gracelessly

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Now forgotten and aging gracelessly, Cass gets a shot at rehabilitation when a friend assigns her to interview Aphrodite Kamestos, a photographer from the fringe of the '60s counterculture, whose morbid vision influenced Cass herself.

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  • Your dad never really did get it—he's going to grow old gracelessly, succumbing to bit-rot in the big forever. —  Asimov'sSF,Dec2003
  • I floundered up gracelessly, emerging into a huge space sparsely furnished with a beat-up rolltop desk, a wingback chair and a swan-neck rocker on a threadbare Oriental rug at one end, and some cluttered door-on-sawhorse tables on the other. —  FSF,December2005
  • It is a detailed portrait of an artist becoming an old man, gracelessly weathering the indignity of outliving his own legend. —  Phawker
  • I made it to the opposite side and turned around to see the overweight father gracelessly lumbering toward the ball, staring me down with the anger of a typical New York man with little - other than messes he's made on his own - to be angry about. —  Clublife
  • "Only the old can really see how gracelessly the world is aging and all that we have lost," he writes on the last page of a book that is as much about getting old as getting places. —  Powell's Books: Overview
 

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