Word: graciously
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Matisse's The Conservatory came as another pleasant re-encounter. Few paintings, even by Matisse, match the lucid freshness of this canvas. And, as an interesting contrast, Three Bathers combines the Frenchman's characteristic gracious ease with a monumentality as structural as his bronze, Seated Nude...
...design was to foster both. In several essays he made his plea for clear writing quite explicit, even listing the habits that make good style. But I think Orwell's message was best where less explicit; as a preacher he seemed to nag. I find his example more gracious than his sermons. If you believe it is important to write clearly, it makes much more sense to start by writing clearly than to talk about clear writing. That was what...
Gerald Cowley Holcombe, Viscount Manningford, and Peter Savage are turn-of-the-century pals at Cambridge. Gerry is the gracious son of an earl and Peter is a steely-eyed child of fortune. Peter does his first serious social climbing on a Swiss Alp when he seduces Gerry's well-heeled, well-built girl friend Emily on "the steep slope above the Zmuttbach.'' Married and shortly in receipt of Gerry's gentlemanly blessing ("the best man won"), the couple head for the Punjab and Peter's civil-service duties...
...Relationships with Our Parents" in an eighth grade social-studies class, they are in for an elaborate process. First comes "initiating the unit," i.e., discuss why bother with it?, then "developing the unit" by 1) deciding on its objectives, e.g., "to cultivate the social customs which are necessary for gracious living," 2) planning the work, e.g., "select pupil personnel for the various activities," 3) carrying out the activities, e.g., "making a list of good family shows on television and radio" and 4) integrating the work "with other learning areas," e.g., under arithmetic, "refraining from making unnecessary requests for money." Finally...
...night Riggan was relaxing in his apartment on Peel Street, in a gracious midtown sector of the city, after a hard week's work on a story about an eruption of shootings and gangster violence in Montreal's east-end tenderloin district; the Canadian edition of TIME carrying Riggan's story had appeared on the newsstands only the day before. Riggan's doorbell rang, and when he opened the door, two rough-looking strangers pushed their way in. "Did you do that article on the East End?" one asked. When Riggan replied that...