1.   For the skaters, the weekend gathering is a small oval of utopia where class and race matter less than skating technique and graceful motion.

2.   Her hands move in one graceful motion to cover her eyes.

3.   She swept the earphones from her head in one graceful motion and was gone.

4.   The bellman, asked how business was, made a graceful downward motion with his hand that approximated somebody going over the falls in a barrel.

5.   The graceful motions of sign language meshed with melodic prayers in Hebrew at Beth Joseph Congregation on Saturday.

6.   Disco dancers worked out next to men and women perfecting the graceful motions of martial arts.