Bungalows, Faulk calls them graciously.
Cross Canadian Ragweed's Red Dirt Roundup festival, held in the Stockyards district here on Labor Day, drew 15,000 fans and featured visitors from the world of rock (the headliner, the Black Crowes), the country mainstream (the Nashville star Gary Allan) and what people here might graciously call the East Coast ideal of alt-country, Son Volt.
"A few minutes ago, God very graciously called to congratulate me".
Mongolia, like George W. Bush, is also quick to give out nicknames: it graciously calls America its "third neighbor".
On Monday morning, Adriano Galliani, who runs A.C. Milan on behalf of Silvio Berlusconi, graciously called Andrea Agnelli, the relatively new, young president of Juventus.
He graciously called her "the greatest women's basketball coach who ever lived," but Tuesday's victory reaffirmed UConn as the country's pre-eminent program.
For a car ride to a television studio, he graciously called dibs on the car's minimally padded rear middle seat, so that his four almost infinitely less wealthy companions could ride in comfort, and with seat belts.
In his autobiography, "Show Me the Magic," which takes its title from a Cassavetes catch phrase, Mr. Mazursky graciously calls Cassavetes, just a few years his senior, a mentor.
By the time Mrs. Clinton graciously called for the convention to nominate Senator Barack Obama by acclamation, some of her supporters were working their way toward acceptance, wiping tears but nodding as she declared that the party had to unite behind him.
He's here tonight, and this is cool because it was not very long ago at all that Billy Bob was the completely unfamous drummer of a ZZ tribute band, Tres Hombres, which Gibbons now graciously calls 'the best little cover band in Texas'.
