Washington has never, to my knowledge, graced a list of the world's most romantic cities and few could imagine the line "I love DC in the springtime" falling soulfully from Cole Porter's pen.
Fortey "shares his knowledge with grace and verve," John Noble Wilford wrote in these pages last year.
Her wit, wisdom, knowledge and grace will be sorely missed and long remembered.
I am awed by their knowledge, effortless grace and skill as they maneuver each circumstance confronted in the field.
Fortey is a British paleontologist, one of the world's dozen or so trilobite experts and a gifted writer who shares his knowledge with grace and verve.
It exuded her mother's perfume, and I still associate that scent with a matrilineal endowment — a knowledge of grace and seduction passed down through the clothes that a woman of fashion keeps for the next generation.
As one can see most obviously in gifted athletes and performers, the body itself can be a source of knowledge — coordination, grace, agility, stamina, skill — both intuitive and learned.
With the influx of newly self-taught technophiles, the term "coders" began to gain momentum to describe those who could technically "create code," but did not necessarily have the knowledge or grace of the traditionalists.
Bilal, who other Muslims referred to as "master" because of his knowledge and grace, became the muezzin of the Prophet, meaning that he was responsible for calling Muslims to the five daily prayers.
As WH Auden put it: 'We have to love our crooked neighbour with our crooked heart.' This points to the need for both self-knowledge and grace.
Her knowledge, wisdom and grace will be deeply missed.
