Sentence examples for surprisingly gracious from inspiring English sources

And despite his travails with the city, he sounded surprisingly gracious toward his opponents.

The Queen of the West and the Monarch together destroyed all but one of eight enemy ships, a fact later acknowledged by a surprisingly gracious Charles Davis.

They're very honorable people". Trump did slip in a qualifier — "you are more honorable," he told the first responders — but it was still a surprisingly gracious moment.

The Aussies at work have been surprisingly gracious victors, my Indian colleagues have kept a tactful silence, but it's the Scottish contingent that have been insufferable.

Guantánamo Diary is, said Canongate, "not merely a vivid record of a miscarriage of justice, but a deeply personal memoir – terrifying, darkly humorous, and surprisingly gracious", and "a document of immense historical importance".

"Even as Dr. Ford sat through hours of grueling questioning, being asked to remember the tiniest details of something that happened over three decades ago, she still managed to remain surprisingly gracious and agreeable," Noah said.

He was gracious and surprisingly forthcoming with the public, although he could seem remote in private to some associates.

Surprisingly, he was even gracious enough to answer my question: "What's the worst and most realistic harm from bulk collection of data?

He was gracious, humble, vulnerable and surprisingly candid.

It was gracious, generous, properly subdued, and surprisingly selfless.

"They've been very gracious landlords to small start-ups," said Ms. Moore, who, even more surprisingly, characterized her rent as "very low".