Sentence examples for gracious like from inspiring English sources

PHILIP PEEPLES: In the downtime, he was so easygoing, so gracious, like an uncle at a family reunion.

Gracious Zen-like tranquillity; everything understated and serene.

Honmura An offers gracious Zen-like tranquility, with its serene setting and delicious meals.

In Toronto, she led fights to save neighborhoods and gracious landmarks like Union Station.

The government is generously offering "reconciliation" deals across the country, with gracious amnesties like the one that enabled several hundred rebel fighters to leave the exhausted city of Homs with light weapons in early May.

Ann Waldron, the persistent author of "Eudora: A Writer's Life" (Doubleday; $25.95), details several early trips to Welty's door, and a response as intractable as it was — what else? — gracious: rather like the response to Henry Miller's asking her to write pornography.

To say Rush was less than gracious is like implying frozen goose fat makes for substandard bicycle spokes.

Here are some of the things that happen during the Back to Blighty stage show: Georgia wails the words "goodness gracious me!" like a pantomime dame.

Gracious Home is like a bodega, but a little bigger.

With the 'breezy dialogue.' They sort of talk that way and everybody's unbelievably nice and, like, gracious and happy.

Well, yes, if you like gracious old New England towns with unpredictable artists turned loose in them.