Word: graciously
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...personality evoked strong emotions: awe, anger, admiration, resentment. When I first met him in 1959, I was mesmerized by his physical intensity: he was a mercurial man, almost violently vivacious. There was a fistlike tightness to his argument: bold, peasant-simple, piercing, seductively warm and, for one or two gracious moments, revealing his cheerful, childlike curiosity...
Rejecting his former party allies, and anyone who could be accused of espousing the values of an older and more gracious Chinese civilization, Mao drew his sustenance from the chanting crowds of Red Guards. The irony here was that from his youthful readings, Mao knew the story of how Shang Yang late in life tried to woo a moral administrator to his service. But the official turned down Shang Yang's blandishments, with the words that "1,000 persons going 'Yes, yes!' are not worth one man with a bold...
...what about Currier?, you may ask. No gracious red brick exterior, no view even of the Quad. The plainest and most charmless of the Quad houses? The most graceless of all the Harvard houses? Well, yes, if you're passionately attached to the image of ivy-covered brick (and centipedes), white moldings, fireplaces and winding stairs. What Currier has instead: a cozy, bright, immaculate look (it's even cleaner than Pforzheimer); cheerful carpeting and comfortable chairs and sofas tucked in every nook and corner of the house; the most pleasant dining hall on campus, always sociable but never noisy, completed...
...test of time, it was hard to deny Tuesday that the U.N. chief had done the U.S. a sizable favor. The deal gives President Clinton a temporary out from a war that lacked domestic support, as well as fresh justification to attack should Saddam renege again. Annan was even gracious enough to credit the U.S. military as the "big stick" that made the deal possible...
...most famous medical malpractice attorney has his eyes on the kind of legal defense fund that President Clinton has established to fight his various litigious campaigns. Perhaps aid will be forthcoming from a grateful Vernon Jordan, who received a glowing testimonial from Ginsburg: ?Mr. Jordan was very kind, very gracious and arranged some interviews with prominent companies,? said Monica?s attorney, denying any quid pro quo in the Clinton confidant?s relationship with Lewinsky. Sounds like Ginsburg could write a book himself...