social graces
Example Sentences
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Along the way, we are treated to the author’s ironic wit and the delightful spectacle of Josie schooling her partner in the social graces he endearingly lacks.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
Such expected social graces are one of the unique burdens of being America’s first Black president.
From Salon • Jul. 26, 2025
Vargas Llosa’s air of debonair intellectual only added to the package: a writer for the New Statesman once described him as “tall, good-looking and with the social graces of the Latin American elite.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2025
Their linguistic skills, knowledge base and social graces will soon become flawless, endowed with perfect recall, competence, poise, reasoning abilities and intelligence.
From Scientific American • Sep. 8, 2023
Parents from as far away as New York sent their children to Allen for its rigorous liberal arts curriculum, its religious teaching, and its insistence on imparting social graces to its students.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
