Word: gracefully
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...Kuwait. Driving alone through the desert, slipping past military checkpoints and armed with only chocolate bars and cigarettes to offer sometimes hostile soldiers, Kelly, in the pages of the New Republic and later in his book Martyrs' Day, conveyed the pity and devastation of war with a brave, unflinching grace. Though he would go on to become an accomplished magazine editor--most recently at the Atlantic Monthly--and a columnist for the Washington Post, Kelly never lost his thirst for reporting. A few weeks ago, at 46, he returned to Iraq as a correspondent embedded with the Army...
...taller than my thigh, the boy with coal-dark eyes swings himself easily onto my white horse. Feet dangling high above the stirrups, he gallops along the shore of a frozen lake, turns, rears and dismounts with a grace that brings to mind his distant ancestors-the Mongol warriors who swept across Asia...
...manner incomprehensible. The paradoxical nature of this art form was aptly demonstrated during Dancer’s Viewpointe III: An Evening of Premieres. Classical ballet is no different in this sense, except that the human urgency is pushed under the surface, and the performance is layered with requisite grace and poise. The eight originally choreographed dance vignettes in Viewpointe, most appropriately categorized as modern dance, shone with immediacy, purpose and undeniable skill...
...gotten it. Recorded entirely on Mac OS-X (a fact of which the band of brothers and a friend are inordinately proud) during their Fall 2002 tour, this self-titled release is the first of their oeuvre that truly captures their essence. Even though the abundant guest artists that grace their previous albums are gone, their absence isn’t felt—the live setting charges the bare organ, drums and guitar with an energy that is lacking in their too-reserved studio works...
It’s a straightforward enough idea. Trickle-down spirituality, really: supply-side evangelism that promises to instill God’s grace into the many through the vehicle of the mighty and powerful...