Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...solo instrument soaring and flickering above the yearning orchestral line. Chan chose to be restrained rather than impassioned: his cool and liquid voicing, though played with enormous suppleness and grace, was if anything too emotionally detached. On the other hand, the orchestra was all the more poignant for its gracious deference to the soloist...
...behalf of Soviet dissidents or his defiance of apartheid, discoursing on acoustics, lauding Yoga and the wisdom of India with the divotion of discipleship, of opining on the different qualities of audiences around the world, one has the sense of sharing in the spontaneous conversation of an urbane and gracious friend...
...dismissed the Jubilee as an exercise in irrelevance at best and a needless extravagance at worst. A fairer view was that Britons-in a mood for a holiday from such irksome problems as inflation, unemployment, trade-union troubles and political woes-genuinely wanted to pay affectionate tribute to a gracious lady who has been a symbol of stability, humane decency and traditional values during one of her nation's most difficult quarter-centuries...
...Shapiro--It was entertaining to make your aquaintance, and gracious of you to accept my dinner invitation. If you make another attempt to see my daughter, I will have you tracked down and killed. Sincerely...
Across the city in a gracious colonial home, another Mafia wife speaks with pride of her husband, a graduate of a prestigious university who served honorably in the Army. A recent family portrait hangs above the fireplace. Her husband is not in the picture; he is serving a five-year term...