Word: gracious
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Nicole was decked out in a designer dress and glittering in borrowed jewelry, including an imposing watch. Event staffers had helped with her hair and makeup, just one of the examples of the gracious help Corriero said she had encountered...
...dissenting from Secretary Shultz," insisted Kalb. "To me, he is a monument of credibility, integrity, courage, strength." Shultz was equally gracious about his departing press secretary, saying, "I am sorry to see Bernie Kalb go. I admire him as a fine journalist, respect him as a colleague and adviser, and value him as a friend." In Kalb's nearly two years at the State Department, he had grown close to Shultz, nudging him into appearing on television more frequently to play up his role as advocate for the Administration's foreign policy...
...Mann, the gracious Crimson captain who learned to play the game as a nine-year-old in Los Angeles, Saturday’s 14-6 loss to Missouri was the end of an illustrious collegiate career and—pending developments in this week’s MLB Draft—a potential new beginning...
...said, ‘Goodness gracious, I don’t know that much about modern art.’ He said, ‘Don’t worry, we’ve got plenty of people who know about that,’” Limpert recalls...
...threat of losing the more luxurious elements of their housing. Already concerned by the College’s 1954 cutback in individual maid services for undergraduates, many students were reluctant to sacrifice their spacious rooms. “Private baths may go the way of other elements of gracious living,” a Crimson headline speculated...