Sentence examples for kind of gracious from inspiring English sources

Mr. Cohen sang these words with a kind of gracious generosity.

The effect of all this is not heightened pomposity but a kind of gracious pleasure taken in what was being made possible.

What charms audiences about this genteel film may be the kind of gracious, caring, and well-groomed behavior that Hazanavicius has put on the screen.

It's hard to imagine this kind of gracious losing in some other sports - partly because they are full of idiots, but also because the nature of the sports doesn't encourage this same mutual respect.

Oscar-watchers place Ms. Theron as an outside shot for the competitive best-actress race, and at the Gothams, she gave the kind of gracious, down-to-earth thank you speech that Academy voters like to see (she thanked Mr. Reitman for "giving me the opportunity to play such a bitch").

If Celia was superb in that role it is because she, in essence, played herself, a woman of worldly charms, good humor and much wisdom, the kind of gracious lady that we would love to have for an aunt, a fairy godmother whose tender-heartedness works a healing magic on even the most troubled of souls.

In grand prewar buildings, buyers have combined apartments to recreate the kinds of gracious spaces that were original to the buildings.

The film was funny and modest, and it treated the putative perversions of its characters with the kind of good, gracious humor that insists on respect for everyone involved.

"It's kind of not gracious.

It's very sort of gracious".

Would The Times have purchased "a broad and intriguing look" on any subject, for that matter, that didn't have either celebrity, outrage or some kind of goodness-gracious hook?