graceful
Example Sentences
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His involvement grew serious after her death from cancer in 1972, and in “The Snow Leopard” his customarily graceful observations of nature shimmer with mystical meditations on grief, transcendence and enlightenment.
And bigger doesn’t have to mean awkward or unsightly; many “graceful” garden favorites such as delphiniums, fennel, gaura and agastache are famed for their tall stature, he added.
From Washington Post
I yearned to shake them off, to return to reality; birding has come to seem one of the more graceful ways to do that.
From New York Times
She at times addressed her lieutenants over an intercom system, her graceful Viennese accent rising over the din of excitement and emotion.
From Washington Post
She has never been open to talk of resigning, even as some close to her have tried to urge her to engineer a graceful exit to safeguard her legacy as a pioneering woman in politics.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
