Sentence examples for gracious if from inspiring English sources

And to be gracious if they don't".

Mr. Jarvi conducted a gracious if not particularly memorable account.

The gracious if somewhat startled Mr. Beame smiled and shook my hand.

Mr. Levy was gracious, if a bit formal, about Ms. Reidy's appointment yesterday.

Watson said it would be "very gracious" if Miliband personally apologised to Murphy and Deans.

makes The Times's "embrace" of this honorific in 1986 sound gracious, if "slow".

"Sometimes you've got to be gracious in defeat, even if you don't want to be".

The only questions are whether he will reign in his running mate before she does more damage, and whether he is able to be gracious in defeat on November 4. If he still has a shred of his old decency, he'll do what he has consistently failed to do in this campaign: put country first.

He was gracious, even if he would have preferred not to speak to the pack.

God will not only save our gracious queen; if we play our cards right, he will save the monarchy.

Captain Chinn had told me that he had never met such a gracious criminal: "If you see him, tell him Captain Chinn says hi".