After Mr Gasparovic surprisingly took 60% of the vote to send Mr Meciar packing, the former strongman proved as graceless in defeat as he had been during the campaign.
But the victory was marred by his graceless approach, using Poland's wartime suffering at German hands as a bargaining chip.
Charm could be a potent weapon.Related items Afghanistan: Honoured guestSep 20th 2001 Afghanistan: The Lion clawedSep 13th 2001 Afghanistan's failing opposition: The graceless victorsJun 14th 2001Enter the RussiansThe French particularly admired Mr Masoud.
"It's not much use having some graceless anorak, however impressive his or her degree.
Now they face their biggest shake-up for decades.In this section Untying independent schools Harvest time Small world Damned lies and revisions Snitches in wigs Straws in the wind Shuffling sandals Graceless under pressure Correction: Carlton and Granada ReprintsThis is partly thanks to new competitive pressures.
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Mr Bush distorted his rival's record on breast-cancer research and was graceless about the fact that the senator's sister suffered from the disease.These signs of querulousness and vindictiveness need to be set in context not just against other presidents (think of Bill Clinton's volcanic indiscipline, Richard Nixon's mood swings) but also against other parts of Mr Bush's own record.
His account of his modest childhood spent in the south coast towns of Southsea and Bournemouth is atmospheric.He was an awkward child, in trouble for theft and graceless to his long-suffering and proud parents.
Another graceless acronym joins the financial world: EDX London.In the hope of capturing the off-exchange market for equity derivatives in London, the LSE is paying a fullish price, £18.2m ($28.6m), for a 76% stake in OM London Exchange, OM's derivatives arm in Britain.
The housing that developed was generally the sort of architecture familiar in Victorian London: solid, porched, rather imposing, the later imitations graceless and monotonous.
The bafflingly popular Enemy are a band with their heart in the right place but an inability to express themselves in anything other than the most clichéd and graceless ways.
