Word: gracefully
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...watch over America's family with grace and kindness, and with--forgive him O Lord--a little more care than he has shown for his son Michael and his grandchild...
Like all romantic leads, the subway avenger looked better on paper. Until the real one stood up at a New Hampshire police station and confessed, we could imagine him a star. Charles Bronson. Gary Cooper as Wyatt Earp. Better still, Cooper in High Noon, citizen-lawman, doing his duty, Grace Kelly at his side...
...exactly offensive or entirely appealing, Marino has several grace notes to offset a sometimes snarly street-corner manner. A ready laugh, for one. "Just taking it easy, having fun," he likes to say. His common speech owes something to Huntz Hall and Leo Gorcey, though he can shift from "dese" and "dose" to a surprising eloquence. He sways behind the center like a royal palm, but it is a greater wonder how he can swagger sitting down and strut standing still. A compact passing release is characteristic of his general economy of movement and thought. "Most quarterbacks have that high...
...strangeness, they seem like quotations from some permanent layer of German consciousness. All the more so because Beckmann thought very hard about his own cultural heritage. His figures, with their polelike limbs and mouths like gashes, their awkward eloquence of gesture (long on pathos and aggression, short on grace), step right out of late medieval German sculpture, and so do the claustrophobic spaces they inhabit--shallow, pleated, distorted into shoving and butting against the four edges of the canvas. The "naive" determination of 15th century carvers to get a deep room and a whole Last Supper out of a slab...
...dilemmas that can arise from fundraising is the case of the Charles W. Engelhard Library of Public Affairs. The Charles W. Engethard Foundation gave the Kennedy School of Government $1 million in 1979 for a public affairs library. The catch was that the man whose name and money grace the foundation had made his money in gold mining in South Africa...