graciousness

How To Use graciousness In A Sentence

• I was embarrassed by my ungraciousness, faced as I was with a bowl of such delicious noodles, giving off steam and sending off strong aromas.
• 'What you call graciousness, Hester, is an obligation of which religion knows nothing,' she said after a pause. John Caldigate
• have mercy"; God's graciousness is felt more and more the longer one knows Him (Ps 130: 7). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
• Of course some of my court appearances before the crowned heads of Europe are dear to me, not so much because they were _court_ appearances, but because of the graciousness and appreciation of the highly placed personages for whom I played. Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers
• I've occasionally seen him angry, but I must tell you he always treated people with enormous graciousness and friendliness.
• Never mind the spectacular ungraciousness of not giving his 2000 runningmate the courtesy of a phone call.
• Majesty finds the truth of things, her graciousness will not utterly, overthrow a cause so behooveful and costly unto her. History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-86)
• I had approached her with so little formality, I had received all her graciousness with so little apparent sense of her condescension, I had taken my seat, nearly unasked, so completely at my ease, and I had pronounced so unceremoniously the plain "vous," without softening it off with one single "altesse royale," that I had given her reason to think me either the most forward person in my nature, or the worst bred The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3
• The only thing I admire more than you and your husband's many, many, many accomplishments is your (and his) lack of decent manners or even a hint of humility or graciousness. Huatulco to Oaxaca City Road Trip
• He received visitors with the graciousness of the courteous head of a department, who resigns himself to listen to demands, allowing them to talk as he smiled faintly, and nonplussing them by his calmness. Une Vie