Sentence examples for Graciously receiving from inspiring English sources

Graciously receiving requires a profound humility and honors the spiritual law of reciprocity.A new culture of giving and receiving is needed now more than ever.

The bottom line: Graciously receiving compassion is a skill, one well worth developing.

Also: Judd Hirsch as a grumpy Nazi hunter and David Byrne himself, playing himself and graciously receiving passionate, envious tribute from his fictional fellow musician.

If she's nervous about anything, it's the inertia required of the honorees — sitting and smiling and graciously receiving, instead of performing.

Yes, that's the sort of advice an experienced politician needs -- when to stop graciously receiving applause and begin speaking.

He bowed to the Mayor — who bowed back, and graciously received the swag.

He was graciously received in Rome, Milan, London, and Paris; he stayed in the French city for two years.

He lingered with everyone he met, posed for pictures, signed autographs, and graciously received dozens of corporate trinkets, T-shirts, mugs, pins and sales pitches.

(In my defense, I did buy my dad a hand-carved crèche scene from Buenos Aires, which was graciously received, though with less enthusiasm than a tree-ready trinket).

Teaching children to graciously receive a gift they are not thrilled with is a common etiquette question, but last week, a parenting quandary came in that took the problem just a little farther.

"We were graciously received by His Royal Highness, who responded in these terms 'What the bloody hell are you doing here?' " No, no, that was someone else's voice (mine, actually).