Word: graciously
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...less likely to be adapted from classic novels than from graphic ones?essentially, long comic books. Comedies stayed around, but lost their manners. Hollywood movies, which had been traditionally tailored to the female audience, now went after the male market, valuing impact over nuance, the gross over the gracious. If Merchant-Ivory wanted the old genres, they could have them for free. So they ransacked your auntie's library for stories by Henry James (The Bostonians, The Europeans, The Golden Bowl), Jean Rhys (Quartet) and, most sympathetically, E.M. Forster (A Room With a View, Maurice, Howards...
...Mann, the gracious Crimson captain who learned to play the game as a nine-year-old Los Angelino, yesterday’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...
...that we're great Americans," she recalls, "but I really didn't think we were all that great. We're just college kids." Strangers started coming up to her on the street when she was in uniform, thanking her for what she was doing. "I tried to be gracious about it," she says, but she kept getting the feeling she was being thanked for a sacrifice she had not yet made. Eventually she stopped telling people that she went to West Point...
...gracious but disappointed McCambridge also emphasized House pride...
Take lessons--I had to unlearn so many bad habits it was silly. And make your shoes look sensational with your outfit. When you think you look good, you play better--it's a chick thing. And be gracious in victory because men can be a little sensitive when you beat them...