Word: graciously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republicans), but then someone in the movie said "our relatives are coming down from Boston for Christmas." I could only conclude that this wasn't Marblehead: the Marblehead I know lies about 17 miles north of Boston, adjacent to Salem. Thank God, I found out later through some gracious line in the script that the movie was supposed to take place in Connecticut. Confusion quelled, I could watch the rest of the movie with a clear mind...
...formidable influence of Letterman, the man and the mystique, could be felt when he showed up last Monday as a guest on Conan O'Brien's show. Dave's gracious praise for his successor on Late Night -- "You've really done a great job to carve out a wonderful identity for yourselves" -- was like the Pope's benediction. O'Brien needs it; after six months, he is as awkward and clueless in front of the camera as the day his show was born...
...throughout, here forces audience and characters to recognize internal likenesses. Indeed, one is made to realize throughout the movie that, had circumstances been altered, and Sophie endowed with a more appealing visage, she would not have different significantly from Irene; the way Sophie treats her mother is even less gracious than the way Irene behaves towards Sophie...
Last Spring Break, I stayed here in Cambridge, just hanging around Harvard with my friend and former business manager. I'll call him "Young Jin". Since one of our mutual friends knew that we would be suffering here during the break, while he went to Cancun, he was gracious enough to allow us to use his car for little errands. To protect his identity and possibly my life, I will just call...
...favorites failed to garner medals, and L'Equipe, the national sports daily, struck back by calling Moe -- who had been expelled from teams as an adolescent for smoking marijuana -- a "little truant" and describing Roffe-Steinrotter as looking like "an insomniac squirrel." But French skier Florence Masnada was more gracious. "The Americans have no complexes," she said admiringly. "They just throw themselves down the slope without asking any questions...