Word: graciously
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...other thing: Sideways is by far the year's best American movie. It's vigorous, gracious, tenderly attentive to Miles' and Jack's immense flaws--a paean to the durability of life's losers, which is to say most of us. This sunny, funny trip of a film would stamp a 2-hr. smile even on Miles' forlorn face...
...vice-presidential debate, Cheney had genially acknowledged the remarks of Senator John Edwards after he complimented the Cheneys for standing by their "gay daughter." Friends of the Cheneys insist that the Vice President was actually peeved by Edwards' remark, but chose to hold his tongue. "He was ostensibly being gracious," said a Cheney ally. "But he was really saying, 'You're a punk...
...Genoese colony just across the Golden Horn from Constantinople, viewed themselves as separate from their Byzantine neighbors. They saw no reason to become involved in their plight and engaged in shameful neutrality. They expected to reap rewards for this behavior, and they thought that the Ottoman Sultan would be gracious because of their inaction. They were wrong. The treatment they received was the same as any other Christian town that submitted voluntarily to the Sultan’s rule; they had to pay special taxes, their walls were torn down, they were forbidden to carry weapons and they were forbidden...
...been incredibly gracious throughout the process,” Ogletree said of Balkin...
...policy. To do that, he acknowledges, there must be a "new social compact" with both native Singaporeans and "new" citizens based on "a society open to change." Tay phrases it more bluntly: "Economic performance is necessary but no longer sufficient for Singapore to succeed. People want more?a gracious society, good services, more consultation of their views...