Sentence examples for was gracious of from inspiring English sources

It was gracious of them to ask me.

Mr. Keller said: "I told the director that it was gracious of him to apologize.

It was gracious of Tiger, who respects their ability and feels they're worthy of this setting".

That was gracious of him [to take the blame]." "He did an admirable job leading us from the front," the federal law minister, Mr.Khurshid said.

She spent time with Diana and has met Charles, and her book is, among other things, a miracle of access (from the first page: "It was gracious of Prime Minister Tony Blair to see me and share his reflections on Diana").

"Suffice to say I think it would have been gracious of the prime minister to reach out to his predecessor and say of course somebody that led us out of opposition into government has something to offer the Liberal party and the nation," Abetz said.

It might not have been gracious on some of the issues, but the work was done and the handset kept trucking.

Doleva said he found Mulkey to be "gracious" on the subject of the Hall.

"When he won, he was gracious," Michener wrote of Roberts in The New York Times.

Van Buren, then secretary of state and a widower, made a point of being gracious to her, and his stock rose with the president as Calhoun's fell.

While many expected a speech full of impressions from the bouncing comedian, Robin Williams was gracious and almost out of breath.