gracious life
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He did get to see Broadway's top musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, but otherwise he left the gracious life in the capable hands of his capable wife, Jackie Kennedy.
From Time Magazine Archive
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With the fine flush of success, Barbra has hastily assembled some of the accouterments of the gracious life, but is plainly still out of phase with it.
From Time Magazine Archive
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She hated being out in what she called the Sticks, longed for the great and gracious life in Toledo or South Bend.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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So we must offset Martial's and Juvenal's pictures of the calm and gracious life in the country: virtuous life, often, with quiet striving after usefulness and the higher things.
From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth
A noble, gracious life stirred in him then which the pettier human world denied.
From The Centaur by Blackwood, Algernon