Sentence examples for the gracious thing from inspiring English sources

It's the gracious thing to do".

"The gracious thing to do, as the person on the receiving end of getting that check, is to follow the wishes of the persons you gave the gift to," she said.

Laurence H. Tribe, who argued an earlier case before the Supreme Court for Mr. Gore, said that "the gracious thing" for the vice president to do would be to concede.

Laurence H. Tribe, the Harvard law professor who had argued Mr. Gore's first case before the Supreme Court, told the same network, "I think that the gracious thing is to accept even if one disagrees with the decision of the Supreme Court".

Justin, a true Prince Charming in ease and appeal — a leader of the Obama generation, not at all like his cerebral father — was doing the gracious thing by squiring Ivanka, and, given that the court of the Mad King will likely remain a fundamental fact for his tenure, having a positive relationship with the glamorous princess is perhaps a tactic as well as a courtesy.

And in that situation, at a human level, the gracious thing to do is exactly what Blankfein did: Walk over and shake the other man's hand.

It's such a gracious thing for him to do as a friend, plus the fact I knew that he'd have fun doing it".

Cooper admits, "It seems hardly a gracious thing to say, but it strikes me as true, that while our men seem thoroughly abreast of the times in almost every other subject, when they strike the woman question they drop back into sixteenth century logic" (VAJC, 85).

Many loyal Democrats -- like John Edwards -- say gracious things about the senator from New York but after the final primaries on June 3rd -- it is time to keep the spunk but leave the spot light and be a loyal soldier and help to elect Obama and his running mate as our next president and vice-president.

In the book, a copy of which was obtained last week by The New York Times, he has nothing but gracious things to say about Mr. Obama and makes little mention of his policy choices other than to praise him for sending more troops to Afghanistan.

Acting the gracious host can be arduous, the writer things.