The restrained play of subtly differentiated rectangular motifs lends grace and harmony.
Words and food are bound together in some inexplicable way, a peculiar communion that lends grace and mystery to what otherwise would seem to be a simple exchange of gluttony for publicity.
What lends grace to Bresson's beast is the patient witness that he bears to the human activities, ranging from the exalted to the monstrous, that take place around him.
She chaired many dinners at the Creative Hall of Fame and lent both grace and prestige to the evenings.
She was born on Sept. 11, 2001, and she was proud of it, her mother said, because it lent a grace note of hope to that terrible day.
One general said that their long hair, which they dressed every morning with bear grease, lent "exceeding grace and beauty to their movements".
When he finally sets us behind her eyes, she emerges as a woman of depth and dignity, lending a grace note of hope to the latter part of this flawed, complex, intelligent novel.
Lending character, grace, tolerance and forgiveness when we least expect or deserve it.
That makes them dependent on the good lending graces of their banking peers in Europe and the United States.
