"grace" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a noun to refer to a quality of elegance, or as a verb to describe exercising kindness or courtesy. Example Sentence: The ballerina performed her pirouettes with grace.
More recently, the company was forced to jettison its relationship with Lance Armstrong following the cyclist's spectacular fall from grace.
The England bowlers strained for the coup de grace.
It all went smoothly; it was a night of grace.
Buyers, in effect, have to retax a taxed car before they can drive it, with no period of grace.
A butterfly passes in the quavering grace of its flight.
This philosophical song – performed with equal grace and beauty by Dusty Springfield in 1966 and the Byrds a year later – was about not taking life too seriously, something that Goffin must have been aware he was sometimes guilty of.
More questionable is its construction of a conventional fall-from-grace narrative.
Today the Daily Telegraph reports that in July 2007 Darling submitted a claim for £1,004 for a service charge on his south London flat for the subsequent six-month period, during which he moved into the grace-and-favour residence of the chancellor in Downing Street.
It is perception rather than reality that matters when votes are cast and, ironically, the prime minister who worried so much about how he was perceived has fallen from public grace because he created the wrong impression.
Grace and Mary, Melvyn Bragg's latest novel is, noted Jane Shilling in the Evening Standard, "based on the stories of his grandmother, Isabelle (renamed Grace in the novel), and of his mother, Mary, to whom Isabelle, then unmarried, gave birth in 1917, and who was raised by a foster mother.
Wrestling drama Foxcatcher, starring Steve Carell and Channing Tatum, has had its 20 December release put off; Grace of Monaco has been moved to March 2014 while re-edits are completed, while James Gray's The Immigrant is no nearer a confirmed US release after a poorly-received premiere at the 2013 Cannes film festival.
