Sentence examples for our good graces from inspiring English sources
Oh, and they know how to stay in our good graces and there is an unspoken reason for it.
Of course, we would be willing to welcome McConaughey back into our good graces if he would just make a few good films.
Removable batteries could have helped Apple avoid the debacle in which it got caught slowing iPhones with worn-out batteries — and then had to offer discounted battery replacements to get back in our good graces.
(It's impossible to read about Aziz Ansari, who, with "Modern Romance," fashioned himself the scribe of woke courtship and was then banished from our good graces for sins we can't quite agree upon, without thinking of his first-century counterpart).
And the news on Tuesday that the Dow will let go of Hewlett-Packard, along with Alcoa and Bank of America, is a reminder of the fickle nature of consumer culture: even the technology companies that we fetishized not long ago have fallen from our good graces, and from those of the Dow.
Facebook is already uncool, so Instagram must stay in our good graces.
Florida exists by the good graces of our patronage -- by those of us who live in the other 49.
Corporate America is largely an un-American microcosm operating within the good graces of our people-centered democracy.
"However, based on a meeting we had with Chamber staff last week (and reflective of our sharp reduction in dues), the Chamber is eager to regain its former position of policy influence AND regain its stead in our once upon a time good graces".
On Good Friday, an arbitrator restored Josh Hamilton to baseball's good graces.
"We're relying on the good graces of people in other states to take our garbage," Mr. Sabini said.
