Sentence examples for graceful determination from inspiring English sources
Nancy's companionship, cheerfulness, graceful determination, full love of life and love for us will be greatly missed.
But this tender beast is also responsible for the mysterious but fierce determination that drives Kobe Bryant, the graceful bemusement the Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga showed when his perfect game slipped away, the selfless courage soldiers in Afghanistan show when they risk death for buddies or a family they may never see again.
Or perhaps, as Aldous's book underscores, Schlesinger's singular qualities — his natural brilliance; his graceful and incisive writing; his public standing; and, not least, his determination to speak frankly to the powerful and get the powerful, at least sometimes, to listen — mean that his role will remain impossible to replicate.
They did not move with the bullish determination of carp, which I would expect, but with a graceful motion more in tune with the water itself.
"She's a lightning rod and a galvanizer — you can see the determination and earnestness in her eyes — and yet she's graceful, seductive and sophisticated," said Linda Fargo, the fashion director of Bergdorf Goodman, which recently started carrying Coquette Atelier.
The polar opposite of Shakespeare's graceful withdrawal from the fray, but in its way just as momentous, was George Orwell's determination to write and rewrite Nineteen Eighty-Four in defiance of a bleak medical prognosis (he was suffering from TB).
There were more examples than usual of the kind of brilliance that the sisters typically display against other opponents: Venus's commanding forehand, her graceful, powerful serve; Serena's incredible pivots from defense to offense, her whipping backhand, her steely determination in the match's most important junctures.
The graceful Januzaj illustrated a wide range of passing, a willingness to take players on and also a determination to shoot when the opportunity arose.
