How To Use Saving grace In A Sentence
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Ageing's one saving grace is you worry less about what people think.
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The soundtrack is the saving grace of a film that doesn't cut it in any other direction and often gets irritatingly full of boyish rudery and sentimentality.
Evening Standard - Home
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Fortunately Walker is always just a knob twist away from another saving grace.
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But there are also stories of the saving grace of innocence and the love of a violin.
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The film's saving grace is the excellent photography.
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It's a long climb, a brutal ascent by any standard, but that severity is the mountain's saving grace.
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I think he was my saving grace.
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The saving grace to the whole artistic endeavour is that the works are classic verismo operas with sky-high true-life grit.
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The saving grace here is that the two rear 80 mm fans are quick release, I did not have to unscrew or remove 4 plastic clips to remove and replace the fan.
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Writing has always been my saving grace in the lonelier times; helping me sift through the ‘what’s, ‘how’s and ‘why’s.
Tadpolecast – maya l’abeille
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If there's any saving grace, it is that it appears to be a monumental blunder.
Times, Sunday Times
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it was debated whether saving grace could be obtained outside the membership of the church
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He may be stupid and mean. but his saving grace his humour.
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Her sense of humour is her saving grace.
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I have to say that the finish was without a question its saving grace: long, elegant, with a nice dark berried flavor.
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If there's any saving grace, it is that it appears to be a monumental blunder.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is a saving grace on offer in the form of its multiplayer mode.
The Sun
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The impartation of saving grace is ultimately the only eternal benefit.
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She liked him for a certain stern soberness that was his, and for his saving grace of humor.
CHAPTER 8
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the saving grace for both developments is that they are creating jobs
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He may be stupid and mean, but his one saving grace is his humour.
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The algorithms which run our lives, the websites which sell us stuff even when we don't know it, which track our supposed wants and desires...they cannot yet track and preconceive our intuition...and that, along with feeling and not simply thinking, will be humanity's saving grace.
Vivian Norris: Allowing for Synchronicity During These Times of Upheaval
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The only saving grace is that when faced with a 180 class buck I feel certain he will wet himself and come down with a case of the quaking palsies.
Five Shots in One Hole
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His sense of humour was his only saving grace.
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His only saving grace is his undying belief in the melodramatic.
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The saving grace for both developments is that they are creating jobs which are needed in the area.
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The only saving grace was Robert Downey Junior's performance as the comic genius they said.
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The saving grace of the cavernous Innis Town Hall, however, is it allows musicians to accompany a film live.
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Strange friend, thief, despoiler relying on one saving grace, one charity of memory, doled out.
The Hidden Jester
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Thank you, Skaw and Memo, you've both been more or less my saving grace this week.
Terrarose Diary Entry
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One saving grace about Medicare: it generally pays promptly, while private insurers will dawdle for months in paying even a simple claim.
Matthew Yglesias » Revenge of the Public Option
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Humour's your best medicine at present, and a sense of the absurd your saving grace.
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In Lenin's day, 'reformism' was the ultimate transgression for Communists: now it is their saving grace.
Reform or Revolution?
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He helped me to see that I was a sinner who needed the saving grace of Almighty God.
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That Emma has been flippant rather than villainous is the saving grace that makes Mr. Knightley’s reprimand seem not only tolerable but meliorative, an appeal to a latent, better self, one informed by the "natural charity" of her "heart," as A. Walton Litz puts it (141).
Boxing Emma; or the Readers Dilemma at the Box Hill Games
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The flashbacks to the uncles' escapades in Africa ought to have been the saving grace of a rather uninteresting slow plot.
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Like the previous two, his solitude is our saving grace.
Top Ten Movie Villains of All Time | Heretical Ideas Magazine
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Somewhere in the middle of this dilemma are the sunscreen manufacturers with their high protection sunscreens - skin's saving grace.
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His only saving grace is his undying belief in the melodramatic.
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Most teachers have contempt for “new math”, were suspicious of phonics, and distrust all of the other placeboes that are presented as the saving grace of education.
Cartoon: What Society Values
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Her decision to endorse Ned Lamont after today's tragic events show a beginning of weakness on her saving grace: Her understanding of the need to win decisively the war on terror.
Sound Politics: Memo to Fellow Republicans: Republican Nominee in Conn. Has No Chance
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Reporter Another potentially saving grace – a growing number of oil suppliers.
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Tatum O'Neal (how funny is she on Rescue Me?) will play the title tole in a Saving Grace (no relationship to the TV show starring Holly Hunter) which will be the directing debut of Connie Stevens.
Archive 2007-09-16
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The flashbacks to the uncles' escapades in Africa ought to have been the saving grace of a rather uninteresting slow plot.
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She found is a saving grace in Fleur that having set her heart on a thing, she had no change of heart until she got it.
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Ironically, the unchallenged primacy of the supreme leader is also the saving grace of communist ideology.
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He may is stupid and mean, but his one saving grace is his humour.
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But there's no real-life pianist savant here, no cutesy romance, no saving grace.
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Yet if the current scientific consensus is correct, it has to be, and that may be its saving grace.
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The film's saving grace is the excellent photography.
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Ageing's one saving grace is you worry less about what people think.
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her sense of humor has to be a saving grace
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Practice in the speech of pleasantry may have great value in giving a man repose, in giving him that saving grace, an appreciation of the humorous, in affording him a means of relief or enlivenment to the serious speech.
Public Speaking
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Its other saving grace is its caustic sense of humour.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Ageing's one saving grace is you worry less about what people think.
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‘The hand of God’ is an anthropomorphic term for the creative power, providential care, and saving grace of God.
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The film's saving grace is the excellent photography.
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I suppose it's too much to ask from a pompous, arrogant, and self-promoting tightass like Mr. Gingrich, but one of the many saving graces of America is that it is a diverse nation with a lot of different cultures, ideals, and belief systems.
Religious Education
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He may is stupid and mean, but his saving grace his humour.
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It was debated whether saving grace could be obtained outside the membership of the church.
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The only saving grace was Robert Downey Junior's performance as the comic genius they said.
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Lilywhite wards and the astringent smell of disinfectant had turned into a sad and pullulating slum, the saving grace being the medical orderlies who had refused to surrender.
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Its only saving grace was its brevity - 78 minutes that crawled by like the Hundred Years' War.
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The only saving grace was the explanatory note from the film that my new pal was holding: 'This person is under the care of a prescription puppet.
The Sun
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The sole saving grace of the film is Jemaine Clement (of Flight of the Conchords fame) as Ronald Chevalier, a pompous author of bad sci-fi novels who is ironically the only character to not reach unbearable levels of annoyingness.
This Week in DVD & Blu-ray: 2012, Where the Wild Things Are, Ponyo, and More | /Film
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His sense of humour was his only saving grace.
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The saving grace, of course, is the news telecasts.
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The only saving grace for the moment is that mortgage rates are pegged at reasonable levels, thanks to the EU Bank.
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Padre Amaro, the young saving grace reformer, is in actuality a power mad vacuum, able to use a nubile young woman to satisfy his carnal desires as he finks on those within his order who would do the same.
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The other saving grace is that springtime hailstorms usually blow over fairly quickly.
Times, Sunday Times
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The saving grace of the past few days has been my preoccupation with a new geeky toy, a DVD recorder.
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The only saving grace for the animal, say zoo officials, is that there appears to be no fracture in the injured leg.
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These eastern facing corries are the mountain's saving grace.
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Her sense of humour is her saving grace.
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Its other saving grace is its caustic sense of humour.
The Times Literary Supplement
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For Vestel, of course, those unsecured loans are a saving grace, preserving its assets from hungry creditors.
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The flashbacks to the uncles' escapades in Africa ought to have been the saving grace of a rather uninteresting slow plot.
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Intellectual compatibility could be a saving grace - without it, jealousy may get out of hand.
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The Church had no illusions about the enormous task of converting the entire autochthonal population of that hostile moon to the saving grace of the Divine.
Vignette: remuelda
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For if that departed order can be allowed any saving graces, it was in that area that they might be found.
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Let the word "unregenerate" be taken for a man who is now in the act of the new birth, though he be not yet actually born again; let "the pleasure" which God feels be taken for an initial act; let the impulsive cause be understood to refer to the final reception of the sinner into favour; and let secondary, subsequent, cooperating and entering grace be substituted for "saving grace;" and it will instantly be manifest, that we speak what is right when we say: "Serious sorrow on account of sin is so far pleasing to God, that by it, according to the multitude of his mercies, he is moved to bestow grace on a man who is a sinner.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1
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Yet if the current scientific consensus is correct, it has to be, and that may be its saving grace.
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He may be stupid and mean, but his one saving grace is his humour.
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I thought the snippety interaction between RDJ and Paltrow was one of the best things about this one, and the saving grace of the first.
Iron man 2
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Restricted by a 12A certificate, the film lacks the raunchiness one would expect from the subject, or the sophisticated charm that might have proved its saving grace.
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The only saving grace was Robert Downey Junior's performance as the comic genius they said.
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The only saving grace is that most children take it for granted that spirits and the like are imaginary beings.
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Her sense of humor has to be a saving grace.
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Well, in a way, the inappropriateness is a saving grace.
Roland Emmerich to film FOUNDATION trilogy
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The saving grace was that all men realized this to be the case.
Ambassadors: From Ancient Greece to the Nation State
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his saving grace was his sense of humor
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Rather touchingly, inspiration does return in his final years, but Mr. Houellebecq can only describe at a distance the saving graces of what he calls "artistic emotion"—his own cold, clinical writing is never able to activate it.
Reflections on Self-Regard
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her love of music remains her one saving grace
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Ageing's one saving grace is you worry less about what people think.