(a.) Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech.
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.
Opprobrium
Definition:
(n.) Disgrace; infamy; reproach mingled with contempt; abusive language.
Example Sentences:
(1) Opprobrium didn’t pour down on McIntyre out of respect for historical veracity.
(2) She has risked opprobrium in Ireland for speaking out about having a termination in England because her baby would have been born dead.
(3) We need to rediscover what it is to be a human, and that every human being matters.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Police use tear gas on migrants who attempt to breach an inner fence of the Eurotunnel in Coquelles on Saturday night On Thursday the prime minister drew international opprobrium when he described migrants trying to reach Britain as a “ swarm ” and promised to introduce strong-arm tactics, including extra sniffer dogs and fencing, at Calais.
(4) "Being a branded company clearly brings opprobrium," he said.
(5) Though her report focused on failures in RMBC, Casey reserves some opprobrium for South Yorkshire police.
(6) But Mr Rowland was also a tax exile for decades, before returning last year and donating millions to the Tory party; and it would be fair to assume that Mr Cameron could have expected some opprobrium (not least from his own MPs) for appointing such a recent returnee from the tax haven of Guernsey to a prominent position within his party.
(7) Earlier in the summer, the Jimmy Reid Foundation asked Glasgow's council to erect a plaque that would "write back into history" the city's revolutionary socialists and pacifists whose opposition to what they saw as a capitalist and imperialist conflict earned them jail sentences, ill-health and opprobrium.
(8) Like holding their nose and jumping into a cold pool, Tesco bosses decided that the transparency was worth the opprobrium, which I think will turn out to be true.
(9) Gender hierarchy and separate socialization precluded a heterosexual construction of any such equality in the Renaissance, and the greater opprobrium cast on male homosexuality in this era must have influenced Donne's decision to figure his equal lovers and friends as a lesbian couple.
(10) While those in the west argue for fundamental reform and a president who can restore global trust, it must be remembered that two-thirds of Fifa’s 209 members (who each hold equal voting rights, from the Cayman Islands to China) voted for Blatter’s re-election despite the scale of international opprobrium.
(11) If an agreement could be reached before he dies, it might avoid a repetition of the confusion and international opprobrium that has surrounded the botched handling of the Panchen Lama succession.
(12) Many others are tolerant of the migrants, who inspire as much pity as opprobrium.
(13) He is the hands-on chief executive to Cameron’s aloof chairman of the board and is therefore the natural focus of Labour’s opprobrium.
(14) Cruz is used to mainstream Republican opprobrium – John McCain famously described him and fellow conservative Rand Paul as "wacko birds" – but he briefly became the most hated figure in Congress when he then failed to follow through on his strategy by winning enough support in the Senate, leaving Boehner blamed for shutting down the government.
(15) His young starting strike force of Ji Dong-won and Connor Wickham were subjected to the lion's share of the opprobrium in the wake of their side's reverse and will have been dismayed by the manner in which their work rate, character and intelligence were traduced.
(16) was apparently struggling with this part.” Reddit users rebel over banning of fat-shaming subforums Read more Much of the opprobrium from Reddit users has been focused on the site’s chief executive, Ellen Pao, who took over the top job in November 2014.
(17) Similarities between the two groups appeared due to (1) pharmacologic effects of narcotic addiction and (2) low social opprobrium toward addiction in both cultures.
(18) But having revived his career at the BBC not even Cresswell could stem the opprobrium heaped on his client in the wake of "Sachsgate" and Ross's 13-year run at the BBC came to an end.
(19) "Exploiting western opprobrium of the behaviour of the current government of Iran, the (MEK) posit themselves as the alternative.
(20) Barack Obama on Sunday led politicians, sports stars and other public figures in condemning racist comments attributed to the Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, a barrage of opprobrium likely to swell with the leaking of apparently additional remarks.