| In many tribal cultures, the social graces, being polite, showing respect and personal interactions are more important than being on time. |
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| In Japan, by observing all the social graces, I could often pass for a native. |
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| From an early age, children are trained in etiquette and the social graces. |
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| For all her military ambitions, Dana was well trained in the social graces, and could waltz as well as she could fight. |
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| High-minded citizens petitioned Congress to vote in a new era of enlightened laws to cultivate the social graces. |
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| On the trek across the Sahara it was vital that decorum, etiquette and social graces were left at the airport! |
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| The poorly-educated son of a yeoman farmer, his social graces, and those of his wife, left something to be desired. |
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| How are your kids doing when it comes to social graces at the dinner table? |
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| There is no doubt manners and social graces are essential pillars that hold up our society. |
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| You hardly hear it now, but in 1979 it was a sneering term for a person who has acquired wealth recently, and is vulgarly ostentatious or lacking in social graces. |
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| Her family was well connected, and Griffith received an education suitable for a fine lady in polite literature, French, poetry, and the social graces. |
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| Young ladies from affluent families often attended private schools for young women that specialised in the arts and social graces. |
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| Perhaps there you can learn some of the basics of the social graces. |
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| In the Rothschild family golf has formed part of the social graces for nearly a century. |
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| The games and stories help children develop self-esteem and social graces, and have put an end to displays of aggression at the centre, says Normandeau. |
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| The ubiquitous French dance masters not only taught dancing but also social graces, which brought about an open-mindedness towards French culture and the French musical style. |
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| Evans had influential backers and political allies, but lacked social graces and was disliked by many of his peers. |
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| His lack of mastery of the social graces made it obvious he had not been raised in upper-class society. |
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| Diminished expression of ordinary social graces. |
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| Instead of exploring the crucial role of civility in social and political life, the lexicographers have concentrated on how it carries less personal warmth than other social graces. |
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| But she couldn't overcome her social graces. |
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| Instead, Jones's Roger lacks social graces and stature. |
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| It might look so to those who deplore the evident decline in the old social graces, but it is salutary to speculate that the first such sentiments were probably expressed in inarticulate grunts around a fire in a cave. |
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| In every era, learned men and women have agreed that the young people around them were sloppily educated, poorly motivated, bereft of social graces, and ill-equipped to take over the running of the world. |
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