He is gracious and calm: 'It is a time of challenge for us as Christians and citizens whose quality of life, and lives themselves, are in immediate danger,' he says.
She was gracious and calm with beautifully styled white hair and dressed in a soft pink suit.
Afterwards Agassi was typically calm and gracious.
Imagine a pretty patio outside an Italian villa on a summer day in the 1920s (or at least in some calm, more gracious time between the world wars).
Calm and gracious (with less than two weeks before their fall 2012 runway showon Monday, Feb. 12 at Milk Studios), Gill and Adams gave guests an evening as refreshing and hip as their recent collections.
She is exceedingly calm and gracious, responding with a "thank you" after you ask her a question.
They hung on to the reassuring, calm – even gracious – Trump victory speech as a sign he could be more statesmanlike than he was on the campaign trail.
Stunningly, Krauthammer's reasoning was this: "But as a person, I thought more highly of him... because of the gracious way and the calm and courteous way he discussed the issues".
Tall, thin and stoop-shouldered, with a calm voice and gracious demeanor that only partly disguise an almost-feverish intellectual intensity, Bahrani greeted me with the question I had been asking myself somewhat obsessively over the past few years, inspired by the appearance of movies like "Chop Shop" and "Man Push Cart" at festivals and on art-house screens.
N'Dour is so calm, understated and gracious that all your provocations - "Isn't this slavery seen from an exclusively white perspective?", "Isn't Equiano the token black character?", "Why is the rain in late 18th-century England monsoonal, never just drizzly?" - go out the window.
