Our sincerest condolences to the Shapiro family on the loss of their elegant and gracious wife, mother and grandmother.
Ksenia Ovsyanick floats and flutters as Clara's sister Louise, while Jane Haworth is gracious as their mother.
Some years ago, in a little town in Connecticut, I had the pleasure of meeting, at a party, a gracious lady whose mother was the sister of Minny Temple.
The Caedmon School community extends heartfelt condolences to our beloved Headmaster, Dr. Greg Blackburn, his wife, Cathy, and their family on the loss of his gracious and elegant mother, Delores Patricia Blackburn of Clarksville, Arkansas.
Gracious and loving wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and mother-in-law to Herbert, Sandra, Larry, Susan, Jimmy, Meinar and Murray.
Florence was a gracious and loving wife, mother, grandma, aunt and friend and an elegant lady.
Georgina Parkinson made the Queen Mother a gracious lady, but also one always conscious of aristocratic responsibilities.
Nancy was an extraordinary woman: a gracious first lady, proud mother, and devoted wife".
'One's inner life is not to be talked about, for it's so largely music.' Towards the end of his life, Spender became, as Sutherland notes in his enjoyable biography, a 'sweeper-up of the Thirties group', a walking memory bank (gracious, too, as my mother found at a party 10 years ago.
Is God being gracious to an elect mother, they might ask, when he makes the baby she loves with all her heart the object of his "sovereign hatred" and does so, as the Augustinians say he did in the case of Esau, even before the child has done anything good or bad?
