Sentences with phrase «not graceful»

I do love the way they look, but I am so NOT graceful enough to pull off the originals.

It's an acquired taste and hard to master in my opinion because it's not graceful or very fun.

There is hardly a row of buildings, line of pavement or sweeping vista that is not graceful and striking.

Some said he was too big, not graceful enough to earn top rank.

It was not graceful.

Yes, the A-TRAC system is effective, but not graceful or something you would want to use with any regularity.

Fate is not graceful, sophisticated, or particularly complex.

Not no graceful.

I am not graceful or suave by nature, so attempting to put baby girl in it seems to be hazardous to her health.

When I ask her how exactly one scoops up a bean dip with floppy leaves, she points out that she uses the big ones, not baby spinach, and that it's not graceful; «you wouldn't eat it that way in a restaurant.»

I have to admit though, the thought of hosting breakfast or brunch sometimes intimidates me — especially knowing I'm not a graceful waker - upper.

He is not a graceful writer, but he has a knack for cutting to the chase.

For years, some paleoanthropologists argued that hominins like the famous 3.1 - million - year - old Lucy weren't graceful on the ground because they retained traits for climbing trees, such as long fingers and toes.

It didn't go well — I kind of awkwardly skipped forwards in a manner which wasn't graceful in the slightest!

Later he adds, with Kore - eda having established a beauty all his own, «There isn't a shot in the movie that isn't graceful or pleasing.»

Robert K. Lambert's editing is probably exactly what Russell wanted, though some of the cuts aren't graceful enough.

The action isn't graceful wire - fu, but brutal firefights where people explode, gush squibs, get caught on fire, and encounter all sorts of other nastiness.

Sharon Louise Barnes» decision to leave much of her figure unfinished feels more like a painterly contrivance, since the marks aren't graceful enough to hold the canvas.

Not exact matches

Not only is he one of the nicest, most graceful and open - hearted guys I know, he is an extremely successful blogger and coach who has a massive following (and at least one NYT best - seller).

Sure, we want to show them how much fun it is to get off the couch, but we also want to teach them that getting to the finish line, as Angela put it, isn't «graceful and effortless.»

Consider these five tips for making a graceful exit from Bill McBean, author of the recent book The Facts of Business Life: What Every Successful Business Owner Knows That You Don't, published by Wiley.

This is one of the passages George Orwell had in mind when he wrote that «when people really believed in Hell, they were not so fond of striking graceful attitudes on its brink.»

It must devise inclusive language so graceful and so functional that it does not stand out.

sin does not, will not keep you from your eternal home with our Graceful Father

In my many years of practice in the Family Courts in this country (and it is not very different in other countries) my experience has been that the behaviour of all too many women, Catholics included, has not been graceful but rather disgraceful.

And yet it captures also that so graceful was his generous acceptance of injustice for our sake that a pagan soldier could not help but observe: Surely this man was the Son of God!

The graceful individual freely integrates not only the Apollonian and the Dionysian but the present, past, and future into a meaningful whole.

Eternity will not be an eternity of disembodied spirits but an eternity of all that is most noble, graceful, and beautiful in the human city.

If you have law without the graceful covenant, you are caught in an empty legalism; but if you have the graceful covenant, the sense of election, without the content of the law, you will never endure, for that would be cheap grace, and the Bible does not know cheap grace.

Obviously, I don't think that goes far enough, as it still allows Scripture to be used as a tool to marginalize people and isn't moving us very far towards graceful acceptance of theological disagreement.

To accept history is not just to replace that awkward but old acrobatics — whereby the philosopher or theologian on one hand stands within history and on the other hand stands outside history — with something more graceful.

The graceful domes and pointed minarets which characterize the stone mosques of other countries are not found in the wooden mosques of China.

Faithfulness to following Jesus does not result in imitation, but in vibrant creativity, graceful flexibility, joyful diversity, and visionary imagination.

Technically, plagiarism is easy to avoid — by the preacher's simply making sufficient and graceful acknowledgment whenever he knows that the language and ideas he presents are not his own original work.

Claiming a «right» to offend that doesn't go by this principle is neglecting the Christian imperative to be graceful and at peace with everyone wherever possible.

Mark Driscoll's not - so - graceful fall from power proved troublesome for a lot of Christians — and rightfully so.

(Emerson writes: «When we see a soul whose acts are regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are, and not turn sourly on the angel and say: Crump is a better man, with his grunting resistance to all his native devils.»

I don't need someone to tell me to be graceful when I am not.

It is not kind, loving, or graceful.

Your exit has been indeed graceful and you continue to serve other doubters superbly so they perhaps don't have to suffer as much as yourself.

Faithfulness to following Jesus does not result in emulation and imitation, but in vibrant creativity, graceful flexibility, joyful diversity, and visionary imagination.

I totally feel your pain, there isn't really a graceful way to say we met online, and I always feel the urge to qualify it or explain why I was looking to meet someone online, or something.

Wish I could send you some as repayment for all your delicious recipes that have graced our not - so - graceful table.

I so get that about busy ant not being as graceful as we would like... LOL.

My roommate wasn't interested, so I drank it in the most graceful way one can drink from a plastic bag (which is not at all).

I won't tell you about my favorite part: the unspoken, graceful cooking - creating rhythm.

He's not very graceful.

I have posted on here many time that I hope Wenger will receive a graceful exit and is not driven out of town with tar and feathers.

And for those with staying power but not quite the talent to tackle a homemade Tancook Whaler, the magazine has published a step - by - step account of how to build a small, graceful round - bottomed boat just for fly - fishing: lofting, backbone setup, planking, framing, trim and finish — 212 hours and $ 450 worth of materials.

Although the wind had not yet begun to blow, the Pacific swell launched the boats skyward in long, graceful arcs.