Sentence examples for graceful piece from inspiring English sources

At the end, a blanket is produced for a graceful piece of fund-raising.

The Sinfonietta opened with a graceful piece by Edmund Finnis called Seeing Is Flux, its featherlight strands deftly laced together.

Years later, he saw a glass table in the window at Puritan Furniture, a table that was a graceful piece of driftwood topped with a thick piece of glass.

The first thing you need to know about Saburo Teshigawara is that his body, though sinewy, moves like a long, graceful piece of ribbon, giving off the sensation that if you peeked underneath the skin there would be no bones or muscles to interrupt the flow.

But it is a disappointment subsumed by the far greater and more unexpected pleasure of being handed a surefooted, graceful piece of drama that kept the grief of the bereaved rather than policework at its heart, and which neither insulted the audience's intelligence nor disappeared up its own bum and forgot that its primary goal is to entertain.

The Saturday Review considered it "beautiful and graceful" piece that showed a rare "individuality".

Later some of the more solemn and graceful pieces were used as ritualistic music by shrines and temples.

John Sheridan, the director and choreographer, has made this a graceful ensemble piece, presenting the big numbers, which often continue through scene changes, with cinematic fluidity.

The vague outlines of the idea include some sort of relationship with the Philadelphia Museum of Art and a new location for the collection, perhaps even transporting the 75-year-old mansion and its graceful Doric columns piece by piece to a site in central Philadelphia.

For Lucy Scholes in the Independent, Outline, like the non-fiction before it, "is a book about what it means to be a woman, but in it Cusk has transformed sentiment that was derided as gushing self-obsession and self-pity into a uniquely graceful and innovative piece of artistic self-possession".

They include short, graceful, boiled-down pieces by the jazz drummer Nasheet Waits and the saxophonist Abraham Burton, the multi-instrumentalist Raz Mesinai, the violinists Jenny Scheinman, Carla Kihlstedt, Charles Burnham and Eyvind Kang.