Sentence examples for gracious comments from inspiring English sources

Each man, in interviews and in writing, offers gracious comments about the other in the midst of the corrosive charges.

But Mr. Lhota had nothing but gracious comments about the mayor's relationship with the speaker, pointing specifically to what he called Mr. Vallone's "compassionate" nature.

Her approach to this match showed how seriously Williams takes Stephens as a competitor, and in her gracious postmatch comments to Mary Joe Fernandez she spoke of Stephens as the bright future of American tennis.

China's mainstream party-run and state-run media were fairly measured and gracious in their comments on an opening ceremony that, in the minds of many Chinese, was going to be a bit of an anti-climax after director Zhang Yimou's lavish ceremony in 2008.

Senator Padilla was being gracious in his comments for it's not difficult to understand why these legislators would oppose a measure to protect children: their own survival.

The South African – accused of sour grapes by some over the timing of his comments – was gracious in defeat to Peacock, hugging the young pretender at the finish of the 100m.

She was extremely gracious, and never once commented on the rambling and pointless nature of the majority of the questions of a nervous fan who was eager not to sound like an idiot.

Given that I was a guest in this country, whose own voice on an intractable UK position had been so nominally heard internationally, it seems to me that the fair respect from a gracious visitor was to comment.

Which prompts Cosma Shalizi to write in comments, … our gracious host would really _like_ to be just a little bit to the left of a technocratic center, and to debate those just a little bit to his right about optimal policies within a shared objective function, and pretending that it is a technical and not a political discussion.

There is, I suppose, a gracious way to translate her comments.

When they're feeling less so, the comments are not as gracious.