"It could have ended more graciously, yeah".
My response: "Uh, could we please just talk about Loki?" In the end, astrologer Michael Lutin graciously assured me I wasn't going to die — at least not imminently.
How much more damage might the Yankees have caused themselves if their unprecedented trudging to the finish line was not graciously ended by the calendar on Sunday?
But Mr Dewhurst, having at first blamed his defeat on the horrid weather on both election days, ended his speech graciously, by calling on Republicans to move past the pratfalls of the primary season: "We must unite to win in November".United or not, they have little to worry about.
That doesn't excuse her outburst or her very expressive anger — which she managed to quell by the end of the match, graciously chatting with Stosur before the awards ceremony — but it does complicate one's assessment.
Even the two failures in succession on which the auction ended were deftly, almost graciously, expedited.
At the end of the evening he graciously offered a few dozen words in reply, concluding with: "I am confident that with determination we will overcome".
At the end of the show, she graciously appeared, smiling, next to the episode's host, the rapper Drake, as he gave her a special newcomer's shout-out.
But in the end Ms. Boyle proved stoic in defeat, graciously congratulating her opponents.
Oh, it was cunning, all right, to have his acolytes put out a threat to bolt so he could graciously and ostentatiously "put an end to further speculation".
