The invitees might graciously accept the reality.
Cross Canadian Ragweed's Red Dirt Roundup festival, held in the Stockyards district here on Labor Day, drew 15,000 fans and featured visitors from the world of rock (the headliner, the Black Crowes), the country mainstream (the Nashville star Gary Allan) and what people here might graciously call the East Coast ideal of alt-country, Son Volt.
Like Chang, who began in a gritty part of the Lower East Side, Kim opted to open his "baby" as he called it, on a similarly desolate stretch of North California Avenue, in what might graciously be called Avondale, although local real estate agents might stretch it and say Far North Logan Square.
And with careful coaching, Cole might even graciously accept his elevation into the 100 club.
"Much Ado About Nothing," at the Old Vic through Nov. 30, gives us the sort of concept — cast the central characters old — that in this instance might have been more graciously left at the starting gate.
What Edward Cullinan and his team have come up with in this grove of academe is a blueprint, of sorts, of how we might build intelligently and graciously on the edge of our towns and cities.
Now, a year into this new role, he's had a chance to reflect on his company's "digital journey" (as his McKinsey colleagues might say), which he's graciously done in an absolutely captivating podcast interview with several members of the silicon valley tech VC firm Andreessen Horowitz (best known for its slogan, "software is eating the world").
In "Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things," Frost, a professor at Smith College, and Gail Steketee, a professor and dean of the school of social work at Boston University, invite us graciously into territory that might otherwise make us squirm.
But the idea that Mueller may be almost done, and that Giuliani may be able to wrap things up quickly and graciously, seems like it might well be wishful thinking on Giuliani's part.
Graciously, Dr Mahathir conceded this might have been a mistake he should have chosen Najib Razak, the deputy prime minister.But even Dr Mahathir must admit that his record in picking successors is, at best, patchy.
And in like manner, God will graciously love any creature he might choose to create, not just the best possible creatures.
