Word: graciousness
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Both women are youthful, intelligent, attractive and gracious, with a ravenous desire for privacy. Now, perhaps, Mrs. Onassis will come a step closer to regaining her well-deserved privacy...
...time and that of others in Oval Office chitchat. This has sometimes led Ford "to break off their conversations." But Ford contends that he was misunderstood; he meant that he feels he sometimes takes up too much of the President's time and thus seeks a gracious way to cut such conversations short...
...order to preserve the show of unity, Gaddafi permitted the meeting to take place, but he proved a less than gracious host. According to Egyptian newspapers, he showed his displeasure by sending in a huffy note declaring that, "I will not have Libya tarnished by having an announcement on lifting the oil embargo against the U.S. issued in Tripoli." Reportedly, the ministers nevertheless reached a compromise proposed by Algeria: the embargo will be lifted soon, but that decision will be reviewed in two months. If, in the Arab view, the U.S. has not kept up sufficient pressure on Israel...
...time (1853) this sonata was a radical work. Its innovative harmonies and grandiose scope threatened and bewildered earlier Romantics who concentrated on shorter lyrical forms. However, Wagner, in a letter to Liszt, wrote, "The sonata is beautiful beyond all expression, great, gracious, profound, noble, sublime like yourself...
...Communist leaders of Soviet Russia are outraged by comparisons between Stalinist Russia and Hitlerite Germany made by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn. They condemn Solzhenitsyn for informing the free world that the Government of Imperial Russia was "liberal" and "loving" toward the people and that Hitlerites were "gracious" and "merciful" both to the Russians and the peoples of Eastern Europe, which the West failed to protect from the Soviet occupation...