You want to be polite and gracious while also being crystal clear about what you want.
And teach kids to be gracious for what they do receive.
They'll be gracious about it, but that's not what any of us want," she said.
As Adams puts it: "the gracious person sees what is valuable in the person he loves, and does not worry about whether it is more or less valuable than what could be found in someone else he might have loved" (Adams, 1972, 324).
Goodness gracious, this is what we need to be doing.
An otherwise gracious waiter described what went into the wild-mushroom trifolati by saying, "You know, seasonal mushrooms"; when probed for specifics about the cheese plate: "Oh, there are all different types of cheeses, from all different countries".
I could not always tell from my brother's gracious, smiling face what he really felt.
"Gracious alive, Cal, what's all this?" He was staring at his breakfast plate.
Although a perfectionist herself, redrafting her books many times before achieving exactly what she wanted, Eva was also gracious about being edited.
Just be gracious about it.
