| 单词 | graceful |
| 例句 | Half a dozen leaped into the courtyard, silent and graceful. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z As we shall see, many prescriptive rules originated for screwball reasons, impede clear and graceful prose, and have been flouted by the best writers for centuries. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It was true I was short and muscular, which meant that, unlike long, lean gymnasts, I had to pay extra attention to my extensions and body shape to achieve the most graceful lines. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z But there was no need for this graceful footwork; the bag was much lighter than they had anticipated, and Milkman made it down quite easily. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z And she’s graceful, like a greyhound, so I draw her face and dark eyes but give her the body of that dog with long sleek legs. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z She was very tall for a woman, slender and graceful, and moved slowly down the gangplank with the stately self-consciousness which happened to be the fashionable gait for a lady at the moment. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Their great warm faces looked down upon me from the mantelpiece, they floated in a bowl upon the table by the sofa, they stood, lean and graceful, on the writing desk beside the golden candlesticks. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z And with a graceful wave of his forepaw he pointed towards the Big Cat House and ushered them in at the entrance. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z I remember her appearance at the moment—it was very graceful and very striking: she wore a morning robe of sky-blue crape; a gauzy azure scarf was twisted in her hair. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z His voice was deep, the tones rich and varied, the gestures of his trunk low and graceful. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Herringbones and madras and lamb’s wool and cashmere flashed past in a blur as hands and arms rent the air in a variety of graceful gestures. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Ira accepted them in his name, smiling, graceful as ever, unperturbed. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked around at her garden, and at the graceful arches of the gallery, through which the dining table could be seen, and the ghost, Ari-Eil, still standing rigid where Minya had left him. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It is my girlfriends here in Joburg that have taught me how to give parties, keep a close eye on the help, and just overall make the graceful transition to wifehood and adulteration. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She was graceful and brave, and beautiful in her—” Amelia pauses, struggling with the next word. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It was not a graceful landing, but she managed to sit up. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z He took his seat, moving with an odd combination of graceful courtliness and stiff, affronted dignity. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It implied that a power gymnast could not also be artistic and graceful, and also that power and grace were somehow tied to a person’s race. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Cabin two was more graceful somehow, with slimmer columns garlanded with pomegranates and flowers. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z There are no rules for graceful writing, at least not in the sense that there are rules for grammar and punctuation. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The other was a stag, a beautiful lordly creature with wide liquid eyes, dappled flanks and legs so thin and graceful that they looked as if you could break them with two fingers. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z The bird pirouetted on one vast wing and tipped into a slow, graceful spiral. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Her steps, when she walked or danced, were clear and graceful. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Her bare feet arch elegantly, and the ankle bracelets she wears accentuate her graceful movements. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z His step was lighter and quicker, his body was lithe and graceful. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z I buttoned my jacket against the wind and concentrated on Captain Billy’s sons Edgar and Richard who had jumped ashore and were helping Otis tie up the ferry with graceful, practiced steps. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As he watched, the paper shot skyward in a graceful loop and headed over the roof of the Castiglione’s tree house and toward the train tracks. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Fortunately, there is a formula for writing graceful conditionals, and it becomes clear once you recognize two distinctions. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Wheelchairs are heavier than they appear, and to make them look graceful, the person pushing has to do a lot of thinking ahead. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z He was so graceful and handsome, so loving, so full of the grandness of just living, that Katie, watching him, thought she would die of being happy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother is graceful and thin with a sari draped over one shoulder and pulled modestly like a shawl around her back. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z It was far too graceful for Peggy to be at the keyboard. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z When he was close to the window where the three of them were standing, he stopped and made a slow graceful bow. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She glanced at the sky, where a long dark plume of smoke rose above the rooftops and long graceful necks of sauropods. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z We divide into two lines again, one on either side of the stage, graceful and smiling, and then disappear behind the curtains. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He would not let the fellow stand there looking down at him, graceful, disdainful, hateful. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The rest of her wasn’t ungraceful but her fingers were affirmatively and aggressively graceful. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z She stood up, as graceful as I remembered. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z She did a graceful movement with her hips. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I wasn’t graceful, but I didn’t shake the ground. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Blond-haired, well built and as graceful as a cat on the court, Andre was one of South Africa’s rising tennis stars. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a handsome youth of eighteen, grey-eyed and graceful and slender as a knife. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She climbed, looped, and finally, in a graceful maneuver, held on to his feet as he flew upside down beneath her. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He teased me about being graceful and having shaky ice-cold hands as I watched him fumble with the key to the trunk. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A small, graceful Sherpani, she was in the midst of taking an order from a group of American trekkers. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z As far as she could see they stretched on either side, a great level sea of green, broken here and there by a solitary graceful elm. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z It held all spellbound who were within sight The unicorn was white, with hoofs of silver and a graceful horn of pearl. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z On their right a wide and graceful parkland led up to a great house with a classical portico as brilliant as icing sugar under the moon. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I hesitated, trying to think of a graceful way out. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Petey ran on the track team, and her stride was long and graceful. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Apollo’s chariot was trim and graceful and completely gold, pulled by two beautiful palominos. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Tuynhuys is a graceful, nineteenth- century Cape Dutch-style building, but I did not get a proper look at it that day. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It is carefully designed and proportioned, and yet it flows with graceful ease. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Mother pulled two graceful puffs through her long fingers and then put it out quickly, rationing her own cigarette. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He was larger than the other dogs and had heavier fur and yellow eyes and he ran with a graceful stride like Rontu’s. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z She was tall and graceful with coppery colored skin. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z It’s a curled, flowing mustache, like a cavalier’s, with a graceful goatee to match. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I’m just about to step forward and lift her down when she opens her eyes, removes her left hand from the pole, and in one graceful movement swings around so she’s facing the audience. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I say nothing, for the quiet between us is sweet and graceful and of our own choosing. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Straight on, a tilted stairway of pale marble rose up out of the dark water in a graceful spiral, ending abruptly ten feet above their heads. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Also the most beautiful, with its perfect little leaves, its graceful little branches. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z They all were noticeably graceful — even the big, brawny one. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I admired the graceful gold-and-pink rose pattern on the translucent bone china and figured that some of the trappings of civilization weren’t so bad after all. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Where I was big, elbowy and grating, he was small, graceful and smooth. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z But until quite recent times—painfully recent times—one thing remained in abundance that preserved the primeval super-Eden feel of the original forest: the massively graceful American chestnut. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He looked straight ahead, down Fifth Avenue, where graceful women in fur coats walked, looking into the windows that held silk dresses, and watches, and rings. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z He could see them together—graceful Lo, dashing and confident Hancock. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was not until she began laying her eggs into the hole that Toomer rose, and with his strangely graceful limp, made his way down to the turtle. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The diners themselves were wearing chaplets of flowers and graceful draperies. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The graceful creature paid no attention to the wolves, but frisked gaily at the old man’s side. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z She is tall and graceful, and reminds me of a waterbird. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Its branches grew upward in a graceful arc, then flowed to earth and trailed their ends in the water. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The Lord flew effortlessly, twisting his body in curls and spirals the way a skilled dancer can take a twenty-foot ribbon and make it form graceful designs behind her. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Slight as they were, the children were quick and graceful. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The witch motioned to one of the chairs in a long, graceful gesture that made Adelaide’s swan arms look jerky and pained in comparison. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The infanta was twenty-nine and, in the words of a State Department official, “rather handsome, graceful and bright.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The houses there might not have been as magnificent or graceful as on some of the other squares in the city, but many had been standing for more than five hundred years. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z The fingers are long and graceful, and they do a little flip upward near the tips. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z I admired the long expanses of lawns mown in precise lines and the huge, graceful trees. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z He was very graceful and wide and stood six feet in height, only half a foot less than Fezzik. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Found only bowed heads, graceful pencils, dipping brushes. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Alice seemed to find nothing unusual in our embrace; she walked — almost danced, her movements were so graceful — to the center of the room, where she folded herself sinuously onto the floor. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Em threw both arms up in the air, did a graceful U-turn, and started running back to her team. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Even though scarcely a shadow, the silhouette was graceful and lithe, her hair streaming behind her like ripples in the water. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z And graceful little Alice pulled back her lips in a horrific grimace and let loose with a guttural snarl that had me cowering against the seat in terror. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z In back, my skirt was tied with a large bow that flowed into the graceful sweep of my train. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z He lounged on his throne of fused human bones, looking lithe, graceful, and dangerous as a panther. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z She was tall and graceful with long hair the color of chocolate, braided in plaits with gold ribbons. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “Please. I’m not ready. I forget the holds. I’m not graceful and I fall down a lot. It’s true.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Moving back to the fire, he spun among the dying embers on the ground with a graceful motion, gently kicking the larger coals back together. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z They stood before it, looking up at the webs and the graceful bow. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z They were trickster hands—long, graceful fingers made for prying open locks, hiding coins, making things vanish. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z When he flew, his body, so long and graceful on the ground, took on the appearance of a thick, stumpy cylinder, from the front of which his red beak projected between his round black eyes. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Where Isaac was lean and graceful, he just looked gaunt. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z That tree-lined neighborhood at the top of the smaller slope must be the Crest, Magdalys thought, where all the affluent Brooklynites were said to live, promenading along the streets astride their graceful duckbills. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Her arms are curved in a graceful arch. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z There were red shoes, and you thought they might make you graceful. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z She was a natural dancer—her petite frame and her long, graceful limbs made her movements seem as if they melted into the music. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When I stand up to add some graceful actions to the soundtrack, he snorts that laughter that he reserves solely for me. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z She also knew that Petra was the name of an ancient stone city in Jordan, a sophisticated and graceful city that had risen out of the desert more than two thousand years ago. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z As I watched, the small girl rose with her tray — unopened soda, unbitten apple — and walked away with a quick, graceful lope that belonged on a runway. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z She looked up, followed the long, graceful curve of that neck as it arched into the firelit sky, and found herself gaping directly into the huge, sleepy eye of the brachy. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Its proportions flowed from bunched and menacing to lithe and graceful. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The bridge rose up over the river in a graceful parabola, its steel cables strung with red lights. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Zach called it hippie ballet, but I thought it was kind of graceful and athletic. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Next came a ram and a three-headed elephant, a giant swan, and a graceful antelope. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z With a graceful movement of the wrist, a gesture so quick and small we never really saw it, only remembered it afterward, she tossed the bottle over the rail at us. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z They were slender, with long, graceful fingers; vermilion-colored nails; and lots of rings. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Then, feeling that she had been too forward, she would arch her graceful serpent neck and hide her head beneath her belly, peeping upwards from the corner of one eye. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember being surprised by his graceful, conservative fox-trot--I had never seen him dance before. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Four graceful columns supported the portico, and the huge double door featured a heavy, brass knocker. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “When will you learn? You walk in step with the captain, or you walk the plank—which, being copper, will not give you the proper bounce for a graceful dive.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Makhanda, who was tall and slender, marched in a soldierly manner and then gave a crisp, graceful salute. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m as graceful as can be,” he hummed, balancing on one toe, “and I’m as clumsy as can be,” he cried, sticking his thumb in his eye. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z She was much more graceful in her landing. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z He watched them dive into the pool, one by one, with a graceful quiet sound. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z On the left, large white houses with long columns and graceful verandas ruled the approach to the river with mute elegance. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But the other satisfied every cherished idea of a fairy: tall and graceful, with huge eyes, skin as unblemished as satin, lips as red as pomegranate seeds, and cheeks the color of early sunset. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z These heroines were always willowy and managed to land in graceful postures of repose, and were revived with the merest passing of a decorated flagon of smelling salts under their noses. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The house was timeless, graceful, and probably a hundred years old. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “Yuk,” she said smiling and began to run for the old Perkins place, that beautiful, graceful run of hers that neither mud nor water could defeat. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z The Demiguise is a peaceful herbivorous beast, something like a graceful ape in appearance, with large, black, doleful eyes more often than not hidden by its hair. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The buildings were tall and graceful, carved from the mountain itself, carved of a bright white stone that held the sun’s light long after evening fell. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He was a perceptive, graceful, sophisticated man who was sensitive to everyone’s weaknesses but his own and found everyone absurd but himself. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Mohammed’s red sports car was parked in front of the sprawling sandy yard but what held Olanna’s attention was the house: the graceful simplicity of its flat roof. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z They move like dancers, whirling back and forth across the room, graceful, liquid, deadly. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z With her soft white curls and graceful good manners, Stanton appeared harmless, but when she was at the podium she challenged her audiences with revolutionary ideas about divorce, religion, and women’s role in society. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Some of the stores were old with graceful eaves and cornices; others had been modernized or sterilized with plate glass windows and neon; still others were new. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a stately and graceful feeling of motion, as we glided across the world in total silence, and with absolute smoothness. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The noble bust, the sloping shoulders, the graceful neck, the dark eyes and black ringlets were all there;—but her face? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He put on his hat, and in the moonlight his long fingers were graceful and very white. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z With practiced steps, she twirls the sword through the air in graceful arcs, thrusting and parrying against an invisible foe. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z My finger traces the graceful swoop of the letters. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Within every circle, carved and then inlaid with great skill, there is a crane in graceful flight. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Then she picks up the remote control for the shelf radio, punches it, and the room fills up with graceful music, Mozart or something. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There were sparkling lanterns hanging from the branches, illuminating the clearing where dozens of finely dressed men and women were dancing, their bodies as graceful as blossoms bending in a spring breeze. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I can see his eyes, though, taking in the graceful lines of Ma's sari and searching her face. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z My host, who stood on one side of the great fireplace, leaning against the stonework, made a graceful wave of his hand to the table, and said:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z She walks like a dancer—graceful and balanced. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He made a long step, as graceful as an animal leaping, threw out his left foot and tripped Gus to the floor. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z She skimmed up to and lit on the graceful bow of the Delhi Bridge. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z She ran down the stairs, a streak of black hair and white skin, coming to a sudden and graceful stop in front of me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z She ran a steady race, her long ballerina legs graceful, which was ironic since she couldn't stop stepping on my toes during practice. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z His nerve under fire was graceful and infinite. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z But he is unable to balance well and while he attempts a graceful leap, it ends up being something closer to a planned fall. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Even from a distance, she was glowing perfection: long golden hair in an ornate braid, a high forehead, graceful eyebrows, a delicate nose. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Laila pictured him as he must have been once, erasing his blackboard with graceful swipes, looking over a student’s shoulder, fatherly and attentive. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z His graceful, streamlined body threw out blazing highlights as he loped with easy speed across the broken ground. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z A brownish-green earth dragon roared from within a dark cave, and a white air dragon cut graceful spirals above its earthbound cousin. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z In the daylight he sometimes appeared awkward, but now there was something almost graceful about him. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The sealskin kayak beside the door glowed as if the moon had been stretched across it and its graceful ribs shone black. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They’re graceful the way Stella was, moving just enough, only as much as they need. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z She's got narrow shoulders and slender arms with delicate wrists, graceful hands with long, thin fingers. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She was still delicious, and as graceful and composed as if she’d gone to a finishing school for white ladies. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It was a beautiful canoe, light and graceful, with gently curving lines that made it look wonderfully easy to paddle. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Mary watched Serafina Pekkala with a mixture of wariness and admiration: she had never seen a human form so slender and graceful. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Artemis had forgotten how graceful his mother was. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Beth kept her face hidden on her mother’s shoulder, but Amy stood like a graceful statue, with a most becoming ray of sunshine touching her white forehead and the flower in her hair. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “Most graceful, the princess,” hissed a roach dreamily as Gregor headed after her. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Dribbling three times with both his right and left hand, Bull went into a strangely graceful crouch and threw up an arcing two-hand set shot that swished through the net. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z How swift and brave and graceful in his long trousers with bicycle-clips around them and his scarlet school cap at a jaunty angle on his head! Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Queen Elizabeth II was eighty-two years old then, diminutive and graceful with a delicate smile and her white hair curled regally away from her forehead. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Beyond that, a few bare elms, arching high and graceful, though in that bare landscape looking like the skeletons of trees. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z And hands down the best, most beautiful, most graceful dancer in the crew was Sizwe’s neighbor, Hitler. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z She says, “Full of grace. Hmm. Could have just been graceful, I guess.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Her movements were so graceful, it was hard to understand how she could have burned herself. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Earline was making a graceful exit and one got the feeling from watching her leave that there would always be grace and symmetry to her departures. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Hooper seemed to go on and on falling, in a peculiarly graceful sort of way, one arm flung out. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The ground buckled and swayed, but he held steady as she launched herself from the cradle of his fingers in a graceful arc. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Bloom did agree, but only because De Young’s request gave him a graceful way of refusing the job. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She rubbed her forehead with long, graceful fingers. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Weak players were clumsy and unsure; strong players were confident and graceful. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Swimming underwater, my mom was graceful and at ease. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z The school had a colonial facade with a graceful cupola on its roof. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She took hold of her dress with one hand and bobbed a curtsey, somehow managing to make it look graceful and mocking and playful all at once. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Their wood had been consumed, and their stones had crashed down, had tumbled against one another until they locked at last in low and graceful curves. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He was lean and narrow-waisted, not muscular at all, but graceful and loose-limbed, with a slightly curved nose and nice bone structure. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z There was no graceful way around it, but her hands clung to the lip of the stone ledge where the ancient axes were displayed. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z If Ivy drew her sister right now, she’d use graceful lines and soft pastels, not a hard edge to be found. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Lemoncello floated in a graceful arc, then soared up to join the migrating Canadian geese now flocking in a V formation on the Wonder Dome video screens. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Which gave him great joy except for one minor consideration: the barking came from underneath the ground in an alfalfa field where a thousand graceful, noisy birds called killdeer were nesting. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Just seeing the graceful teenager changes everything for me. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Her generous lips parted wordlessly, and she raised one graceful hand. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Sohrab joined in next, dragging me by the arm, and I jumped and laughed and tried to follow, but I was about as graceful as an android when it came to dancing. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z And I will say she did her best to be the graceful hostess. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And they would have struck, too, if the madwoman had not spun on one heel and taken three graceful leaps to the side. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Nok's older brother and her sisters also shared those traits, but they looked like their mother, too: slim as herons, with long limbs and graceful fingers. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z She'd retired the mittens until next winter, and her slender, graceful hands waved above her head. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Mike could have been more graceful about it, but at least Jess seemed appeased. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Her extended fingers, though trembling, or because they were trembling, looked oddly graceful and pretty. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z For he had been much impressed by the graceful letters of Mrs Helena Kingshaw, by their honesty and lightness of tone, and by her voice over the telephone, later. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z They made their way under the graceful arches of a stone bridge, around a long, sweeping bend in the lake, and up the straightaway to the starting stalls. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z With trembling fingers, she opened the letter and read Papa’s graceful, smudged words: Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The neat thing about the slope of the street was the restaurant signs that jutted out from the graceful buildings on each side. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z She did look rather like a little angel, Johnny thought—just as people were always telling Cilia on the street—and so graceful. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m not graceful or smooth like I’m supposed to be, and Junior, my chambelán de honor, looks angry when he spins me around and I lose my rhythm. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z She broke over an iron gate, crimping it on impact, and there she hung, impossibly arched, graceful as a temple dancer swooning on a lover’s arm. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She had never met someone so pretty and graceful. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z He had such graceful fingers, so good for folding shirts to fit the cardboard patterns that he had cut from campaign posters and fight and wrestling posters. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When we reached the rose of Sharon bushes, Peach stopped, ran his fingers across the graceful branches, and then looked to the top of Listening Rock. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Turning the wheel slowly with his knee, he inspected the graceful shape for invisible faults. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z They began descending in a slow spin toward the shore, the shadow spirits forming a graceful entourage. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z She walked up to the podium as calm and graceful as can be. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Mandy chose the best three and altered them in keeping with the current fashion, even adding a graceful train that would follow me everywhere. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Her hand where it lay atop the Bible was graceful, and the planes of her face were smooth. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Halls and galleries drifted past: graceful buttresses, delicate arches, fluted columns, terraces and bowers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Across the room, Herrera shot across the practice mat, a graceful mix of power and speed. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z As graceful as any queen, with her head high in the air, and her long red tail arched in a perfect rainbow, my little dog walked down the table. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z We’re in his classroom, and I watch as his strong, graceful hands sort stacks of papers, clipping them into groups as he thinks. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z These coordinations are graceful only when the phrases coming after each marker—the ones enclosed in brackets above—are parallel. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The dancelike pose of Apollo and graceful torsion of Daphne create the impression that they are moving in a carefully choreographed ballet. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She has a gentle, graceful way of floating around, from years of ballet lessons. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She isn’t graceful when she lets go of her rollator and flops down, but she looks pleased, just the same. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “And I am Time,” said the clockwork creature, sinking into a graceful bow on its insect legs. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I watched him walk around the front of the car, amazed, yet again, by how graceful he was. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The wall behind the principal’s desk was covered with photographs of a tall slender man with fluid, long muscles and sandy hair frozen into graceful poses while participating in a variety of sports. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They seem to achieve some sort of completion on that day that makes them steady enough on their feet to appear graceful even if they are not. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z And so graceful she might glide past me as if I wasn’t there, leaving me in the dust. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z She takes the still-glowing cigarette from its holder, balancing it gently between her graceful fingers. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She wore music like a graceful gown that shimmered as she moved. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A co-ed sat at a graceful table stacked with magazines. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “He gets them from his father, graceful and gentle. Perfect for seducing young nobles’ daughters.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It is very important to discover graceful exits like that in the newspaper business, where it is such an important part of the ethics that you should never seem to be working. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z It was a skillful and steady incision, like drawing a curved line with a pencil across the crown of the head, a fluid and graceful curve. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Her graceful hand held up her flowing skirts. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “Sleep on, thy graceful soul, till Christ calls you to come forth into His bright heaven.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He knows we’re seeing him as a clumsy, too tall, skinny guy surrounded by graceful, beautiful girls in pink tights. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Then the kitten executed a graceful leap out of Hyacinth’s arms and trotted inside, the tip of her tail flicking behind her. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z As she departed, Mr. Dashwood put up his feet, with the graceful remark, “Poor and proud, as usual, but she’ll do.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z We kept the scarves he’d brought us back from China when we were two years old, silks with a graceful pattern of cranes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He watched the heavy yet graceful form strolling to and fro, in and out of the range of his vision. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The front hall floor is white and black squares; there’s a graceful central staircase. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She was the most graceful human the Gallivespian had ever seen; this clumsiness was feigned. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z A more graceful solution would be to rewrite the sentence completely. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z As he turned the bottles in his long, graceful hands the familiar motion eased a few tired lines from his face, making him seem younger, certainly not yet thirty. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It was a graceful, clean, neat, silent maneuver. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The school itself consisted of a cluster of two dozen or so graceful, colonial- style buildings, which included individual homes as well as dormitories, the library, and various instructional halls. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Its graceful ivy-covered colonial buildings and tree-shaded courtyards gave it the feeling of a privileged academic oasis, which is precisely what it was. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He slid in graceful curves past the bowing snakes and the Brown Bear, towards Mary Poppins. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z When he was on his crutches he moved real graceful and smooth. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z They sat within the graceful slopes of dunes, tucked away from the road and the few cars and jeeps going by. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I swerved around them as they dashed into the woods, graceful as gazelles. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z After a time of silence, Edwin said, “The whale is graceful and gentle. Tonight, I learned those things.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The landing wasn’t so graceful— I banged my chin on the gunwale and nearly capsized us. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z It’s such a graceful and effortless movement that I’m momentarily filled with envy. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z His antlers cast long and graceful shadows along the wall. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z His serve was graceful and forcibly delivered, as were his return volleys. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z With a graceful leap, he jumped onto it and gave another roar, one of great joy and satisfaction. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z It’s special seeing Coach strike like graceful lightning. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The mother waves a graceful hand in front of her as she leads the way, parting curtain after curtain of spiders’ webs. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ah, the sound of my graceful children coming down the stairs. Delightful,” Papa called from the kitchen. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z She was staring at his wrist, the graceful way it came out of his sleeve. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z But when she stood on her head, in graceful water ballet, pulling her bikini bottom to her knees—ah, then it was the eel’s moment to shock. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z And then with a swift, graceful movement of her small hands, she removed her long pearly strand and put it around my neck. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the others tried to stop them and she began to move around the floor in graceful circles, as they gave chase, slipping and sliding over the polished floor. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z A swallow in flight is graceful, agile, and precise. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z And one of the girls—graceful in all things, even in this—slipped right off the edge. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z In the distance, a few sauropods loomed over the rooftops of those huge dinofeed storehouses, long, graceful silhouettes against the cloudy night. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Dorcas dances well—not as fast as some others, but she is graceful, in spite of those shaming shoes, and she is provocative. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z From this point the route angled steeply upward along a graceful arete of wind-compacted snow that culminated in the South Summit—where I arrived at 11:00 to find a second, even worse bottleneck. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Tialys continued to pack the lodestone resonator away, and as he did so, the Lady Salmakia woke up nearby, sitting up graceful and slow from the little hollow she’d made in the soft sand. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I wasn’t so graceful, though; I fell off my bike at the bottom and ended up sprawled in the dirt as Chris crouched down behind a group of thistles. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z I would see the fauns arriving soundlessly, settling themselves in a graceful ring around the sycamore’s trunk. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z The feathers were concave, which separated them from one another, making a texture of ridges which he considered graceful. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The elm tree is graceful, but its wood is hard enough to be made into the toughest planks and beams; you can build a fine home or a hall from elm wood. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Only after laying a semblance of it on the page can a writer free up the cognitive resources needed to make the sentence grammatical, graceful, and, most important, transparent to the reader. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z There, by the river, set low between the skysoaring spires of graceful city living, was a venerable structure of stone, impressive if not in height then in solidity. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Just as I wonder what the heck I’m doing here and how I can make a graceful exit, I feel a pinch on my left ankle, then my right. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z I felt like a real deer, graceful and fast. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z He was nearly as graceful and just as fast — yet Emmett could never be compared to a gazelle. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z She painted so quickly that I thought it would all be a muddle on the paper, until I looked and saw the form clearly taking shape—a lean, graceful form. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z He was swift and graceful, even in his Hawaiian footwear. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Now the blunt snout of our Gemini was tracing graceful arcs in the sky, sometimes in front of our direction of travel, sometimes to one side or the other, sometimes behind. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “We have to put up with them. Oscore is very good. Very graceful. Much expression.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z I’d put in the hours to polish my form, fully extending my limbs for a long, clean, graceful line. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z It was bright yellow with black fenders, a streamlined car of graceful design. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z With a flick of Mama’s wrist, the willow’s graceful, slim branches jerked the magistrate, tossing him a few feet offshore. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z As they stood side by side a crane rose slowly from the beach, with a graceful lift of its great wings, and they followed its flight, a leisurely line of white against the dark trees. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z It was a trouper’s lute, its long, graceful neck and round bowl were painfully familiar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z With his powerful legs, the robot launched himself up through the air, soaring in a high, graceful arc over the pond and down to the other side. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Mother’s graceful movements would never make music again. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z In a graceful swivel, Kamau moved around him and headed up the stairs. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z It was really very strange that a woman as beautiful and slender and willowy and graceful, a creature as perfectly packaged, as supremely dressed as the Countess should be hung up on teeth that way. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z A long sideboard sat in front of the shuttered window, and five graceful candlesticks with white candles were lined up in the center. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Knightly exercise was as much an art as cricket is, and perhaps the only way in which Lancelot did not resemble Bradman was that he was more graceful. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z But we seek the dominant intelligences, the grandest creatures on the planet, the sentient and graceful masters of the deep ocean, the great whales. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Doric columns are the strongest and simplest, Corinthian ones are the lightest and most ornate, adorned with rows of acanthus leaves giving rise to graceful volutes and helices. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Her slight frame was willowy, graceful even in absolute stillness. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z She was practicing killcraft with knives of different sizes and weights, trying to remain balanced and graceful. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z She held the notes in her hips and her thighs, in the graceful arch of her back. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The Prince of Winterfell had been a graceful dancer, but Reek with his missing toes would be grotesque. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The Italians, ever graceful, muttered that it was nothing. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z It wasn’t as graceful, true, but she thought she’d mastered the general idea. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He loathed the clatter and smoke of steam launches; he wanted electric boats designed specifically for the park, with emphasis on graceful lines and silent operation. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z My brother was now full grown, a graceful giant with uncanny spring in his legs, and considered one of the best basketball players in the city. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z His fingers, barely touching the wood, were arranged in a graceful arc. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Why did some words seem more elegant, more graceful than others? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z My slacks are too long, and I’ve never been that graceful. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Their wings were long and graceful instruments of speed. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z She made him a curtsy that was neither very graceful nor very gracious. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z She nodded and took a few quick strides and a leap to land on top of it, smooth and graceful. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Her gaze shifted to Nehemia, whose fierce and graceful eyes warmed the marrow of her bones and steadied her arms. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Sedges and ferns and graceful bulrush would be planted on the banks of the Wooded Island to conjure density and intricacy and “to slightly screen, without hiding, flowers otherwise likely to be too obtrusive.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Inside, flanked by graceful paloverde trees, were graves as far as Matt could see. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It is in the graceful slouch of the men slipping their hands into the pockets of their tuxedo trousers. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Miss Chen,” he says, pushing himself off the couch in one graceful move. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The inlay work was flawless, the floral design intricate and graceful even on the incomplete pieces he held. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z His graceful, leaf-shaped ears tilted forward as though he could hear their hearts beating. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z He stared up at the stars: and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance almost infinite in its complexity. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The action was so graceful and inclusively benign. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z When he removed his helm, Sansa saw that he was an old man with hair as pale as his armor, yet he seemed strong and graceful for all that. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Presently he turned, and with a single graceful bound crossed to the desk; but for once he was careless, and his hind leg knocked the glass paperweight to the floor. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She was a woman of thirty-one and still graceful. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z She was graceful, and she held on to the moment as tightly as she could, even after the curtains were pulled shut. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Slender she was, graceful, taller than most knights, with full breasts and narrow waist and a heart-shaped face. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I lacked polish—the finishing details like pointed toes, knees pressed together, graceful hands, and full extensions through my arms and legs. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Goss went light and quick, graceful as a girl, some yards ahead of me. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z And she stepped next to him and put her hands over his, and together they swung the bat in an arc as graceful as a fish hawk’s winging slide through the air. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Citra was in the same dance class, back in that magical childhood time when little girls nurtured the delusion that they were as graceful as they were cute. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “You were surprised by the size of my biceps and my graceful window-exiting.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z They were high and graceful canoes with curving bow and stern and a braced section midships where a mast could be stepped to carry a small lateen sail. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z All the creatures of the sea, from a graceful longma to a smiling fish, were bowing toward the mountain in gratitude. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z And it was led by a small, graceful goose. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He tapped a bony shoulder, shuffled his feet, and threw a slow but graceful left hook. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z His arms and legs became as graceful as a gazelle’s, and his giant body sprang in the air like a flying grasshopper. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z She's got a garland on her head and graceful angel wings. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z If the cameras look in the ultraviolet, however, we see a graceful, complex swirling weather system in the high atmosphere, where the winds are around 100 meters per second, some 220 miles per hour. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He might’ve been seventeen or twenty, it was hard to say, but he was built like a dancer—with long graceful arms and muscular legs, perfect posture and an air of regal calm. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Newly successful businessmen erected mansions, filled them with imported objets d’art, hung costly crystal chandeliers in every room, and encircled their properties with groves of graceful maple trees and fragrant magnolias. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z As always, Tally noticed how graceful David was, how he seemed to know every step of the path intimately. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I watch as Danielle hops across the board, as graceful and light as always. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Tayeh, 44, said: “As a brown, queer, Arab American woman, I wasn’t always welcomed. It takes graceful hands to lead people like me to the door.” The Best and Worst of the 74th Tony Awards 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z The cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki creates plunging, whirling, beatifically graceful, seemingly borderless images that gather light lovingly and avidly—and catch the light with which each of the film’s actors seems to glow. “Song to Song”: Terrence Malick’s Romantic Idealism 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Woodruff added: “She didn’t mind telling anyone when she thought they were wrong, on camera. She kept it respectful. She was one of the most graceful interrupters I have ever seen.” Gwen Ifill, who overcame barriers as a black female journalist, dies at 61 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z This is a moralistic tale of a young girl who loves to dance but is a tomboy but who likes pink but isn't graceful but loves to dance... Family reviews: a selection 2012-11-18T12:00:00Z "Now I think, 'Screw it.' It's going to be ugly. It's not going to be graceful. I'm not going to go down quietly. I think there's something noble about that. There's something quixotic about it. " The New Pornographers lighten up while sharing life lessons 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z “It’s very graceful, and was unusual at the time,” he said. Seattle’s Neptune Theatre, celebrating 100 years, is full of memories and magic 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Outside each house was a penjor — a graceful, ornamented bamboo pole that arches up above roof level, its end weighted down with offerings. In Indonesia, Many Islands and Many Faces 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Much of the research for this graceful and allusive biography of one of Britain's most beautiful birds was conducted while he was in German custody. Birds in a Cage: Warburg, Germany, 1941 by Derek Niemann - review 2012-12-20T08:00:01Z In the odd, difficult role created for Suzanne Farrell, Sterling Hyltin was serene and playful, giving us something graceful to watch without illuminating the work’s enigmas. Review: ‘All Balanchine II’ by New York City Ballet 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z For Tinniswood is both a careful scholar and a nimble writer, particularly adept at graceful summary. Review | Future kings don’t squeeze their own toothpaste: Tales of the pampered British royal family 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z It is classically dry, light and graceful, moderate in alcohol and touched with herbal and floral notes. Silvaner, a Lovely yet Unloved Spring Wine, Needs Friends 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z The buildings' muted appearance places the focus where it should be: on the reserve itself and on the Banyan Tree's immaculate grounds, which feature a graceful Chinese garden. At the Water's Edge in Hangzhou 2010-05-20T11:30:00Z A sinewy and graceful memoir, from a former book critic for The New York Times, about her childhood in an upper-middle-class black family in Chicago. The Top Books of 2015 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Columbo established himself for all time as a champion of any viewer who ever felt less than graceful, elegant or well-spoken. Peter Falk, TV's rumpled Columbo, has died 2011-06-25T11:45:14Z His prose is graceful, musical in its cadences, springy, always about the business of making its points while staying out of the way. Peter Straub reviews ‘The Boy Who Drew Monsters,’ by Keith Donohue A wilting maiden in her 30s, she is graceful in all but the management of her own life. Review: ‘The Makioka Sisters,’ by Junichiro Tanizaki 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z It’s a graceful reminder that no matter our state of being, we all need kindness, companionship and a place to call home. What Not to Tell the Kids When the Goldfish Dies, and Other Lessons From Pet Picture Books 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Quiet, graceful, stately and infused with slow tension, Dana Rotberg’s “White Lies” unfolds with inexorable weight. Review: ‘White Lies,’ the Stately Weight of the Past 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Two graceful Sara Teasdale settings have been added since 2009; but two others were dropped. Music in Review 2011-02-20T23:48:45Z The appeal of the score is clear — it’s jaunty, jazzy, graceful, melodic, dreamy, rhythmically fluid. Review: ‘Cool Britannia’ Shows Off Native Land’s Talents 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Particularly striking were No. 8, with its graceful, bowed melody offset by almost continuous left-hand pizzicato counterpoint; No. 10, a study in icy harmonics; and the spare, harmonically brash No. 13. Music Review: New-Music Champion Inches Toward the Standard Repertory 2011-01-20T00:30:17Z Molten and bluesy, Mr. Barron is equally indebted to the tweaked angularity of Thelonious Monk and the graceful parlance of Hank Jones; he’s one of jazz’s unassailable piano gurus. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Monday's opening night is a showcase for Cyrus Chestnut, a graceful postbop player with blues and gospel roots. This week's new live music 2011-02-05T00:05:34Z They farmed on bucolic homesteads with graceful names. Films! Novels! Springsteen! The Obamas and Clintons seem to be having the time of their lives. 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z Mr. Stein’s readings were graceful and rhythmically supple, and were couched in a delicate but invitingly warm sound, as harpsichord tone goes. Music Review: Baroque 4x4 Festival at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church 2012-08-28T21:04:06Z He is crossing his fingers for a positive outcome this month for a project in Beirut with “the largest cantilever in the world, the most graceful, poetic thing.” Conjuring Temples of Deep Desire 2010-07-19T13:50:00Z That it makes it a very graceful thing, dressing up and playing, because all the thinking's done. Tilda Swinton, rock star of the art house 2010-06-19T18:01:00Z In Mr. Clark’s version a solo tenor — the fine Michael Slattery — moves smoothly from graceful melody to recitative, from speech to commanding drama, as the spirit of the Twain text evolves. Music Review: Manhattan Chamber Orchestra at Symphony Space 2012-06-28T21:08:15Z In the company of another 14 or so graceful, beautiful dishes, it is slightly flat-footed, a dancer loping across the stage in Chuck Taylors while the rest of the corps balances on pointe shoes. Restaurant Review: Momofuku Ko in the East Village 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Today, they’re graceful and seamless, part of a digital dreamscape in which all our ideas and experiences can be smoothly synthesized. Galleries: ‘Is It Propaganda? Or Is It Political Art?’ But unlike her fellow cresteds, that elderly appendage lacks a graceful plume. Worst in show: how the world’s ugliest dogs get competition ready 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Another charm of their dancing occurred in simple walks backward: their heads and shoulders, gently jaunty, moved in graceful opposition while their arms stayed still. Dance Review: Indian Dance at Downtown Dance Festival 2012-08-19T21:57:53Z “The women were always turning away from the camera, always in profile,” said Ms. Weems, demonstrating by obscuring her face seductively with her graceful hands. Carrie Mae Weems, Photographer and Subject 2012-09-16T07:27:05Z If the critics tended to use the same words over and over to describe Mr. Hall’s playing — graceful, understated, fluent — that was as much a tribute to his consistency as to his talent. Jim Hall, Jazz Guitarist, Dies at 83 2013-12-11T03:50:57Z Mehta, now 81, is more economical with his gestures, but his beat remains as crisp as ever and his left-hand cues graceful and welcoming. With a farewell on the horizon, Zubin Mehta's concert with the Israel Philharmonic is a triumph 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z “He is so graceful. He’s not having to go, ‘I’m trying to run!’ like the rest of us. The story of one man’s pregnancy: ‘It felt joyous, amazing and brilliant’ 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z We are given interludes, aftermaths, climaxes without buildups. , in this sense, is a sort of epic in graceful shorthand. TransAtlantic by Colum McCann – review 2013-05-26T13:00:01Z “The writing throughout is graceful and intelligent, even when it is in your face.” David Dalton, Rock Writer Who Lived the Scene, Dies at 80 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z The graceful metal tendrils look like huge versions of the real roots in the exhibit. Exposing plants’ deepest dirty secrets: Their roots 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Ms. James is a graceful, evocative writer who is able to convey trauma in nauseating detail yet without wallowing in pain. 6 Books for Thinking, Drinking and Changing the World 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z Often the graceful longhand of the ledger books is visible beneath the layers of drawing; their rows of numbers work with Ms. Despont’s patterns to conjure mystical calculations. Art In Review: Louise Despont: ‘Tide Fulcrum & the Motion of Fixed Stars’ 2013-01-10T22:37:20Z Indeed, the term getting along itself, in the sense of being on harmonious terms, implies graceful behavior. Blame it on the baby boomers: Yes, pretty much everything 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z He said that while he found her graceful, he said he also liked “this real rough tomboy streak in her that she doesn’t always get to indulge.” Keira Knightley, Making Her Broadway Debut, Is Not Afraid of the Dark 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z The puckish parts of the second movement prevailed over the graceful nature of the minuet. Eschenbach and NSO find coherence elusive in Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Robinson has constructed this novel in a graceful swirl of time, constantly moving back to Lila and Doll’s struggles with starvation, desperate thieves and vengeful relatives. Marilynne Robinson’s ‘Lila:’ an exquisite novel of spiritual redemption and love There is a trick to a graceful exit. An Environmentalist?s Latest Laundry List 2011-02-23T22:32:55Z Dann pores over Thoreau’s journals — filled with graceful observations of the natural world — in search of divine significance and supernatural patterns. Thoreau the Weird: A New Interpretation of His Philosophy 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Reading these stories, one feels honored to be in the presence of Johnson’s witty philosophical mind, and, not incidentally, stunned by the graceful virtuosity of his sentences. Short Stories That Travel the World From a Deliciously Off-Kilter Perspective 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z But Obama was an unusual figure, a graceful writer with an arresting story of being an African-American with national political ambitions growing up in the turbulence of a race-torn nation. A Memoir From the Young, Gay Mayor of South Bend Running for President 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z She gave him the flexibility to add unorthodox chords and dissonant textures, creating a gothic folk that distilled her tragedies and hope into the graceful “Follow the Music.” Alice Gerrard Didn’t Plan a Bluegrass Career. She Broke Its Glass Ceiling. 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z The Bairrada region of Portugal has come into its own over the last decade, producing primarily graceful red wines made with the baga grape. In Trying Times, 20 Wines Under $20 That Revive and Restore 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z At the edge, a parade of graceful insects can be ridden like extended bikes. Spur of the Moment; Pygmalion; The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist; The Magical Menagerie 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z He writes graceful melodies and croons them in a long-breathed baritone, backed by a band steeped in the 1960s of the British Invasion, folk-rock and psychedelia. Music Review: Morrissey, at Radio City Music Hall 2012-10-11T22:14:01Z Lindbergh, with his “relative youth” and “graceful athleticism,” represents “normalcy raised to heroic proportions, a decent man with an honest face and an undistinguished voice.” A Different Kind of Dystopian Novel 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z As I basked in the sheer loveliness of graceful, long-lined melodies whose very structure seems to promise a settled domestic life with a bright future, I pondered the temptations and pitfalls of that dream. Music Review: Back at Midcentury, When Broadway Knew Romance 2011-03-22T20:15:03Z Up and down the menu are flying leaps like this, followed by graceful landings. Llama San Is Not a Typical Postcard From Peru 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z In “Boys Will Be Boys,” a graceful waltz, she comforted and defended a sexual-assault victim, while in “Mechanical Bull” she warned that she’d “throw you all off me.” South by Southwest Music Festival: 17 Acts That Stood Out 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z Toibin’s graceful group biography of the men who sired three of Ireland’s greatest writers is, among other things, a study in contrasts. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Spectacular and elegant, or we could just call it graceful. Perspective | Why Roger Federer is the most graceful athlete of our time 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Not just to see the real couple and how graceful they were in life. Review: In ‘Loving,’ They Loved. A Segregated Virginia Did Not Love Them Back. 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z I love the sangiovese grape and its graceful red fruit flavors, tempered by a refreshing bitterness and dusty tannins, which come from growing sangiovese in the hills of the Classico region. Our Critic’s Best Wine Moments of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Using aerial photography, Mangan captured the graceful dust clouds and swirling car tracks produced as Block practiced a style of racing known at Gymkhana. “Blast”: Racing in the Utah Desert 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z As a prologue, it was playful, strange, militaristic, cool — an apt setup for a dance that showcases a bit of everything: from graceful, gliding swoops to one-armed balances that pull hip-hop back to tap. Review: At Fall for Dance Festival, Female Power 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z There is no graceful way to fall in love with a man already engaged to God. Modern Love: Signs, Wonders and Fates Fulfilled 2010-02-20T06:33:00Z But recently he’s become shrewd, strong, graceful, authoritative. Critics' Choice: New CDs by Sharon Jones, E-40 and Bill Callahan 2010-04-04T21:55:00Z Written in lean, graceful prose that offers ample evidence of her talent, the book is as much a window into the mythologized publication as it is a chronicle of one woman’s self-discovery. Janet Groth Describes Her Life at The New Yorker 2012-06-27T22:01:52Z Sanitation Workers Get That Swing On an abandoned airport runway, slick with rain, a skilled crane operator dips and swings the arm of his vehicle through a series of graceful, fluid arcs. Movie Review: ‘Trash Dance,’ a Documentary Out of Austin, Tex. 2013-04-26T01:55:48Z The essays in Dungy’s graceful and perceptive collection display the fluidity and finely tuned ear one would expect from a celebrated poet for whom “language is home.” Review | ‘You Play the Girl,’ by Carina Chocano, up for big book award this week 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z I rehearsed my few graceful words of acceptance, and as he prepared to announce the winner, reminded myself not to rise until I heard the "R" in "Rick". Rick Gekoski 2010-08-24T14:48:00Z I followed my friend Todd Eastman on a fast descent, trying to match his graceful telemark turns down a freshly groomed forest trail that had a velvety corduroy texture. Skiing Town to Town in a Magical Corner of Vermont 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z At another, Mr. Bashmet’s viola quietly but forcefully cut through in graceful punctuation. Crescendo, in Double Time 2010-09-01T11:43:00Z But for many fans and critics, myself included, the show lost some of the graceful poignancy that made it, well, magical. “Game Of Thrones”: HBO throws out George R.R. Martin’s books — and saves the show 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Plunging into German riesling is like a great high dive into a pool of dazzling wines — graceful, complex and utterly delicious. There’s More to German Wine Than Riesling 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Last summer, Melbourne, Australia’s graceful, lively and remarkably clean second city, was named the most livable city in the world by the Economist Intelligence Unit. Frugal Traveler Blog: A $100 Weekend in Melbourne 2012-04-18T14:31:05Z I thought it was lovely, fresh and graceful. Finding Wine and Meaning in Ancient Vineyards 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z More charming is the girls’ “You’re Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile”; It’s lighter and more graceful. Review | This ‘Annie’ doesn’t shine despite Daddy Warbucks’ commanding voice 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z More graceful is Teresa L. Williams’s set design, transforming the theater into a ballroom, and Stacey Derosier’s snazzy lighting, which creates a party atmosphere. Review: Despite the Primping, ‘The Cotillion’ Is Far From Flawless 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z I have plenty of problems with the middle of this book – raise your hands if you, like me, skipped a lot of the poetry – but I love it nonetheless, not least for its graceful coda. The Nonsense of an Ending: In Defense of the Middles of Books 2012-01-04T15:58:18Z The hero – son of Miriam – is clearly meant to be attractive; after all, he moves "with the graceful fluidity of a jaguar coupled with the overpowering strength of a mountain lion". Self-published stories: How A Family Affair went wrong 2012-11-22T14:39:45Z The horses — in a piece of stagecraft that has always lifted this well-made piece out of the ordinary — are played by graceful actors wearing horses’ heads. Constellation Theatre revives ‘Equus’ to great effect 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Mr. Sexton, with hollow cheeks and graceful hands, is a sly jokester and a bewitching raconteur. Review: Ethan Hawke’s ‘Blaze’ Revisits a Country-Music Legend 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Her figure is trim and graceful; her lovely face serene and unlined. ‘Passing’ Review: Black Skin, White Masks 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z At ground level the columns holding up the canopy are less graceful than in early versions of the design, which more directly recalled the “Pole Dance” installation. New UC Davis art museum hints at fresh directions for American architecture 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Dale Carnegie, that master of graceful temperament, would not approve of kicking a book when it was down. Books Of the Times: Dale Carnegie and Emily Post for the Twitter Age 2011-10-05T05:14:23Z He worked hard to become a graceful big man. A man in full 2014-04-16T04:00:00Z It was the roar that went up backstage behind the wafting pastel curtains, echoing the clapping in the graceful interlocking salons, that proved the designer had exceeded all expectations. Fashion Review: At Dior, a Triumph of 21st Century Modernism 2012-09-28T17:29:55Z And she built the Saint-Saëns showpiece with an effective dramatic sense that proceeded from the work’s graceful beginning to its sizzling finale. Music Review: New York String Orchestra With Jaime Laredo - Review 2011-12-25T21:55:35Z Guillem, supported in a graceful fluid pas de deux, keeps twisting and adjusting her position, as if challenging Le Riche's hold. Sylvie Guillem - review 2011-07-06T23:44:38Z The tall and effortlessly graceful Victor Lebedev brought a high-toned classicism to the slave variations. St. Petersburg's Mikhailovsky Ballet revises the pirate-tale classic 'Le Corsaire' 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z According to a Silos representative, Mr. Armani conceived and supervised the building’s renovation, now a graceful, faintly monastic megalith. Armani’s Four-Story Wardrobe 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z He said she was “as fiercely her own person as anybody I’ve ever met, but also kind of graceful — there was a kind of grace in who she was.” Amy Stechler, Documentarian Who Helped Define a Style, Dies at 67 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Instead, he’s an earnest and direct singer who wrings feeling from small vocal gestures and whose songwriting — he contributed to 9 of the 10 songs here — is graceful, with twists like small sighs. Playlist: New Releases From Friends, Wade Bowen and Joey Badass 2012-07-27T16:00:00Z Yet these works tend to be graceful presences. Callum Innes, Dorothy Iannone, Mark Francis: the week's art shows in pictures 2013-03-01T13:00:00Z Kat Chow’s memoir, “Seeing Ghosts,” is a memorial to her mother delivered in a graceful, captivating voice. Kat Chow on How Mourning Is Like Taxidermy 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Small towns occasionally dotted the landscape, topped with the spires of ancient churches; cows with metal bells around their necks grazed in steep, flower-studded pastures; and rustic chalets perched upon graceful, green slopes. Inspired by the Billy Joel tune, a family heads to Vienna 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Ebony Glenn’s graceful, friendly illustrations show Collins as a child, arms outstretched in the joy of dancing, and later as a young woman working to perfect her art in lithe poses and wearing beautiful costumes. Review | Four new books to inspire young readers 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Listening to her archives I got really humbled by how graceful the sound was, especially her production efforts, in a pre-synthesiser age. Manchester honours the woman behind the spooky music of Doctor Who 2013-01-10T12:00:00Z I'm not sure "graceful" has a strong enough antonym to describe my first lurches toward a world flipped upside down. Hitting my stack: How yoga helped me understand my trans identity 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z The exhibition shows how the graceful curves of Alvar Aalto’s 1930s wooden furniture were followed by the technocratic style of 1950s products by Charles and Ray Eames and Dieter Rams. Design: A Mobile Utopian House Is Star of a Rotterdam Design Exhibition 2011-08-14T13:12:00Z A memory of him onstage I will cherish: his graceful portrayal of a frail, centenarian poet in “The Night of the Iguana.” Clayton Corzatte is remembered for more than fine acting 2013-05-15T23:24:28Z Hair was smoothed into a bun on the nape and graceful shoes with slender heels made platform soles redundant. Gucci's Orgy of Gorgeousness 2012-09-19T17:33:55Z It would be a game of graceful simplicity, requiring both competition and cooperation, that would invalidate the zero-sum, total-war ethos of prior parlor pursuits. Perspective | In a world of Monopoly and Risk, the maker of Catan settled for more 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Raised in Columbia, Md., she joined Dance Theater of Harlem at 17 and was an immediate standout: a tall, long-limbed, exceptionally graceful ballerina. ‘It’s About Connections’: Alicia Graf Mack Remakes Juilliard Dance 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Williams also happened to be a fan of Weimaraners, a dog breed which, let’s face it, looks like it was designed by an architect — all angles and sleekness and graceful lines. ‘Spalding Gray,’ the Color? It’s a Long Story 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z There are many moments of graceful, inventive movement. L?ng T?i (My Village) - review 2011-07-26T12:59:02Z Ravel’s “La Valse” and Liszt’s First Piano Concerto are dazzlers, and Dvorak’s Eighth Symphony is a font of graceful melodies. Review: The Philadelphia Orchestra Returns, With Force 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Procrastinating in a coffee shop, Joshua sees “all the endless possibilities, all the overhead and wide shots, all the graceful character trajectories blazing across the spectacular firmament.” ‘The Making of Zombie Wars’ goes beyond the undead 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z This, of course, is not a graceful dash—but there is fresh judging to do! The Music Critic in the Age of the Insta-Release 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z She delivers a worldly, wise, live-wire-alert performance as a terribly conflicted yet preternaturally graceful manager who bends the rules to help the young women who work for her until the conflicts become irreconcilable. What to Stream This Weekend: Regina Hall’s Vital Performance in “Support the Girls” 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z As drifting and dreamy as its searching heroine, “My Friend Victoria” takes a graceful but unsatisfying stroll through the life and longings of a young black woman in contemporary Paris. Review: An Exploration of Race and Class in ‘My Friend Victoria’ 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z "The Good Place" has charm, wit, and Ted Danson, whose performance is so funny and oddly graceful it's, well, heavenly. How ‘The Good Place’ Became an Antihero Antidote 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z I don't want my calendar to look like anything, I want graceful, minimal windows that put my schedule at the fore. Why does Apple's calendar look so out of date? 2012-10-06T23:05:44Z Finnish guest conductor Susanna Mälkki combined graceful precision and fiery energy throughout the program. Pianist Simon Trpceski, conductor Susanna M?lkki light up SSO 2012-04-20T18:24:04Z Is there a graceful way not to invite people who received save-the-date cards in error? Remember When We Asked You to Save the Date? Don’t 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z Pablo Heras-Casado opened his Mostly Mozart program at Avery Fisher Hall on Tuesday evening with the Stravinsky and made a strong impression with the incisiveness of his reading and with his graceful conducting gestures. Music Review: Gil Shaham and Pablo Heras-Casado at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-04T20:23:00Z It's not always this graceful; festival founders sometimes don't want to relinquish those reins. Departing Toby Saks: Chamber-music festival is 'rolling smoothly' 2011-07-05T01:00:05Z In the second part, Khan uses his forceful and graceful technique to create a moral fable that explores the idea of blindness, not just physical, but also moral and intellectual. Dance picks of the week 2010-04-23T23:12:00Z The lace is sometimes vicious, the blood sometimes dainty, but everything is always graceful and pretty — even an ogress fantasizing about eating people is actually dreaming of marzipan and butter. Sublime New Fantasy Fiction 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z They are graceful bell-shaped marine invertebrates with tentacles full of stinging cells that help them catch prey and ward off predators. How to handle the worldwide jellyfish threat (no, don’t treat stings with urine) 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z The evening’s most effective weapon by far is Hurley, looking entirely Poppins-like in her prim blue jacket, dancing with graceful precision and singing sweetly while flashing an inscrutable smile. A breezy Mary leads Olney’s ‘Poppins’ 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z “The Assassin” is a stately action movie, graceful and slow-moving, with bursts of smoothly choreographed violence. Review: ‘The Assassin’ Finds Delight in a Deadly Vocation 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z The novel progresses at a comfortable pace, thanks to Moore's graceful prose. 'Heft': longing to shatter the shell of loneliness 2012-02-08T22:16:07Z Goldberg, dry-eyed and graceful in a relaxed take on a power suit, was stirring a Shirley Temple, angling for the cherry. Sarah Goldberg on the ‘Barry’ Finale and Bad Decisions 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z The reality genre is not known for its graceful handling of complex issues. Public roll out of Caitlyn Jenner gets high marks 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z She has likewise mourned the death of her longtime partner, Lou Reed, across multiple projects — including in her graceful, meditative film “Heart of a Dog.” Review: Laurie Anderson Gets Back to Having a Good Time 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z Through graceful aging and the wonders of medical aesthetics, his face has achieved a granite gravitas suitable for the Mount Rushmore of movie studs where he belongs. Hero Glock Dirty: Arnold’s Back, Guns Blazing, in The Last Stand 2013-01-18T13:00:02Z Theatrical adaptations can’t and shouldn’t encompass all that, but they need to integrate both story and symbolism in some graceful, playable way, which neither of these scripts manages. Review: ‘Dracula’ and ‘Frankenstein’? Nothing to Be Scared Of 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z First there was Weber's Oberon overture, its misty opening coalescing into an allegro that whizzed by in a flurry of graceful virtuosity. Prom 6: OPRF/Chung ? review 2011-07-20T09:48:43Z I am less inclined to splurge on the hybrid Wagyu raised in Idaho, with its broader, less graceful flavor and noticeably less marbling. Making Way for the Tried and True at Cut by Wolfgang Puck 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z Servers may shoot their cuffs before fiddling with some small detail of the table setting, a fussiness that is not in keeping with the graceful, relaxed tone of the cooking. At Gem, a Teen Wonder Plays in the Big Leagues 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z Yet, in every way -- their breathing, their flaring nostrils, twitching ears and soulful eyes, their powerful flanks and movements that can be skittish or graceful -- these are not cute facsimiles but flesh-and-blood creatures. London hit "War Horse" makes thrilling Broadway bow 2011-04-18T03:57:08Z Among other things, “Composition 361” conveyed the impression of a great beast given to disarmingly graceful movements, like a hippopotamus in water. Music Review: Tri-Centric Modeling Event Honors Anthony Braxton 2010-06-21T22:59:00Z Their romance lifts the movie into a realm of pure nonsense, and their graceful, inventive idiocy makes the rest of it look labored and overdone. Movie Review: ‘Anchorman 2,’ Starring Will Ferrell and Steve Carell 2013-12-17T21:57:43Z Still, it delivered as strong an argument as it could, graceful in its complicated job, with backdrops by Chris Milk, who worked with the band on the interactive Internet-video project “The Wilderness Downtown.” ArtsBeat: Spectacle Day at Coachella 2011-04-17T21:19:22Z From there, the book becomes a graceful narrative, ever engaging, with the reader allowed to connect Brown and his contemporaries to conflicts that continue to our day. 'Midnight Rising' illuminates John Brown 2011-11-03T22:11:08Z He’s tall, handsome, graceful, and vigorous, and his baritone voice rolls out with a hearty, lofty warmth. The Revelations of “Don Giovanni” at the Met 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z As it happens, Ms. Wilson was also a formative force in the career of Simone Rocha, who likewise dedicated her graceful show, a study in subtle contrast, to her teacher. What Does ‘British’ Style Really Mean? 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z Unsparing as Hu’s anatomy of moral drift may be, there is something graceful in his sympathetic attention to lives defined almost entirely by disappointment and diminished hope. ‘An Elephant Sitting Still’ Review: Bleak, Graceful Realism 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z And it was to the designer’s credit that with this graceful theme, there was a feeling of modernity and ease. Fashion Review: Valli: ‘Girly, Young and Fun’ 2014-01-21T14:52:14Z Today, she’s remembered as a wife, mother and graceful figure who championed the arts and literature. 12 Ways Jackie O Influenced Fashion 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z Clinton mentioned the word “grace” only once, in reference to President Obama and the first lady: “We thank you for your graceful, determined leadership.” The campaign was nasty. Hillary Clinton’s concession speech was graceful. 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z So far, put Mr. Moore squarely in the graceful category. From Moguls to Mortals 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z The graceful constant is Ms. Powell’s small but penetrating singing voice, which she uses deftly. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-08-29T21:53:00Z All of this is rendered — “drawn” isn’t the right word; some combination of “sculpted” and “orchestrated” is what’s needed — with graceful, kinetic precision. ‘Soul’ Review: Pixar’s New Feature Gets Musical, and Metaphysical 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z It seems inconceivable, but with lightness and force, the dancers show the distinction between a graceful arc and a harsh, humorous spurt. Dance Review: Airborne Bodies and Balls 2011-07-15T23:23:35Z Skellig by David Almond Almond's books contain stories of great beauty and hope – magical realism for young people, written in graceful, accessible prose. Melvin Burgess's top 10 books written for teenagers 2010-06-17T13:46:00Z “Everyone who handled it was seamless and graceful.” 'Solo' lands in 'Star Wars' galaxy and cast puts drama behind 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z But before the Archdiocese of New York resided there, its seat was at St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral, a graceful 1815 basilica on Mulberry Street in NoLIta. A Tourist’s Guide to Catholic New York 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Why you should vote for Matt: A great dancer, very graceful, and improving week by week. Strictly Come Dancing: who will make the final? 2010-12-10T14:50:00Z She was sitting on a log in front of an enormous Ponderosa pine, its graceful branches hovering over her, as if her father were trying to comfort her again. Perspective | When I was 15, a psychiatric hospital nearly ruined my life. This advice saved me. 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z That captivating locale, the site of numerous significant rendezvous, is a far more graceful evocation of the character's desire to transform his lot than the butterfly tattoo stamped between his shoulders. "The American": George Clooney's killer trip through Italy 2010-09-01T15:02:00Z In his flannel shirt and heavy army boots, he looked, she writes in a new book about him, “graceful and attractive — like someone wearing a disguise.” Philip K. Dick?s Masterpiece Years 2010-11-22T22:47:00Z To me, the signature of Radda, where Istine farms its organic vineyards at relatively high altitudes, is elegance and finesse, and this bottle seemed particularly graceful and floral. 2021 Seen Through 12 Unforgettable Wines 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z What interests me here is the scandal of those dinosaurs, graceful, long-necked creatures whose interaction implies that something like divine grace was operative in the world long before humanity came into being. Arts & Leisure: Debated Movies: ?The Tree of Life,? ?The Future,? ?The Help? 2011-08-25T15:03:08Z We will forever be grateful to you and your family, the graceful intelligent compassionate first lady, Mrs. Obama, as well as your beautiful daughters Sasha and Malia for their collective sacrifices for US. T.I. Writes Open Letter to Barack Obama: ‘Your Legacy Will Live On’ 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Despite these impediments, Ms. Murphy perfectly embodied the teenage shyness and graceful poise of the young princess. Dance Review: ?The Sleeping Beauty? From American Ballet Theater 2010-06-15T22:47:00Z On the evidence of “The Publisher,” Alan Brinkley’s graceful and judicious biography, Luce began as an arrogant, awkward boy and did not grow any more beguiling as his fortunes rose. Books of The Times: Alan Brinkley Tells Henry Luce?s Story in ?The Publisher? 2010-04-19T21:35:00Z Built in 1905, the boathouse, with its graceful arches and Guastavino ceiling tiles, is on the eastern side of the park. How to Enjoy Brooklyn’s Prospect Park 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Keegan feels the same principle applies to graceful writing, she said. Claire Keegan Harnesses the Power in Brevity 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z That leads to achingly graceful lines at times and to blunt insights at others, as when the speaker tackles social ills and inequities. Review | Gun violence, loss, grief and love: Three poets grapple with emotional turmoil 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z A few balance issues aside, Mr. Levine and Mr. Hughes gave the Carter a graceful performance. Review: Elliott Carter Premiere and Levine Withdrawal With Met Chamber Ensemble 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z She crawled off her lily pad long enough to manage a graceful foxtrot to “Build Me Up Buttercup” and earn a solid 27/30. Dancing with the Stars Watch: Swing That Thing 2013-10-22T03:15:22Z The graceful chandeliers have gone electric, but their long, curling brass tendrils seem to glow more warmly than they did in the gaslight days, which lasted until the original Gage & Tollner closed in 2004. A Brooklyn Landmark Holds Its Head High Again 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z Setting the scene for what is to come is the film's graceful opening sequence. Pain and pure love in the melancholic memory piece 'Low Down' 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z The statue features the graceful draping that Moore traced to his observation of people huddled in the Underground during the Blitz. Art world shivers at sale of Henry Moore statue 2013-03-24T11:53:04Z The two actresses are relentlessly graceful, endowed with physical aplomb, contemplative insight, and strong emotion. Speaking for Women’s Art in “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z At the same time, they wanted to establish a graceful flow that would keep the apartment’s capacious volume from feeling overwhelming. Rockwell Group Creates a Glittering New York Apartment 2013-12-10T05:00:00Z “She takes care not to sensationalize, presenting even the most harrowing scenes in graceful, understated prose, and gives us a powerful book about living a meaningful life during the most difficult of times.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z It also is not the most grammatically graceful phrase, but the name stuck. How my Year of Using Everything Up has made me a better cook 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Yet, at the same time, he would transform into a graceful, eternally beautiful woman in the essence of his statements and otherworldly presence. Butoh legend, Japanese dancer Ohno dies at 103 2010-06-02T16:21:00Z It's a graceful coming of age story that both teenagers and adults alike can relate to and enjoy the story. An Abundance of Katherines by John Green - review 2013-04-13T14:00:00Z This may sound trite, but there's something graceful about this cross-cultural culinary gesture. 'different words' reveals promising playwright in Kimber Lee 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z His playing was all sturdiness and graceful lyricism, but the threat of pathos always lay in heavy supply just below the surface. The Playlist: The Hold Steady Get Revved Up and 9 More New Songs 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Swift changes scenes playfully, clumsily working to keep up with her more practiced, graceful costars. Critic's Notebook: Taylor Swift's catchy, tone-deaf 'Shake It Off' 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z Measuring nearly three football fields in length, the Halle has three naves supported by graceful concrete arches that are so thin they couldn’t be reproduced today. Lucky 13: The unsung arrondissement you need to visit in Paris 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z The structural frame of the conservatory was made of steel," Cunningham writes, "although the graceful roof arches originally were built with Southern swamp cypress. The story of the Volunteer Park Conservatory, turning 100 this year 2012-08-08T23:27:05Z With them came long pleated skirts — the hit of this season — that segued into dresses that might be drawn into a graceful bow at the back. Special Report: Fashion: A 21st Century Woman 2010-10-03T17:10:00Z “He has such a graceful touch and will encourage you with the most gentle push,” she added. Paul Dano’s Cup Runneth Over (and Over) 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z So it seems an auspicious time to honour one of Shakespeare's most graceful and complex fools, Feste, from Twelfth Night, or What You Will. Poem of the week: When that I was and a little tiny boy by William Shakespeare 2013-04-01T09:33:58Z Although I wasn’t graceful or fearless, I was swimming in the ocean at 7 a.m. on a Saturday. How a Triathlon Helped America Ferrera Defy Her Inner Critic 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z “Every sentence has a graceful weight and meter and is illumined by a subtle intelligence that makes his descriptions arresting but never showy.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z She was a dreamy, preoccupied woman, early fifties, willowy, fine-featured, draped over a chair with graceful professionalism that was part coy and part disdainful. My dinner with Alger Hiss 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z The buildings will be different, of course — sleek and graceful titans that will do their best to replace what we once loved. What Took So Long? Why the World Trade Center Still Isn't Finished 2011-09-09T09:00:00Z The opening of the second movement was graceful and direct. Music Review: A Fresh Take Adds a Jolt to a Standard 2011-06-29T19:08:58Z Without breaking character, Mr. Sturridge chose a smarter, more graceful course. ‘Sea Wall/A Life’ Review: Quiet Tragicomedies of Love and Loss 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z And Bernard Haitink and the London Symphony Orchestra make a warm, graceful case for the piece, with an excitement generated by honest, rich yet crisp playing rather than by exaggerations of speed or volume. The Ultimate Beethoven Symphony Collection 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z The back story encouraged me to actually look up and take stock of the graceful arched windows and ridiculously detailed cornices stretching as far as I could see down lower Broadway. In the Pandemic Present, a Literary Tour of Greenwich Village’s Past 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z Composed in memory of Mr. MacMillan’s mother, who died in 2008, the concerto derives its considerable emotive impact from graceful and grotesque elements juxtaposed with a dreamy illogic. Music Review: A New Scottish Concerto, Dressed Up and Dreamy 2011-03-03T21:49:11Z These graceful poems are filled with the voices of the lost: "Our faces the same faces all over again /...my cousin the Cossack, the gypsy, the Jew." How Tom Sleigh, Marilyn Hacker, Deborah Landau, Cecilia Woloch bear witness 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z The resemblance is astonishing: same lawyers’ tables, same arched windows, same graceful, curving balcony. Monroeville?s Mockingbird 2010-07-07T18:02:00Z “Buzzing at the Sill” includes one of the last images taken of him; he appears poised and graceful in a grassy yard, homemade bow and arrow in hand. Peter van Agtmael’s Decoding of American Violence 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z The Impromptu in E flat from the D. 899 set, one of Schubert’s most played pieces, sounds fresh and graceful here. Yes, We Need (Yet) Another Rachmaninoff Recording 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Entering the park from Principe de Vergara, I first passed through the pink remains of an 11th century Romanesque church, the Ruins of San Isidoro, admiring the graceful arcs of the marble. In the heart of Madrid, a park for all seasons 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z All was melodic and graceful, a nice warm-up. Itzhak Perlman does his thing: easy delights for comfortable listening 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z In the evening, proud of our purchases, we sit in the graceful courtyard garden of our haveli as the sky softens and turns rose. The art of craft shopping in India 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z As he spoke, he made his sausage-fingered hands walk across his desk, like nimble and graceful paws. The Pianist Jeremy Denk on the Joys of Chopin, Our Most Catlike Composer 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Haydn's "Oxford" Symphony, No 92, oozed sunshine thanks to warm, tender strings, a graceful solo flute and Fischer's ebullience. Budapest Festival Orchestra/Fischer/Hough - review 2011-01-17T21:46:01Z And in the same way, if she’s being graceful, we don’t see the hostess thinking, ‘Oh my gosh, this is going to cost me a fortune to fix.’ Blame it on the baby boomers: Yes, pretty much everything 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z Weatherford is tall and graceful, with a mane of red-brown hair that cascades below her shoulders. With bold brush strokes and luminous neon, L.A. painter Mary Weatherford comes into her own 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z From across the gallery, the lines in Mills’ paintings are graceful and elegant — evidence of effortless gestures and virtuoso draftsmanship. John Mills seems positively giddy 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Getz had never seen the music before, but the solos he improvised on tenor saxophone were so graceful, tender and assured that, in a single day, he forever defined how bossa nova should be played. Blame it on ‘Jazz Samba’: Bossa nova craze started in D.C. But his writing — supple, vivid, graceful — transcended mere reportage, and his service to aspiring writers was immeasurable. Movie Review: ‘Plimpton!’ Directed by Tom Bean and Luke Poling 2013-05-21T22:48:07Z Mr. Shaw played with just enough reserved emotion, making the song new, and his; Mr. Haynes toned down and concentrated, minimizing his sound, making it simple but graceful. Music Review: Charlie Parker Jazz Festival at Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem 2012-08-26T22:08:27Z But at their most graceful, they make you think of how Fred Astaire might have performed if he’d joined a hip-hop crew. Spare Times: For Children, for Nov. 25-Dec. 1 2011-11-24T20:05:50Z Yet as a record of Davis’s late style — full of graceful warmth, phrases seeming gently to smile — they are priceless. Classical Playlist: Bach, Haydn, Seattle Symphony and More 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z The effect was graceful and moving even though, for the designer, it was back to black. Generation Genius! 2012-09-27T18:27:45Z Every movement is as graceful, economical and minimal as possible. How Do the Robots of ‘Humans’ Imitate Real People? 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z The Philharmonic played with mahogany-rich ardor in the strings in that opening movement, and its winds were graceful in the second. Review: On Thanksgiving, Gratitude for a Dependable Violin 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z In his graceful, compassionate earth portraits, Gowin shows us not environmental degradation but wounds and scars on the earth’s face. Emmet Gowin’s Intimate Photography of Nuclear Destruction 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Margaret Jull Costa, with her habitual skill, has rendered Marías's precise, somewhat laconic Spanish into graceful and equally laconic English, but the title necessarily defeats her. The Infatuations by Javier Marías – review 2013-03-01T17:30:01Z Cats were poised and graceful, and they killed vermin and snakes, but that doesn’t really explain why they were worshiped in Egypt for thousands of years. From 12th Century B.C. to 2017, Art in Startling Variety 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z It is the boyish awkwardness of such gestures from the normally graceful Imlah that arrests the poet's attention. The Seacunny by Gerard Woodward – review 2013-01-18T21:00:04Z A new kind of grace was emerging in her writing, which felt all the more profound for coming from a person who’d long had more interest in being shocking than in being graceful. The Chaotic, Beautiful Larks of Elizabeth Wurtzel 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z It was a group whose youthful energy brought to mind Ms. Graham’s encore the night before: a graceful rendition of “Hello, Young Lovers” from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “The King and I.” Review: From a Veteran Singer to a Newcomer, a Note of Welcome 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z With beautifully sculpted jewelry and a graceful elegance, this was a surreal way for the designer to show how a woman can express her innate femininity. Transparently Sporty 2012-10-01T19:05:37Z District 9 managed a graceful, entertaining fusion of political satire, some sensational monster CGI and a wry narrative take on interspecies friendship. Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium: Drab, Dreary and Dysto-pointing 2013-08-08T16:08:09Z Emotionally acute and musically graceful, the triptych then represented Meloy’s finest moment as a songwriter — and still does. Colin Meloy of the Decemberists on the classic “Crane Wife”: “Everything exists in wartime in our songs” 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z After a graceful concession speech following the Iowa caucuses, Trump turned around and declared the process tainted, demanding a do-over. The movie that foretold the rise of Donald Trump 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z And yet the confidence of this drama, the amount of sheer emotional toil they left to her eyes, and the way she met that challenge, so graceful and alive … it was peerless. Haunting, chillingly plausible, peerless … how The Handmaid’s Tale changed TV 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z These graceful contours are further picked up in spaceships that float like jellyfish and in suits of armor that evoke crustaceans, adding to this alien world’s striking conceptual unity. Movie Review: ‘Man of Steel’ Depicts a Striving Stranger in a Strange Land 2013-06-13T16:00:30Z Easy as it is to elect a white president, graceful as an Olympic figure skater, I parted my lips and I lied. I failed my friend Dante Barksdale. We all failed him 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z “Diving is no longer the graceful art that it used to be,” agrees Li. Hitting the water without a splash gets big cheers, but has Olympic diving gotten too dry? 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z As in the Scriabin, Mr. Kissin offered a fluid balance of unabashed virtuosity and graceful, singing nuance. Music Review: New York Philharmonic With Evgeny Kissin at Carnegie Hall 2012-05-24T21:51:03Z Heroic in his deeds, graceful in his manner, sainted in his image, Nelson Mandela long served as both cause and muse in the entertainment community. Mandela inspired music, movies, poems 2013-12-05T22:39:37Z “Tall,” with its graceful, thrifty camera work, is a profoundly beautiful film, and its beauty is sometimes at odds with its polemical intentions. Review: ‘Tall’ Is a Little Movie About How Buildings Got So Big 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z Meg was at once teenaged and awkward, pregnant and ungainly, maternal and graceful. Motherlode Blog: 'A Wrinkle in Time' Turns 50 2012-02-01T00:05:36Z My response to these crises has never been graceful. Modern Love: The Radiance, Then the Ashes 2011-06-09T20:54:29Z Ayoade performs a graceful balancing act in his screenplay and direction, finding and holding just the right note of quizzical surrealism and jazzy wit, while Eisenberg’s dueling performances are a marvel of comic contrasts. ‘The Future,’ ‘Cheap Thrills’ and More Offbeat Streaming Gems 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z We seem to believe both that handwriting doesn't matter, since everyone types, and that when people do write a handwritten letter, it ought to be elegant, graceful and well practised. Philip Hensher: Why handwriting matters 2012-10-06T23:05:27Z Hirsh notes of their graceful underwater flight, “ ... their movements as steady and timeless as weathering stone.” ‘Telling Our Way to the Sea’: wonders of the Sea of Cortez 2013-08-30T20:49:27Z But for the graceful, crafted side of VU – the side that’s overlooked when we describe the group as radical, violently transgressive outlaws – check out this one. Five great live albums: From Otis Redding to Built to Spill 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z Behind the scenes, people familiar with the situation say, the arts center had tried to provide a “graceful exit” for Stevens. Producer George Stevens Jr. announces the 37th KenCen Honors was his last 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z And the way it was done — without a successor groomed and waiting in the wings, and without a graceful exit for Pelley — is less than classy. Perspective | CBS makes one thing clear in yanking Scott Pelley: It’s all about the ratings 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z The circular design was meant to complement the yet-to-be built Kennedy Center nearby, which was originally envisioned as a graceful curved building, rather than the flat shoebox that exists today. Does the Watergate Hotel need a younger, sexier scandal? 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z “It’s a little like dancing,” Mr. McLaughlin said, reaching with a graceful extension of his arm. Caleb McLaughlin of ‘Stranger Things’ Slays Tennis Balls 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z But his writing, well served by Adriana Hunter’s graceful translation from the French, is nimble and versatile. ‘The Anomaly,’ Part Airplane Thriller and Part Exploration of Reality, Fate and Free Will 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z The pose is light and graceful, the modeling well understood, the general sense of movement admirably sustained.” From Movement in Ancient Art to Radical Choreographers 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z When you do overcook them, though, there’s still some time for a graceful recovery. 10 Common Cooking Mistakes and How to Fix Them 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z This concession speech was a work of art, as so many graceful actions are. The campaign was nasty. Hillary Clinton’s concession speech was graceful. 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z His evening dresses, graceful and elegant, lovely as they were, gave a frustrating feeling that, instead of the furs drawing the template for the show, it was the other way around. Fashion Review: As New York Fashion Week Ends, a Crisis of Identity 2012-02-17T17:58:42Z Palo Alto is a wealthy, cosmopolitan hub, decorated with graceful residential streets and a thriving downtown filled with cafes and boutiques; houses routinely sell for millions of dollars. What happens to local news when there is no local media to cover it? 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Manning was overwhelmed: “His beautiful mouth” was “perpetually unbending into a graceful smile. … I could have wept through strangeness of sensation. … I was absorbed in reflections when I got home.” The Opium War and the Humiliation of China 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z He moves in it like it’s an extension of his limbs; he’s graceful, he doesn’t think about the metal and fabric and rubber. I was sure that legalizing aid in dying was the right thing to do. Then I met Bad Cripple 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z There’s something defiant but soft and graceful in her walk. Malika Favre’s “Sweeping into Fall” 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z But in Beethoven’s Second Symphony — a classic that is still somehow underrated — he was superb, with his deliberate, even careful conducting yielding a graceful, stylish interpretation. Review: A Philharmonic Contender Returns to the Podium 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Smoky peat was once used to dry the malted barley, and now a whiff of smokiness from that revived method overlays the subtly honeyed palate of this graceful new whiskey. An Irish Whiskey Returns to Its Roots 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z Not so suspicious, however, as to reject entirely porcelain’s graceful form and alluring sheen. In the galleries: Elvis and E.T. meet an ancient Asian art form 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z It segues easily into “Tom,” an earthy soul ballad featuring graceful embellishment by the blues guitarist Doyle Bramhall II, along with a desolate opening couplet: “There’s nothing between us/Except the feeling of nothing.” New Albums by Miranda Lambert, Meshell Ndegeocello and Taylor McFerrin 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z The books have simple stories and enchanting illustrations by Vincent that are characterized by graceful lines, muted colors and blurred edges. Movie Listings for May 2-8 2014-05-01T21:50:50Z The line got a laugh, and provided a graceful pivot from Smithsonian brand to Archives’ mission. Smithsonian’s new fundraising strategy: collect collectively 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Her words sketch characters and situations in enigmatic glances and flashes of candor, while her graceful melodies promise more consolation than they words they carry. Music: Listening to Sia Tolno, Wye Oak, Etta James and Givers 2011-12-30T17:00:00Z The most heartening discoveries on my rotation were small but true — harsh stories told with graceful filmmaking intelligence. Quality may be casualty of film fest war 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z What follows is a graceful swan dive into the question of how a family rearranges itself after the death of a child. How Does a Family Change After Losing a Child? 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z That’s reason enough to dip into this graceful if gossamer book. Jean Kennedy Smith Remembers Growing Up Kennedy 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z “Acts were no longer billed as ‘skillful’ or graceful.’ ‘The Ordinary Acrobat’: a daring young man’s circus obsession 2013-03-07T20:46:22Z Along the way, Jamie sings of his plight in numbers both snappy and sappy, annotated with improbably extended legs and graceful vogueing. Showgirls, a Monster and a Drag Queen: Singing Songs of Self 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Should we call this theater, cinema or television — or a sometimes graceful, sometimes clumsy hybrid of all three? ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ Review: All the Blues That’s Fit to Sing 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z “Hollywood’s” most graceful note is one viewers already understand, perhaps thanks to a show like “Glee” or “Pose” — it’s that intense satisfaction of seeing “someone like me” represented on the screen or at awards shows. Review | In Ryan Murphy’s ‘Hollywood,’ the old studio system gets a rousingly revisionist wake-up call 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z In order to display the nuances of terroir, the wines must be graceful, subtle, refined and suggestive, rather than simply powerful and coercive, in which case those fine notes can be lost. The Value of Burgundy, Regardless of the Price 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z “In any one stride, only 10 percent will look graceful,” said Mr. Rich, the photographer. Marathon Photos Often Fail to Capture the Glory 2012-11-05T22:37:03Z Collins’s style is fine, graceful, and reserved, but pierced with the harsh simplicity of lurking menace. “Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?”: Kathleen Collins’s Revelatory Short Stories 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Prominent chimneys, a hallmark of the Cotswold style, rise around the house without overshadowing the graceful nature of the home. In Energized Detroit, Savoring an Architectural Legacy 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z But Mr. Solares is a graceful, even poetic, writer, especially in his hard-boiled dialogue and his descriptions of the wildly varied landscapes and ethnic types of northern Mexico. Books Of The Times: Noir in Sunny Mexico, Mart?n Solares?s ?Black Minutes? 2010-05-31T23:37:00Z What Mr. Andersen, the radio host, calls a graceful number of Facebook friends is a mutable concept. When Facebook Says: You Have Too Many Friends 2010-05-28T22:46:00Z He pulled it together for the dance though, floating across like the floor like a gigantic gay swan, extending his pretty wings and taking graceful flight while the ladies of America swooned. "Dancing with the Stars" recap: Evan goes butch 2010-05-04T12:05:00Z They are infused with graceful beauty, lush tones, and clever, incisive turns of phrase. With colored pencils and confessional phrases, Amanda Manitach’s art speaks to many 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z The collection wraps up with contemporary pieces, like the spare, graceful plates, bowls and cups designed for the company’s KoKo line in 2005. 2009-12-31T18:04:00Z Frustrations notwithstanding, Obama was characteristically graceful and mature in the Rose Garden. Obama’s Lessons, Unlearned 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z The opening Scarlatti set which, like the Liszt works that concluded the program, involved a lot of hand-crossing and leaps up and down the keyboard was muscular and athletic as well as graceful and delicate. Taxes forgotten, Meany crowd welcomes André Watts 2014-04-16T18:56:41Z I’m nearing the end of a marathon and my graceful form has turned into a heelstriking shuffle … Heel striking – is it really the enemy of good running form? 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z The graceful, felinelike dragon, Toothless, doesn't have a lot to say, but he invites the boy to enjoy a "king of the world" moment as he takes him on a spectacular flight through the clouds. 'How to Train Your Dragon' breathes visual fire into 3-D tale of friendship 2010-03-24T23:35:00Z But Bernal is such a graceful, appealing performer that we soon forget that he is not the Tehran native that the protagonist is. 'Rosewater' finds Jon Stewart in solidly serious mode 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Against a soothing blue-green backdrop, their smooth, muscular bodies looked graceful, peaceful — even a little vulnerable — and their large eyes were sad and somewhat vacant. In the Bahamas, Scuba Diving With James Bond’s Trainer 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Chung’s brave, graceful memoir recalls growing up as the adoptive child of white parents and searching for her Korean birth family’s roots. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2018 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Conductor Piotr Gajewski presided over a sympathetic ensemble with Bailey in the concerto and an elegantly shaped and graceful performance of the Mozart “Prague” Symphony No. 38 to end the evening. National Philharmonic’s program of Haydn, Mozart favorites delights young audience members 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z I’d want the graceful handmade wooden ladle from Old World Kitchen. Mushroom Essences and More Thanksgiving Helpers 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Travelers who plan well enjoy the most vivid experience: Aix’s farmers’ market is a classic Provençal scene — rustic farmers selling fresh produce under the shade of graceful plane trees. The magic of France’s Aix-en-Provence 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z All this was brought together with the clarity of a designer who senses fashion change — but interprets it in her own graceful way. Special Report: Fashion: Color Returns to the City 2011-02-16T17:42:22Z Whether angular or sinuous, her postures are as specific and graceful as those of a Kabuki artist, and as ritualized. John Epperson Returns, in ‘Lypsinka! The Trilogy’ 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Architecture is the star at the InterContinental Hotel Dieu, where every corner reveals a magnificent curved archway, a graceful shadow or a stately plaza. Hotel Review: InterContinental Marseille Hôtel Dieu 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z One thinks first of Douglas Fairbanks Jr in the 1920s – a graceful, humorous, majestic embodiment of the American century. Robin Hood 2010-05-15T23:09:00Z His approach is stark yet unforced, often graceful and adventurous to the end — an exit by a natural visionary. ‘Night Across the Street’: a surreal, rewarding farewell 2013-04-25T20:44:45Z The Duomo, Florence’s iconic building with a massive yet graceful red-tiled-roof dome, rises above the city’s medieval streets. Florence: A city full of art 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z And there is no orchestra I’d rather hear play it than this one, pared to a vivid, graceful chamber scale. Review: ‘Ariadne,’ the Most Operatic Opera, Bows in Cleveland 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z “I’m really getting worried here,” he said, pointing to the moldy and decaying columns supporting the graceful vaults. Fighting Entropy to Salvage Istanbul's Historic Bazaar 2011-04-13T18:31:39Z The smaller sharks, graceful and lithe, needed little encouragement. 2010-01-15T17:14:00Z Her burdens don’t seem to weigh down her graceful verse but to lift it skyward. Review: Poetry by Lucia Perillo and Amit Majmudar 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z “And the rest of it — the woman learning to be her own and being so freaking graceful and strong through all of it — that’s real too.” Lauren Ridloff’s Quiet Power: ‘My Life Has Changed in Every Way’ 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Walker uses effects sparingly, but an accordion-like sound warmed a graceful ballad towards the end of the first set. Gwilym Simcock/Mike Walker 2010-05-27T20:46:00Z Fortunately, this graceful production captures more than enough of this challengingly frolicsome yet ultimately piercing play to win us over. Shakespeare's 'Love's Labor's Lost': Kathleen Marshall directs a winner at the Old Globe 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z I’m not trying to be glib — well, maybe a little — but rather to put my finger on the merits and limitations of this ethically serious, aesthetically graceful and curiously bloodless movie. | 'In a Better World': A Do-Gooder Vision Clouded by Blind Spots 2011-03-31T22:22:34Z This movie is graceful, subtle and sure-footed, much as its English title implies. Movie Review: ‘A Cat in Paris,’ the Animated French Film 2012-05-31T21:54:24Z But Dunn is a good writer, with some of the easy erudition of Mary Beard, that great popularizer of Roman history, and her translations from both Plinys are graceful and precise. They Were the Renaissance Men of Roman Antiquity 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z It's not flashy but it is graceful – and it certainly sounds like Vivaldi. La Serenissima ? review 2011-01-27T21:45:01Z An affectionate, graceful non-desperate note of about 200 words that I worked on for three hours. Just Friends? Let Me Read Between the Lines 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Even in his lousiest pictures — “I made lots of low-budget movies,” he admitted — he’s a thing of beauty, a graceful, whirling dynamo. Jean-Claude Van Damme Plays Jean-Claude Van Damme, for Kicks 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z London is furnished with graceful, airy buildings with generous windows and brick details of simple dignity, constructed in their hundreds to meet the need that arose after the introduction of universal education in 1870. Michael Gove's standardised schools not such a class act 2013-04-13T23:05:30Z To watch this movie, especially in its long, graceful final movement, is to feel a circle closing. ‘The Irishman’ Review: The Mob’s Greatest Hits, in a Somber Key 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z POP tread lightly on all this, but with graceful and unpretentious ease. For opera lovers, at last a 'Rake' for L.A., bearded lady and all 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z That might sound cerebral, but the music doesn’t, partly because of the graceful work of peers like Matt Mitchell on piano and Miles Okazaki on guitar. The Best Albums of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z En route, we passed shanties and dilapidated Victorian homes enclosed by broad porches, echoes of this once-prosperous Dutch settlement, and also the graceful white and stained-glass Moravian church built by German missionaries in 1849. In Paradisiacal Nicaragua, Contemplating a Canal 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Then he was back to the business of rhapsody, one graceful inflection at a time. Music Review: Fred Hersch Trio, Live and Recorded, at the Village Vanguard 2012-02-08T22:51:48Z Still, this wine, made by a superb Langhe producer, is a graceful, delicious gem. 20 Wines for Under $20 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Mazz Swift’s “She Is a Story, Herself” included several exciting moments, such as flitting small melodic ideas that subsided into a graceful chorale, but the piece overall did not feel fully conceptualized. Review: Kronos Quartet Offers a Creative Snapshot of a Global Pandemic 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z So I reworked Lucy in accordance with my memory of Regina Dugan: graceful and involved in the business of death. 'It's a hustle': Jon Ronson on how he made it into movies with the help of Okja the giant pig 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z The North Slope, which undulated in graceful green and brown curves to the north, would take us six hours to cross. This 414-mile road to the Arctic Ocean is one of the world’s most remote highways 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Rasmussen's film is thoughtful and graceful in part because of Amin's emotional recollections, but also because the animation allows the story to be told as a memory piece toggling back and forth in time. "Flee" director on protecting a refugee's identity through animation: "He is always having to hide" 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z It's a shorthand to closeness and an example of the graceful practicality of McIntyre's style. The Only True History of Lizzie Finn; The Taming of the Shrew; How Like an Angel – review 2012-07-07T23:05:44Z For one thing, some of it is very funny, as in a tableau positioning two porcelain figurines of colonial-era gentry before a regal, glowering jet-black face looming above them, their graceful postures bespeaking total incomprehension. Inspired by Harriet Tubman, an Artist Takes Glass to Extremes 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Baryshnikov, elegant, compact, and graceful, wearing his library-award medal on a blue ribbon around his neck, took the stage. The Magnificent New York Public Library for the Performing Arts 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z Sensing beauty in decay, Mr. Deacon sent out patterns of scorching, as though graceful dresses had been licked by flames. Fashion Review: Sarah Burton Shows McQ, the Alexander McQueen Second Line 2012-02-21T18:19:33Z Human competition is inherently dramatic, and sports most often involve graceful, charismatic and good-looking specimens of humanity. "Senna": Meet the Elvis of racing drivers 2011-08-12T00:30:00Z The graceful song’s quiet redemption is the centerpiece of “The Spur,” Shelley’s sixth solo album, due Friday. Joan Shelley’s New Songs Soothe Old Wounds 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z The title track features his new all-star band, Aggregate Prime, in a mode of terse restraint, with a graceful melody inscribed by Gary Thomas on flute and Mark Whitfield on guitar. Preview NYC Winter Jazzfest in 7 Tracks 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z There isn’t likely to be a more graceful breakup song this year than “I L U,” or one more tersely affecting. Playlist: New CDs From Bjork, Barry Harris and Dwele 2010-07-09T23:42:00Z Leading a trio, he mingled standards and originals, including a graceful waltz with the appropriate title “Snow Is Falling.” Swinging on the Hudson: An Unlikely Haven for Jazz 2010-03-04T22:38:00Z The tension between the formally posed, outwardly graceful character of the choreography’s shapes and the dancers’ close concentration on each other is intriguing. ‘Rude World,’ a Dance by Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z I wonder who held the PlayStation, if it was the cameraman from the train, graceful enough to balance one-handed. You’re the kids who robbed us: Our strange online encounter with our burglars 2014-04-12T23:00:00Z And she presents it on this occasion in graceful shape, leaving it to us to ponder all of its beauty and all of its blemishes. A ride on a ‘Carousel’ is just the ticket right now 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z A graceful, dignified Titania, Lesley Rausch and her Cavalier Joshua Grant danced their long slow duet with beautiful flow and balance, while Benjamin Griffiths made Oberon’s demanding choreography look easy, garnering bravos from the audience. PNB fields a ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ team 2014-04-14T16:32:46Z But it’s the narrative, written by Noah Haidle and directed by Fisher Stevens, that ultimately proves too wobbly and unstable, derailing this graceful trio of old pros. Scent of Doomed Men: Al Pacino and Christopher Walken Team Up for Stand Up Guys 2013-01-31T12:59:25Z These were all graceful ways to catch us up with where the girls are in their lives, even though no time has really passed since the end of last season. 'Girls' Recap: Season 4 Begins, and Hannah Is in an Iowa State of Mind 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z The rules insist that Alphas can only mate with Alphas, and when playful Omega Humphrey takes a shine to beautiful, graceful Alpha Kate, there's trouble in the pack. Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole; Alpha and Omega 3D ? film review 2010-10-23T23:05:00Z With rhythmic speech and graceful gestures, she delivered a poem in honor of a trio of essential workers, three honorary captains — James Martin, a U.S. Amanda Gorman clearly has talent. But there’s more to her meteoric rise. 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z Most of the surviving temples date from the 10th century, and are built of red brick and covered with graceful carvings. In Vietnam, Street Food Moves From Sidewalk to Storefront 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z If Millet’s mermaids are beautiful and graceful, though, the satire in her novel isn’t: It’s chaotic and exhausting. Book review: ‘Mermaids in Paradise,’ by Lydia Millet So this graceful collection, designed to be worn by a rarefied clientele, was not done just for promotion or brand building. Fashion Review: In Paris, Schiaparelli Returns to Couture 2014-01-20T14:47:27Z Hand-hewn posts and railings, along with graceful brackets, are crafted from regionally harvested locustwood to further enhance this cottage’s connection to the land. Best New Cottage 2010-09-17T16:13:00Z Instead, the Red Label show was elegant, even graceful, essentially Westwood in its curvy cuts and soft drapes. Special Report: Fashion: Christopher Raeburn?s Twist on ?Up-Cycling? 2011-09-19T17:50:44Z That made a pleasing tableau for the fashion house, where the original designer invented the bias cut, with its ripple of fabric at a graceful angle across the form. Fashion Review: Cabinet of Curiosities 2013-07-04T16:56:14Z Woodward has never been a graceful writer, but the prose here is unusually wooden. In ‘Fear,’ Bob Woodward Pulls Back the Curtain on President Trump’s ‘Crazytown’ 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Sometimes I only realise it when I've done so for long enough to provoke a fit of explosive coughing – difficult to combine with graceful piano playing. Listen to Britain 2010-03-20T00:05:00Z It’s also a study in contrasts, as ushers with no stage experience must walk across the stage to meet the most graceful of performers at center stage. When presenting a bouquet to a ballerina, don’t trip! 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z More than 20 galleries line the streets, and graceful hollyhocks brighten corner gardens. New Mexico’s Silver City — just the ticket for a 25th wedding anniversary 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z There is no graceful way to tell stories like these. Out of the mouths of babes: When street harassment comes from boys, not men 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z Along with tapestries he makes suspended sculptures, tangled but graceful cloud-like forms made from wire, spray-painted in silver, pink or copper tones. Art That Finds Clarity in South Africa’s Fraught Terrain 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z Even the most graceful and godlike among us are prone to pratfalls. Rudy Giuliani and the Butt-Dialler Within All of Us 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z All the marks of exalted Mozart playing were here, especially a graceful ebb and flow. Review: Takacs Quartet and the Viennese Masters Play at Alice Tully Hall 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z High points: “12/17/12,” named for the date of President Obama’s post-Newtown address to the nation, is impossibly graceful and viscerally sad. Sleater-Kinney, the Decemberists and Belle and Sebastian look to add to their legacies 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z With minimal dialogue and graceful editing, Mr. Davis and the screenwriter Luke Davies convey the Dickensian dimensions of Saroo’s situation. Review: ‘Lion’ Brings Tears for a Lost Boy, Wiped Dry by Google 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z It is modest, observant, graceful and nonchalantly witty. Review: ‘Obit’ Follows the Team That Writes Death Notices for The Times 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z While his thin jokes hinge on exasperated observations about minor irritations — loud guys, his Sicilian dad’s frugality, the word “selfie” — they are giddily animated by a flamboyant, even graceful physicality. Comedians Like Sebastian Maniscalco Act Out Their Humor 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Andrew Lincoln and Essie Davis are graceful and believable as a married pair of bird researchers trying to recover from a family tragedy. ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities’ Review: 7 Tricks, 1 Treat 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z Marissa speaks with real love about corralling disparate scenes into a graceful and coherent narrative. Need a Distraction? These Thrillers Will Have You on the Edge of Your Seat 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z “Pulcinella” was also a modernist’s look back — but to the graceful energy of early 18th-century Italian music, which Stravinsky transposed into airy yet tender arrangements. Review: On Thanksgiving, Gratitude for a Dependable Violin 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z And we will be expected to be exceptionally graceful mourners. Black Bodies in Motion and in Pain 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z In these works and the entire program Mr. Sulzen’s playing was graceful and articulate. Music Review: Anna Caterina Antonacci Sings at Lincoln Center 2012-04-09T21:27:56Z Li Guoyu, an artist from Shanghai, was drawn to this graceful architecture when she started looking for a property to turn into an inn in the early 2000s. Next Stop: In Anhui, China, Centuries-Old Charm 2011-10-28T18:55:00Z Today his lyrical, graceful work occupies a place apart from the more dance theater-driven trends on the English dance scene. 2010-01-08T20:23:00Z But in expressing these feelings, they seem to be simultaneously and clumsily translating from another, more graceful language. Review: In ‘Girl From the North Country,’ Rolling Stones Gather Regrets 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z “Christie’s art is, as always, breathtaking, uniting folk art and sleek modern gestures with a graceful dynamism that calls to mind Jacob Lawrence and Benny Andrews,” our reviewer, Maria Russo, said. The New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2016 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Leonhardt was honored for what the judges called "his graceful penetration of America's complicated economic questions, from the federal budget deficit to health care reform." Details on the 2011 Pulitzer Prize winners 2011-04-19T00:29:08Z It’s flanked by graceful arcades and surrounded by plenty of commerce. Discovering ‘undiscovered’ Hamburg 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z The peaks swept up in graceful waves, and the early-evening sun glinted on far-off peaks. This 414-mile road to the Arctic Ocean is one of the world’s most remote highways 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z The tightly wound humor and tragedy of her stories, delivered in prose that never draws attention to its graceful wit, demonstrate that every unremarkable family, wrapped in proud insularity, is special. Anne Tyler’s new novel feels familiar, but that’s actually a good thing 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z He's an adventurer who's sure to always land on his graceful feet, or in the lap of just the right fellow scamp who happens to admire "clean-smelling men with beautiful lips." 'History of a Pleasure Seeker': an ambitious interloper among the rich 2012-02-15T22:18:07Z But that doesn’t diminish the cumulative effect of the graceful prose, which reaches back in the best way to its noir predecessors. After 18 Years in Prison, a Woman Tries to Find Her Way Home 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z One to watch is Charlotte Duckworth, a Devon-based silversmith who presents a graceful set of silver ladles and serving spoons with delicate, natural handles crafted from holly branches. What to See at London’s Collect Art Fair 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Think about it: Who could tango better than a cat, who is naturally graceful, perpetually slinky and has that don't-mess-with-me-or-I-will-cut-you attitude — a tango staple — down pat? 'Puss in Boots': Catnip for kids 2011-10-27T03:00:33Z It reminds me of the Ottoman era in the 1870s, how they used to wear graceful costumes. Intersection: Street Style at the Souk Waqif in Doha, Qatar 2014-04-16T21:12:15Z Behind a graceful façade with a columned veranda, elegant interiors feature hardwood floors, a top-of-the-line kitchen, and five fireplaces. A Colonial-Style Estate for Sale in Bedford, New York 2013-12-31T05:00:00Z He finds a changed world and endures unpleasant encounters that show how no one much respects him, the work he’s done or the idea that he deserves a graceful retirement. | 'Mammuth': G?rard Depardieu in ?Mammuth? ? Review 2011-09-30T04:23:03Z The teacher, after kicking a leg behind her in a graceful arc, bends toward the girl and touches her fingers. 5 Dance Picture Books 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z You can also take in the Chopins’ residence — eventually, Kate Chopin and her husband, Oscar, had six children — at 1413 Louisiana Street, a graceful house, shaded by enormous live oaks. Literary Louisiana 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Stockholm’s design shops and Elin’s own fabulous style, a graceful mixture of modern Scandinavian with worldly whimsy, are worth flying across the ocean for. Shopping Scandinavian design in Stockholm like a local — coffee breaks included 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Rather, this show, titled “Junction/Cycle” after its two main components, revisits the graceful spirals and ellipses Mr. Serra exhibited here around 2001. Art Review: Richard Serra?s Sculpture at Gagosian Gallery - Review 2011-10-05T21:35:03Z While designed for maximum ergonomic efficiency, the tables weren’t what anyone would call graceful. ArtsBeat: Tax Day Special: David Foster Wallace and the Terrors of the Tingle Table 2011-04-18T11:00:56Z As seen in ReAct Theatre's graceful, funny and sometimes haunting new production of "Driving Miss Daisy," it's easy to see why it would be superfluous. ReAct Theatre's 'Driving Miss Daisy' returns to the play's nuanced roots 2012-08-15T16:32:04Z She has a percussive touch, graceful and sometimes aggressive, and she likes playing fast, walking or soloing or delivering a jagged ostinato. New Music: New Albums by John Mayer, Haley Reinhart and Linda Oh 2012-05-21T22:24:29Z Lyne’s horses are graceful thoroughbred-types, jumping jumps, galloping across green fields, an ideal sky graced by drifting white clouds forming the backdrop. My Horse Country 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z During those years, he honed his craft and put together the pieces of a screen character — his distinctive start-and-stop phrasing; his low, slow growl of a voice; his graceful, rolling walk. ‘John Wayne: The Life and Legend,’ Explains a Star’s Power 2014-03-24T21:54:48Z Crowned, blinded and gagged by highly polished discs, and born of traditions both European and African, these graceful, commanding figures will change the face of the museum, literally and figuratively. Wangechi Mutu: A New Face for the Met 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Tufts completes this part of the Bard's "Wars of the Roses" cycle in graceful form. Myth and mirth take the stage at Oregon Shakespeare fest 2012-07-19T21:29:02Z It’s also notably graceful in its ability to concretize the abstract and loosen the concrete. If Lena Dunham wrote a memoir 2012-07-22T16:00:00Z As that lovely description suggests, Toibin, who lives in Dublin and New York, is an impressive, graceful writer in his own right. Colm Toibin on the Fathers of Geniuses 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z By now, Mr. McCartney’s graceful melodies are a shared cultural heritage. Paul McCartney Offers Guileless Romance at Irving Plaza 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z Except imagine that effect magnified and poeticized, with urban chaos turned rhythmic and graceful. | 'Traces': Acrobats Meet Skateboards and Basketballs (Watch Out!) 2011-08-10T02:01:08Z It’s graceful and gentle, lightly herbal, stony and sweetly grassy. From Savoie, White Wines That Refresh Like Mountain Air 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z Shostakovich repeats this telling juxtaposition with the graceful, scherzolike third movement and the fast, angrily brusque finale. Music Review: Shostakovich Quartets as an Intimate Diary 2010-10-26T20:09:00Z On the program: the overture to “The Impresario,” the graceful oboe concerto with the soloist Liang Wang and the vivacious “Symphony No. 39.” Opera & Classical Music Listings for Dec. 19-25 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Typically accompanied by up-tempo traditional music, Ukrainian folk dance often combines jumps performed by men with more graceful movement for women. Ukrainian Dance at the Soyuzivka Resort in the Catskills 2012-08-24T22:48:11Z Not just because they are a necessary corrective to our overanxious, go-ballistic-over-high-fructose-corn-syrup age, but because of their graceful assertion that many stories are worth preserving. I Hopped a Plane Just for a Barbecue Sandwich. I’d Do It Again. 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Nina Ricci is the incarnation of the Frenchwoman, wearing her sensuality in a graceful, off-hand way. Fashion Review: Bill Gaytten at Dior Shows a Light Touch 2011-09-30T18:29:29Z The mostly open secret about Tha Doggfather is that he’s actually quite the connoisseur of all things luxurious and graceful, which he and Stewart proved nailing this lightning round in an episode “$100,000 Pyramid.” The weird high magic of “Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party” 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Doty’s graceful balance between meditation and observation begins with the first five poems, all of which are called “Deep Lane” and explore some form of descent. The best poetry for April 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z The 15 dancers were wonderful and individual in a sort of generic contemporary choreography that interspersed graceful, athletic leaps and lifts with moments of vernacular folk movement. “Firebird” at Wolf Trap proves long on statement, short on puppets 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z Also: a new tomb in Egypt ... an invaluable photographic archive of U.S. cities at the Library of Congress ... a quirky museum in El Segundo ... and a graceful new art building at Pomona College. Roundup: Koons in France, a museum in El Segundo, an art hall in Pomona 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Achingly beautiful, quiet and graceful, his award-winning novel Waiting is a love story superimposed on a political allegory. Dan Vyleta's top 10 books in second languages 2011-02-16T12:01:20Z “Family Business” is also a work of graceful yet severe precision, distilling a wide range of experience into a tautly compressed style. What to Stream: A Rediscovered Short by—and Starring—Chantal Akerman 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z The city features a plethora of parks and graceful neighborhoods, as well as college campuses--all with enough turning leaves to create a fall fantasia for exploring. Fall City Escapes 2010-10-20T17:00:00Z It also showcases his graceful writing style: Neurosurgery, he writes, is appealing for its “controlled and altruistic violence.” A surgeon confesses his mistakes, and other best memoirs for May 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z Christopher Bollen, editor at large at Interview magazine, reveals a graceful prose style in his literary thriller “The Destroyers.” Deception and death on a gorgeous Greek isle 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z The poem's surface is almost suave, the emotion well tamped down, with rueful wit and graceful playfulness preponderant. Poem of the week: Love-Letter-Burning by Daniel Hall 2013-02-04T10:19:21Z Ms. Hunt is a graceful, sometimes poetic writer who knows how to build suspense. Samantha Hunt’s ‘Mr. Splitfoot,’ and More 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Approaching 90, he still looks forever young and graceful, presiding over the scene like a pensive angel. Tacita Dean: Craneway Event 2010-05-08T23:07:00Z Though Under Armour is known for commercials starring bulky, sweaty football players, its new women-focused ad campaign highlights a more graceful kind of competitor: the ballerina. Watch This Inspiring Under Armour Ad Starring Ballerina Misty Copeland 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z What makes Clinton’s sassy new persona so interesting is how very different — yet equally graceful – it is from Michelle Obama’s. Hillary Clinton does not have time for your games 2012-08-16T19:43:00Z There wasn’t the graceful historical pageantry of Athens, the commanding special effects of Beijing, or the theatrical prowess of London. Why the Rio Olympics opening ceremony matters 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z The exhibition skips over several decades to the present day, when Ms. Nilsson has taken to painting outsize women who manage to be both bulbous and graceful as they observe the world around them. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Well informed, and a graceful guest, he had many real friends among the wealthy and aristocratic, who appreciated not only his intellectual distinction but his transparent integrity. My hero: Victoria Glendinning on John Gross 2011-01-15T00:06:05Z In the areas around downtown, the lots get bigger and the homes more graceful — including one particularly beguiling early 20th century number just off Alondra Boulevard that sports a courtly crenelated tower at its entrance. The runner's view of Los Angeles: Its landscape, its people, and the BBQ at mile 10 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z The slowly ascending notes in the lower staff of Bach’s original, which outline a G major triad, become, in the upside-down version, a graceful falling figure in the top line. A Jazz Pianist Flips Bach Upside-Down 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z Pioneering 19th-century landscape architect Andrew Jackson Downing called the hemlock “beyond all question, the most graceful tree grown in this country.” New hemlock hybrid could return a beloved tree to the shade garden 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Yet Van Kempen, a genial man with the slender, graceful frame of an ex-dancer, does not consider himself a star maker. Drama teacher at Seattle's Roosevelt High named one of nation's best 2012-09-17T00:42:04Z With appetizers like that, there’s no graceful way of eating. Date Lab: These tall redheads don’t exactly see eye-to-eye 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z By the 1990s, they were period pieces: quiet, safe, graceful but old-fashioned. Five decades after arriving in Georgetown, Gordon Riggle is still shaping its gardens 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z From our table next to the boardwalk, we glimpsed the graceful arch of the town’s trademark Rainbow Bridge. In a rapidly growing state, La Conner’s pace of change is just right 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z The beams’ graceful arches create soaring vaulted ceilings and upward-reaching exteriors, reflected in the surrounding pools. Zaha Hadid Will Design Cambodia’s Sleuk Rith Institute 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z "The main issue with this project was how to construct a staircase that unites the levels in a graceful, dynamic way," Selldorf says. Annabelle Selldorf Renovates a New York Townhouse 2013-12-23T05:00:00Z In the corner, a graceful Christmas tree continues the effect. Elegant Christmas Dinner Party 2011-12-12T19:20:07.153Z Dame Margot, who was found on a rooftop nearby, was described by officers as "very graceful about the raid," but they added that Nureyev, who was found on another roof, "wasn't too pleasant." Charges dropped against Fonteyn and Nureyev: from the archive, 12 July 1967 2013-07-12T06:30:00Z Mr. Harris is giving a highly disciplined performance that has the graceful illusion of sometimes clumsy spontaneity. Theater Review: ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ Stars Neil Patrick Harris 2014-04-23T02:00:14Z A series of chords thinning into nothing, played with exquisite transparency, announced a simple and graceful ending. Music Review: Marlboro Chamber Ensemble in Peoples’ Concert Series 2014-04-09T21:19:01Z This house is a reflection of me — Modern, graceful, easy, simple … synthetic So free In everything I see — my reflection Do I really look so simply pathetic? Beyond ‘Rent’: 4 Glimpses of the Unheard Jonathan Larson 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z I said after one sip of the potent but graceful pinot noir. Seduced by Beaune in Burgundy 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z There is a lingering sense that dance, which involves physical bodies subject to the laws of gravity and propelled by muscle, will somehow drag down the music’s graceful architecture. Does Mozart Defy the Limits of Dance? Mark Morris Begs to Differ. 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z The celebration includes an hourlong fireworks display over the Neva and the passage down the river of a graceful three-masted schooner modeled after one used by the imperial family in the late 19th century. White Nights of St. Petersburg, Russia 2011-06-03T19:03:09Z She appeared on Friday, with the pianist Henning Ruhe, at Weill Recital Hall, the New York recital debut of a graceful artist. Review: Tara Erraught, Out of the Frying Pan and Into a Tranquil Recital 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z It is actually this weird attempt to sound aware and open together and graceful, which is ridiculous because really? Elizabeth Wurtzel on The Bachelor: 'So picky'? We've heard that one before 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Her response is, in some ways, a graceful way to brush off any discussion of the unsubstantiated and possibly irrelevant rumors that she’s prepping a run for executive office. Cynthia Nixon: “A lot of people would like me to run” for governor — Really? Who? 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z In the Rondo finale, though, he and the orchestra shared a graceful mixture of lightness and weight. Review: The Philharmonic’s Conductor Returns to His Perch 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Lucius is inspired by the Mount Fuji murals in Tokyo bathhouses to paint the similarly graceful curves of Mount Vesuvius on the walls back home. Thermae Romae: is Japanese film feeling the heat? 2012-05-29T13:56:02Z The music is restrained and meticulous, all graceful melodies, plucked strings and shimmery keyboard tones. Review: Sufjan Stevens’s Quietly Moving ‘Carrie & Lowell’ 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z They abound in irregularities and asymmetries, deviations from the conventionally harmonious, the typically graceful. Kathy Butterly's rapturous little reckonings in clay at Shoshana Wayne 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z “When I dove, the movement was graceful and slow,” he says. Hitting the water without a splash gets big cheers, but has Olympic diving gotten too dry? 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z I was grateful to hear this involving account of the graceful yet unconventional original. Simon Rattle Conducts Schumann With Berlin Philharmonic 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z In the finale, the beguiling theme pierced through the hazy harmonies of Mr. Andsnes’s fluid, graceful arpeggios. Music Review: Norwegian Pianist Takes a Deeper Dip Into Beethoven 2011-04-08T22:00:21Z What we learned is that they’re actually very graceful and cautious. 43 Hours, Circling Fins, No Boat: All for the Shark Week Glory 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z "It's the most graceful writing, and its psychologically fantastically accurate," she continued. AUDIO: Howard's work 'chimed with readership' 2014-01-03T09:43:37Z There are enthralling episodes when Ms. Mearns dances with graceful movements tinged with frenzied compulsion. Music Review: ‘A Dancer’s Dream’ Includes Orchestra in Stravinsky Ballets 2013-06-28T21:18:49Z The best Shakespeare production in Southern California I saw all year was Kathleen Marshall’s graceful outdoor staging of “Love’s Labor’s Lost” at the Old Globe in San Diego. Notes on a truly Shakespearean year: An enlightened boldness brings out the best in the Bard 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z They moved like swans, chins up, arms graceful. Behind the Rockettes, a tough choreographer 2012-11-07T13:03:12Z There were graceful arches and even hoodoos with arches. Explorer: Bivouacking in Oregon?s Back of Beyond 2011-08-19T18:55:00Z He indulges the camera with a smile, but only for a moment, before assuming a look of fierce determination, lifting his eyes toward the sky, his lithe arms and graceful fingers following closely along. In Lagos, a Homegrown Ballet Academy Leaps Into the Spotlight 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z She sings the aria—in which a woman begs her father for romantic freedom—with graceful phrasing, a controlled, slow vibrato, and a tone that resonates impersonally, like a bell. Jackie Evancho and the Politics of Childhood 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z But the distance traveled between his first feature, a graceful story of an undocumented worker in 2007's "August Evening," and the emotional grit of "The Retrieval," is impressive. 'Retrieval' a trek through dilemmas of slavery, manhood 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z I say “strange” because you wouldn’t expect graceful aging from a work pegged to a real-life celebrity like Mr. Springer, whose notoriety as a trash TV presenter peaked years ago. Review: ‘Jerry Springer,’ Sacred and Profane, Triumphantly Sings Again 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z He’s naturally graceful, which is rare, especially now. Patricia Clarkson, the sultriest character actress 2010-08-07T18:01:00Z Harrowing and graceful at once, this is some of Bauermeister’s strongest writing. ‘The Lost Art of Mixing’: good food, love and loss 2013-01-17T22:11:21Z Levin, a respected art historian, is not the most graceful writer. Lee Krasner and Joan Mitchell: Abstract Expressionist Lives 2011-07-08T15:56:48Z Here we see graceful, wonderfully solid nudes; sheets of grotesques and caricatures; and frequent studies of Hopper’s own earnest face and his hands. Art Review: ‘Hopper Drawing,’ at the Whitney Museum 2013-06-06T21:44:48Z Lintu is not the most graceful conductor, but his musical authority is manifest. An inspired rendering of Dvorak by a revitalized BSO 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z “The description is exact and graceful, as Matar’s prose tends to be. … What he sees in art connects naturally with his own preoccupations.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z “You are so unbelievably graceful,” I said to her, as I panted. Venus Williams Gave Me a Tennis Lesson 2016-08-27T04:00:00Z O’Toole writes brilliantly and compellingly of the dark times, but he is graceful enough to know that there is humor and light in the cracks. His Life Was Too Boring for a Memoir. So He Wrote Ireland’s. 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z Nowadays, producers have learned how to make lighter, more graceful and elegant wines. Our Critic’s Best Wine Moments of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z And I got strength from Cristina, I got intensity, but the lifts were rough and what dancing there actually was wasn't as graceful or steamy as I know she's capable of. An underwhelming night on "So You Think You Can Dance" 2010-06-24T12:01:00Z Ascending a long, graceful stair to the roof offers views to the adjacent tropical lagoon and the vastness of the Sea of Cortes. Can Architecture Build Values, Too? 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Tetzlaff played the expansive melodic line with graceful lyricism and glowing sound. Music Review: Christian Tetzlaff With the Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-05-21T22:18:57Z Mr. Glass’s quartets provide evidence of a mostly graceful transition. Music Review: Glass?s Players Warm Up for a Festival in August 2011-06-13T22:17:30Z I watch one woman, tall and graceful, perfectly proportioned in her tank, get in and demonstrate a gruesomely mincing, hesitant freestyle. I didn’t make the Olympics. Now what? 2012-07-11T00:01:00Z Its bluntest images—a rat in a prison cell, for instance—do a disservice to its many graceful characterizations. “When They See Us” Is Both Memorable Political Art and Misfired Entertainment 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z They marry the animate and inanimate, soft and sharp, graceful and coarse. A napping cat or something more ominous? Curious sculptures at Wilding Cran 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Amalric’s direction remains graceful through the story’s violent turns, its mood changes and tone shifts. Mathieu Amalric Takes On ‘The Blue Room’ 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Other images pass by us: cells dividing, waves, clouds, planets, even a strangely graceful dinosaur standing near a river. 'The Tree of Life': a masterful, mysterious work by director Terrence Malick 2011-06-16T20:05:04Z As the character known as the Agent, her steely, melodically graceful mission-debrief steals the show. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Our civ evaded that crisis with a technological side-step that seemed so obvious, so easy and graceful, that few even noticed or commented. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z The latter’s “Little Organ Mass” is a graceful rather than deeply spiritual piece, and the performance conducted by Christian Knapp was very much in that vein. Impressive guest turn by symphony’s former principal horn |Classical review 2013-05-03T18:32:51Z Alongside these graceful figures are statues of children and angels. A nice place to rest 2012-10-07T20:00:00Z They made her into a stronger, more graceful version of herself, which often translated into an aura of power untethered from time. Hello, Paris Fashion! Couture Returns With Pieter Mulier’s Alaïa Debut 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z "This building is very right-angled and this bridge has two beautiful, graceful curves that are just a wonderful punctuation and really soften this place," Philbin said. Courtyard bridge by Michael Maltzan to open at Hammer in February 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z The violinists played loud, amplified drone chords, mostly consonant but with ear-scraping traces of dissonance, following a slow, regular, graceful pulse, interlocking their two-chord patterns or sometimes just working over a solitary one. Music Review | Glissando bin Laden: Violins Face Off Against Laptops in a Friendly Improvisational Duel 2010-03-08T06:36:00Z It’s made in the Trentino-Alto Adige region of Italy, and it feels entirely Italian in spirit, stylish and graceful with a sheer, elegant texture and creamy, herbal flavors. Seeing 2021 Out With a Pop, a Pour and a Fizz 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z This gangly dancer can morph from a giraffe into a grasshopper with the graceful fold of the limbs; he shows the awkwardness and then the spindly side of his body’s strange beauty. ‘Tap and Song’ at Symphony Space 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z But instead of being feminine and graceful like her royal counterparts, this girl is a mess. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Still Star-Crossed’ and ‘Michael Jackson’ 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z The 2018 is substantial yet fresh, lithe and graceful, with earthy, stony flavors of red fruits. This Summer, Make It Chianti Classico 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z “Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be,” he told The New York Times Magazine in 1999. Hal David, Award-Winning Lyricist, is Dead at 91 2012-09-01T23:03:16Z We'll discuss, as we did last year, assorted mannerly basics and the graceful way of accepting a gift, should one be given. Motherlode Blog: The Youngest Thanksgiving Hosts 2012-11-21T17:00:35Z Formerly a retirement home for elderly women, the inn was renovated and converted into a boutique hotel that opened in 2009 with 17 graceful rooms and suites. 36 Hours in Durham, N.C. 2013-01-17T18:19:54Z Light is a graceful and animated conversationalist, who sometimes calls you “darling” and occasionally quotes Hugo and Kierkegaard and Eleanor Roosevelt. Transparent's Judith Light: 'Botox doesn't work on me. I'm serious. I've tried it' 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z She sketches portraits and tells stories through motion, though not the graceful pirouettes of a Balanchine swan-princess. Wenders' Pina: Dance Crazy 2011-12-29T09:58:22Z Me and him do sometimes talk about politics, but we’re always very graceful with each other. Eddie Marsan: ‘My wife says Twitter is my midlife crisis’ 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z Their calibrated and minimalist soundscape is subtle and graceful, offering insight into an ostensibly complex relationship informed by trauma when the rest of the film struggles to do so. ‘Cicada’ Review: A New Relationship Buds as Old Wounds Reopen 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Jarvi opened his program with Ravel’s “Ma Mère L’Oye” Suite, a set of five graceful impressions of Mother Goose stories. 2010-02-16T22:40:00Z Its techniques are impressive and various, though its most persuasive special effects are Mr. Dujardin and Ms. Bejo, physically graceful performers with faces the camera cannot resist. | 'The Artist': ?The Artist,? by Michel Hazanavicius - Review 2011-11-24T13:00:00Z It’s an odd-looking edifice — bulging on one side, flat the other, but graceful, somehow graceful. At Marni, Shopping the Good Shop Lollipop 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Part of Interstate 80 drops down from Wyoming, descending in grand, graceful curves through the mountains toward Salt Lake City and offering the chance to test the Corvette’s grip though high-speed turns. Taking a road trip this summer? Enjoy America's crumbling infrastructure 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z Behind the gardens of No. 20 and No. 21 stood the grounds of a private hospital, a graceful pale building occupying a corner site. Book Excerpt: ‘The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher’ 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z The fourth movement’s minuets were swift and graceful. Review: Boston Symphony Chamber Players Balance Acoustics and Expression 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z The poem is neatly arranged in 14-syllable couplets, and has some graceful touches. Poem of the week: Psalm 23 2011-02-07T10:26:09Z There was no sobbing, no emoting, just a full and appropriately graceful acknowledgment of the intensity and meaning of the moment. Dance Review: Philip Neal?s Final Bow With City Ballet 2010-06-14T21:24:00Z But it does include a few graceful twists on familiar styles. Review | In the galleries: Cultures, collisions, climate change and French connections 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Here we inhabit the worlds of authors and mothers, children and friends; we experience their lives in clear, graceful prose that swells with generous possibility. Review | Lily King’s ‘Five Tuesdays in Winter’ is as beautiful and tender as ‘Writers & Lovers’ 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z His new memoir, “Drama: An Actor’s Education,” which comes out Tuesday, recounts in graceful, considered prose a life that after a few wrong turns is now happier and more well adjusted than most. John Lithgow?s Memoir ?Drama: An Actor?s Education? 2011-09-25T22:59:17Z No faces as lifelike and graceful and humane as these survive from Britain or Europe 4,000 years ago. Could this be the earliest portrait in history? 2011-02-09T14:29:36Z The setup allowed for a graceful transition to fully remote work during the pandemic; instead of traveling to a studio, Campbell communicates with directors from the privacy of her own yard. Let Cassandra Campbell Tell You a Story. She’s a Pro. 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z He cuts a striking figure; some say there is a physical resemblance to Leonard Bernstein, but his graceful, precise right arm motions bring to mind former L.A. David Lockington kicks off Pasadena Symphony with precision 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z Fortunately, Mr. Mair noted, it was soon overtaken by the more graceful “Linlaifeng,” which is derived from the Chinese expression “renlaifeng,” or “to get hyped up in front of an audience.” ArtsBeat: A Call for Lin-ericks 2012-02-20T15:02:52Z But the fragment Prokofiev completed is graceful and light-spirited, with some lovely vocal writing. 2010-02-11T08:55:00Z She is swept along to the right and then to the left, the graceful curve of her wet shoulders the only thing that’s visible. The sudden, gruesome opening of "Jaws" 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z It wasn't funny, it wasn't graceful, it wasn't musical, it wasn't tasteful. Oscars Show Growing Gap Between Moviegoers and Academy 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z At the beginning of Mr. Paterson’s work, each instrument inhabits its own distinct sound world: the harp produces rolling arpeggios; the flute plays graceful, slightly exotic melodies; and the viola offers brusque, combative counterpoint. Music Review: Locrian Chamber Players at Riverside Church - review 2011-08-26T22:30:32Z Something was very wrong and I scrambled for a graceful way to stop speaking before I started to perseverate like some crazy woman on a psychiatric ward. Modern Love: When the Toast Is: ?To Your Health? 2010-05-14T21:53:00Z His demeanor was workmanlike, engrossed and inward turning, even as his solos flowed far and wide, moving forward in graceful and often unpredictable ways. Music Review: Melding Incongruities, as Only Those With a History Can 2010-10-13T21:47:00Z Dan Wallace Miller’s staging is imaginative and extremely effective, creating a graceful courtship in the first act, a tense and fraught second act with a deadly swordfight, and a stately processional for the third. Review: Seattle Opera’s ‘The Combat’ brings tragic love story right to the audience 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z Recognition is followed by the wonderfully silent and graceful invitation: "Come, my eyes/ said…" The poem becomes an epithalamion, with a pre-lapsarian freshness shining through the little scene. Luminary by RS Thomas: Poem of the week 2013-06-17T11:37:44Z These scenes also provide appealing evidence of Mr. Payne’s graceful way with awkward language, in which complete thoughts and feelings emerge from fragments of talk. Theater Review: Jake Gyllenhaal in ‘If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet’ 2012-09-21T02:00:00Z On top of that, at a time when many books of military history have poor maps or none, this book has many, all of them instructive and graceful. George Washington, William T. Sherman and Viking Marauders 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z To me, an apple tree is the perfect symbol of renewal, because even ancient ones still cover themselves with blossoms and fruit abundantly, and they are all the more graceful when twisted with age. Old trees thank you for your support 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z Elsewhere, the dancing alerts us to hints of pain and loss – wisps of melancholy, sharp vibrating impulses of anger beneath graceful surfaces. Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch – review 2012-06-13T11:45:26Z Now all that is visible are portions of the walls and a graceful archway. Cultured Traveler: On the Scillies, Exotic Gardens, Windswept Ruins 2013-06-14T20:05:57Z One sketch of a thrush survives with Lear’s notes to himself on how to transform the rough image into a work of avian beauty: “More graceful . . . make the head smaller . . . eye greener . . . plumes very silky.” For the art lover, the naturalist, the child in your life, a new book on Edward Lear 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z These include a graceful Roman theater, a dramatic 3,600-foot colonnade and various pagan temples. Islamic State reported to destroy historic tombs in ancient city of Palmyra, Syria 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z One table holds a graceful cluster of antique bird cages. For Betye Saar, there's no dwelling on the past; the almost-90-year-old artist has too much future to think about 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z The collection's many renditions of full-cut trousers worn with blousy shirts - sleeves rolled up, some with sheer elements - looked at once macho and graceful. On the Runway Blog: Paris Men's: Lanvin and Thom Browne 2012-07-01T22:54:48Z Oliver Hardy was revealed as a graceful dancer in the Laurel and Hardy shorts. Is obesity a laughing matter? 2013-06-28T13:00:00Z We smelled plumeria and saw graceful white seabirds. Seychelles: Enjoy a royals’ paradise without the princely sum 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z And in that show of clarity was a graceful bundle of agendas: memory and modernization, mourning and celebration. Music Review: It?s Not Every Cabinet Minister Who Can Also Take to the Stage 2011-08-22T22:49:55Z I’ve always found it an insufferably adorable role, but the balletically graceful Mr. Heredia embodies it with something close to restraint. Critic?s Notebook: Her Sequins, Plumes and Foghorn Voice 2011-03-28T22:30:28Z But in Ziegler’s taut yet graceful script, a fine choice by the Rep, Franklin’s passion for science also shines through, as does the agility of her inquiring mind. Female scientist’s life, work exposed 2013-02-08T20:26:09Z The best is written to be read aloud, anyway: something musical and graceful like Gerard Manley Hopkins, Jacques Prévert or Pablo Neruda, maybe. Baby, it's a classic 2010-06-28T08:56:00Z It remains a seat of power since the heavily guarded presidential palace, a modern but graceful example of Islamic architecture, hugs the prime spot along the shore. Into Africa: 6 Vacation Ideas From Our Experts 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z Johnson’s graceful oils focus on a seam where several color fields meet. In the galleries: Summer colors brighten Neptune Fine Art His debut, “Songdogs,” follows a young man’s peripatetic efforts to understand his parents’ troubled marriage, and shares a similarly graceful style. Dear Match Book: Authors I Can Binge-Read 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z A life-size man leaning into his shovel so spare and graceful he might be dancing; its blood-red musculature and tendons glow like stained and burnished wood but are actually painted plaster. Real, or Too Real? A Dazzling Show Goes the Way of All Flesh 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Made in his Long Island studio, they are among his signature works in which he crushes, crumbles, bends, twists and paints scraps of cars forming graceful sculptures in various scales, many monumental. The Week Ahead: May 1 ? 7 2011-04-29T16:20:02Z And the 1964, from a great Rioja vintage, was graceful and lovely in every way. Our Critic’s Best Wine Moments of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z A skater is everything a woman is taught to be, graceful and elegant, an ethereal figure reduced to the very fact of her body. Our figure skating obsession: Why America loves watching women fall 2014-02-20T21:45:00Z For Prouvé, steel was the structural backbone of his buildings, a graceful exoskeleton to be finished in bold color. Sculpture Meets Structure at “Chamberlain/Prouvé,” Now at New York’s Gagosian Gallery 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z The best are the Monk ballads “Ugly Beauty” and “Crepuscule With Nellie”: slow and distorted, filthy and graceful. Playlist: Albums From Las Malas Amistades and Cooly G 2012-07-13T16:43:05Z His style remains sui generis more than a decade after his emergence: He tosses off lines that seem impossibly graceful in their arc, even when the individual notes land with a stubby staccato. Wallace Roney Plays Wayne Shorter at Parker Jazz Festival 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Rose was at his most varied and flexible in the Fantasy Pieces, in which his assertive renderings of the outgoing capriccios were offset by graceful, richly detailed playing in the more subtle intermezzos. Music Review: Brahms in a New Light, Resembling the Weightier Liszt 2011-07-18T22:08:46Z The graceful and sly Ms. Yeoh is the only star to return from the original. Review: ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny,’ a Fight-Ridden Sequel 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z Instead, it seems like this compelling dancer is made of a durable and graceful rubber, so easily does he bend and twist his body into impossible poses. Review: Lil Buck and Yo-Yo Ma, 'jookin" together 2013-04-04T00:59:08Z Instead, grafted the visual iconography and inventive, shameless energy of the so-called “Silver Age” onto characters acting like you or I, creating a colorful, chaotic alternative to the graceful seriousness Moore offered. Why Miracleman Deserves a Reissue — and the Lessons It Could Offer 2013-11-06T19:45:12Z One reviewer, writing about a program of Marian liturgical music, likened the ensemble’s sound to the Virgin herself: “serenely pure, sweetly distant and ineluctably graceful.” Early-Music Ensembles: Praised as Pure, but Seeking More 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Both men understand that elegant soul may be the only logical approach to graceful aging in a genre suddenly overrun with youthful disrupters. Review: Toby Keith and George Strait Put Country Spins on Classic Soul 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z And the change in your walk and appearance in the second half of “The Assembled Parties,” aging 20 years, demanded a very graceful but also noticeable change. | Judith Light 2013-04-23T17:16:51Z Entertain he did, with a degree of wit and honesty that would ultimately prove the most graceful moment in one of television's ugliest spats. The Year in Sanity: Jimmy Kimmel 2010-10-12T21:13:00Z Critics also praised its graceful interior, which included a waterfall. Michael Graves, innovative architect and designer, dies at 80 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z She has a graceful, flowing, confident baton technique and a repertoire of facial expressions that could be quizzical, mischievous, determined or forceful. A rising conductor makes an impressive L.A. Phil debut at the Bowl 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Ms. Yamamoto, a scrupulous and graceful pianist, released a beguiling album this year, “Piano Solo: Live in Benicàssim.” Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z There is a graceful economy to the small kitchen, with vegetables seasoned one by one and recurring as a steady motif. At Ejen in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, a Mother’s Touch Infuses the Menu 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z From the start, “Moment by Moment” displays a distinctive, original, and enthralling style and tone, an intense and graceful physicality that also winks at its own provenance. Revisiting “Moment by Moment,” Lily Tomlin and John Travolta’s Wrongly Despised 1978 Melodrama 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z It's classically elegant and graceful, the work of a man whose imagination is as fresh and unjaded as ever. Azed: a giant among crosswords 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z The just-opened Regent Porto Montenegro hotel boasts impeccable ocean views and graceful interiors. Pins of the Month — October 2014 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Mr. McGill’s contributions were sensitive and graceful, and the lyricism that made his Schumann so attractive served him even better here. 2010-01-11T08:07:00Z Some of the voices are high, some low, some graceful, some coarse, but all are beautiful, swelling together into an almost overwhelming climax. Readers recommend: songs about birds 2010-04-29T22:45:00Z That’s how we first and last see the would-be lovers of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival’s “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” as silent, graceful figures who complement and complete a sylvan summer landscape. Theater Review: ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost,’ at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Fest 2012-07-31T22:20:55Z He conveyed the richly textured Sarabande with warmth, and found an exquisite sense of balance and graceful lilt in the concluding Gigue. Murray Perahia evokes suspense, sadness and exhilaration at Disney Hall 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z A graceful performance of Chopin does not normally require an apology. Review: Mostly Mozart’s Opening Concert, With a Chopin Encore 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z He wove metal, literally, into canvas and cotton, so collars and shoulders were scrunched up into sculptural shapes that transformed the simple act of pushing up a sleeve into the puffy, graceful ghost of couture. Why Is an Italian Luxury Brand Having a Show in Michigan? 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z It is famous for its fashionable spas and gardens, parks and graceful architecture featuring ironwork, verandas and balconies. Q&A: The Cotswolds and Public Transportation 2010-09-28T16:00:00Z “It’s so fluidly graceful on this show, about Jane being American but having Latino roots, her not being afraid of who she is,” said Rodriguez. How Gina Rodriguez sees herself 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z The graceful objectivity of Joshua Tuason’s dancing made a particularly fine impression in two pieces by Lane Gifford, performed by Lane & Co.: Dance Review: Downtown Dance Festival Bursts With Color 2010-08-16T22:44:00Z The proportions of the body are, from this distance, mathematically graceful. Leonardo or Michelangelo: who is the greatest? 2010-03-30T07:00:00Z In person, McCraney is a tall, articulate, graceful man, who seems totally at home in his skin, but he suggests that, much of the time, that still feels like a part he is playing. Moonlight’s writer Tarell Alvin McCraney: 'the story needed to be out there' 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z It was an unusual approach that prized graceful introspection over display. Music Review: Knights in Naumburg Orchestral Concert at Central Park 2012-07-11T22:01:58Z Washington Post critic Ann Hornaday called the film “one of the great love stories, an epic romance” and a “precise, graceful and intellectually rewarding work worthy of Murdoch herself.” John Bayley, British literary scholar who wrote a memoir about his wife, author Iris Murdoch, dies at 89 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z They are as alive, active and determined as the men, who are also allowed to be as graceful and delicate as the women. Review: William Forsythe’s Wonderful Love Letter to Ballet 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z But their graceful flying in precise formations is awe-inspiring. Brown pelicans can inspire awe, laughs and concern for their environment 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z Thanks to Ms. Sayet’s graceful and transparent direction, it largely succeeds. Classical & Opera Listings for Aug. 14-20 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z And so I’d had an embittered Lucy abandon her graceful Regina Dugan-like facade and instead go nuts in a conference room, screaming expletives at her executives. 'It's a hustle': Jon Ronson on how he made it into movies with the help of Okja the giant pig 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z But there are plenty of graceful melodies packed into these five and a half minutes. Chick Corea: Hear 12 Essential Performances 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z But Raventós I Blanc manages, year after year, to nail it with its elegant, graceful de Nit, which offers just a hint of color and floral fruit to remind you it is a rosé. 12 Summer Sparkling Wines, Because Who Needs a Reason 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z With graceful modesty and genial wisdom, “The Big Year” peeks at both sides of this equation, suggesting the glory and the limitation of its subject. | 'The Big Year': ?The Big Year,? With Owen Wilson and Steve Martin - Review 2011-10-13T21:45:11Z That it works so bewitchingly is a testament to Ms. Kihlstedt’s coolheaded, unflashy singing, and to Mr. Goldberg’s graceful way with a melody. Review: Ben Goldberg’s ‘Orphic Machine’ Influenced by Poetry 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z It was gentle and graceful, occasionally with a chiffon cloak instead of sleeves. Generation Genius! 2012-09-27T18:27:45Z From his earliest years, he had been plagued by the sense of self-consciousness: tall, handsome, graceful, intelligent, he was everything but spontaneous. Simon Callow: Stanislavski was racked by self-doubt 2013-03-16T08:00:09Z “I was like, be graceful? Are you mad? If anyone comes talking nonsense, I’m going to shut them down. You have to fight fire with fire sometimes.” John Boyega: ‘I’m very direct. I can’t lie’ 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z "The graceful notions that clung to me when I clung to you / Will they love you the way I loved you?" he asks in Barriers, the first track to be released from it. Suede: 'Who says you can only do great stuff if you're damaged?' 2013-03-05T19:00:02Z He gives us a cause worth believing in; his oration is brief, graceful and forward-looking; and he makes a prestigious occasion feel both artistically serious and personally good-humored. Dance Review: New York City Ballet?s Architecture of Dance 2010-04-30T23:01:00Z But midway through, some graceful descending patterns in the winds aided soulful, delicate interplay between a pair of exposed clarinets. Review: An Orchestra Manages to Capture That Ellington Swing 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z She was gorgeous, in that effortless, graceful way. Blind date: ‘She thinks I’m a sad, naive hipster’ 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z It’s one of the more graceful maneuvers one can perform at the park. Skateboarders Won 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z And while Ms. Golabek doesn’t entirely disappear into the other characters in the story, her performance is graceful, restrained and quietly captivating. ‘The Pianist of Willesden Lane,’ a Jewish Girl’s War Story 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z If they seem to fly into people it’s simply because there are so many of them and they are not very graceful fliers. How to survive a plague 2013-05-14T12:11:00Z Huge trees line the road: spruce with its thick, sharp needles; the graceful hemlock with its drooping branches; thick-barked Douglas Fir and my favorite — the most iconic, dramatic of them all — cedar. The fight to save our off-the-grid forest home 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z Wallace Stevens’s poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” inspires the next assignment: 13 ways of looking at the graceful hanging mobile “Eucalyptus.” Think you’d be inspired by a Calder mobile? Then this writing salon is for you 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z Few authors are more adept at translating technical jargon into graceful prose, or at illustrating how hubris and greed can cause geniuses to lose their way. Book Review Podcast: Walter Isaacson's 'The Innovators' 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z "From the graceful to the pushy and athletic. From feminine to unisex. It's not progress, it's just changing the style." American Ballet Theatre gives 'Sleeping Beauty' a classical update 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Trimmed and with spoken English dialogue, the opera played beautifully, with graceful music throughout, sonorous choruses and a radiant finale. Music Review: A Woman Goes Crazy: An Early Version 2011-04-01T21:44:54Z In 2002 he garnered national attention for his graceful design for the temporary Museum of Modern Art in Queens. Designed to Help Uplift the Poor 2010-02-18T17:25:00Z Even at this late hour, the windows draw in a wan light from a street lamp, illuminating rows of graceful columns. L.A.'s Hauser Wirth & Schimmel is out to upend the definition of a gallery 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z Then with graceful resolve, she sails through the cacophonous newsroom, first pausing to chat up two female telephone operators and then full steam ahead toward Walter. He Said, She Said, We Said, You Said 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Lithe and handsome, Mr. Afkham cuts a graceful figure on the podium. Music Review: David Afkham Leads the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra 2013-08-18T21:53:05Z On a quieter note, the Sudanese designer Omer Asim expressed in long, light fabrics, shown on barefoot models, a graceful spirit. Nigeria, on the Fashion Catwalk 2012-11-14T10:36:25Z Footage of a dilapidated house in the woods spills from one of four projectors, lacing the sad, graceful melody with suspicion before a blistering cacophony erupts. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – review 2012-11-05T19:08:58Z The work’s two vocal roles are for a soprano, singing in the highly ornamental Sichuan opera style, and a countertenor, whose lines are couched in the more graceful, constrained Beijing opera tradition. Guo Wenjing’s ‘Feng Yi Te’ Mixes East and West 2012-07-20T17:11:45Z Anyone will tell you they were one of New York’s most glamorous, graceful couples, made all the more so by the dignified and private way they lived. David Bowie: Invisible New Yorker 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z Skinny, twitchy and at times startlingly graceful — Phoenix is one of the modern screen’s underrated dancers — Arthur has a physical and psychological resemblance to Freddie Quell, the misfit drifter Phoenix played in “The Master.” ‘Joker’ Review: Are You Kidding Me? 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Depictions of torture in hell, a graceful screen of mountains that feels contemporary and a snarling lion holding a mirror that reflects your misdeeds. The 5 most beguiling-weird-curious works at LACMA's new Korean show 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z At first the two instruments maintain the flavors of the cultures they represent, with graceful shakuhachi lines accompanied by vigorous, diatonic harp chords. Music Review | Music From Japan: Interplay of Antiquity With Some Modernity 2010-02-22T08:25:00Z Rendered in graceful cartoon outlines made of lead and filled in by jewel-bright pieces of opalescent glass, they promise peace to troubled souls without any obvious Christian symbolism. Art Review: Louis C. Tiffany Works at Museum of Biblical Art 2012-12-31T23:14:26Z Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne described the overall effect as “graceful and direct, bordering on delicate.” Los Angeles’s Hunt House Could Be Demolished 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z Thornton infuses his grouch with sparks of comedy and a hint of the pathetic that slowly grow on us, so that the slightest of smiles is all that's needed for the film's graceful ending. Minimalist drama "Here and There" right on target 2010-05-15T01:32:00Z He was referring to the network of graceful boulevards the landscape architect designed to connect Buffalo’s parks, many of which have since been converted to freeways. Once So Chic and Swooshy, Freeways Are Falling Out of Favor 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z James is resourceful and looks “like an oil painting”; Mungo is undefended and graceful, with skin “so creamy that you wanted to take a spoon to him.” ‘Young Mungo’ Explores Love and Violence in Emotional Technicolor 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z Mostly, though, Chaplin composed graceful, affecting music to draw out the emotional dimensions and sentiment of this poignant story, however comedic on the surface. Review: ‘City Lights’ and ‘ Fantasia’ at the New York Philharmonic 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z In a piece as graceful and zesty as the Ravel, the slowly accumulating strength of the orchestra could be taken for turgidity. The Boston Symphony Finds Surprises and Strengths in New Music 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Pinus palustris Classic pine of the Southeast; graceful, long needles; likes sun and deep, moist soil. 10 Drought-Tolerant Native Plants 2010-08-11T22:27:00Z One seems to hold up a wall, another is twisted into a graceful arabesque, like a dancer. Pulling back for the big picture of media overload 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z And “Behind the Sky,” inspired by some recent personal losses, inhabits the graceful, dynamic postbop continuum embodied by the veteran trumpeter Tom Harrell, a featured guest on several tracks. Jon Irabagon Paints Tradition in New Hues 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z The story opens in the last graceful, lazy days of the Old South, soon to be ripped apart by civil war, and sees out the painful reconstruction years. Gone With the Wind: No 12 2010-10-16T10:43:00Z The film is no mere recording of scripted action but a discovery of the fullness of being of the actors, the places, the very ideas that, in graceful touches, she puts into the world. Kathleen Collins’s “Notes from a Black Woman’s Diary” Contains an Extraordinary Unmade Movie 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z With its inverted, conical shade of dark metal; its square-section stem; and incongruously graceful three legs and feet, it looks like something a steampunk artist might have dreamed up. At Armory’s Winter Antiques Show, Volumes of Variety 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z But Ms. Ziegelman is a patient scholar and a graceful writer, and she rummages in these families’ histories and larders to smart, chewy effect. Books of The Times: Jane Ziegelman?s ?97 Orchard? Is a Culinary History 2010-07-27T18:33:00Z Here too, along with loose and graceful renderings of cows, horses and trees, are studies from the theater: costumed actors, audience members in formal attire. Art Review: ‘Unknown Corot: Unpublished Drawings’ at Jill Newhouse 2012-07-05T19:50:44Z "It looks graceful on the top, but it's going like the clappers underneath." Ant and Dec: just the two of us 2013-02-23T09:00:00Z “These are the apex of rolling art, with graceful, swoopy, curvaceous lines,” he said. Antiques: Leighton House Museum Reopens in London With New D?cor 2010-04-08T21:51:00Z It's about moving in synchronization, and performing graceful, melodic storytelling on ice. In "Life in Synchro," this hyperfeminist sport empowers women to work together 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z For new construction for those displaced by war, Kolomeytsev is envisioning something much less adorned, but no less graceful. To House Refugees, Lviv Wants to Make Beautiful Buildings That Last 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z The opening scene captures, from fender-level view or in graceful helicopter shots, a sports car navigating the corniches on Tenerife in the Canary Islands. Furious 6: Faster, Crazycars! Thrill Thrill! 2013-05-20T16:47:36Z He struggled to stay coordinated with the conductor, Yves Abel, who led a graceful, agile orchestral performance but tended to either push the singers or pull them. Vittorio Grigolo Shows Restraint in ‘Les Contes d’Hoffmann’ 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Fabled Washington hostesses presided over a graceful old world code that is now gone with the wind, Giardina suggests, blown to bits by the newfangled ultra-hostile partisanship. Manners and politics collide in Arena Stage’s ‘City of Conversation’ 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z The lyrics are frequently funny if not particularly graceful. Theater Review: ‘Nobody Loves You,’ TV Satire at Old Globe in San Diego 2012-06-08T21:59:29Z That’s the mark of a truly graceful athlete, in my opinion. Perspective | Why Roger Federer is the most graceful athlete of our time 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Instead, a sculpted neckline on a camel dress created a graceful neckline — perfect to display a real jewel. Fashion Review: Buffing Up British Heritage Brands 2012-02-19T17:45:13Z Her life, and the lives of her employers, are realized in lovely wide-screen black-and-white images, brought to life by Mr. Cuarón’s graceful, kinetic, often thrilling camera movements. At the Telluride Film Festival, the Past Isn’t Safe at All 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z On Friday, that sonata still in the audience’s ears, he closed the concert with an unsentimental, graceful version of the opening aria from the “Goldbergs.” Review: Andras Schiff Deconstructs Sonatas 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z Though it’s clunky rather than graceful, it is a massive concrete reminder of the political detainees who were held in communist prisons or deported and persecuted. Best of Bucharest: Eclectic architecture, Palace of Spring 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z When a punk ages, it’s not always graceful. The Menzingers’ Ragged Punk Peeks in the Rearview Mirror 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z But many of today’s backcountry users want to make graceful turns through steep slopes covered with untracked powder, which means they generally want to ski slopes that have a relatively high possibility of avalanching. So, you want to be a backcountry skier? 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z A short man whose graceful body is tense with anxiety, he gazes beseechingly heavenward. Art Review: Rediscovering an Earthy Master 2010-10-07T21:50:00Z Mr. Heras-Casado is a balletic presence who conducts without a baton and sculpts the air with graceful gestures. Review: Echoes of Flamenco From Orchestra of St. Luke’s 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z That earthquake, in April 2009, killed hundreds and left tens of thousands of L’Aquilans homeless, shuttering the city’s graceful and extensive historic center, which was its cultural and economic heart. Critic's Notebook: In L’Aquila, Italy, Lessons for Rebuilding From Storm 2012-11-30T17:51:12Z But her speech was a functional goodbye, a graceful bowing out. Perspective | There was nothing soft about Nancy Pelosi 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z What sets her apart, aside from her graceful prose and good humor, is the intimacy she offers. Her marriage was the jewel in her blog universe. Then she found out her husband was cheating. 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z And gameplay itself is predicated on innate, graceful precision: The pace is brisk when appropriate, leisurely and polite at other times. Cleveland’s field of dreams: What hope means for long-suffering Indians fans 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z It’s a graceful solution to a spate of recent problems arising from traditional binary awarding. The possible downside of Emma Watson’s gender-neutral movie award win 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z Skill — a great, amazing style, or graceful erudition. Diane Johnson Wishes More Authors Would Write About Friendship 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z Twenty years ago, descendants of American Indian farming families set about restoring colonial mission chapels, such as the modest yet intimate Mission Church of San Rafael, with its adobe exterior and graceful stained-glass windows. The Mora River Valley Faces a New Battle 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z When all the pieces fall into place, “Don Giovanni” unfurls with a sublime, graceful beauty that a casual listener might find straightforward, even light. The Pains and Privileges of Staging Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni’ 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z The tableaus and graceful, mournful transitions we see, taking us from the narrator's childhood to middle age, from one century to the next, are as fine a series of images as these filmmakers have created. A grittier 'Grit': Talent upgrade matches classic novel 2010-12-21T14:49:00Z He compares the effortless buoyant flight of the harriers to the graceful presence of the angels, and brings us closer to the bird-loving artisans who carved them long ago. The Passion and Peril of Birding 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z The American Symphony Orchestra plays with sober, purposeful energy, and the production, whose set eloquently blurs the distinction between graceful interiors and nature’s wildness, takes every twist seriously. ‘Euryanthe,’ Rarely Heard, Is Mounted at Bard 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z One of his greatest gifts as a performer has always been his ability to stretch his lanky body in ways that look graceful and funny. The secret to aging is in the title of Dick Van Dyke’s memoir ‘Keep Moving’ 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z A D.C. native still in her 20s, Daneshpour opened the afternoon quietly with a poised, utterly clear and graceful performance of Haydn’s Sonata in F Hob. Pianist Sara Daneshpour stuns at the American Art Museum Otherwise, these wines were generally lively, graceful and beautifully integrated. For Historic Heitz in Napa, a New Team but Same Old Methods 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z It’s a graceful, powerful song, coming at you calmly, with a driving command and an eerie, sliding melody. Listen to Frøkedal 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z "It would fail to encapsulate how I probably wouldn't have a career without Nichelle's devotion to making room for strong-willed, intelligent, opinionated, graceful Black women in entertainment." Nichelle Nichols completed her "Star Trek" mission so that I'd never know a world without Lt. Uhura 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z “You allow it to breathe; it’s a very graceful thing to do as a composer, to go in one direction as long as you like.” An ‘Allegory for Our Times’: The Royal Ballet’s ‘Dante Project’ 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Hana undulates in graceful color, an allusion to the waves on this remote section of Hawaii’s Maui island. Mesmerizing New Wallpapers by Designer Sara Story 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z “The refined beauties of ambiguity,” Bernstein wrote in a graceful pencil script on the title page of Mahler’s Symphony No. 9. Mahler Said What to Whom? 2011-02-03T22:00:06Z If Fassbinder were no real person but a fictional character created by Thomsen, the film would endure as a deeply imagined, fierce, and graceful drama. The Documentaries They Deserve: Hannah Arendt and Rainer Werner Fassbinder 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Lyn’s fit mom goals sparked rave reviews from Fit Moms of Instagram's followers, who praised how “beautiful” and “graceful” she looked. Belly dancer shares pregnancy video, inspires expecting moms: 'It's not always easy … but it's always fun' 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z More graceful than starkly minimalist, the collection captured a more subdued Chloé. Chlo?'s Silent Spring 2010-10-04T17:41:00Z Niquet, notably flamboyant when the occasion demands it, conducted in this instance with sparse but graceful gestures. Le Concert Spirituel/Niquet – review 2013-04-16T16:10:34Z She is graceful and tender and strong - and simply the best thing about Catfish Row. Who will win at the Tony Awards? AP predicts 2012-06-07T19:01:07Z When Luna choreographed a Zoom version of “The Wiz” for Urban Youth Theater, he saw “this lightness” in Heera, a “graceful and very peaceful” way of moving, Luna said. Performing and Creating as Equals Across the Age Gap 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z High point Playing embattled, graceful Anne in Michael Haneke's Amour – a performance that arguably eclipses her vibrant early roles Low point Waving to the press on the red carpet. Riva, 85, poised to make history 2013-02-06T16:48:13Z Hepburn is invariably graceful, dignified and blameless, though he notes that she engineered the firing of the original cinematographer of “Paris When It Sizzles” because she didn’t like the way he was lighting her. A shallow, gossipy perspective of ‘Audrey and Bill’ 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Middle East politics took a backseat to the human comedy in a show that bridged divides through its sly multicultural score by David Yazbek and the graceful modesty of its book by Itamar Moses. Best theater in 2017: Our critic's top picks, including Midler, Metcalf and Bruuuuce 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Visitors to Japan who pay attention to money are sure to see a rendering of the graceful building: It’s on the 10-yen coin. To truly see Kyoto, walk, bike or take a train through the historic Japanese city 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z The artist also does graceful portraits, and sometimes places a lone female figure amid the scenery. In the galleries: Four curators share one spotlight 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z An artist as well as an explorer, she mimes a dancer’s slow, graceful tumbling maneuvers. Gravity: The Glory of Cinema’s Future 2013-10-04T00:00:44Z In fact, in trying to describe to another viewer why it captured my attention, I described it as “Grecian” in how it made the subject look so graceful and powerful at once. The Kinsey Collection fills in blanks where Black Americans are left out of U.S. history 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z She also studied the routines of the pioneering comic Jean Carroll, “this beautiful, graceful woman who wore pearls and gorgeous dresses and sang a little,” Ms. Brosnahan said. Did You Hear the One About the Housewife Who Walks Into a Comedy Club? 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Mr. Safer, who filed 919 stories for “60 Minutes,” was known more for his deft touch and graceful writing style. Morley Safer, longest-serving correspondent for CBS’s ‘60 Minutes,’ dies at 84 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Landry and project architect Todd Riley swapped the pseudo-Mediterranean exterior details for a graceful vocabulary of columns and arches, volutes and finials. 2009-12-21T05:00:00Z That production is echt Kratzer: film and sets with the appearance of big-budget naturalism; novel storytelling that enhances rather than interferes with the work; graceful shifts between registers of humor and shattering pain. Tobias Kratzer Is Leading Opera’s Next Generation of Directors 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z Martin, ties up the story with a graceful, satisfying flourish. Fairy Tale Heroines, But With Depth 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Mercifully, the trophy went to the more graceful and much older Jennifer Grey, the 50-year-old “Dirty Dancing” star who persevered despite physical injuries and quite a bit of mental anguish. | Bristol Dances in Circles 2010-11-24T12:08:00Z About a block away, the Royal Crescent is a long, graceful arc of buildings — impossible to see in one glance unless you step way back to the edge of the park in front. Bath’s easy urban delights 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z His portamento was applied more as graceful decoration than expressive swoon, his rubato more as sculpted detail than extravagance. Long-neglected music gets a fresh L.A. Phil spin at the Hollywood Bowl 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Genial, energetic and physically graceful, he nimbly juggles the farcical and melodramatic elements of the story, and holds onto his dignity even in cringe-worthy moments. T Magazine: Charm Offensive 2012-02-17T15:00:33Z It was savory and spicy, with an almost balsamic character, structured yet graceful. Wines That Resound in Memory 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z One light, placed on the floor at the back, shoots beams upward in the graceful shape of a fan through which a lithe woman in a transparent black dress emerges. Dance Review: Geneva Ballet and Melodrama at the Joyce 2014-03-26T21:09:38Z Throughout the movie, Xialing's graceful and deadly fighting skills, and her irreverence for the sexist customs meant to disempower her, are simultaneously enthralling and frustrating. "Shang-Chi" crafted a fantastic, badass fighter – too bad the movie was all about her brother 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z This makes "The Crown" a graceful tragedy . . . until Diana. "The Crown" presents Princess Diana of Wales, patron saint of tradition-defying divorcées 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z Like a middle-aged heartthrob, Koko has a graceful grey grizzle around the mouth now, and Woss says his leading man will not take on any more films. Red Dog: an audience with Australia's best friend 2012-02-09T20:00:01Z Some of the pieces were subdued and reflective, like the graceful Galuppi Andante with which she began. Two Pianists Test the Meaning of Virtuosity 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Alexander McQueen’s suicide in February devastated an industry, but the graceful handling of his legacy by the fashion house he left behind provided some solace. The Year in Style: Eric Wilson?s Key Fashion Moments of 2010 2010-12-31T04:26:10Z It holds a lesson within the tumescent cells of its graceful leaves and thick stems, secrets in its soil. My houseplant garden is a tiny national park Donald Trump can never destroy 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z The result is something of a Frankenstein's monster, the well-chosen parts of which combine to fashion a handsome but not particularly graceful beast. Dream Trigger 3D ? review 2011-07-16T23:05:53Z Not in terms of flavors, but I think in their graceful freshness and seeming transparency. Grenache Three Ways, and Over Many Decades 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z There are just eight suites at Six Senses Bumthang, a graceful hideaway in a Himalayan pine forest. 10 New Standout Hotels in Asia 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z If the fable is unsurprising, it still adds dimension to Vivienne’s emotional state, saying things that even this graceful, articulate woman can’t quite put into words. Alzheimer’s gets a warm face in ‘Blackberry Winter’ by Forum Theatre 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Jesse Elliott, its lead singer, likes pithiness and order in his songs, often clearing space for a graceful turn of phrase. Critics? Choice: New CDs From Korn, Currensy and Tom Jones 2010-07-26T00:05:00Z Their soft colors and graceful habits steal the show in fall borders. October Gardening & Planting Tips 2012-10-08T16:50:05.717Z The human figures, in bronze and granite or some woven into the parks' wrought-iron gates, exhibit the gamut of human experience, from playful to pensive, graceful to awkward, loving to violent. Frugal Traveler Blog: A $100 Weekend in Oslo 2012-06-26T18:55:24Z Not inviting them back is the graceful solution. Perspective | Miss Manners: Inconsiderate guest and old plumbing don’t mix 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z But the playing was largely rich and good-humored: balanced and gentle in the second movement, then graceful and patient, and with even a hint of mystery, in the third. Review: The Philharmonic Tries Out Another Temporary Home 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z I loved Rick Owens’s interpretation of Fred Astaire’s graceful style, the power he held as a dancer. Fashion Review: In Paris, the Hunt for Modern Masculinity 2012-01-24T15:29:54Z Across from the promenade, chalkboard menus in graceful handwriting advertised mussels in several different broths — basil, curry and white wine. A Writing Retreat by Rail, From Paris to the Côte d’Azur 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z The description is exact and graceful, as Matar’s prose tends to be. Hisham Matar Spent ‘A Month in Siena’ Staring at Art 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z The best children’s books slip beneath the surreal surface of youth itself, swimming with the current, graceful and ungainly, at ease in both the fizz and the fear. Rikki Ducornet's 'Brightfellow' is a sophisticated embodiment of children's imagination 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z This is pure film acting, rooted in the challenge of playing a character who expresses herself not through words, but action — glorious, graceful, balletic action. The Pleasure of Watching Charlize Theron Throw a Punch 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z “Shining Through Broken Glass,” which preceded it, was a ballad suffused with graceful melancholy, framing a contemplative solo by Mr. Klein. Music Review: A Little Kick From the Mideast: Folk Spices the Jazz 2011-04-06T21:58:18Z "There's something about doing a Tudor ballet that made me feel more graceful than I've ever felt in my entire life," she says. PNB's 'All Premiere': 4 new works, including 1 by Mark Morris 2012-10-24T20:52:05Z In “Swan Lake,” an evil magician transforms a beautiful princess into a graceful swan, an image now intimately linked to the idea of classical ballet itself. Boys Will Be Swans: ‘What Is That Show, and How Do I Do It?’ 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z A star is born: the emperor is enticed by her simple, graceful spontaneity, but the sumptuous refinements with which he soon surrounds her and her family spark an uprising by the tax-burdened populace. Movies 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z For most actresses over 50, the alternative to plastic surgery is not graceful aging but obsolescence. The Art of Botox 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z She used pots, pans, skillets, lids, forks, spoons, egg turners and seemingly every kitchen tool she had in efforts that were alternatively frantic and graceful. What’s Cooking in That Egg Spoon? A Bite-Size Culture War 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z If she were preparing to die, wouldn’t this most graceful sharer tell us about it, in some strangely comforting way? Nora Ephron: Remembering Everything 2012-06-27T08:30:05Z Jaime Coronado’s choreography is both graceful and occasionally jagged, compressed into a space so small that the dancers occasionally bumped into one another or pieces of the set. Review | The In Series aims to make ‘Atlantis’ great again 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z They all sing pleasantly, recite their lines clearly and move with graceful awkwardness when the show requires it. ‘Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice’ Review: Four on a Mattress, With Songs 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z She choreographs graceful ballets from a cast of grotesque sculpted creatures. Unpacking and Decoding the World of Animation 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z It is fresh and graceful, floral and elegant. This Summer, Make It Chianti Classico 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z Harsh edges were turned into graceful curves, mimicking the lush landscape. As Miami’s skyline booms, the future of a long-neglected tropical brutalist gem hangs in the balance 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z The poignant, graceful video is empathetic, pointed and very moving, meaning that you might find yourself choked up as you watch. Music Video of The Week: John Grant “Glacier” 2014-01-22T16:56:59Z “Unsparing as Hu’s anatomy of moral drift may be, there is something graceful in his sympathetic attention to lives defined almost entirely by disappointment and diminished hope,” A.O. What’s on TV Monday: ‘An Elephant Sitting Still’ on Criterion and a PBS Documentary 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z He played with an almost explosive energy in the opening Allegramente movement, but the slower second movement emerged as a quietly private reverie — all graceful touch and wistful melody. Pianist Simon Trpceski, conductor Susanna M?lkki light up SSO 2012-04-20T18:24:04Z The second violinist and violist from the Mozart took the lead parts here, with violinist Danbi Um especially producing graceful, understated sound. Musicians at Marlboro provide lovely reading of Mozart 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Gilded mirror frames are studded with porcelain fragments, while graceful bronze chandeliers bear lyrical flourishes of plaster, rock crystal, and white marble. See William P. Sullivan's Beautiful Designs 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Though it is not without graces, this is not a graceful culture. ‘Garry Winogrand,’ a Retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z What thrilled in that trompe l’oeil extravaganza, even more than the constantly evolving scenography, was the magnificence and at times otherworldly performance ease of those sleek, graceful horses. ‘Odysseo’: 66 horses, 52 humans under the tents in Marymoor 2014-02-13T21:52:56Z Anonymous 4 offers a graceful traversal through the mystical, somber and harmonically pungent work. Classical Playlist: Handel, George Benjamin, David Lang and Others 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z It’s a small, graceful film, and it communicates the sense of discovery that is the best reason to revisit New Directors each year. Critic?s Notebook: New Directors/New Films at the Film Society of Lincoln Center 2012-03-20T22:30:26Z The employee, who is also the guy torn between the sisters, is played by Aaron Bliden, an actor who brings earnestness and a graceful touch to just about everything he’s in. Review | The romantic musical ‘Fly by Night’ will pull the rug out from under you 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z It's already blown so many chances to bring the series to a graceful conclusion that this is all probably wishful thinking. Die Hard 6: why Bruce Willis is taking tips from Rocky Balboa 2013-05-03T15:40:25Z Like Taylor, Dixon was fascinated by dancers – he had a long creative relationship with Judith Dunn – and his music frequently seemed to suggest the graceful, weightless movement of dancers in space. Bill Dixon obituary 2010-07-22T17:15:00Z This writer has broken her silence and written an honest, graceful reflection on an important aspect of her life. No Sound, No Fury, No Marriage 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z “You will be grateful for these graceful essays, which light up so many of the dark details that are part of what is, after all, the one demographic to which we will all belong.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Gorgeous and graceful, the Russian rhythmic gymnast Margarita Mamun glides across the floor, twirling a hoop or a streaming red ribbon around her fantastically limber body. Review: A Russian Gymnast Goes ‘Over the Limit’ 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z They plug in to its high tension and graceful wit only intermittently. Review: Dance Theater of Harlem’s Return Has Warm Reception 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z Over all the troupe proves itself skilled, with sharp timing and a graceful stage presence. Theater Review: ‘Mulan the Musical,’ at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2012-12-28T19:04:38Z Rutkow is a graceful writer with a penchant for well-placed classical allusions, yet he possesses a distracting literary tic: a heavy reliance on the adverb “finally,” which occasionally occurs twice on the same page. The Utopian Quest to Link the United States and Latin America 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z It was a graceful gesture and one that, perhaps only incidentally, reinforced the special nature of Mr. Wachner’s Trinity “Messiah,” which is fast becoming one of the more meaningful musical traditions of the holiday season. Music Review: Trinity Wall Street’s ‘Messiah’ 2013-12-08T22:27:39Z In the second-movement Allegro his graceful ornamentation supports rather than impedes the flow of the line; his eloquence is sparkling and his tone full in the final menuet. Classical Recordings: HAYDN: PIANO SONATAS, VOL. 2 2011-06-10T14:26:16Z The music unfolds with a graceful lyricism that Mr. Hvorostovsky affectingly conveyed, even at the start, when his sound was patchy. Review: Dmitri Hvorostovsky Sings of Life, Love and Sadness at Carnegie Hall 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z "Ladies and gentlemen, how do we get back to my prepared material in a graceful way?" Paul F Tompkins – review 2013-04-09T16:11:03Z Clearly, there’s enough raw material here for a book three times as long, but Allende’s graceful telling, although often breezy, never frays or grows superficial. Isabel Allende’s ‘The Japanese Lover’: A tale of history and romance 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z “I am more precise with my movements, which is more suited for the male characters,” she said, “and Madhu is more graceful.” The Indian Monks’ Dance, Flowering With the Aid of Women 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z And while they are doing all these wondrous, graceful, difficult activities we get to really, really watch them. Tears, guts, gold! 2012-08-01T11:50:00Z First, remember that love’s infinite ideal is an insuperably graceful, radiant manifestation of the human spirit. | Floral and Hardy 2011-02-08T20:46:38Z The graceful hilltop edifice is an architectural and cultural landmark in the city, beloved for its outer beauty, the art inside and its role as a civic gathering place. Gehry redesign of art museum yields more space 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z Watching her fly, graceful and fierce, I get a kind of atavistic buzz. In northeast England, learning about birds of prey and their high-flying ways This is one of Mr. Brantley's most graceful and thoughtful reviews. Review: Anna Deavere Smith’s ‘Notes From the Field’ Delivers Voices of Despair and Hope 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Matthew Duvall, the percussionist, consistently impressed with his graceful shifts among the disparate instruments surrounding him. Music Review: Look & Listen?s Informal Feel at Chelsea Art Museum 2010-05-09T22:21:00Z Videos of her twirling around in the water, Rubenesque and graceful, rack up millions of views online. Hooray for Fiona the Hippo, Our Bundle of Social-Media Joy 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z The name may not be graceful, but the troupe that bears it is; the members of Galumpha do not galumph. Events for Children in NYC This Week 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z With unforced realism and a graceful visual style — punctuated by a series of fluid, intimate walks — the Bulgarian director Ilian Metev beautifully captures the ebb and flow of one family’s everyday life. 11 Movies You Need to Know at New Directors/New Films 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z Her prose is graceful and her book is full of vivid, unsettling detail. The Man Who Pioneered Food Safety 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Mary Tyler Moore, whose witty and graceful performances on two top-rated television shows in the 1960s and ’70s helped define a new vision of American womanhood, died on Wednesday in Greenwich, Conn. She was 80. Mary Tyler Moore, Who Incarnated the Modern Woman on TV, Dies at 80 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z On a windy, rain-soaked spring day, in the graceful cloister of La Rábida Monastery — where Columbus received aid and collaboration from the monks before his journey — the Duke of Alba dedicated the Columbus Monument. Retracing the Spanish Path of My Ancestor, the Founder of the Whitney 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Oriental lilies have colossal blooms that crown tall, graceful plants. The Sweetest Lily 2010-05-19T18:12:00Z An evocative shot of a black woman in a white dress, fleeing from someone in graceful terror, reminds us repeatedly of the movie’s original atrocity. Review: ‘The Rape of Recy Taylor’ Takes a Deep Dive Into Systemic Injustice 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Despite the heavy concrete material, Candela envisioned the stadium as a graceful structure by the bay, a place “where the land and the sea kiss.” As Miami’s skyline booms, the future of a long-neglected tropical brutalist gem hangs in the balance 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z But over the course of several features and shorts, the slight, liltingly graceful Mr. Étaix developed his own gently melancholic style. Pierre Étaix Is Honored at Film Forum 2012-10-14T02:03:03Z He is as graceful as a red deer. ‘The Books of Jacob,’ a Nobel Prize Winner’s Sophisticated and Overwhelming Novel 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z In the statement on the “Prairie Home Companion” Web site, Mr. Keillor described Mr. Keith’s “graceful, precise, understated” sounds, like “shotgun volleys” and “the singing walrus.” Tom Keith, Creator of Radio Soundscapes, Dies at 64 2011-11-02T03:54:16Z “That woman is graceful. Uma I consider a quiet storm. I didn’t know she crashed the car. I was, like: ‘Oh my God!’ Vivica A Fox: 'Black Lives Matter is going to be Trump's demise' 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z However, within this poem's uniform lines, his syntax creates similarly graceful, if lighter, pauses. Poem of the week: My Sweetest Lesbia by Thomas Campion 2010-03-22T10:50:00Z Then there are the manta rays, the B-1 bombers of the deep, that glide menacingly through the water on graceful but threatening patrols, their barbed, poisonous tails always ready to lay out all challengers. Favorite Place: Sharing Paradise With the Barracuda 2012-09-07T17:12:11Z Laura Wade, 35, is an incisive, graceful and withheld presence – in almost comic contrast to the content of Posh. Royal Court theatre prepares to bid farewell to King Dominic 2013-03-10T07:00:00Z He appeased angry diners with his enormous eyes and graceful bows, pouring a sancerre from a great height without spilling a drop. My life in San Francisco’s restaurant alley 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z Ko uses the voices of both the boy and his birth mother to tell a story that unfolds in graceful, realistic fashion and defies expectations. Books to Breeze Through This Summer 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z The performance was graceful, except for some moments of unfortunate intonation. French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet demonstrates his mastery of Ravel 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z She’s poised and graceful; the anxiety she talks about is all but invisible to onlookers. Transcending the Beltway: How Ari Lennox avoided becoming a ‘SoundCloud singer’ 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z The music lost its hectic intricacy of the 1970s and 80s and became so graceful in its modernist purism that it took on the mysterious quality of a classic – always contemporary, through being essentially timeless. Elliott Carter 2012-11-06T03:26:13Z They were also marked by the graceful integration of oak flavors. Chardonnay, the Oregon Way 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z The recitatives have refined vitality, and the ensembles are exquisite, including graceful choruses and a closely harmonized trio that anticipates the Three Ladies of Mozart’s “Magic Flute.” Music Review: Eccles’s ‘Judgment of Paris,’ at Washington Square Festival 2013-07-10T19:59:16Z For decades, nearly every sign and poster on campus was the graceful fruit of its labor. Rev. Robert Palladino, Scribe Who Shaped Apple’s Fonts, Dies at 83 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Mr. Linklater’s shooting style is so graceful and unobtrusive, and Mr. Hawke and Ms. Delpy inhabit their characters with such conviction, that the challenge and originality of the movies are easy to overlook. Movie Review: ‘Before Midnight,’ With Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke 2013-05-23T16:15:43Z Tall, trim and graceful, with cropped brown curls and a distinguished face, she was a stylish dresser who loved costumes, modern dance and putting on plays with family and friends. Retracing the Spanish Path of My Ancestor, the Founder of the Whitney 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z The graceful upward movement of the bridges, each following another with what seemed like perfect synchronicity, the sense of anticipation that suffused the crowds, the interplay of lights and water, all conveyed a magical effect. White Nights of St. Petersburg, Russia 2011-06-03T19:03:09Z “Beautiful, graceful, but when pushed into a corner, they kick.” ‘The Shape of Water’: Meet Guillermo del Toro’s Favorite Creature 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z Mauritius’s hills are also flecked with graceful colonial manors in various stages of disrepair. In Mauritius, Secluded Beaches, Verdant Hills and Harmony 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z “These were not graceful Hollywood tears streaming down a glistening cheek,” Harris writes. The story of Kamala and Doug, a match made in Hollywood (literally) 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z This daring venture into a medieval wilderness is a spectacular, rousing departure from anything Ishiguro has ever written, and yet it’s a classic Ishiguro story: graceful, original and humane. Notable fiction books of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z And that dream led him to a graceful acceptance that … it ends. Lessons on Living a Better Life From a 109-year-old Man 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z He says that his new rules are graceful, but the standards of grace seem to be mainly his own. Steven Pinker’s Bad Grammar 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z She somehow stayed upright and graceful as the three walked for about a mile until they found a good spot for the wedding, at the base of a rock wall as pocked as the moon. Winning Her Over With Easy Conversation and Home-Cooked Meals 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z It’s a set of graceful, soulful ballads with an air of sophistication that is classic Bacharach. New collaboration has Burt Bacharach still working at 92 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z Written in a graceful, lucid prose style, with a strong narrative line, his books appealed to the general reader as well as historians. Peter Gay, Historian Who Explored Social History of Ideas, Dies at 91 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z There is rarely a clunky moment with these two graceful singers. Music Review: ?L?Elisir d?Amore? at the Metropolitan Opera 2012-03-07T00:10:31Z His graceful, exuberant work survives and his company endures. Dance Listings for Dec. 20-26 2013-12-19T23:13:15Z Especially when the graceful animals are the inn’s raison d’être. Pennsylvania’s Inn at Westwynd Farm gives shelter to many species 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z With graceful flourishes and breezy wit, Ophüls touches on the most sensitive matters and presses them just hard enough to hurt. Max Ophüls’s Unheralded Masterwork “The Tender Enemy” 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z “Big Little Lies” ’s graceful economy and narrative containment had seemed like such a wise decision. “Big Little Lies” Season 2, Reviewed: Meryl, Meryl, Meryl 2019-06-09T04:00:00Z The band was graceful in ballads, scrappy and intense in collective improvisations, deft with uneven phrases, smart about repertory. New Music: Albums From Rick Ross, Cassandra Wilson and Ralph Peterson 2012-06-25T22:30:29Z He does not, however, seem the most graceful within the confines of the 140-character limit. Stop talking, Rob Lowe: Cam Newton doesn’t have to take “classy” lessons from you 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z Through Ludwig's graceful prose I finally met my great-grandparents and got to know my grandmother, who had been a distant figure to me. My great-grandparents died in the Holocaust and were almost forgotten 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z Once again he is scary, but he is also hilarious, tender and graceful. Theater: He Looks Like a Big, Scary Guy Because He Is One 2010-12-26T02:24:21Z Such numbers are rendered with equal measures sass and satin by the Encores! orchestra, framed onstage by the white deco drapes of Allen Moyer’s set, and perfectly matched by Chris Bailey’s antic and graceful choreography. Review: Encores! Serves a Bathtub Martini in ‘The New Yorkers’ 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z The movie’s bifurcated shape isn’t novel, but Poitras’s marshaling of all this information is exceptionally graceful. ‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’ Review: Nan Goldin’s Art and Activism 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z It is pure, lightly creamy and graceful, a lovely, vibrant Champagne that will get even better with a few more years of age. Champagne Seeks to Discover Itself in Single-Vineyard Wines 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z "Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be," he told The New York Times Magazine in 1999. Hal David, 91, award-winning songwriter dies 2012-09-02T02:37:03Z All show, in varying degrees, the dedication required by this most graceful of arts: the sweat, the blisters, the punishing pointe shoes, the discipline of daily class. 'Black Swan' director Darren Aronofsky ushers a 'wereswan' onto the screen 2010-12-02T21:56:00Z So is a graceful Noto sculpture whose arcing purple tendrils turn silver at their tips. In the galleries: To sleep, perchance to dream 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Old New York drifts in graceful, telling snippets before one’s eyes. Books of The Times: ?New York Diaries: 1609 to 2000? - Review 2012-01-19T23:09:58Z There were some effective moments in the Adagio, but after a graceful opening oboe solo from Anne Marie Gabriele, the Allegretto turned poky. L.A. Phil concert favors theatrics over polished music-making 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z But in my memory Ginger Rogers moved swiftly across the stage and among the tables, powered by her own graceful feet. My Mademoiselle Summer 2013-07-19T20:55:07Z At least as impressive, given that this is her first feature, is her filmmaker’s eye, which captures the tumult of ordinary city life with graceful kineticism and composes it in elegant black-and-white images. ‘The Forty-Year-Old Version’ Review: Rapper’s Delight 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z The result is unexpectedly mysterious: choreographed stealth extended, through video, into oddly graceful, deconstructed dance. White Cube? These 3 Art Shows Buck Convention 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z It’s as if the documentary, the personal, and the historical fused in a graceful yet majestic vessel that pared away the literary and the theatrical to become a new kind of slender, brisk instant classicism. Postscript: Manoel de Oliveira 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z It’s fragrant and graceful, and would take well to a light chill. 20 Wines Under $20: For When the Weather Is Sultry 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z It is a cluster of red roofs nestled at a graceful curve in the lakefront about a mile to the south. Journeys: German Town Where Opposing Soldiers Prevented Destruction 2010-05-28T07:49:00Z Like a lot of these works, it’s graceful yet a bit damaged. In the galleries: A celebration of language from antiquity His “Ink Plum” depicts a single plum tree, a symbol of ethical purity, as little more than a graceful but insubstantial twig. Art Review: ?The Art of Dissent in 17th-Century China? at the Met Museum - Review 2011-09-08T22:36:02Z Just as I raise it to focus, goose-like honks break the still morning air as the graceful, flamboyantly pink birds take flight in several columns from a nearby beach. Want to See the Wild Side of Cuba? Try a Kayak 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z Truckasauras was graceful about it — even if their grace was loud and pounding. Truckasauras rocks hard, salutes the '90s at Barboza 2012-06-29T18:19:13Z The collages are less graceful, but more freewheeling. Review | In the galleries: Depicting an energy of constant fluctuation and growth 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z “Snow skiing is naturally graceful, naturally beautiful,” he writes in his coming book “Winterdanse: The Misplaced Art of Snow Ballet.” When Ski Ballet Pushed at the Porous Boundary Between Art and Sport 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z Playing only the second of its three movements, Mr. Chiu offered a focused performance, letting the work’s graceful melody sing while adhering fastidiously to Cage’s suggestion that vibrato be avoided. Music Review: Flux Quartet at Bargemusic for John Cage Centennial 2012-07-20T21:10:20Z The graceful expressiveness of the sequence is just one sign of director Michele Shay’s confident touch with “Seven Guitars,” part of Wilson’s magisterial 10-play cycle about the African American experience in the 20th century. ‘Seven Guitars’ by the No Rules Theatre Co. hits all the right notes Too many people in TV, sports and other parts of public life do not know how to make a graceful exit. Lt. Joe Kenda of "Homicide Hunter": "I never pulled the trigger because I never had to 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z But the show never hits a graceful rhythm; it literally breaks a wing flapping at punchlines. Review | The Almighty is a cutie-pie in ‘An Act of God’ 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z This style of calligraphy, which seems almost to float on the page in its graceful fluidity, is the subject of an exhibit at the Sackler Gallery. Persian calligraphy takes flight It's in 50 different keys and sounds amazing: this weird, beautiful, graceful Frankenstein's monster. Musicians and their obsessions 2010-12-09T21:46:00Z The sleek lines made me think of graceful Italian designs. Among Sparkling Wines, the Other Half Lives Pretty Well 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z “I just want the picture to be as graceful and dignified as it was, because it at first looked like he was just taking a moment.” A singer-songwriter apologized, closed his eyes, dropped his head and died on stage 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z Transparently dealing with the grief she continues to work through, it's graceful and brutal and uncomfortably honest. Hole - Nobody's Daughter: Exclusive free stream 2010-04-23T09:41:00Z It was gorgeous, beautifully aromatic, complex and elegant, graceful and savory. 2021 Seen Through 12 Unforgettable Wines 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z What is leadership if not the graceful deployment of euphemisms? | Anna Wintour Gets a Building Named After Her, Victoria Beckham Opens a Store and Amy Adams Wears Some Pricey Bling 2014-01-18T00:00:46Z There is a graceful, elegantly lighted staircase at the NoMad in the hotel of the same name, and a vertiginous, coal-cellar-steep one at Narcissa in the Standard hotel in the East Village. Who’s Setting Up Shop in Hotels? Big-Name Chefs 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z At times he performs slow, dance-like movement, twisting his torso and stretching out his arms in graceful, flowing forms. Review: In ‘Brodsky/Baryshnikov,’ One Friend Recalls Another 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z What still amazes is how such hitherto lowbrow laughs are elevated to almost graceful perfection. There's Something About Mary: No 17 2010-10-18T10:37:00Z He successfully tears back the curtain on the how the CIA conducted the operation, with graceful writing and an eye for detail. Review: 'The Triple Agent' is a page turner 2011-07-18T10:17:08Z He said he was grateful for the opportunity to produce a graceful product and to see his ambitions encouraged rather than resisted. Streams? What Streams? For Newvelle Records, Vinyl Is the Future 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z Using prompts and magic tricks and graceful physical comedy, he makes an enormous amount of food appear and then disappear, seemingly down his own gullet, as in the Monty Python skit. Making a Meal of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Yet the galleries make a graceful, unbroken chain, connecting Byzantine mosaics to Islamic calligraphy. Art Review: ?Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition? at the Met 2012-03-15T23:06:56Z Erin Stead’s illustrations are a pleasure in themselves, spacious, sad, washy — her animals drawn with a graceful cross-hatched intelligence that seems close to the best of Wyeth. A Mark Twain Tale, Brought Back From the Dead 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Instead, we are stuck here in this particular Downton, where everyone seems to be suffocating, and understandably searching for the most graceful exit. The latest thing at ‘Downton Abbey’: Exit signs 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Fonda perches, graceful as a mantis, on a Cannes hotel roof terrace overlooking the ocean. Jane Fonda: ‘Plastic surgery bought me a decade’ 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z The Sylvae represent no less an achievement, showing Dryden in a perhaps unusual light – that of graceful poetic lyricist. Poem of the week: Horace: The Odes, Book One, IX, translated by John Dryden 2012-07-30T11:26:17Z Pullman’s writing is more graceful and sophisticated, and his ambitions are of a greater magnitude, than J.K. With ‘La Belle Sauvage,’ Philip Pullman Begins a New Trilogy 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Bach took the next step in the Sonata No. 6, giving the keyboardist a solo movement, which Mr. Pace played with graceful vitality. Music Review: Frank Peter Zimmermann, Alan Gilbert and Enrico Pace - Review 2011-10-13T22:20:12Z A searing venture through the avant garde that leaves room for graceful melody, Ribot's latest pays vivid tribute not just to a classic venue but also to the possibilities of the guitar trio. Marc Ribot Trio's 'Live at the Village Vanguard' hails giants 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z In high season, pushing through the crowds clogging the temple’s graceful walkways had become an enervating and dispiriting ordeal that few locals would willingly undergo. Kyoto Wants You Back, but It Has Some Polite Suggestions 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z After two hours of talking, Boursicot provided lunch in graceful Continental style. By chance, meeting the disgraced ‘M. Butterfly’ diplomat whose lover misled him 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z In the Bronx, Curtis is trying the spruce pine and the graceful longleaf pine, both native to southern states. Winter wonders: Conifers revive the sleeping garden. But remember, less is more. 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z In the director Julia Hart’s graceful, understated first film, Lily Rabe stars as Rachel Stevens, an English teacher supervising three high school students as they attend a weekend drama competition. Learning Lines. And Crossing Them. 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z “I wanted something that was more specific, more elegant and more graceful.” A Diverse Pixar Crew Grabs an Oscar Nomination 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z One of them is a graceful room of medium-size sculptures that finds Smith welding his way through Brancusi. Art Review: ?David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy? at the Whitney - Review 2011-10-13T22:17:25Z His spare and graceful prose in a score of novels and numerous short stories was compared to Ernest Hemingway’s, while his perceptions about American society reminded some critics of Henry James. Ward Just, 84, Dies; Ex-Journalist Found Larger Truths in Fiction 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z It’s as if his sense of graceful beauty—an ordinary, unoriginal, and unsurprising one—rested on the warm cushion of money that is itself the movie’s unspoken subject. What’s Missing from “Foxcatcher” 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z Jérôme Kaplan’s designs bring a delightful, youthful air to the stage, particularly his graceful, rounded tutus for the swans that land just above the knee, and their white feathered caps and low, ringlet ponytails. Review: In Miami, a ‘Swan Lake’ That Blasts Off the Cobwebs 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z On Saturday evening an audience of 700 filed into the exquisite redwood-and-cedar Music Shed of the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival to witness that graceful ending. Music Review: The Tokyo String Quartet Says Farewell at Norfolk Festival 2013-07-07T21:22:02Z La Guacha, from Chile, sang and sometimes rapped in lithe, graceful songs about love that kept taking unexpected turns. At SXSW, Stepping Back to Allow Hopeful Artists to Step Up 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z Singing from memory, with Mr. Halsey joining in, the chorus members appeared again as individuals, offering the hymn about departure as a graceful farewell to New York. The Berlin Radio Choir Sings Rachmaninoff’s Vespers 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z But as we finally pulled up alongside the Sarena Dzamija mosque, my eyes took in the vibrant painting and graceful half-timbered design. Gems, Hidden in Plain Sight in Macedonia 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Cushing is so unbelievably graceful, be it in lighting a cigarette or performing a blood transfusion, that he makes the most of any scene, working any prop he can get his hands on. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2013-03-16T06:00:07Z Aside from a few instances of graceful, illusory stagecraft — including a lovely scene in which an execution morphs into a wedding celebration — what you see is more or less what you get. Theater Review: Royal Shakespeare Company Adapts 2 Hilary Mantel Novels 2014-01-22T22:33:43Z The chalkboard menu is written in a graceful cursive and in utilitarian block letters, the poetic and prosaic together on a blackboard that’s bookended by weathered green shutters. Banh Ta Deli review: Where Vietnamese sandwiches pack in artistry and balance 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z Inside it’s airy and cool, with bare wide-plank floors, lots of windows and spare, graceful antiques. Martha Clarke has made a career of movement. Now she cherishes stillness. Around them, a restive group of familiars ebbs and flows, its morphing connections nourished by the music and by Denis Lenoir’s graceful camera movements. Review: ‘Eden,’ a D.J.’s Passion for Electronic Music, by Mia Hansen-Love 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z The overall effect is graceful and direct, bordering on delicate. Is Craig Ellwood's beachfront Hunt House in jeopardy? 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z For rock stars of a certain age, the eventual turn to the Great American Songbook can feel something like an obligation, or a graceful bow goodbye. Van Morrison Would Rather Play Jazz Than Talk About It 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z Lehane, is, as ever, a graceful writer, observant of the world that shapes his characters’ lives. Dennis Lehane’s ‘Since We Fell’ takes us into the heart of a tormented woman 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z “But it was more graceful, with more ability than I’d ever seen.” An Ailey Dancer Loyal to His Miami Roots and Mentor 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z The moment is the graceful heart of “High on the Hog,” a spiritual bequest from one generation of cultural guardians to another. The Making of ‘High on the Hog,’ Bringing Black Food History to TV 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z Despite its place on the homestretch of a tour — three New York shows are scheduled this weekend before several dates in Europe next month — the set was assured and graceful. Hamilton Leithauser might just be getting started 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z He was such a quiet, graceful guy, so it’s hard to get inside him. Stephen Hopkins Narrates a Scene From ‘Race’ 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z I jogged to move my grief along and pictured my mom’s graceful legs in step with me. My lucky thunder thighs 2013-01-06T02:00:00Z I wanted to be clear about my feelings, but I had to give her a graceful way to refuse my invitation. Was She Just Another Nicely Packaged Pain Delivery System? 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z With “The Descendants,” though, there was hope for some kind of graceful communion between past and present. The Carpetbagger: My Oscar Picks: Sarah Vowell 2012-02-23T20:24:02Z A writer as graceful as she is unsparing, Ms. Herzog has fondly purloined far more than her grandmother’s interior design. Amy Herzog?s ?4000 Miles? at Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater 2012-03-25T01:30:04Z Her works include sleek black metal structures and thin curving tubes of brushed aluminium, which cut graceful arcs through gallery spaces like climbing frames for grown-ups. Artist of the week 103: Claire Barclay 2010-09-02T10:53:00Z That Ms. de Niese was in superb voice was clear from the start, when she negotiated the bright filigree of the Mozart with graceful precision. Music Review: The Metropolitan Opera in Central Park 2012-07-26T21:57:22Z I was not graceful and fell into a stream. Seeking refuge in the wild: Hiking in Chilean Patagonia It was all joyous and foolish and graceful: somehow both exceptional and no big deal. Music Review: Feet?s Too Big? No Problem; Everyone Dances Here 2011-05-16T21:10:23Z It was powerful yet graceful and harmonious, already developing complexity yet still, after 16 years, a baby. 2021 Seen Through 12 Unforgettable Wines 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z It’s graceful and soulful, with earthy flavors of red fruit. 20 Wines Under $20: Postcards From Around the World 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z She is a graceful stylist, though her story also burns with a sense of purpose, a clarifying force. Two Memoirists Explore Abuse and Survival 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z In a comic I needed to develop more of a lyrical, graceful, visual way or moving between scenes. Exclusive 'Fight Club 2' pages: Tyler Durden's been around for longer than we thought 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Delacre’s graceful text, first in Spanish on each page and then just below in English, offers plenty of new words for speakers of either language — or both. The best children’s and YA books of the month, February edition 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z In the “Clemenza” overture the forcefulness of the opening chords set the tone, though the connecting passages showed the orchestra’s strings to be just as convincing when the music is graceful and light. Music Review: Ax and Blythe Open Mostly Mozart at Lincoln Center 2010-07-28T21:34:00Z Marchesa’s new look suggested a graceful cover-up for the awards season. Fashion Review: Marchesa Goes to the Scottish Highlands 2014-02-16T12:38:54Z The dynamic choreography, by Christopher Scott, is ill served by the editing and camera movements, which hack graceful and athletic motion into a hectic collage of faces and limbs. ‘In the Heights’ Review: In Dreams Begin Responsibilities 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z It’s a strange, captivating movie, graceful and elusive, with a distinctive pedigree. Is Moviegoing Undemocratic? 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z When audible, the cello playing was indeed graceful and colorful, but the work deserves more care from the performers. Cellist Cicely Parnas is still impressive in second D.C. recital, but there are caveats But this novel of suspense by the lead songwriter for the Mountain Goats is also a graceful exploration of family, loss and rural life. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z She moved to the chorus, describing a soul spinning circles but "not graceful, not like dancers, not neatly like a compass and a pencil." Rapper-poet Kate Tempest opens U.S. tour with memorable Echo set 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z But don’t expect melodramatic fireworks: The shows depict lives in turmoil with deceptive simplicity — an elusive quality that the Transport Group captures in the graceful revivals now in repertory at the Gym at Judson. Review: Pathos Times Two: A Double Dose of Inge, in Close Quarters 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z It was not simply Walker's display of virtuosity – graceful and apparently effortless – that was astonishing, but his ability to characterise the music so vividly. Walker/Watkins 2010-06-09T21:15:00Z It’s chaotic in the moment, but the patina of time reveals a graceful choreography. A Death In the Family Inspires Two Works of Art 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Their mini-sets were about equally musical, full of polyrhythmic suggestion and graceful filigree, and it was clear that they both have high-level experience. Critic’s Notebook: Jamison Ross Wins Thelonious Monk Contest 2012-09-24T22:05:15Z His graceful knack for rhythm, melody and lyrics - that rare triple threat in rock -- have made his catalog essential, but his concerts go far beyond mere recitals. Paul Simon takes graying fans on world tour 2011-04-25T05:21:26Z She is 11 months into her pottery making, though she has yet to decide what do with the pieces, which are graceful, dark and geometric. Pottery Is the New Pilates, and Macramé Takes Away the Crazy 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Earlier Rubicons show the effort of extracting as much fruit, substance and tannic power as possible from the grapes, but the 2013 seems more fluent and graceful. Inglenook Focuses on the Long Term to Regain Its Glory 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z The performers, whose graceful maneuvers evoke a human kaleidoscope, also fly across the stage like trapeze artists, except there’s no trapeze. Spare Times for Children for April 26-May 2 2013-04-25T22:27:06Z Ian's work was of course graceful and impeccable, but most typical was his presence at the recording session – as dapper as ever, offering words of support and camaraderie to the musicians. Ian Humphris 2012-12-31T12:36:49Z Dressed as a lifeguard, Ugo Laffolay of France balances on one hand on the spindly, ever rising arms of his watchtower, torquing his body sideways and shaping his limbs into graceful patterns. Part circus, part technology trade show, Cirque du Soleil's Mexico-themed 'Luzia' opens in L.A. 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z The more you realize what smooths things over, what pleases people, and the more you want to be graceful and practice being graceful, the better and more convincing you will become. Blame it on the baby boomers: Yes, pretty much everything 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z Benjamin conducted it with his customary, graceful efficiency. Review: An Opera’s Exquisite Brutality Arrives in America 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z Their own daughters and sisters — graceful, kind and obedient — lack the usual “hard lines” that political and professional combat “brings upon a woman’s eyes and brow.” Review | What if women ruled the world? A Victorian writer gave it some thought. 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Delacre’s charming and graceful verse in Spanish and English takes readers on an alphabet adventure in the Ecuadoran cloud forest in search of a newly discovered little mammal — the olinguito. Best children’s and young adult books of 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Instead, Powers asked for a “graceful rather than abrupt departure” next spring, which he said would be better, according to a letter he wrote to Cigarroa. Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z “Lo and Behold” is a strange, graceful philosophical inquiry from a filmmaker who does not shy away from thorny topics. There are two Washingtons, and this week you can see both of them on screen 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z In graceful, thoughtful songs that are constantly searching for emotional truth, she balances love and disillusionment, tenacity and loss. Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 70 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z The parental partnership, an intellectual romance and a romance between intellectuals, is conveyed with graceful efficiency in the first part of the movie, which also sketches Meg’s predicament. Review: ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Gives a Child of the Universe Powerful Friends 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z But as history would have it, he re-emerges, and Schreiber, with graceful understatement, uses his body and expression to convey the ravages of the camps. ‘A Small Light’ Review: A Profile in Extreme Courage 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z There’s unquestionably something elegant, even graceful about the way they drift and plummet. My trapeze-flying adventure: Better than an orgasm 2013-03-16T20:00:00Z She cuts rather a graceful, elegant figure, seated there in Bridlington, between her mother and father. Family life 2012-12-22T00:04:00Z A slight, graceful woman, she drew the video operators as much to her facial expressions as she did to her powerful hands. L.A. Phil, Dudamel dive into the 'Mozart in the Jungle' act at the Bowl 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Mr. Gurney tried to bridge this generational gulf in many of his plays as “a true and graceful chronicler,” in the words of the director Andre Bishop. A.R. Gurney, Playwright Who Explored Upper-Crust Anxieties, Dies at 86 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z The soprano Carrie Henneman Shaw was as graceful vocally as she was in her movements, dancing under a veil as the spirit of Eurydice. Opera Review: Boston Early Music Festival Offers Charpentier Short Operas 2014-03-22T02:07:34Z That Arcadian image of the celebrating lovers and their "sweet pastimes" at the tomb-side seems to take a graceful turn from artifice into generous humanity. Poem of the week: My Sweetest Lesbia by Thomas Campion 2010-03-22T10:50:00Z Scotti, graceful and alert, is a quiet presence but not a passive one. ‘The Hand of God’ Review: A Portrait of the Cineaste as a Young Man 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Some blocks are graceful, many others far from it. America’s Most Famous Street 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z Olya is thin and graceful, with long legs that bend spectacularly. A guide to watching the Oscar-nominated animated shorts, from cheeky birds to grisly torture 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z The quiet, understated elegance of the piano melodies on this last track are moving; the phrasing is graceful, managing to be understated and specific. Keane Takes a Step Backwards with Strangeland 2012-05-08T10:45:19Z |
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