Word: graciously
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Western delegates generally hailed the CNN footage as much needed publicity for a long-overlooked custom that is common in Egypt and other parts of Africa, though it has no roots in the Koran. But the Egyptian press denounced the tape as a betrayal of Cairo's gracious hospitality and tried to discredit the piece by charging that CNN had "staged" the circumcision and paid the participants. Actually, CNN paid $300 to a free-lance producer to find and make arrangements with the Hamza family, who in turn paid $44 to one of her aunts for serving...
Weitzner also described Herrnstein as scrupulously conscientious in his dealings with students. "He was always available, gracious and eager to discuss ideas, a consummate scholar," she said...
...know, the ship and the U.S. Navy served as our gracious hosts during this trip. They provided these items for our use, not as souvenirs...
Scuffing dry leaves along brick pavements, in our saddle shoes or loafers, we never passed huge, funny-angled buildings. Around us lay a quaint and quiet village of woodframehomes--many elegantly gracious on tree-shadedlawns. Peaceful--except that, somewhere else, awar was going...
...importance of mass-media images, and will make gestures of large symbolic content, as when he grasped De Klerk's hand at the end of their recent debate and said he would be proud to work with his opponent -- a man he has publicly labeled untrustworthy. He is gracious, amiable, gentlemanly, ever the host, always the subtle master of the situation...