Richard E. Grant has the social grace of a Venetian courtesan.
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You don't necessarily equate that with someone who's got a lot of social grace.
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And what's more, this hacker has shown some social grace, unlike the previous one.
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He was like the home itself: a fortress camouflaged in the warmth of social grace.
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Sometimes I feel he lacks social grace and awareness, and this seems to be a glaring example.
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Given the areas of our lives that Mercury touches — communication, online exchanges, and social grace — this is no small blessing.
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Your partner has impressed all your friends, charmed your coworkers with their social grace, and even bonded with your sibling that one time.
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Sure, you have the opportunity to ease the landing with some social grace, but you are under no obligation to give these people a consolation prize.
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Most jobs are still out of reach of robots, which lack the dexterity required on an assembly line or the social grace needed on a customer service call.
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She throws the best parties, wears the best dresses, does the most charitable charity work, and everyone seems to defer to her on questions of etiquette or social grace.
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The playwright Philip Dawkins pays tribute to that exemplar of social grace with this comedy-drama, directed by Will Davis and starring Sandra Caldwell as the etiquette expert, Mama.
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In other words, this weekend will likely be an exercise in patience and social grace, but, if you happen to follow the phases of the moon, you don't have to go it alone.
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It's a game that makes me discard social grace and make the hardest sell I can: If you've liked something I've written in the last few years, do me a favor and play this game.
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Interactions with machines could be de-socialising, for instance; we might grow accustomed to being rude to our personal digital assistants, or too lazy to muster the social grace needed to speak with the human customer-service agent rather than the robot one.
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Most famous people have a thin oleaginous layer of social grace that tops a bottomless well of impatience to get their press duties over with, but Hill seemed to be in no particular hurry to do anything, except lose at Ping-Pong.
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A Social Grace is Psychotic Waltz's first studio album released in 1990 (see 1990 in music). In 2004, Metal Blade Records reissued A Social Grace in a box set also containing the band's third album, Mosquito and a bonus DVD.
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In 2004, Metal Blade Records reissued Mosquito in a box set also containing the band's debut A Social Grace and a bonus DVD.
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Clint, a gambling addict, suffers from a lack of social grace and the interesting habits of his nine-year-old son. His weekly visits consist of his wife and infant children.
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He later served on the military staff of King Kalākaua from 1889 to 1891. He served on the staff of Queen Liliuokalani and was elevated to the rank of Colonel on March 14, 1891.; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; Holt described as a cavalier, a court favorite with social grace and an excellent horseman. The Hawaiian Democratic Delegation, 1900.
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And although Jimmy may lack social grace, he is convinced the best years of his life are just beginning. His plan seems like it’s all falling into place when Tak’s beautiful niece Ramona (Lynn Chen) moves in. But once Jimmy sets his sights on stealing her from his best friend Tim (James Kyson Lee), he sees his intentions go hilariously awry.
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Maleen, searching for a new life, unknowingly begins working as a maid in Konrad's household. Walpurga, captivated by her social grace and beauty, bribes her into standing in for her at the wedding, but wearing a veil so that Konrad does not know it is not Walpurga. The plot fails and Walpurga is sent away. Konrad and Maleen are reunited.
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March 11, 2015. Pop TV. When downplaying his fears, or otherwise expressing himself, David often displays a dryly sarcastic sense of humour and a lack of social grace. He is particularly blunt when interacting with his sister, Alexis, and best friend, Stevie, although no one is seemingly immune to his remarks. In one episode, he tells the owner of the Blouse Barn that the clothes she sells are "skanky".
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The United States contains a wide variety of training opportunities for beauty contestants. There are schools across the U.S. similar to The Millie Lewis School, which offers training classes for children, teens and adults. The Millie Lewis School help young women overcome anxiety and build confidence through classes. The school's courses focus on personal development and help students build self-esteem through coaching in wardrobe, hair care, makeup, social grace, and more.
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After stepping down in London, White and his family returned to the United States, a country which White had lived in for only three of the past 27 years. The family moved to Washington, D.C., where White laid the groundwork for a return to the diplomatic service. Throughout White's diplomatic career, his prospects were helped by the social grace of himself and his wife. As a bachelor, White had ingratiated himself with the British sporting set.
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Katherine Sophie Dreier became his patron briefly from 1925 to 1926, which came to a premature end mainly due to petty disagreements and Matulka's general lack of social grace, ranging from tardiness to tantrums. In November 1926 he started to contribute illustrations to The New Masses. In 1927, Matulka began an association with the Frank K. M. Rehn Gallery. The clientele of the gallery wanted more conservative and representational works so Matulka complied because he needed the income.
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They performed six shows a day to sold-out audiences and greatly contributed to the dance's popularity. After the engagement at the Roxy, the group became known as "Billy Spivey's Big Apple Dancers" and toured the country for six months. Arthur Murray, a dance instructor and entrepreneur who had 128 dance studios occupying three floors in New York in 1936LIFE, December 28, 1936. "Dancing is Good Exercise, a Social Grace, and a Means of Livelihood", p. 33.
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Tolstoy emphasizes the opposition of culture and nature within "After the Ball," notably through the juxtaposition of urban and rural in the two parts of the story. The ball takes place indoors, and the flogging takes place outdoors: "It was perfect pre-Lenten weather, there was a mist, the waterlogged snow melted on the roads, and all the roofs were dripping." The colonel is the most obvious example of this opposition. During the ball, he is a model of social grace and standing.
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Richard 'Richie' Richard (Rik Mayall) is a perpetually optimistic and hysterical dimwit. His character is snobbish and aspirational albeit completely unhinged and lacking in any social grace. Richie usually wears a white shirt tucked into his Y-fronts and vintage black tie with tie clip, blue jeans with a belt that clearly misses most of the loops and has a light brown raincoat when outdoors. He also occasionally wears brown trousers held up with braces, a red tie and he also wears white and pink striped pyjamas.
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A Map showing the approximate extent of the Tang Dynasty in the beginning of the 8th century. The Tang dynasty (618–907) was particularly noted for its poetry, especially the shi forms such as jueju and lüshi.Davis 1970, p. xlii This poetry was both a pervasive social phenomenon throughout the Tang literate classes, who developed the ability to compose poems on demand as part of the Imperial examination system, but also a social grace necessary for polite conduct on social occasions, such as part of the interaction at banquets or social gatherings.
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Other common personality types of leaders are obsessive-compulsive, which makes for a hardworking leader with great organizational skills, but also one afraid to make decisions for fear of making a mistake, excessively contentious, and lacking in social grace, and the paranoid; a hypersensitive, easily slighted leader who see the world as full of enemies and will rarely negotiate. Paranoid leaders fall prey to projecting their beliefs (ego defense) on those around them and are therefore largely autonomous and independent. Their enemies are always coordinated and rational actors intent on the paranoid's destruction.
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They had their own set of values and rules and had little concern for matters that went on outside of their family. Due to their secluded lifestyle, their lack of social grace, and their superstitious belief in mountain lore, they were perceived by the people of Mayberry as being somewhat backward and ignorant. Their arrival in town usually meant trouble for Sheriff Taylor and Deputy Barney Fife, despite their friendly relationship with the family. The Darlings made their first appearance on The Andy Griffith Show in episode #88, "The Darlings Are Coming".
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Disgruntled and in need of money, he began spying for Japan, which had been attempting to recruit many Americans for espionage in the 1920s and 1930s. He passed his information to his handlers, Commander Yoshiyuki Ichimiya, assistant Naval attaché at the Japanese Embassy from October 1932 to December 1934, and Lt. Commander Arika Yamaki, who succeeded Ichimiya until November 1935. Farnsworth later claimed that he was paid $100 a week plus expenses for his spying. Despite his disgraceful exit from Naval service, Farnsworth still had enough social grace to make him acceptable in the best Washington society.
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In her memoirs The Days I Knew she explains that Edward Langtry was an extremely shy person, and had spent his life since leaving Oxford in outdoor country sports. In London he felt "quite like a fish out of water" and this may explain his difficulty in conversation and his lack of social grace, and possibly why so many people had such a poor opinion of him. In 1877 Edward and Lillie spent a month in the Perth area of Scotland as the guests of Effie and John Everett Millais. It was here that Edward was at his most relaxed, salmon fishing with Millias, and appeased with the absence of crowds.
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With money earned from local shows and T-shirt sales, they recorded a self-titled demo tape in 1986. The European Metal tape trading community took notice of the demo and the band received some enthusiastic reviews from fanzines and from German metal fans. After discovering another band with the same name, they changed theirs to Psychotic Waltz and recorded a new four-song demo in 1988. This new demo also found its way to the European Metal tape trading community and the band began to build their loyal European fanbase. In 1990, they debuted with their independently financed debut A Social Grace, which was released in Europe via a licensing deal with the German label Rising Sun Productions.
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The charismatic Andrew Jackson collaborated with Martin Van Buren to rally his followers in the newly formed Democratic Party. In the election of 1828, Jackson defeated Adams by an overwhelming electoral majority in the first presidential election since 1800 to mark a wholesale voter rejection of the previous administration's policies. The electoral campaign was correspondingly as vicious as the one 28 years earlier, with Jackson and Adams camps hurtling the worst mudslinging accusations at one another. The former painted himself as a war hero and the champion of the masses against Northeastern elites while the latter argued that he was a man of education and social grace against an uncouth, semi-literate backwoodsman.
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On a request to the United States Department of War, Magruder arranged a transfer to the 1st Artillery with Albert Miller Lea, a correspondent from West Point, to stay close to Henrietta. Biographer Thomas M. Settles described the lieutenant as a great favorite among his men—"always charming, frivolous at times, but intelligent and obviously well read". Known as "Prince John", a resplendently uniformed man with a theatrical manner, Magruder attained a reputation for his social grace and etiquette. The 1830s for Magruder, however, were largely regulated to garrison duty in North Carolina, Maryland, and Florida; the uneventful aspects of these assignments granted him time to study law and pass the bar examination.
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A variant Yellow Peril seductress is presented in the white savior romance between a "White Knight" from the West and a "Lotus Blossom" from the East; each redeems the other by way of mutual romantic love. Despite being a threat to the passive sexuality of white women, the romantic narrative favorably portrays the Lotus Blossom character as a woman who needs the love of a white man to rescue her from objectification by a flawed Asian culture. As a heroine, the Lotus-Blossom-woman is an ultra-feminine model of Asian pulchritude, social grace, and culture, whose own people trapped her in an inferior, gender- determined social-class. Only a white man can rescue her from such a cultural impasse, thereby, the narrative reaffirms the moral superiority of the Western world.
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"Math-metal" pioneers Watchtower, from Texas, took the concept of time-changes to a new level, combining thrash metal, syncopation and prog in their albums Energetic Disassembly (1985) and Control and Resistance (1989), giving rise to an extremely technical approach based on the rhythmic deconstruction typical of jazz fusion. This same type of prog metal will be later integrated into death metal by American bands such as Atheist (1991's Unquestionable Presence). Among the other pioneering thrash metal bands, one of the most important is the Canadian Voivod, with their complex and experimental style, full of psychedelic dissonances (Dimension Hatröss 1988, Nothingface 1989). The major US bands that contribute to further delineating and developing the genre are Psychotic Waltz and Dream Theater. The former, with an approach halfway between Watchtower and Fates Warning, produced A Social Grace (1990), melding their signature sound with the psychedelic Into the Everflow (1992), while the latter explored the legacy of the bands that preceded them while advancing their personal style with When Dream and Day Unite (1989).
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