They were like "children," and loving families could simply dismiss their lack of social graces because now they were so much happier.
Speaking French and playing the piano are social graces.
The captain was not a man gifted with social graces, and having dinner with his passengers every night was an ordeal for him.
She didn't fit in and she had few social graces.
Women are good at nurturing relationships, the thinking goes, while men are too egotistical to say they're sorry or have a different take on social graces.
Meanwhile Christophe was going through a series of love affairs which always terminated unhappily because of his unswerving honesty and lack of social graces.
Can a panacea be found to improve Singaporeans' social graces?
Others see us as overly materialistic, somewhat uncouth and lacking in social graces.
Lacking special skills or abilities; unpolished, as in the social graces.
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