social grace
Example Sentences
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In this unsteady moment, the masked and unmasked will need to tolerate each other’s company with civility and social grace.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2022
“Denial is now an art,” she asserts, “a social grace, a survival tool, as is apathy which has become a sign of refinement.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2021
Thriving bees are filmed in close-ups bursting with color that emphasize the vitality, the industriousness and even the social grace of these remarkable creatures.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2020
By the eighteenth century, the nobility actively cultivated learning and social grace, hearkening back to the glory days of the Renaissance courtier and bypassing the relatively uncouth period of the religious wars.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
The day had completely emptied him as if, between my questions and the job interview, he had used up his entire reservoir of chatter, energy, and social grace.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
