"You are uninteresting tonight, Hadron of Hastor," she said after a particularly long silence, during which I had been endeavoring to formulate my proposal in some convincing and graceful phrases.

In Venice of old, he had gloried in his clothes as men did then, always so sharp and splendidly embellished, the glass of fashion, to use the old graceful phrase.

Ms. Eggerth demonstrated her vocal estate with a lilting, graceful phrase of melody, small and sweet as a pressed flower.

Mr. Loevendie's short piece was based on slow, graceful phrases for the two string instruments, with the piano most often chiming in to decorate.

They realized the piece on a broad scale, not merely as a series of graceful but unrelated phrases and movements.

That package is what the Chief Secretary the other day called' socialist spite', a typically graceful phrase from the right hon. and learned Gentleman.

In the lingo of the computer industry, rarely known for coining graceful phrases, this Macintosh-like approach is known as a "graphical user interface."

Although Ms. Mahdaviani has devised graceful phrases and pretty poses for everyone, these felicitous moments are separated by passages that amount to little more than choreographic padding.

In a handwritten memo, Sir Anthony, who lives in England and cannot be extradited, found a graceful, self-forgiving, but ultimately arrogant phrase for price-fixing.

One can see him in his study, sculpturing graceful yet stinging phrases that might help save the "Game of the Week."