These people — losers to too many of us, though not to themselves or to those they left behind in small villages — wish to receive the developed world's simplest yet most grace-filled benediction: a chance, through hard work, to enter the flowing middle class.
It is the highest, most humanizing grace.
As the holy fraud, Lucian Msamati delivers the most salivating grace God has ever heard.
Most said grace before eating, though they did it silently and discreetly, with a quick bow of the head.
"Perversity is certainly the most saving grace of Sarris's criticism," he wrote, "the humor being mostly unintentional".
In another celebrated exchange of critical detonations, the often acidic John Simon wrote in The Times in 1971 that "perversity is certainly the most saving grace of Sarris's criticism, the humor being mostly unintentional".
I finished my tea, and Duchamp got up from his chair and took my teacup from me with the most extraordinary grace — with a gesture so elegant that I've never forgotten it.
Most famously, GRACE has recorded the shrinking of ice sheets; it has also detected shifting ocean currents, the desiccation of droughts, and the draining of large lakes.
Yet, as I watched Ali, I knew I had a once in a lifetime opportunity to see up close and personal the most extraordinary grace, elegance and artistry in boxing that would probably never ever be seen again.
UNTIL a martyred John F. Kennedy replaced him, Abraham Lincoln was one of the two white men whose image most frequently graced even the most modest black home, second in popularity only to Jesus.
