Sentence examples for the graceful thing from inspiring English sources

A dinnertime scene in which Ms. Chastain's character turns uncharacteristically violent toward her husband wasn't in the script, but, "Terry kept it, even though her lashing out might not have been the graceful thing to do," she said.

("I don't have that graceful thing going on," she says).

It ran for three seasons, and then, in 1969, it did the decent, graceful thing and expired.

Madeleine beside me touched toes and reached her arms in the air with a pretty equanimity, as if whatever she was doing at a given moment was the only graceful thing possible.

After the press conference, CNBC turned to a panel of experts, among them Viet Dinh, who praised Dunn for "a courageous and graceful thing" and for "taking responsibility for the investigation that she initiated, conducted, and supervised".

The white kids, my friends, and fellow eighth graders shook my hand, patted me on the back, said awkward and graceful things.

"I was shocked to see that these remarkably graceful things were still in production," Mr. Muehling said.

But there are graceful things, like a fine cartoon with a character who introduces herself as Myrna and then proceeds to name and gather up Myrna's lamp, Myrna's curtains, Myrna's fireplace, Myrna's other possessions, until she falls, by sheer weight, through the floor — and goes on about Myrna's furnace and Myrna's basement until she has altogether thoroughly illustrated the possessive.

He is crossing his fingers for a positive outcome this month for a project in Beirut with "the largest cantilever in the world, the most graceful, poetic thing".

It's already a much more controversial work than the graceful, spiralling effort last year by Olafur Eliasson and Kjetil Thorsen, but that's hardly a bad thing.

If you ignore the line-up cars and the drivers muttering oaths against their lot, the helix is a graceful, improbable thing.