On those car journeys we revelled in the Gnu Song, the Bee Song, and the Hippopotamus Song, as well as to Bernard Cribbins "heaving and complaining" his way through Right Said Fred, and Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren flouncing and lusting through Goodness Gracious Me.
The Golden Globes presentation was a glorified press conference this year, so no one made a move up or down through a gracious speech or a clear flash of entitlement.
Moreover, senators say Mr. Ashcroft won some good will with Democrats through his gracious concession to Jean Carnahan, who will take his seat next month.
It's best to live towards your dreams through a gracious heart that believes the miraculous is listening.
And yet, she still managed to make it through the gracious acceptance speech with her refreshing breed of confidence and humility ("I mess up and I fall down and I tweet dumb shit and I forget my Spanx... ..)... ..
Through her gracious and enthusiastic, if somewhat delayed, endorsement of Obama, Clinton has begun to undo some of the damage she had done to herself in the waning weeks of the Democratic Primary.
The difference came through God's gracious initiative; nothing that a person did started the process of his or her justification.
We drove through a neighborhood of gracious houses with deep lawns, where the for-sale signs were from Sotheby's, and parked by a steep cliff.
Watching Mr. Langella's slow, gracious movement through "Starting Out in the Evening," I was reminded of Burt Lancaster in Luchino Visconti's adaptation of "The Leopard".
But she has become a gracious loser through the years, and she handled the defeat with dignity, delivering a pitch-perfect speech at the awards ceremony in which she congratulated Azarenka for her victory and said she should "cherish it for as long as you can".
