What's the difference between clarity and grace?

Clarity


Definition:

  • (n.) Clearness; brightness; splendor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Furthermore, the backing away from any specific yield targets is exactly the lack of clarity that the FX market will not like."
  • (2) Correction of structure mottle helps enhance the image clarity.
  • (3) The modified CIRS was operationalized with a manual of guidelines geared toward the geriatric patient and for clarity was designated the CIRS(G).
  • (4) O'Donnell said he had decided to publish his guidance now to ensure there was clarity before the election.
  • (5) Already much work has been done to re-establish enduring components for Labour's electoral success: clarity of strategy, effective rebuttal, and superior field organisation with our network of community organisers.
  • (6) This technique results in a marked improvement in corneal clarity and visualization of anterior chamber structures.
  • (7) Businesses need a framework – clarity and stability.
  • (8) Everything that was, is more: brutality, injustice, poverty, anger; but also clarity, knowledge, understanding and, possibly, determination.
  • (9) Analysis of the clinical performance of the media indicated that in 82% of the traces water was equal to or better than gel in clarity, and in 90% of traces water was equal to or better than gel in suitability for diagnosis.
  • (10) There is less clarity on the effects of stress on survival rates of cancer patients.
  • (11) The orbital contents are also displayed with clarity equivalent to that obtained in man.
  • (12) To lend clarity to this discrepancy, we collected 40 serum samples before and after blood transfusion therapy of first-time cadaveric renal allograft recipients and evaluated each for T cell and B cell cytotoxic antibodies using an Amos modified complement-dependent microlymphocytotoxicity assay.
  • (13) Governor Mark Carney and his colleagues on the monetary policy committee had already faced criticism after sidelining a "forward guidance" policy – designed to bring clarity over the path of interest rates – just six months after its introduction.
  • (14) The data demonstrate with clarity that neurons containing both the mRNA for OX and the peptide CRF are present in subpopulations of magnocellular and parvocellular neurons of the PVN.
  • (15) We call for a more structured policy for tall buildings, with transparency for the public and clarity for developers.
  • (16) The reliability of magnitude-estimation scaling as a measure of overall clarity of speech was investigated.
  • (17) When he speaks he does so with clarity and conviction, a quiet authority, and with rare understanding and analysis.
  • (18) This now requires clarity about standards and expectations, that these are monitored and where necessary practice is challenged, and that there is a substantial programme in place to audit and report on practice, and training and briefings to skill up workers to practise well.
  • (19) The purpose of this Perspective is to provide some clarity to this rapidly evolving area of selective phosphodiesterase inhibitors.
  • (20) These findings demonstrate that differentiating children by sibling network type does offer some clarity to our understanding of the complex association between gender and patterns of parent-care.

Grace


Definition:

  • (n.) The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred.
  • (n.) The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor.
  • (n.) The prerogative of mercy execised by the executive, as pardon.
  • (n.) The same prerogative when exercised in the form of equitable relief through chancery.
  • (n.) Fortune; luck; -- used commonly with hard or sorry when it means misfortune.
  • (n.) Inherent excellence; any endowment or characteristic fitted to win favor or confer pleasure or benefit.
  • (n.) Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness; commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form.
  • (n.) Graceful and beautiful females, sister goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the attendants sometimes of Apollo but oftener of Venus. They were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love, and social intercourse.
  • (n.) The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England.
  • (n.) Thanks.
  • (n.) A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal.
  • (n.) Ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs are called grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc.
  • (n.) An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree.
  • (n.) A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also grace hoop or hoops.
  • (v. t.) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify.
  • (v. t.) To dignify or raise by an act of favor; to honor.
  • (v. t.) To supply with heavenly grace.
  • (v. t.) To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Though the 54-year-old designer made brief returns to the limelight after his fall from grace, designing a one-off collection for Oscar de la Renta last year , his appointment at Margiela marks a more permanent comeback.
  • (2) Grace has no capacity so she will be very mechanised.” This week Robert Mugabe described Mujuru, his vice-president of a decade, as too simplistic .
  • (3) So much of England possesses this grace and silence.
  • (4) The talk coming from senior Tories – at least some of whom have the grace to squirm when questioned on this topic – suggesting that it's all terribly complicated, that it was a long time ago and that even SS members were, in some ways, themselves victims, is uncomfortably close to the kind of prattle we used to hear from those we called Holocaust revisionists.
  • (5) Additional research: Suzie Worroll, James Browning, Grace Nzita and Nicolas Niarchos How do you feel about the representation of women in British public life?
  • (6) Grace's ascent has also thrown a grenade into the bitter succession battle within Zanu-PF, which Mugabe has divided and ruled for decades.
  • (7) Comet Hale-Bopp graced the night skies in 1997 and was easily visible to the naked eye for months.
  • (8) A s the protests in Turkey continue , spare a thought for the man whose personal tragedy few have the grace to acknowledge – Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
  • (9) With commendable alacrity, meanwhile, the developers at art-game co-operative KOOPmode have already released a downloadable satire on how Facebook might work in 3D , graced with the irresistible tagline: "Scroll Facebook … with your face".
  • (10) It is a fall from grace for an Arsenal team who were top of the table at the turn of the year.
  • (11) My hope is that those who are at the Games take these words and let them echo, with grace, courage and dignity, in whatever way they choose to, because it will make a difference to those participating, and to those watching.
  • (12) In his enforced absence following a dramatic fall from grace that symbolises many of the ills of football’s culture of entitlement, France will be hoping football can again bring the nation together in the most straitened of times.
  • (13) The bomb threat tweet was sent to Freeman, the Europe editor of Time magazine, Catherine Mayer, and the Independent columnist Grace Dent, who took a screen grab of the tweet and posted it for her Twitter followers to see .
  • (14) Waitrose evokes strong opinions: from sniffy derision about the supermarket's perceived airs and graces to expressions of joy from middle-class incomers when their gentrified area is blessed with a branch.
  • (15) Grace Coddington, Dame Helen Mirren, Laura Mvula, and Karen Elson, in the pink duster coat that proved so popular for M&S.
  • (16) The prayer appeals for “grace to debate the issues in this referendum with honesty and openness”.
  • (17) Once he gets that power, he starts relishing that side of his personality.” Claflin is an earthy, unassuming sort; even acting hasn’t given him airs and graces.
  • (18) They wasted an opportunity to show the same grace as Caroline Lucas, by joining an alliance in a seat they would never win.
  • (19) The spectacular ascent that saw him grace the cover of Newsweek as Asian of the Year and become the heir apparent of then prime minister Mahathir Mohamad was met with an equally spectacular crash in 1998, when the two fell out and Anwar was imprisoned for six years on corruption and sodomy charges, claims he repeatedly dismissed as politically motivated.
  • (20) The acarajé at this five-square-metre hole-in-the-wall joint at the top of a bar-packed street close to Mackenzie University are served with grace, charm and warm smiles by Fátima and Miri de Castro.