Sir Samuel, in private life a fancy ice skater of renown, drove home his point and yet skated gracefully over the thin ice in these carefully chosen words: — "I do not stop to reply to the Führer's phrase about democracies or I might be tempted into a criticism of dictatorships.
It is the main tree in the planting, rising many stemmed and gracefully with wire-thin twigs and leaves the size of a coin.
There, its long thin stems gracefully bend over, creating an arching shower of lemon-yellow flowers that hover only two or three feet above underlying plants.
It looked very beautiful in fall: the thin, tapering foliage, gracefully curled at the ends, shimmering between the pink begonia flowers and the twinkling stars of the aster, seemed to borrow a touch of color from each.
The lineup is made up almost exclusively of 1980s hair metal bands, which may or may not have aged gracefully: Twisted Sister, Great White, Vixen, Thin Lizzy, Anthrax, Skid Row, Nelson, Warrant, L.A. Guns and more.
Most candidates took the news gracefully; everyone knew their odds were thin.
But the bottom line is that Yao handled it gracefully, in part because he had no idea how thin the ice was.
After you drench the thin towel under a faucet (or, less gracefully, get it wet by soaking it with your sweat), you're supposed to snap it several times in the air.
The slender pole towered over his thin figure, as he bounded down the runway to leap over the crossbar, gracefully turning with plenty of air to spare.
At the beginning of that century, shawls were a necessity in a fashionable woman's wardrobe because dresses were thin and décolleté; it was a sign of gentility to wear a shawl gracefully.
