Sentence examples for decline gracefully from inspiring English sources
The people in charge are themselves often young and inexperienced in the art of management, they say, and are so used to devoting all their energies to relieving the stresses and strains of fast growth that they do not know how to cope with decline gracefully.
Fall gracefully like a feather?
Karen Dillon, author of the HBR Guide to Office Politics, explains how to gracefully decline excessive projects–and thankless tasks.
It is easy enough to decline her offer gracefully, saying you think someone else should get a look-in, but letting the friendship crumble without due consideration would be a crime.
To make a real difference anywhere, she says, she has to learn to gracefully decline.
"If someone doesn't feel the need to sit he/she can gracefully decline the offer," said Jacqueline Rice.
Gracefully decline offers, shift a few weekday plans to the weekend, and revel in the joys of spending time in your space, your comfort zone, the place that makes you feel most mindful.
Meanwhile, the 1930s campus of ocher buildings by Gino Peressutti, a significant work of Italian Modernist design, gracefully declines in a landscape of cypresses, palms and fiberglass trailers.
Harold Wilson offered him a peerage, which he gracefully declined; he returned to his newspaper with the additional post of assistant editor.
There there's the "amazing" fall in fertility rates across the world ("the absolute minimum hope of survival is a gracefully declining population").
