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In such performances, the strands of Shaw's sometimes garrulous argument are tuned to a fine pitch, so that only a few maxims thump through ungraced by melody.

From Time Magazine Archive

A practical scholar ungraced by a Ph.D., he co-directed a $300,000 study of St. Louis' urban problems, last year became dean of Washington's liberal arts college, and then a vice chancellor.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is rapidly becoming a convention for the critics of Chicago to hail every week as a great artist some singer hitherto ungraced by U.S. laurels.

From Time Magazine Archive

Round it ran a moat, over which was a drawbridge,—no longer capable of being drawn up,—while a flight of stone steps led to the entrance door, ungraced by a porch.

From Paddy Finn by Webb, Archibald

I, all ungraced        By gentle blood, I, whom you call      Your friend, Maecenas, shall not taste        Of death, nor chafe in Lethe's thrall.

From The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace by Conington, John