graceful

• “He wrapped up crisis talking in Jordan by once again rejecting any timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops and denying that he's searching for what he called a graceful exit from the war.”

  CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2006

• “John saw that he was _de trop_, that it was a family conference, and only extracting from Laramie a promise to see him -- about nothing whatever -- before leaving town he made what he termed a graceful getaway.”

  Laramie Holds the Range

• “Ay; anybody can be what you call graceful, if he lives a little time in a city, and keeps his eyes open.”

  A Pair of Blue Eyes

• “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

• “Though "graceful" is a word one wouldn't readily apply to Stickley's cabinetry, there is a certain massive elegance to his lighting fixtures.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Four-Square Reformer

• “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.”

  The Huffington Post: Alla Kazovsky: Product as Sculpture

• “There are a few abstract symbols, but the site is almost covered in graceful, naturalistic sculptures and bas-reliefs of the animals that were central to the imagination of hunter-gatherers.”

  February « 2010 « Gerry Canavan

• “Writing with an outsider's empathy and insight, casting his chronicle in graceful prose, he offers a memorable tale that both captures and transcends time and place.”

  My Own Country by Abraham Verghese: Book summary

• “She learned to surf the long boards off the Kohala Coast and was known as a graceful and agile surfer.”

  Simon & Schuster: Under a Maui Moon

• “Her contemporary novels explore how teens cope with the unpalatable realities of poverty and drug abuse in graceful and often funny narratives.”

  Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » AUTHOR INTERVIEW: K.L. Going, part 1

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