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“It was as if a vulnerable, young Elizabeth Taylor, nervous and smiling, was gracing a suburban Ottawa party,” Sondra Gotlieb, the wife of a former Canadian ambassador to the United States, wrote years later.

From Washington Post • Oct. 22, 2015

Before long, the taciturn, socially gauche young man from the colonies was gracing the dinner tables of a galaxy of French luminaries: Jean Genet, Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva, Maurice Blanchot and others.

From The Guardian • Nov. 14, 2012

Cocks first spotted this week's cover subject as "a really aces actor" in the early 1960s, when Jack Nicholson was gracing drive-in screens in horror movies.

From Time Magazine Archive

All that playtime still hadn’t gotten him recruited to Trinity College, so he was gracing the Granger School with another year of his presence and his parties.

From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan

To Kaltenbrunner the fact that the great Bobby Fischer was gracing his home—for whatever reason—was equivalent to having the president of a country stop in to pay a visit.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady