an imaginary force.
She shaped the space with graceful curves, amended the soil with compost, and installed drip irrigation.
She'll approach the perfume counter boldly, spray her ample poitrine and graceful, swanlike neck until it's glistening like a freshly dunked donut and writhe in olfactory ecstasy. What to Give for Christmas to the Over-Applier?
The tall graceful form of a woman appeared at the top of the stairs.
The biggest of the ringing bells is three tonnes and an arresting sight as it gracefully arcs round, even if we can't hear it to its full capacity thanks to our bright red ear protectors.
Conclusion: Gracefully exit your essay by making a quick wrap-up sentence, and then end on some memorable thought, perhaps a quotation, or an interesting twist of logic, or some call to action.
It was a driveway that narrowed at the road, then widened as gracefully as stemware.
Zilkha did however produce a graceful match of polka dots and floral patterns in drop-waist dresses which will make for a very wearable ensemble when the sun comes back next spring.
But a gracefully minimal style of puppetry is also used to enhance the action. Times, Sunday Times
Another satisfying feature of these sandals is their looks… the active sandals unlike many others appear graceful and go with almost all the casuals.
Passenger jets often look deceptively slow and graceful as they cruise over the clouds.
Langorous horns, ticking guitars and muted keyboards have been added, sketching out long, graceful arcs of melody over the bubbling rhythms.
He is beautifully made with graceful horns, a slinky, prism-like tail, and playful, though mocking and feral, eyes.
Its seamless curve swept across the canyon and imbedded itself in each side, a gigantic but somehow graceful intrusion.
There was one truly disgraceful performance of the day which oughtn't pass without comment.
She circled back and settled gracefully to earth at the spot where the trampling began. A Time of War
You're graceful, poised, tactful and exude quite a refined, princess-like presence.
Her father was a quiet man with graceful manners.
Graceful re-establishment of session without losing data after connection is unexpectedly lost.
The whole of the business in that country from beginning to end was scandalous and disgraceful. EMPIRES OF THE PLAIN: Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon
It is a new beginning, but few expect Africa to stride gracefully into the future if the people of Africa must carry the heavy baggage of decades of corruption, conflict and misrule along for the ride.
The light didn't quite reach the high ceiling where carved figures lurked in the shadows of a graceful groin vault.
She looked like a graceful winter fairy - a model - a princess - a… he couldn't even find the right words to describe her she was so impossibly beautiful.
I look forward to a time when I can serve my country without wondering if history will mark me down as a participant in something disgraceful.
They had been down to the Balesuna making an alligator trap, and, instead of trousers, were clad in lava-lavas that flapped gracefully about their stalwart limbs. Chapter 8
Falling to the ground in a graceful crouch was a slender figure, defiantly feminine.
He watched her thread her needle again, her slender, graceful fingers never erring despite the inadequate light.
Whether crossing rural areas or towns, the scenery was always graceful and neat.
Amy had a bower in hers, rather small and earwiggy, but very pretty to look at, with honeysuckle and morning-glories hanging their colored horns and bells in graceful wreaths all over it, tall white lilies, delicate ferns, and as many brilliant, picturesque plants as would consent to blossom there. Little Women
Gladly would I grace my tale with decent horror, and therefore I do beseech the "gentle reader" to believe, that if all the _succedanea_ to this mysterious narrative are not in strict keeping, he will ascribe it only to the disgraceful innovations of modern degeneracy upon the sober and dignified habits of our ancestors. Humorous Ghost Stories
Nestling next to the ladies of the night were several mustached, glazed-eyed Afghan men who occasionally took unsteady steps onto a makeshift dance floor to bust some surprisingly graceful traditional moves. The Longest War
LIKE graceful sculptures of white rising from the sea, these icebergs are an undeniably beautiful sight. The Sun
Beneath the city's dense urban forest, low walls of Arroyo Seco stone and clinker brick front brown-shingled homes with porches set under graceful overhangs.
She loved the gracefully high ceiling, with its white-painted cornice.
He gave a graceful bow to the audience.
They form a graceful pyramid, a strange mix of stasis and implied movement. The Times Literary Supplement
For its bulk, the whale is a graceful swimmer.
His graceful elocution enchained the senses of his hearers. The Last Man
Painters and sculptors who have seen her graceful performances are said to be simply enraptured with the perfection of her harmony of motion.
We should never forget that it is possible to be graceful, even classy, under the most intense pressure.
Yet there were many problems behind the scenes which contributed to the unnecessary friction and helped lead to the final disgraceful scenes. The Sun
Oh, How much I miss you! If the passionate refreshing breeze knows my heart, it can tell you that I miss you and care you for my life's time. If graceful white cloud knows my heart, it can tell you I love you and would be together with you forever.
D-Ill., for what she called a disgraceful sexist swipe. TheBostonChannel.com - News
I believe that war is in Latin called bellum, not by antiphrasis, as some patchers of old rusty Latin would have us to think, because in war there is little beauty to be seen, but absolutely and simply; for that in war appeareth all that is good and graceful, and that by the wars is purged out all manner of wickedness and deformity. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
Then Dave Boone and Wally made a stand that roused the perspiring spectators to something like enthusiasm, for Mr. Boone was a mighty "slogger," and Wally had a neat and graceful style that sent the Cunjee supporters into the seventh heaven. Mates at Billabong
This matter was discussed again during a meeting with Uefa after those disgraceful scenes which followed the final whistle. Times, Sunday Times
These days, computers are programmed to acknowledge errors in less than graceful ways when something goes wrong: They flash a brusque error message, telling you that you have goofed.
Gracefully asprawl on the ottoman, in an attitude of almost exaggerated repose, was the boy of the woods.
The whole of the business in that country from beginning to end was scandalous and disgraceful. EMPIRES OF THE PLAIN: Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon
And as we know very well that a lady who is skilled in dancing or singing never can perfect herself without a deal of study in private, and that the song or the minuet which is performed with so much graceful ease in the assembly-room has not been acquired without vast labour and perseverance in private; so it is with the dear creatures who are skilled in coquetting. The Memoires of Barry Lyndon
Its gracefully arching branches are loaded with clusters of cool pink flowers hinting of lavender.
four-o'clock tea" rather blotted out one of the prettiest features of the English tea, that of the graceful garment the _tea gown_. Manners and Social Usages
A cheerful wood-fire blazed in the capacious hearth; a little at one side an old-fashioned table, with richly-carved legs, was placed -- destined, no doubt, to receive the supper, for which preparations were going forward; and ranged with exact regularity, stood the tall-backed chairs, whose ungracefulness was more than counterbalanced by their comfort. The Purcell Papers, Volume II
She was very young, I remember now with sorrow, and very beautiful; though _beautiful_ is not so much the word to describe her as _charming_ -- magnetic, graceful, intelligent. The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems
The vulgar always knew what General danced with the lovely Miss A., and how they looked, and what they said to each other; how many jewels Miss A. wore, and the material her dress was made of; they knew who polkaed with the accomplished Miss B., and how like a duchess she bore herself; they had the exact name of the colonel who dashed along so like a knight with the graceful and much-admired Mrs. D., whose husband was abroad serving his country; what gallant captain of dragoons (captains of infantry were looked upon as not what they might be) promenaded so imperiously with the vivacious Miss E.; and what distinguished foreigner sat all night in the corner holding a suspicious and very improper conversation with Miss An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith
She aged gracefully
Please account for your disgraceful conduct.
I watched her fingers pluck the strings gracefully, feeling her courage getting greater with the song.
Just as the exquisite sea-anemones and all the graceful ocean-flowers die out at some fathoms below the surface, the elegances and suavities of life die out one by one as we sink through the social scale. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859
I did a somersault and landed gracefully on my feet.
From no point of view could the West look so lovely as from that lattice with the garland of jessamine round it, whose white stars and green leaves seemed now but grey pencil outlines - graceful in form, but colourless in tint - against the gold incarnadined of a summer evening - against the fire-tinged blue of an August sky, at eight o'clock p.m. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
The bowsprit was a long, graceful lance, reaching out above his head, but the anchor cable plunged into the water beside him, and he laid a hand on the thick hawser.
I could barely walk in them, let alone gracefully glide over smooth ice.
Their beauty and fitness are not those of the grand columns of the temple; they are the sculptures upon the frieze, the caryatides, or the graceful interlacings of vines. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859
The Dutch colonial houses were graceful and large, set back amid cocas, kanary, and nutmeg trees, while the rest of the small town lay half hidden in the foliage of palms.
Crowns and tiaras adorned the heads of nobility, earrings and nose studs enhanced the natural beauty of the face, necklaces and pendants highlighted a graceful neck, and brooches and fasteners held drapes and garments in place.
Count on more of his unusual routines, such as his strenuously graceful paeans to classical opera, sung by his favorite singer.
I staggered across the tiles in ungraceful fashion, handbag swinging as I swore.
Colville, it will be remembered, was an adept at that graceful tactfulness which is somewhat clumsily described by this tolerant generation as going on as if nothing had happened. The Last Hope
But then like millions of others who enjoyed a great young life, I decided to accept middle age, with its wrinkles and sags gracefully, and throw the bikinis away.
The "mummery" consisted in slow, gliding motions, in whirlings about intended to be graceful, in slow liftings of the hands upward, and in the beating of the drums. Boy Scouts on Motorcycles With the Flying Squadron
It was a rush to judgment led by a vociferous social media campaign and I think it is disgraceful. Times, Sunday Times
Her dress was straight out of a fairytale, with its light, graceful layers that served to accentuate the woman's slim build.
May the Lord bless you, my sweet child," said the doctor, lifting one hand painfully and laying it in benediction on her fair and graceful head. The Hidden Hand
Large troops of gelada baboons roam through the park and graceful Walia Ibex lord over the loftier spots. Ben Colclough: Walking on top of the world
Large dogs, such as retrievers, Dobermans, and Rhodesian Ridgebacks, make great running mates because they've been bred to have long, graceful strides and sturdy joints.
Now this friend was arranging Helen's hair in an intricate, graceful upsweep, with ribbons to match the dress.
Again we become aware of how gracefully the sun and earth waltz with each other through the ballroom of space-time, eliciting awes and hallelujahs. Wes Nisker: Worship The Sun! (Not Just The Son)
I uncloak as I land in my yard, and stumble none-too-gracefully to a stop. Revealers
The branches formed a graceful curve.
The composer of some 70 operas, Adam is remembered as a pioneer and writer of graceful, fluent music in an Italianate idiom with dramatic power.
A flat, smooth, oval slab, weighing about fifteen pounds, and a stone roller six inches in diameter, worked with both hands, and the weight of the body kneeling ungracefully upon it on “all fours,” are used to triturate the holcus grain. First footsteps in East Africa
It was expedient to retire gracefully.
And aside from an overwrought moment or two, all four actors turn in gracefully subtle and passively implosive performances.
Today will mostly be spent tidying my flat, which is an utterly disgraceful mess.
Barrel rolls, loops and dives featured as the three aircraft wheeled gracefully over the expanse of Sydney Harbour.
The cast-in-place piers are graceful, slender, and elegant with curving surfaces, spaced 142 feet apart.
Accordingly, he could not find in his heart to behave inexorably to the graceful sinner; he entered into conversation, and learned from her the project of a singular disguisement, wherewith it was intended to surprise the Countess. Chapter X. Book III
A graceful and reserved man, he lacked fluency in his speeches and was not a natural politician.
She says: This period saw the rise of the designer-craftsman movement, which was characterized by a graceful fluidity between the now distinct disciplines of design, manufacture, and studio art. Alla Kazovsky: Product as Sculpture
As an aside, just because the Ethiopian beauty depicted on the cover was a famine victim does not make her any less graceful, willowy or beautiful.
Her graceful neck rises higher than the trees, like a giraffe in slow motion, her liquid eyes staring curiously, then dismissively, at the gaping humans; she returns to her grazing as if these late-model mammals were no more worthy of note than their scruffy shrewlike ancestors, with whom she shared the Earth 130 million years ago. Here Come The Dnasaurs
Nevertheless so clumsy a beau, that thou seemest to me to owe thyself a double spite, making thy ungracefulness appear the more ungraceful, by thy remarkable tawdriness, when thou art out of mourning. Clarissa Harlowe
Instead of floating about in graceful attitudes, with the "amber dropping hair" of Milton's Sabrina, they "larked" like a school of porpoises, splashing each other and playing tricks. The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story
"Disgraceful" and "shocking" were two of the repeatable words used as fans screamed abuse at the referee.
Chen Meng was graceful yet strong, light on his feet and an undeniable presence on stage.
It was difficult and disturbing; it was also graceful and beautiful. Times, Sunday Times
Her figure curves gracefully from head to toe as she stands there, the only one left clapping.
To have the added stress of a possible court hearing or being forcibly taken into hospital is disgraceful. Times, Sunday Times
Herds of lechee or lechwe now enliven the meadows; and they and their younger brother, the graceful poku, smaller, and of a rounder contour, race together towards the grassy fens. A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
The hottest Thai export since their famed curries, he will be insistent on proving that he is no one-year fluke, that he is as nerveless as he is graceful.
Your educated boys went at it a little more privately and gracefully, but sometimes destroyed more people in the long run.
Bearing all that in mind, it would be a real shipwreck for an overwrought orchestrator to take the graceful skiff depicted on the cover of "Maiden Voyage" and overinflate it into a bulky ocean liner. Piano Perspectives, Visions of Vaudeville
It was allegedly cooked up by a powerful personality who had to face a disgraceful exit from one of the Tata companies, in connivance with a chief political figure of that time.
The graceful arch of the main beach is transplanted from an early 20th Century French daydream, with a broad pedestrian corniche punctuated by graceful wrought iron lamps.
She circled back and settled gracefully to earth at the spot where the trampling began. A Time of War
He faced serious opposition over his land tax and provincial assembly proposals, but he conducted himself gracefully. The Times Literary Supplement
His route curved away in a graceful sweep ahead of him. Three hours later he was obsessed with petrol.
The joyous soul, charioted from pleasure to pleasure by the graceful mechanism of well-formed limbs, will suddenly feel the axle-tree give way, and spring and wheel dissolve in dust. The Last Man
All jaegers were finely made, and some were decorated, but graceful they were not. Rifle That Made America
She was a willowy, graceful girl, around my age.
What really galls me is that services for elderly people are woeful - disgraceful in fact - and these are people who have paid taxes all their lives.
Her graceful performance of this traditional art form in the evening session was a real treat.
Though "graceful" is a word one wouldn't readily apply to Stickley's cabinetry, there is a certain massive elegance to his lighting fixtures. Four-Square Reformer
Along the edges of the convoys sailed a variety of ships: graceful sloops, chunky corvettes, slim gunboats like the Dutch Soemba, antisubmarine patrol craft, fast PT boats, and everywhere sleek destroyers.
Her hands were short yet graceful and her figure was quite beautiful.
Cooke's graceful reply, we're told, gave away no trade secrets.
I was ungraceful and most likely, a bit repulsive.
He could have bowed out gracefully at any time and it looked like he might, but now this.
Matata poled gracefully; he could have been punting down the Cam as his pole pushed blue and white water lilies aside.
Despite hard times in the jazz-starved '70s, and a brief stint into the poetic ramblings of Van Morrison, the label slid gracefully into modern jazz with albums from Norah Jones and Herbie Hancock. of Music Paste Magazine
That she was not howled down is almost as disgraceful and yet another blot on the collective reputation of our MPs. Times, Sunday Times
Sometimes the best of the pupils, of whom Natasha, who was exceptionally graceful, was first, even danced the pas de chale, but at this last ball only the ecossaise, the anglaise, and the mazurka, which was just coming into fashion, were danced. War and Peace
On the other hand Calsy had more of a ballet dancer's with his flowing and graceful moves as he nailed each step at the exact time he was told.
That slender and graceful figure, with its simple and elegant dress, which set off to the utmost the perfection of her form, looked certainly unlike the ungrown girl whom Lord Chetwynde had seen years before. The Cryptogram A Novel
In an era of waifs and buffed bodies, the full-figured beauties in Rubens's works have a graceful nobility.
In this line the double value of the word nympha -- used by classical poets both in the meaning of fountain and in that of the divinity of a fountain, or spring -- reminds one of that graceful playing with words which Japanese poets practice. Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
It is disgraceful act as a man in republican party show such a coward and hypocritic act .. Sanford, 'humbled and broken,' makes vow to state
That most people walk in an ungraceful, ungainly and awkward manner with a forward inclination of the body does not mean that it is the normal way of walking.
Lithe and graceful, she was tall with chestnut skin and long black hair that swirled in the backwind of the rotors. Ayelet Zurer Cast as Vittoria Vetra in Angels and Demons - Updated! « FirstShowing.net
There wasn't much she could do but acquiesce as gracefully as she could. T2: INFILTRATOR
They are typically graceful, having long legs and horns, and include the eland, wildebeest, gazelle, springbok, hartebeest, impala, etc.
She was a remarkably beautiful woman for her age, queenly and graceful.
After crude conversions, little remained of the building's original interior, except for some door architraves, cornices and a graceful staircase, brutally divided from the main space by a fireproof partition.
It was unthinkable that any one save a thief and an out-right scoundrel, such by the way as were all of his business rivals and the men who refused to tote and carry at his bidding, should make a threat like that; worse than unthinkable, utterly, depravedly disgraceful that one of the house of Packard should resort to such devious and damnable practices. Man to Man
While figure skating involves graceful acrobatic manoeuvres with music in the background, the freestyle performer executes a set of movements tracing a figure on the floor.
The corroboree of native companions (ANTIGONE AUSTRALASIANA) may certainly be the practice of a defensive manoeuvre, though it has the appearance of a graceful dance. My Tropic Isle
With a plausible excuse, and seeming indifference, he gracefully opened conversation with the mantuamaker as only a Parisian can. Condensed Novels
A bandura (in case you wanted to know) looks like the graceful child of a lap harp and a lute and sounds a little like a dulcimer and a little like an autoharp, only a lot less tinny. My Friday, By Delia
How my heart palpitated with delight when, through apertures in the envious boughs, I at once caught the gleam of your graceful straw-hat, and the waving of your grey dress — dress that I should recognise amongst a thousand. Villette
Our gardens have been turned into rubbish dumps for discarded bottles, cans and crisp bags and it is disgraceful that extra police have to be employed on match days just to control the fans…
It is fiercely vigorous, but in its execution there is no attempt at gracefulness; no attention to positions, of which the old dancing-masters told us there were five; there was little attempt at step—it was simply ‘jigging’ or as sometimes called clog dancing. A Renegade History of the United States
Even if you get no applause, you should accept a curtain call gracefully and appreciate your own efforts.
There are graceful conifers such as the Kashmir cypress and great pines earning their keep as windbreaks.
After all, they're treated in rather the same disgraceful way as domestic cats.
Hanging with her head to the side, the woman is graceful like a ballet dancer at rest.
Expectations of graceful flowing telemarks fade as the skier faces deep trenching.
Alex has been thrust into a more active role as a caregiver, which he's rather gracefully accepting, except for anything involving the colostomy bag.
With a graceful gesture she swept the tresses framing her right cheek behind a delicate ear, revealing that the pinna contained two openings to the auditory canal, one in the center, and a smaller one near the upper edge. Star Trek: Voyager®: Full Circle
Graceful moray eels, deadly great white sharks, playful porpoises, and tiny crabs show up along the way, all to the enchanting tune of Serra's bouncy music score.
The gracefulness I usually have when alone evaporated and I tripped over my feet and landed on my butt.
A single altar-shaped rock crowned the summit, from which the continuation of the ridge, right and left, fell away in a singularly graceful outline, the face of the mountain being precipitous with escarped cliffs. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.
The more information that is uncovered by the regulators, the more disgraceful the affair becomes.
Pre-Hispanic agricultural terraces curve in graceful tiers around the southern and eastern shoulders of the steep slopes.
Its skin is smooth and looks like carved stone, but graceful, not angular and chiseled like a statue.
The common terns have since left for the winter but Matteson said there is a good chance the birds, which he calls graceful and beautiful, will be back next year since they have already raised young here. The Green Bay Press-Gazette Latest Headlines
At first he was like to sulk in the style of a hawk who has failed of his swoop; but seeing his enemy arising slowly with grunts, and action nodose and angular -- rather than flexibly graceful -- contempt became the uppermost feature of his mind. Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale
His vocal style was always assured, graceful and unforced. Times, Sunday Times
Gaudi captures that peculiar living response which cuts across a square campus lawn and traces a graceful curving shortcut.
Gentleman, gracefull of person, excellent in speech, and every way as active as no man could be more: his name Pyrrhus, highly affected of Nicostratus, and more intimately trusted then all the rest. The Decameron
But Marianne abhorred all concealment where no real disgrace could attend unreserve; and to aim at the restraint of sentiments which were not in themselves illaudable, appeared to her not merely an unnecessary effort, but a disgraceful subjection of reason to common – place and mistaken notions. Sense and Sensibility
Supreme in her graceful style and astonishing power, she took her second gold of the championships, with another likely to come today. Times, Sunday Times
Children, careless of pleasing, and only anxious to amuse themselves, are often very graceful; and the nobility who have mostly lived with inferiours, and always had the command of money, acquire a graceful case of deportment, which should rather be termed habitual grace of body, than that superiour gracefulness which is truly the expression of the mind. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Instead of the former vast repertory, the stately pavone, the graceful and dignified saraband, the wild Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
She was taller than the redhead by an inch or two, being that she had the willowy yet graceful physique like that of a healthy ectomorphic body.
The form of the minarets, indeed, brings to mind the battlements of Rajput fort rather than the graceful tapering classical Islamic minaret.
When these circumstances occur or an especially malformed request is received, the program does not handle the condition gracefully and fails.
Shefford found where it disappeared over the foot of a slope that formed a graceful rising line up to the cedared flank of the mesa. The Rainbow Trail
It was what might be designated as a noble figure; but the term owed its appropriateness partly to his refined and graceful bearing. Fairy Fingers A Novel
Its graceful pentameter couplets express the mid-century fascination with theatrical performance.
Her glittering, purple singlet top shifted as she moved her graceful arms, revealing the skin of her taut stomach.
The horses were idling around - how she loved to watch them their shiny coats, lissome bodies, the graceful tilt to their heads.
Not only does he walk the wire, he dances on it, performing a graceful pas de deux with death. Times, Sunday Times
But the argument for localism is disgracefully mushy; we should be more rigorous about what localism means. Times, Sunday Times
The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face. Sydney J. Harris
the way they buried him so hurriedly was disgraceful
‘There is nothing wrong with being in the mortal realm, brother,’ hissed Leara as she sat down in her seat in a most ungraceful manner.
Power management software can orchestrate the graceful shutdown of critical systems when power outages extend beyond the limits of backup systems.
Pink roses: elegance, gracefulness, refinement, gentility, style and poetic romance but being combined with fun and lightheartedness.
He excels at writing about sex and sexuality, which he describes with a graceful wonder that encompasses love's frailty and its brutality at once.
A cheerful wood-fire blazed in the capacious hearth; a little at one side an old - fashioned table, with richly-carved legs, was placed — destined, no doubt, to receive the supper, for which preparations were going forward; and ranged with exact regularity, stood the tall-backed chairs, whose ungracefulness was more than counterbalanced by their comfort. The Purcell Papers
In one swift and graceful movement, she threw her arms around him, burying herself in the fabric of his clothing.
This is a disgraceful, shameful attack on a student's freedom of speech at such a prestigious institution.
The material of the skirt had been enfolded to form a loose, graceful drape.
Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves. Drew Barrymore
My only "potshot" is that I feel that the main contributors of this disgraceful escapade, should have all their assets & bank accounts etc., confiscated & sold & the money should be put into an account to help reestablish companies that were not involved but are paying the price of someone elses greed. Fool.com: The Motley Fool
Surely it can't be based on the disgraceful leaflet they issued for the election.
Isn't it disgraceful the way they're persecuting the poor guy?
The new coats blouse gracefully above the hip line.
Her figure was so slender and graceful in the navy blue dress she wore.
Banana trees were much more difficult to climb with their huge, graceful leaves, but big bunches of the stubby, honey-sweet, matt-yellow fruit were within our reach.
The hackers, who call themselves LulzSec, said they pulled off what they described as an elementary attack to highlight Sony's "disgraceful" security. Thestar.com - Home Page
AcetateInexpensive, sunfast, and drapes gracefully, but will wrinkle and has low abrasion resistance unless blended with stronger fibers. How To Avoid Housework
It is one of the first shrubs to blossom, the staminate flowers hanging in slender, graceful yellowish-brown catkins, while the pistillate flowers are little points of purplish-red protruding from the buds. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919
A beautiful two pound rainbow spent the next couple of minutes trying its hardest to imitate one of the swallows that were gracefully taking duns from the surface.

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