Sentence examples for conventional grace from inspiring English sources

They clapped so hard that he sang his other big number, 'Accentuate the Positive.' " As a boy and as a teen-ager, Dylan played guitar and piano and sang, with more passion than conventional grace, and picked up his pleasures and his influences from distant big-city radio stations, late at night, when the signal was clear.

More questionable is its construction of a conventional fall-from-grace narrative.

She may not have quite the swashbuckling panache of the indomitable galleon Amy Winehouse, but the echoes of Sixties icons like Brigitte Bardot and Carol White give Duffy's more conventional beauty the sophisticated grace of an ocean-going yacht, her visage striking enough already to have secured her a spot on the walls of the National Portrait Gallery, confirmation of her remarkably rapid ascent.

This is necessary to execute their elaborate mudras, conventional symbolic gestures, with accuracy and grace.

If Oehlen has a method, it is to recoil, stroke by stroke, from conventional elegance — strangling one aborning stylistic grace after another.

The movie is nothing if not inscrutable – and that's why it is bound to provoke far more ferocious debate than any conventional tale of a star's fall from grace ever would.

In Sontag's recounting, Bresson's ascetic Catholicism, by paring away the muck and clutter of conventional expressiveness, reveals the thrilling mystery of God's work — the extension of grace to a few humble and unwary souls.

It is called in the novel "A Twitch Upon the String", and it shows how the Grace of God turns everything in the end to good, though not to conventional prosperity.

Yet this conventional view of the picturesque style ignores the colorful flowers and flowering shrubs that graced the landscape garden of the Georgian era.

The New Yorker was graced with elegant line-drawings by the likes of Charles Addams, James Thurber and Saul Steinberg while more conventional periodicals like the Saturday Evening Post had their own stables of artists.

The arts programming that will benefit from the Grace for Keshet campaign focuses on providing a creative outlet for self-expression when conventional means are not an option.