These trees don't get very tall, but their graceful, sloping appearance makes them look like ancient and wise souls.
The cables hold up a bridge that sweeps across the broad intersection of Jaffa Road and Herzl Boulevard, rounding the 90-degree turn with a graceful slope and curve.
Though a photo that accompanied Autosport's report suggested that the MP4-27 avoided what has been called a "platypus nose," the graceful slope of the current car's front end is somewhat compromised.
The graceful sloping plaza in the capital's Chacao borough has become the focal point of student-led protests that have devolved each afternoon into violent clashes with tear gas, rubber bullets, water cannons and Molotov cocktails.
As dusk falls on a warm evening, Rumson is bliss: a borough of broad lawns, shade-tree canopies, gabled mansions, graceful parks and gentle slopes that look down to the town's two rivers, the Navesink and the Shrewsbury.
Xalapa's graceful colonial buildings, narrow sloping streets and famous botanic gardens swept past my window as Carmen made a beeline for one of her favorite restaurants, an unassuming fish place called Nico's.
We are fortunate that this component is rather graceful in its decay slope (around 0.5percentt per year).
They decided not to replace that, but came up with another, more graceful way down into the sloping backyard, which is built on several terraces.
But for anyone who ever suffers periodic pangs of terror from the unnatural act of strapping razor-edged boards to their boots and attempting a graceful dance with gravity down a steep, snowy slope, it's a nice diversion.
And yet, even with relatively bare snow cover this season, the telltale marks of skis and snowboards traced graceful cursive paths around the boulders and down the slopes.
