I play it through a few times without the grace notes. The sonata carries along, but oh what a difference it makes when I am able to add in the grace notes, which season the piece like savory spices. In England, some uses hint loudly at the word s theological source. British subjects address royalty as Your grace. Students at Oxford and Cambridge may receive a grace exempting them from certain academic requirements.
Parliament declares an act of grace to pardon a criminal.
New York publishers also suggest the theological meaning with their policy of gracing. If I sign up for twelve issues of a magazine, I may receive a few extra copies even after my subscription has expired. Credit cards, rental car agencies, and mortgage companies likewise extend to customers an undeserved grace period. I also learn about a word from its opposite. Newspapers speak of communism s fall from grace, a phrase similarly applied to Jimmy Swaggart, Richard Nixon, and O. J. Simpson.