Sentence examples for descend gracefully from inspiring English sources

One master stroke was to install a grand spiral staircase that allowed the bride to make a Hollywood-style entrance and descend gracefully in the admiring illumination of a spotlight.

No such unpleasantness mars Rose Walk (1913), a steep set of stairs that descend gracefully from LeRoy Avenue to Euclid Avenue, beneath luxuriant foliage and past light stanchions also designed by Maybeck.

John Bartram traveled all over the eastern United States to gather and bring back trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants to these grounds, which descend gracefully to the banks of the Schuylkill.

For drivers stuck in traffic on the Kennedy Expressway, the restoration of the dome atop St. Mary of the Angels Church in Bucktown is providing a divine distraction this summer, as workers scale the scaffolding and then descend gracefully under a blue banner that proclaims "SavetheDome.net," the century-old church's new Web site.

They gracefully descend with a whirring sound.

After changing, the models stepped into a banged-up building stairwell and clonked up two flights, emerging at the "belvedere level," from which they could gracefully descend a curving steel and oak staircase into the main salon.

I wanted to kick the festival off with its opening night selection, so after trying to gracefully descend from the Venezia Turismo motor boat, driven by the handsome "Commandante" -- as he jokingly referred to himself -- and checking into my hotel, I joined the line at the screening for Everest in 3D, directed by Baltasar Kormákur.

This part of the launch did not go as planned; instead of gracefully descending, the booster tipped over and blew up.

But as the company's backstage staff wraps up the loose ends, a more figurative curtain is descending, slowly and gracefully, on a long stretch of the company's history.

At the Philadelphia concert, in "Oblivion" and "Adios Nonino," melodies flowed in opposing keys, but Piazzolla's sequential phrases, laid out like a gracefully descending staircase, give the "easy listening" sound as much distinction as does the music of Messiaen.

Gracefully descending a spiral staircase to the stark clanging of bells, glamorous in full hair, snug skirts and heavy eyeliner, the women of "Nine" appear to be but a beautiful blur of black and white swirling around Antonio Banderas, the only grown man in the production.