He gracefully refused, adding, with a slightly crooked smile: "Later on, we will have many happy times".
Such a resolution is not without its risks; reading the last few pages of "Pitch Dark," I felt caught in the uncanny valley of an intellectualized love story, but with "Speedboat" Adler gracefully refuses the slide from sentiment to sentimentality.
A week after the incident in Malaysia, Webber gracefully refused to make a further negative comment on the affair just as Vettel was saying that he would do the same thing again if given the chance and that Webber did not deserve that victory anyway.
The coming of Eldrick the Great, who gracefully refuses to play any of his race cards, relieves Bobby and his good old boys of any retroactive guilt: how bad could they have been if golf is so ready to accept a colored fellow, even if he is arguably the greatest golfer of all time?
Lucien Duquesne stopped to help him up, and Nurmi thanked the Frenchman by pacing him past the field and offered him the heat win, which Duquesne gracefully refused.
Even without the eternal surfeit of sawdust-packed blockbusters, bird-brain celeb bios, conquer-the-cosmos manuals ad nauseam, the organs of the trade aren't big or wide or quick enough to catch every rock in the nonstop avalanche of output, and if countless authors thus consigned to undeserved obscurity for their Sisyphean labors refuse to succumb gracefully, they're profoundly human.
The Big Trend Religion's elder statesmen will refuse to retire gracefully.
I may be another year older and wiser and I may get a few more discounts, but I simply refuse to age gracefully.
There is also a group of "women who refuse to grow old gracefully".
But Labour's former big hitters refuse to bow out gracefully and leave Miliband to it.
We refuse to grow old gracefully.
