Marionettentheater, whose gracefulness is "not an end in itself, but a device to impress the teacher": ❋ Unknown (2005)
He went through his duties with untiring assiduity, and with a kind of gracefulness, which by mere description can scarcely be made intelligible to those who are unacquainted with the manners of the Asiatics. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Children, careless of pleasing, and only anxious to amuse themselves, are often very graceful; and the nobility who have mostly lived with inferiours, and always had the command of money, acquire a graceful case of deportment, which should rather be termed habitual grace of body, than that superiour gracefulness which is truly the expression of the mind. ❋ Unknown (2002)
They had lost somehow or other that look of gracefulness which is so characteristic of them in their own country, and on a closer examination I found the cause to be their being clad in at least a dozen _kimonos_, [2] put on one over the other to keep the cold out. ❋ Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1894)
He went through his duties with untiring assiduity, and with a kind of gracefulness, which by mere description can scarcely be made intelligible to those who are unacquainted with the manners of the ❋ Alexander William Kinglake (1850)
Children, careless of pleasing, and only anxious to amuse themselves, are often very graceful; and the nobility who have mostly lived with inferiours, and always had the command of money, acquire a graceful ease of deportment, which should rather be termed habitual grace of body, than that superiour gracefulness which is truly the expression of the mind. ❋ Unknown (1792)
"gracefulness" in landscape, I should send him neither to Italy nor to ❋ John Ruskin (1859)
It is fiercely vigorous, but in its execution there is no attempt at gracefulness; no attention to positions, of which the old dancing-masters told us there were five; there was little attempt at step—it was simply ‘jigging’ or as sometimes called clog dancing. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)
They are immoderately fond of dancing, and indeed it is almost the only amusement they partake of: but even in this they discover great want of taste and elegance, and seldom appear with that gracefulness and ease, which these movements are so calculated to display. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)
Romanticism is the atmosphere of a soulful life, and civility and gracefulness create a deeper style of living. ❋ Thomas Moore (2010)
The next morning, Mother Nature presents the girl with gifts: brilliance, beauty, gracefulness, three lovely dresses and, rather than glass slippers, a pair of tiny blue shoes. ❋ Meghan Cox Gurdon (2011)
If select visual reporting embellished with a bit of gracefulness is enough for you, then these pictures are really pretty good. ❋ Peter Plagens (2012)
The face of the figure was really fine in its naturalness and the gracefulness of the lines. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"The usual Cape Horn programme," Captain West smiled to me, as he stood up in all his lean and slender gracefulness and reached for his long oilskin coat. ❋ Unknown (2010)
This allows the men to show the gracefulness and the women the athleticism that their respective roles in the classic pas de deux do not always highlight. ❋ Larissa Archer (2011)
This, to my ears, leads to the gracefulness and fluidity of the French language and to the bounciness and rhythm of the English language. ❋ Unknown (2009)