gracefulness

[ UK /ɡɹˈe‍ɪsfə‍lnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. beautiful carriage
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How To Use gracefulness In A Sentence

  • Their gracefulness and expressiveness hid the fact that they were also very athletic and strong.
  • gracefulness" in landscape, I should send him neither to Italy nor to Selections From the Works of John Ruskin
  • 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 ease of deportment, which should rather be termed habitual grace of body, than that superiour gracefulness which is truly the expression of the mind. Chap. V
  • They had lost somehow or other that look of gracefulness which is so characteristic of them in their own country, and on a closer examination I found the cause to be their being clad in at least a dozen _kimonos_, [2] put on one over the other to keep the cold out. Corea or Cho-sen The Land of the Morning Calm
  • I say nothing about the ungracefulness of the translation but I much fear it will by many be taken as an indication of doctrinal bias.
  • He went through his duties with untiring assiduity, and with a kind of gracefulness, which by mere description can scarcely be made intelligible to those who are unacquainted with the manners of the Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East
  • The performance of a matador is usually judged by the gracefulness of his movements, his tranquillity in the face of danger, and the extent to which he puts himself in danger. Life And Death Ritual - La Corrida
  • The movement, fluidity, and gracefulness of the human body contain the same lines and curves and feelings of my florals.
  • For all the differences between golf and most other spectator sports its sheer spaciousness and the special beauty of its artificial landscape, the extreme leisureliness of its rhythms, the demands on concentration, the brevity of its key actions, let alone their fierce intensities of gracefulness, accuracy, timing, trigonometry all those differences shrink beside the indices of money and fame, the two poles of success. 'A Short History of Celebrity'
  • 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
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