1.   A gracious loser is a healer, and also would be well-positioned to seek a rematch in four years.

2.   Afterward, Paulson was a gracious loser.

3.   But even given the most gracious loser imaginable, politicians in both parties say they cannot fathom that the Congress will deal easily with the new president.

4.   By opposing any hand counts with a scorched-earth media blitz, Bush has left himself no room to be a gracious loser.

5.   The team had lost its previous game, and Biekert is not a gracious loser.

6.   The typical photo shows a beaming victor and a gracious loser, fashioning a wooden grin.

7.   There are few places even for gracious losers in American politics.

8.   There is more of a need to be a gracious winner than a gracious loser in these times.