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Scw72 Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

"An Inner Grace"

Hello,

Does anyone help me understand the meaning of "an inner grace" in the follwoing sentence " Mickey Mantle was a natural, a player whose talent seemed to come from an inner grace, but he suffered many painful injuries and long periods of depression"

Thanks for your help in advance!!

CW
  

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It's originally a Christian term- *** puts an inner grace in the hearts of those he chooses- so a ***-given gift, a natural talent, something he did not need to learn.

  • It's originally a Christian term- *** puts an inner grace in the hearts of those he chooses- so a ***-given gift, a natural talent, something he did not need to learn.
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It's originally a Christian term- *** puts an inner grace in the hearts of those he chooses- so a ***-given gift, a natural talent, something he did not need to learn.
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Scw72the meaning of "an inner grace" in the follwoing sentence
I would take this meaning of grace: ease and suppleness of movement or bearing.

"inner" I take to mean "natural", "inherent", or "internal".

So I would paraphrase it like this: His talent came from the fact that he was just automatically able to move smoothly and easil

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