social grace

There’s a reward behind the social grace, too.

More recently, researchers have questioned the murderous portrayal of Blackbeard and suggested he was a literate, well-educated man of social grace — which perhaps gives some credence to Taika Waititi's portrayal of the pirate in "Our Flag Means Death."

In this unsteady moment, the masked and unmasked will need to tolerate each other’s company with civility and social grace.

“Denial is now an art,” she asserts, “a social grace, a survival tool, as is apathy which has become a sign of refinement.”

Almost from the start, people didn’t like the cut of his jib, his lack of social grace, or his inability to speak in ways that made people feel good and want to write checks.