Sentence examples for graceful without from inspiring English sources

Neighbouring Lucca, on the other hand, is graceful without being dull, with a largely traffic-free centre that's strewn with handsome buildings – you can hardly walk for five minutes without coming upon a small piazza and marble-fronted church facade.

A swimmer's lean build is muscular but graceful without being bulky, so if you like swimming more than contact sports, take up swimming.

If anything, it's hard to watch the parade of short, graceful sketches without thinking of how other companies have since done similar things, often better.

The group began with the Quartet No. 1 in A by its namesake, a graceful score without the kind of baggage that Shostakovich brought to his work, but also without the depth.

This supernal state of clarity could also be heard in the pealing ring of a well-tuned chord in the winds and brass, a graceful sound without the snarl or excess brawn cultivated in the brass sections of other ensembles.

It's to Chandor's credit that he contrives an ending that is both graceful and dramatic without lapsing into melodramatics.

Having maneuvered between the two less graceful flying machines without help from the control tower, the geese silently (and proudly, I suspect) continued their migration.

Just give us a graceful unmount procedure without wigging out, OS X.

Mr. Reddick said: "Malcolm X Boulevard cost $50 million -- without any graceful finished project that speaks to the community.

On both visits, much of the food arrived without the graceful choreography of a typical sit-down meal, so there was no feeling of leisure.

But the one-button wool jackets and sleeveless coats, with low martingales and just the hint of graceful silhouette, are idiosyncratic without being weird, while the palette of rust, baby blue, taupe and yellow is distinctive.