Word: gracefully
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Some council members said a popularly electedchair, in power by the grace of the constituentsand not the council, would be an activist one,building on Lee's model to the extent of beingconfrontational with the council itself...
...strength to go against 90 otherpeople. That illustrates her `grace underpressure' attitude," Hackett said...
After playing for a few minutes, the musicians listened to students play and critiqued their performances. Connick told one pianist, "Eliminate all grace notes--you sound like a ninny when you play like that," then sat down at the piano and showed a better way to handle the piece...
...principal settings are those favorite corners of Greeneland, grimy London and a sunnier Third World capital, both pregnant with menace. The story lurches, sometimes comically, toward a classic Greene ending, which combines plausible irony with amazing grace. And the Captain is a typical Greene figure: a man of several names and many shadowy occupations and absences. His enemies are, of course, corrupt officialdom and bourgeois smugness. His story is told by Victor, the boy he says he won at backgammon, or maybe chess -- the tale shifts with the passing years. Along with the wraithlike woman who is the Captain...
...fact, as the whales futilely tried to break through the ice pack, some Eskimo hunters thought of putting them out of their misery. Even so, a swift coup de grace was mooted by a rush of television cameras and reporters...