Sentence examples for touch of grace from inspiring English sources
But the movie, even in the depths of its anguish and degradation, never loses the touch of grace and cosmic humor that sets it into motion.
But the messiness of the film seems appropriate to its subject, which is the attempt to bring at least a measure of order — and even a touch of grace — to a chaotic and frequently ugly reality.
She starred in another short-lived sitcom (A Touch of Grace, 1973) and, in her final performance before her retirement, provided the voice for Mrs. Santa Claus in the animated television special The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974).
She was cosmopolitan, beautiful, and charming three words that would never be used to describe her notoriously aloof and prickly husband.Like Ms Peng today, Madame Chiang added a touch of grace and beauty to a regime sorely in need of both.
She dreams of people who conjure a touch of grace with a glance of empathy, a wink of recognition, but her fantasies are as narrow as the realities that she depicts; these moments of practical magic and twinkling goodness are a slight and saccharine view of the human animal.
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They even had touches of grace and playfulness.
Often warm and witty in private, capable of touches of grace (such as when he telephoned Peter Mandelson to offer condolences on his mother's death at the peak of one of their poisonous feuds), intellectually curious and literate, he could also be calculating, rivalrous, single-mindedly ambitious and witheringly aggressive to those perceived, not always rightly, as his opponents.
But you knew instantly that it was a blunder during last Saturday night's debate, in a moment that cried out for a touch of personal grace, to dismiss Senator Clinton as "likable enough".
At a jazz-steeped hipster gathering, these two young glamourpusses lock eyes: she with her glassy touch of Grace Kelly, he knowingly carrying off his Kerouac-styled swagger.
In effect, Ford is, as ever, unfolding the genius of the system, or, rather, the manifold touches of daily grace that collectively render the system ingenious — as well as the arrogance that threatens to turn the system monstrous.
