Full of grace. Lithe, ability to move and speak elegantly. Fluent speech; swaying movement. Pleasing. Attractive. Charming. Becoming.
She moved gracefullythroughout the room drawing admiring glances from all. "I've never known a dancer as graceful as she." He is graceful both in speech and movement. To be a ballet dancer, one must be graceful. Her movements are beautiful & graceful, elegant.
breaking up without the traditional negative actions and emotions of anger, jealousy, rage, depression, down-rapping the ex, burning things they left at your house, calling up the new gf/bf and screaming at them. Breaking up without sacrificing the friendship.
A friendly uncontested divorce - where the individuals do not need lawsuits and TROs - is an example of graceful distancing.
My husband Jim and I are graceful distancing, but we are not divorced yet. He moved out without any screaming or blaming. We are still friends.
We split the weekends with the kids. We both go to parent teachers conferences. We each kept our retirement accounts. I asked for child support but no alimony.
We still do Thanksgiving & Christmas and birthdays together with the kids, and we have talked about integrating our new lovers next year.
To age gracefully: "Your grandmother looks great for 82. The lines on her face show character and indicate that she has experienced an interesting life."
To not age gracefully: "Your grandmother looks quite scary for 82. The stretched out skin on her face and inability to make facial expressions indicates that she is insecure about her age so she is desperately trying to look younger, but it still doesn't look good. She's not fooling anybody so she should really just embrace her natural beauty."