Sentence examples for gracious remarks from inspiring English sources

Putin made gracious remarks about Samaranch, presented him with a special award and held up Samaranch's arm as if he had won a boxing match.

After Harvey was left to improv some more comments on his slate, Nicole finally showed up, made some gracious remarks about working on the movie, and then Harvey raucously commented on the elephant in the living room, as she stood beside him.

What showed most in his gracious remarks replying to Walesa after receiving the Prize were his encompassing sympathy and acute sense of history.

He congratulated Alejandro González Iñárritu for winning numerous Oscars for "Birdman" with this gracious remark: "Well, it was a great night for Mexico, as usual in this country".

"We have given our all to this campaign," said Mr. Romney, stoic and gracious in his remarks.

Cocktails and canapés soon gave way to a more intimate gathering upstairs, where Wu and ACRIA's creative director, Benjamin Bashein, were gracious in their remarks before sitting down to a meal by the chef Michael White, a co-owner of the restaurant group that includes popular New York staples like SoHo's Osteria Morini and Midtown's upscale Ai Fiori.

Romney's own gracious and restrained remarks in a national interview have introduced her to the entire country as a woman of grace and intelligence, with a keen ability to read an emerging issue and to exploit its national political significance -- without in the least appearing to do just that.

As Adams remarks: "The gracious person loves without worrying about whether the person he loves is worthy of his love" (Adams, 1972, 324).

Weird Al, the special secret guest for the Tenacious D set, and one of the nicest and most gracious legends in musical comedy, remarked that Jack Black's costume was his favorite of the day.

In that context, it's an extremely gracious statement, and makes the Plaid Cymru remarks seem all the more poorly judged.

He has become slightly like the Queen, having developed a gracious smile and a set of all-purpose remarks.