The first startling fact about them that the reader learns is that they haven't spoken in private for 13 years, though they are gracious to one another in public (surely this is possible only in an especially grand setting, with perfectly trained servants).
Mr. Ferson, who arranged it, recalled them as "extremely gracious to one another, and a little nervous, too".
On this trip, I was spending time with an even more gracious people subjected to one of the gravest injustices in history.
Some conservative pundit suggested that the president should've declined the prize, but it is not gracious to reject a compliment, one should accept it with becoming modesty, as Mr. Obama did, that's what your mother brought you up to do.
Rather than emerging with big, prominent playing, they were notably gracious in giving way to one another, playing down solo moments, bringing to the whole a sense of lightness and ease.
While Cranium Signage director and owner Phillip Garratt replied and apologized for any offense, he was less gracious in an email to one of her friends who had also complained.
No one is friendlier or more gracious to his teammates and the public.
DeVolder, who is in her mid-fifties, is upbeat and gracious; at one point, the crudeness of Trump's clash with the Fox News host Megyn Kelly had prompted DeVolder to give up on him, because of his "total disregard for manners," she said.
"It adds to one's success to be gracious and polite," Mrs. McNamee said.
In possibly gracious return, one could say, the mushroom allowed McKenna to engage it in a dialogue the only condition being that he ingest five dried grams of it, preferably alone in silent darkness.
Goodness Gracious Me, one of British TV's most successful Asian programmes, is to return for the first time since 2001.
