Sentence examples for modest grace from inspiring English sources

And he does this with modest grace.

Administration officials, however, say such a move would amount to a modest grace period bought at extravagant and wasteful expense.

In his political career he has served with distinction as a Minister and rebounded from defeat with modest grace.

George was born in Mayfair, in Chesterfield House at the bottom of South Audley Street – the family's London residence, given up for a more modest "grace and favour" address in Green Street when he was eight.

No matter what imposture Weyman was engaged in, he never altered his face — not even by so much as shaving off a thin, spruce mustache, which, along with expressive, bright brown eyes, an aquiline nose, a strong, solemn mouth, a shapely head, and a tall, trim figure, gave him an air of distinction that he carried with disarmingly modest grace.

Kaufman disdains speeches at the curtain call (along with sentimentality), but in a lovely gesture, he steps forward anyway, silences the roars of applause and tells the assembled people with modest grace that he wants them to know that 80% of the show they've just seen is due to Moss Hart.

The spectacular contemporary architecture, by the New York team of Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, cradles the modest graces of the Merion structure with an air of religious veneration.

Marian Halcombe's body, so ideally feminine that it is judged ripe for appropriation by a (presumably male) artist, conveys "Modest graces of action".