She's still cross about some previous display of gracelessness on my part, something to do with the paperwork for the new car.
X, by the way, in my experience, is almost invariably a man and behaves with maximal gracelessness.
When the magician jumped down at last, late at night, we were almost grateful for his gracelessness: after a clumsy back flop onto cardboard boxes, he emerged, not pumping his fist, triumphant, but huddled in a blanket, his voice shaking.
Many graceful directors — Jacques Tati, obviously, but also Krzysztof Kieslowski — have been drawn to the sheer gracelessness of humanity, as if there were something endearing in our habit of falling (or tumbling) short of that noble dignity which, when sitting comfortably, we like to ascribe to ourselves.
There was a feeling during the years of George W. Bush's Presidency that his gracelessness as well as his appetite for war were linked to his impatience with complexity.
The point isn't to delve into individual psychology but to marvel at the extremity of gracelessness, choreographed with meticulous grace.
One reader who wrote to me directly, Ellen D. Murphy of Portland, Me., expressed her displeasure memorably: While I applaud The Times's apparent effort to reach out to children, you go too far when you give them a platform on your pages to express their opinions, which have all the hallmarks of immaturity and gracelessness of their age group.
In a review for Paste, I wrote that, despite my innate gracelessness, "Mark of the Ninja turned me into a meticulous, thoughtful person, pulling from reserves of patience I didn't know I had".
Ms. Kurzak flitted around the stage with endearing gracelessness: part childhood ballet training, part unsteady ankles.
Extras aped its ping-pong banter with simian gracelessness; Will & Grace did the sulphuric one-liners but forgot the psychological colouring-in.
There was gracelessness: Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO, made it clear for months that he disdained the company's IPO, and deigned to show up to only one meeting with potential investors.
