social grace

Example Sentences

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There’s a reward behind the social grace, too.

From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2023

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

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