In the richness of language, its grace, breadth, dexterity, lies its power.
He has been using that language with grace, wit and precision to skewer linguistic pomposity and to explain our common language all during that "later time" -- which has taken him to his 95th birthday.
But this authority was imaginable in the first place only because the language of grace, of "power through passivity," emboldened Moravian women to embrace a vision of themselves as active agents rather than the domesticated subjects their culture asked that they be.
Begin to practice strategic dining today by becoming mindful of your body language and the grace with which you eat.
The various kinds of divine assistance (or, in the language of theology, grace) by which human beings may overcome their Fallen condition were the subject of intense theological controversy in the seventeenth century.
The victims' families are struggling with the private business of their own grief, using the language of Christian grace.
Soft skills are the cluster of personality traits and interpersonal skills that help a person function effectively in the workplace, including social graces, language and communication abilities, amenability to training, ability to get along with other people, and ability to think creatively and independently.
Yet, grace of language and merciful tenderness for the lonely, misplaced, soft people of the earth shine through ludicrous details of what Williams called "my funny melodrama".
It's the lighthearted aspect of the character that she has no chops for; her line readings and body language strain for comic grace.
A debt to Virgil is certainly apparent in the way in which Akenside invests an essentially unpoetic subject the abstractions of philosophic thought with poetic form, through studied elevation of language and with considerable grace.
