Sentence examples for gracious silence from inspiring English sources
When he does come back, she can barely speak (he calls her "My gracious silence"), not least because Volumnia (Vanessa Redgrave), Coriolanus's terrifying mother, gets there first, greeting him as he kneels before her and, later, bandaging his wounds.
She wasn't a gracious silence, she wasn't suppressible by social convention, and her court-ordered public repentance at Paul's Cross was only tearful because she was maudlin drunk at the time.
The Aussies at work have been surprisingly gracious victors, my Indian colleagues have kept a tactful silence, but it's the Scottish contingent that have been insufferable.
There are moments that I understand too well the quirky silence of J.D. Salinger; because I'm not finding a gracious balance between the two emotions.
Maybe it would have been better if she'd released a short, gracious statement submitting her name to the Governor and listing a belief or two, and then retreated into humble silence.
