Word: graceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...massive canvases which Allston prized most, and which his own age most admired-such ambitious subjects as The Angel Releasing St. Peter from Prison-seemed merely pretentious. Modern critics were impressed by the classic cleanliness of his drawings. They liked the grace and casual strength of his nudes (see cut), which Allston had sketched simply as studies for larger pictures. And they warmed to the easy, affectionate handling of portraits like that of William Ellery Channing and aging Benjamin West...
...talent was for dramatic dancing and pantomime, and he did it with a controlled, steel-spring grace. He and Doris
...with Deborah Kerr, or vice versa. She has to huckster a pretty thin role for an actress of her charm and ability-and do what she can with it while M-G-M is huckstering the daylights out of her. She goes through the assigned paces with a good grace, refining them with considerable shrewdness and as much concern for more serious artistry as the heavily commercial traffic will bear...
...much sympathy from the C.I.O.-U.A.W., and the Taft-Hartley law will relieve industry of any obligation to bargain with supervisory employees. At week's end, the foremen still on strike meekly voted to go back to work. They sorrowfully admitted that F.A.A., which had existed chiefly by grace of the Ford contract, was about dead...
...Grace. She learned to enter a room gracefully by rehearsing it hundreds of times under her grandmother's watchful eyes, mastered the curtsy by practicing endlessly with a heavy encyclopedia balanced on her head. But these and other accomplishments were merely part of the endless process of character building. "The Lord's part of salvation could be left to the Lord to attend to, but our share had to be worked at diligently...