How To Use Gracefulness In A Sentence
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Their gracefulness and expressiveness hid the fact that they were also very athletic and strong.
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gracefulness" in landscape, I should send him neither to Italy nor to
Selections From the Works of John Ruskin
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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The movement, fluidity, and gracefulness of the human body contain the same lines and curves and feelings of my florals.
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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'
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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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The early morning sun rose into the sky, its beauty and gracefulness covered by a misty haze and leftover plumes of gun smoke.
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They bring a sense of confrontation rather then conciliation, belligerence rather than humility and gracelessness rather than gracefulness.
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But yet, shall my vanity extend only to personals, such as the gracefulness of dress, my debonnaire, and my assurance? —
Clarissa Harlowe
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Without the ungracefulness of a liquid-cooled engine's radiator and attendant plumbing to spoil the view, this motorcycles is a pleasure to peruse while sipping a hot coffee or a cold beer.
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The beauty similarly, actually leaves point gracefulness.
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If they don't, there's a kind of ungracefulness that's likely to reflect structural problems in the design.
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This, to my ears, leads to the gracefulness and fluidity of the French language and to the bounciness and rhythm of the English language.
L'accent tonique - French Word-A-Day
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Marionettentheater, whose gracefulness is "not an end in itself, but a device to impress the teacher":
Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man
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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 Asiatics.
Eothen
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There would be a great deal more ungracefulness than beauty in either a horse or a man that was so treated.
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The fact that he was tall profited him nothing, for it merely emphasised the extreme ungracefulness of his figure.
Stories by English Authors: The Orient (Selected by Scribners)
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Their gracefulness and expressiveness hid the fact that they were also very athletic and strong.
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I couldn't help but admire his ease and gracefulness.
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But despite kangaroos’ ungracefulness and clumsiness, and despite emus flightlessness and feistiness, both have been elevated to the position of Australia's national animal and bird, respectively.
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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
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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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The gracefulness I usually have when alone evaporated and I tripped over my feet and landed on my butt.
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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
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Pink roses: elegance, gracefulness, refinement, gentility, style and poetic romance but being combined with fun and lightheartedness.
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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
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He sees the gaiety of Sundays, the flashes of the sun, the oddity of a crowd carried away by the rhythm of the valses, the laughter, the clinking of glasses, the vibrating and hot atmosphere; and he applies to this spectacle of joyous vulgarity his gifts as a sumptuous colourist, the arabesque of the lines, the gracefulness of his bathers, and the happy eurythmy of his soul.
The French Impressionists (1860-1900)
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Plain and rough nature, left to itself, is much better than an artificial ungracefulness, and such studyd ways of being illfashiond.
Some Thoughts Concerning Education. Sections 61-70
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She was dancing with her husband -- a pitiful spectacle, for the lawyer must be pushed through the dance as he were a doll, with monstrous ungracefulness, and no sense of the time of the music, his thin legs quarrelling with each other, his neighbours all confused by his inexpert gyrations, and yet himself with a smirk of satisfaction on his sweating countenance.
Doom Castle
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Despite all such cavils, this is a work of uncommon gracefulness that repays repeated reading and viewing.
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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
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He praises natural gracefulness in contrast to formal restraint: "an ingenuous freedom is better than constraint".
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He descanted with some eloquence upon the wickedness of lacing, the ungracefulness of artificial forms and the beauty of her own wholly natural grace.
In Old Kentucky
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Whether she's walking, reaching for something or just lounging on a couch, a dancer's fluidity and gracefulness are noticeable right down to her fingertips.
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They are immoderately fond of dancing, and indeed it is almost the only amusement they partake of: but even in this they discover great want of taste and elegance, and seldom appear with that gracefulness and ease, which these movements are so calculated to display.
A Renegade History of the United States
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Every ones natural genius should be carryd as far as it could; but to attempt the putting another upon him, will be but labour in vain; and what is so plaisterd on, will at best sit but untowardly, and have always hanging to it the ungracefulness of constraint and affectation.
Some Thoughts Concerning Education. Sections 61-70
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There was altogether a lithe gracefulness about him that was quite un-doglike.
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And this change came about without expostulations, reproach, or explanation, just by the turning of a key; and even this was the merest symbol, employed once only, to save the ungracefulness of words.
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works
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A remarkable gracefulness in movement was created in these intricate embellishments such as the acanthus and oak leaves, volute scroll and laurelling details.
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But the aristocraticalness of Chopin's waltzes is real, not conventional; their exquisite gracefulness and distinction are natural, not affected.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
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No human being could resist such an authoritative beauty, gracefulness and charm.