Small and select as it is, the show makes a graceful tribute to an avant-garde century.

It was a generous and graceful tribute to the man who had led a highly personal campaign against him.

Maxwell would have appreciated her graceful tribute, not for the praise but for the phrase, with its precise targeting by ricochet.

And the writing of them was a rare and graceful tribute from the poet to the painter - a noble recognition of work by the production of a nobler one.

D.W.]) In all relations of life, sir, it is but just and a graceful tribute to woman to say of her that she is a brick.

It is a tribute to Konrad's abilities that after a time he makes these irritating shifts seem graceful as well as useful.

She began with a graceful and discerning tribute to New York City.

Teacher's graceful tribute to Dr. Allen as an "educator" was fully understood by the workers of the blind.

Helen, always ready with a graceful tribute, said of him afterward: "It is said that there is in every country an empty throne waiting for a bold man to seize it.

An inordinate proportion of this slender book is given over to digression and quotation (including a graceful, tongue-in-cheek, tribute to The Economist).