At other times, Powell's accompanying recalled stride and, on occasion, the graceful approach of pianist Teddy Wilson.

" I observed that there was a sudden, proud and graceful reaction to the rhythm ... White dancers, as I had observed them, took the number in stride.

Wesley appealed to prevenient grace as a solution to the problem, stating that God makes the initial move in salvation, but human beings are free to respond or reject God's graceful initiative.

USA Today described the styling as " ot swoopy and sexy like the CX-9, nor graceful like the GM's GMC / Saturn models, but easier on the eyes than the Toyota Highlander and the Hyundai Veracruz, but criticized the high hood line saying that the Pilot " makes it hard to see where the path goes when cresting an off-pavement hill.

He died at Ferrara in February 1552 ; and his epitaph makes touching and graceful allusion to the sadness of his end.

The simple yet graceful abstract figures are portrayed engaging in feats of vision and daring that place them firmly above even the greatest beasts of their jungle habitat.

The American historian Retha M. Warnicke writes that Anne was " the perfect woman courtier ... her carriage was graceful and her French clothes were pleasing and stylish ; she danced with ease, had a pleasant singing voice, played the lute and several other musical instruments well, and spoke French fluently ... A remarkable, intelligent, quick-witted young noblewoman ... that first drew people into conversation with her and then amused and entertained them.

Like Duchamp's ' ready mades ' - manufactured objects which qualified as art because he chose to call them such, the most unremarkable and inappropriate items-a pin, a plastic clothes peg, a television component, a razor blade, a tampon-could be brought within the province of punk ( un ) fashion ... Objects borrowed from the most sordid of contexts found a place in punks ' ensembles ; lavatory chains were draped in graceful arcs across chests in plastic bin liners.

Whalen and his team were able to borrow priceless paintings and sculptures from Europe and hang them in a graceful, understated building in Queens for two years.

He served as Chairman of the new Central Advisory Commission, a temporary institution set up to provide a place for the surviving leadership of the founding generation, to give them a graceful way to step aside in favor of younger minds while also remaining at least marginally involved in public affairs.

One of them, Konstantin Pobedonostsev, wrote that " the eyes, by themselves, would be attractive, I suppose, only her gaze has no depth -- the kind in which transparency and naivete meet with lifelessness and stupidity ... How it irks me to see her in the place of the dear, wise, and graceful Empress!

Some of them, such as Sylvan Stay and One Face Alone, are extremely graceful and musical, and the whole fairy tale is noticeable for the beauty of the story and the richness of its language.

Many residents later said the flowing lines reminded them of a graceful ship.

Dragons, grotesques and little figures of boys, mixed with graceful scroll foliage, crowd every possible part of the canopy and its shafts, designed in the most free and unconventional way and executed with an utter disregard of the time and labor which were lavished on them.

The cessions were not entirely selfless — in some cases the cessions were made in exchange for federal assumption of the states ' Revolutionary War debts — but the states ' reasonably graceful cessions of their often-conflicting claims prevented early, perhaps catastrophic, rifts among the states of the young Republic, and assuaged the fears of the " landless " states enough to convince them to ratify the new United States Constitution.

While the program was not implemented until 1917, early in his tenure Benchoff described the goal of a military program as " to train the boys with a discipline that is valuable and give them that easy and graceful carriage which is an accomplishment in any gentleman's claim to culture " In 1930 after receiving an application and inspecting the existing program, the U. S. War Department formally made the school a JrROTC unit " placing it on a par with the highest rated military schools in the country "

Atkins began polishing the Marvelettes ' dance moves while Powell taught the group to be more graceful telling them and every other Motown act that they would " perform in front of kings and queens ".

Smooth convex curves are characteristic of the Downs ; their graceful and striking outline gives them an importance in the landscape in excess of their actual height ; their flanks are well wooded, their summits covered with close springy turf.

The whole novelty and poetic power of this school, consisted in, according to Dante, Quando Amore spira, noto, ed a quel niodo Ch ' ei detta dentro, vo significando: that is, in a power of expressing the feelings of the soul in the way in which love inspires them, in an appropriate and graceful manner, fitting form to matter, and by art fusing one with the other.

They look wonderfully elegant and graceful when you see them darting across the steppes like arrows, heads stretched out and tails streaming away behind them in the wind.

He was compared to other lawyers by one who knew him as a " sound lawyer and superior to them all as a fluent, graceful and successful advocate and in the skillful management of his cases.

" At a 2005 festival showing, Michael Dembrow's program notes said that it " explores the strands of West African and African-American experience and ties them into a cultural and spiritual knot, at once graceful, sturdy, and persevering.

The AbhinayaDarpana has a sloka that describes Patra Prana Dasha Smrutaha-the ten essentials of the dancer: Javaha ( Agility ), Sthirathvam ( Steadiness ), Rekha ( graceful lines ), Bhramari ( balance in pirouettes ), Drishti ( glance ), Shramaha ( hard work ), Medha ( intelligence ), Shraddha ( devotion ), Vacho ( good speech ), and Geetam ( singing ability ).

: Marchesi was at this time ( 1788 ) a very well-looking young man, of good figure, and graceful deportment.

:*" Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or wel bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves ".

She then took over for Letty Lind in The Girl from Kays at the Apollo Theatre, earning good notices for her graceful, acrobatic dancing in particular.

Some of the smaller articles, such as flower stands, small tables, and ornamental stands, are, however, of exceedingly graceful contour, and good examples are highly prized by collectors.

One of those young women had the whole body painted, from bottom to top with that tincture, and sure she was so good shaped and so rounded, and her private part so graceful that most women in our land, if had seen those features would feel abashed for not having their own like she has hers.

The Gemini / Cancerian is thought to be affectionate, seductive, opinionated, nice, cheerful, caring, thoughtful, playful, loving, graceful, understanding, sociable, funny, intelligent, pure, humorous, assertive, ambivert, friendly, bubbly, honest, attractive, confident, a good leader, spontaneous, sexual, flirtatious, fearless, and loyal.

His exceptionally strong and watchful defence made him a very hard man to get out and he had developed a good range of strokes on the off-side-though his rather stiff style made him less than graceful to most spectators watching him.

* 1668-Both William Holder and John Wallis, an English mathematician, taught a deaf man to speak ' plainly and distinctly, and with a good and graceful tone.

The carved statues of the frieze against the low wall are for the most part headless, but their exquisitely graceful nude and draped torsos and the kneeling Atlantes are well preserved in their perfect proportion.

Whole blocks are disappearing and more are scheduled to vanish to make room for wide boulevards that will show off its treasures to better advantage -- the great domes and graceful spires of its mosques, the panorama of the Bosphorus and the Golden Horn.

While Renaissance artists sought nature to find their style, the Mannerists looked first for a style and found a manner. In Mannerist paintings, compositions can have no focal point, space can be ambiguous, figures can be characterized by an athletic bending and twisting with distortions, exaggerations, an elastic elongation of the limbs, bizarre posturing on one hand, graceful posturing on the other hand, and a rendering of the heads as uniformly small and oval.

In 1945, Bartók composed his Piano Concerto No. 3, a graceful and almost neo-classical work, as a surprise 42nd birthday present for Ditta, but he died just over a month before her birthday, with the scoring not quite finished.

Borzoi puppies rapidly grow into strong and graceful sprinters. Correct nutrition during puppyhood is also debatable for borzoi.

Diderot's miscellaneous pieces range from a graceful trifle like the Regrets sur ma vieille robe de chambre ( Regrets for my Old Dressing Gown ) up to Le rêve de D ' Alembert, where he plunges into the depths of the controversy as to the ultimate constitution of matter and the meaning of life.

" Ai ," the traditional Chinese character for love ( 愛 ) consists of a heart ( middle ) inside of " accept ," " feel ," or " perceive ," which shows a graceful emotion.

The longship is characterized as a graceful, long, narrow, light, wooden boat with a shallow-draft hull designed for speed.

Another use is for backward compatibility and graceful degradation: in color television, encoding color via a luminance-chrominance transform domain ( such as YUV ) means that black-and-white sets display the luminance, while ignoring the color information.

The main terminal was designed in 1958 by famed Finnish architect Eero Saarinen and it is highly regarded for its graceful beauty, suggestive of flight.

In such a way, Rococo artists opted for a more jocular, florid and graceful approach to Baroque art and architecture.

Bonetti was known for his safe handling, lightning reflexes and his graceful style, for which he was given the nickname, " The Cat ".

Yet unusually for a man of his stature Gullit also possessed outstanding natural balance and poise that gave a graceful style to his game.

Willette frequently reveals himself bitter and fierce, even ferocious, in his hatreds, being a violent though at the same time a generous partisan of political ideas, furiously compassionate with love and pity for the people whether they be ground down under the heel of political oppression, or are merely the victims ot unrequited love, suffering all the pangs of graceful anguish that are born of scornful treatment.

The Washington Post writer Ann Hornaday said: “" El Norte " was seminal, both for its graceful blend of classical narrative and magic realism, and the power with which it brought an otherwise invisible world to life .”

In these legends, St. Helens with its pre-1980 graceful appearance, was regarded as a beautiful maiden for whom Hood and Adams feuded.

To a graceful minuet tune, Fredman, lying drunk in the gutter outside the Creep-in tavern, ' a summer night in the year 1768 ', blames his mother for his conception

At the time of its establishment in 1904, the previous courthouse, built at a cost of $ 45, 000, was said to have " rivaled any other in north Louisiana for its graceful, domed architectural style and marbled hallways.

It is known for its balletic steps and graceful movements.

Accessed by the Ring's End Landing bridge, a graceful stone structure that marks a major shipping point for early settlers, Long Neck became a summer destination for the wealthy when rail travel made it accessible during the mid-19th century.

Gower was a " most graceful " left hand batsman and had a reputation for being aloof.

Meyer described Martia as " Kirk's dream woman ", and when the makeup artists learned Iman was cast for the role they decided to enhance her graceful bird-like appearance with feathers.

:: His over-fondness for extravagant attitudes, frequently affected starts, convulsive twitchings, jerkings of the body, sprawling of the fingers, flapping the breast and pockets ; a set of mechanical motions in constant use ; the caricatures of gesture, suggested by pert vivacity ; his pantomimical manner of acting, every word in a sentence, his unnatural pauses in the middle of a sentence ; his forced conceits ; his wilful neglect of harmony, even where the round period of a well-expressed noble sentiment demands a graceful cadence in the delivery.