At the Baftas, Mad Max's award-winning costume designer came to the stage, made a gracious speech, walked off without outstaying her welcome – and was called a bag lady by the host for her troubles.
Williams was nonetheless gracious in defeat, walking directly to Kerber's side of the court to embrace her warmly as the champion wept with joy.
As Alan Hollinghurst, who gave her a telling cameo in The Line of Beauty (2005), paying particular attention to what he calls the "gracious scuttle" of her walk, has said, it is "difficult to write about her without writing what would simply be a political novel".
A pipeline rupture that stanched the flow of gasoline to Phoenix has turned daily life here on its head for almost a week, prompting, among other things, a surge in car pooling, bus riding and even -- goodness gracious, in this heat -- walking.
But the very next paragraph shows us Barrett at her most recklessly self-confident, writing dialogue for the heroine: "Dear Madam... were you then privileged to know the gentleman of this gracious house whilst still he walked these venerable halls?" Nothing much is got right here.
'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.
I was stunned that they were so gracious, but then when I walked into their apartment and saw their nice cat, their mantelpiece littered with antique toys and knick-knacks, their mounted T-Rex head hanging in their living room, and Mike's homoerotic paintings of a naked Tarzan and a well-endowed sailor plastering his bedroom walls, I realized they were just two regular dudes.
I couldn't believe I'd been fortunate enough to encounter such gracious and friendly people, simply by walking into a shop.
As she and her family walk around a neighborhood of gracious lawns and fall foliage, we hear what good support and a good drug can do.
It also gives the person walking through the space a gracious feeling, as though they were in a special area, almost like a work of art.
