well-graced

Edmond La Grange told me once that a great actor must be in possession of “energy, an athletic voice, a well-graced manner, some unusually fascinating originality of temperament; vitality, certainly, and an ability to convey an impression of beauty or ugliness as the part demands, as well as authority and a sense of style.”

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

Edmond La Grange told me once that a great actor must be in possession of “energy, an athletic voice, a well-graced manner, some unusually fascinating originality of temperament; vitality, certainly, and an ability to convey an impression of beauty or ugliness as the part demands, as well as authority and a sense of style.”

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

Edmond La Grange told me once that a great actor must be in possession of “energy, an athletic voice, a well-graced manner, some unusually fascinating originality of temperament; vitality, certainly, and an ability to convey an impression of beauty or ugliness as the part demands, as well as authority and a sense of style.”

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

Edmond La Grange told me once that a great actor must be in possession of “energy, an athletic voice, a well-graced manner, some unusually fascinating originality of temperament; vitality, certainly, and an ability to convey an impression of beauty or ugliness as the part demands, as well as authority and a sense of style.”

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

As a successor and a former actor myself, I am only too aware of what William Shakespeare wrote in "Richard II," "In the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage are idly bent on him that enters next; Thinking his prattle to be tedious."

The Stratford Experience 2007

Edmond La Grange told me once that a great actor must be in possession of “energy, an athletic voice, a well-graced manner, some unusually fascinating originality of temperament; vitality, certainly, and an ability to convey an impression of beauty or ugliness as the part demands, as well as authority and a sense of style.”

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

A general acclamation and clapping of hands, like that by which a crowded theatre approves of some well-graced performer, followed this feat of dexterity.

Anne of Geierstein 2008

He gave himself to the crowd, as a well-graced actor gives himself to the house when it applauds him.

The Black Colonel James Milne 1908

The well-graced actor who leaves no perceptible record of his genius has a decided advantage over the mere orator.

Ponkapog Papers. 1904

She died before the troubles began, the strife and contention in which her well-graced son, the poet, the dreamer of all things beautiful and cultured, the author of the glancing, tripping measure --

Obiter Dicta Second Series Augustine Birrell 1891