Sentence examples for was too gracious from inspiring English sources
"Berwanger was too gracious to say anything," Rasley recalled.
If Mr. Pépin was appalled, he was too gracious to show it.
Although Dr. Taussig was too gracious to criticize the portrait, that did not mean she liked it.
But if he was too gracious to dive right into business, the conversation eventually found its way to the reason for this visit -- the actor's film directorial debut, "The Dancer Upstairs," which will be released in Europe late this summer but does not yet have a United States distributor.
He was too gracious to say anything about it (and instead asked the manager to grab some crayons).
Never before had she requested a specific gift from her parents - for she was too gracious for that sort of thing.
If he resents being cast as McIlroy's keeper, McDowell is too gracious to show it.
Aaron is too gracious, too modest and too much of a gentleman to undercut a player like Bonds.
And Fieldin had been too gracious or arrogant or both to explain it to her, or to anyone else.
He is too gracious to add that rich countries, which bear the lion's share of responsibility for climate change, should be ashamed that his, which bears almost none, is doing relatively more to fight it than they are.
Ranieri is too gracious a character, it seems, to speak ill of anybody and he told an Italian TV reporter on Friday that he had "no wish for revenge" over Chelsea.
