Sentences with phrase «as genteel»

In the bathroom, Jamie nixed the idea of including a soaker tub for similar spacing reasons: «We're not the bath types,» he says, noting that the room serves as a genteel homage to «the throwback New York City loo.»

Most dog breeds originate in the Victorian era, when Darwinism was an exciting new theory and well - bred ladies and gentlemen bred dogs as a genteel hobby.

Van Dyck's stylish yet psychologically probing work paves the way: from Turner to Sarah Lucas, artists appear themselves as glamorous creators, be that as the genteel equal of aristocrats, lofty intellectuals or bohemian wild cards.

Versus play isn't nearly as genteel as the single - player game — detrimental effects can come into play, like spinning directional inputs or changing your screen so only perfectly on - time inputs (Criticals) count, and everything else is a miss.

Maybe I've just driven too many VTEC Hondas recently, but I was amazed that this 4.7 - liter V8 can create 230 horsepower and 320 pound - feet of torque while remaining as genteel as British royalty.

He steals the scene (and our list) as a genteel verbal sparring partner in Hail, Caesar!

Not exact matches

Ralph Lauren invented a completely fictitious America as a canvas for his brand, even if its genteel existence was confined to magazine ads.

Cosgrove has a country - doctor sensibility — his manner is genteel and old - fashioned, and his accent is so upstate New York it might as well be Canadian.

Not only did Hume's racism affect his argument, as it was those outside of his white, genteel world who made miracle claims, it left a lasting legacy, as Keener notes that it was explicitly adopted by none other than Kant.

He used naturalistic science as a battering ram to assault the genteel Anglicanism of the seminaries and universities.

I repeat, the particular relevance; for this wonderful document is directly and powerfully relevant to us all — though I am not holding my breath as I await in hope an enthusiastic response from the English and Welsh Bishops (of this genteel aspiration, more later).

Check out elegantly attired volunteers as they demonstrate the genteel game of croquet, and maybe even try your own hand with the mallet.

As President John Dramani Mahama's government inches to the final year of its four year mandate, information reaching The aL - hAJJ (www.GhanaPoliticsOnline.Com) indicates the genteel and humble President is gearing up to announce what Flag Staff House sources described as final reshuffle of his government ahead elections in November 201As President John Dramani Mahama's government inches to the final year of its four year mandate, information reaching The aL - hAJJ (www.GhanaPoliticsOnline.Com) indicates the genteel and humble President is gearing up to announce what Flag Staff House sources described as final reshuffle of his government ahead elections in November 201as final reshuffle of his government ahead elections in November 2016.

My father next persuaded me to study theology at Cambridge in preparation for a genteel life as a country vicar.

We also develop a rooting interest in this underdog team as they battle Beckett's powerful former employers, led by jowly Jason Robards and represented in court by a deceptively genteel Mary Steenburgen.

Alfre Woodard has a knowing cameo as a planter's mistress who schools Solomon in the reality for genteel female slaves: submitting to lust is less onerous than backbreaking work in the fields (Patsey escapes neither).

Despite sharing Ritchie's fascination with»70s revisionism and rough men calling each other cunts, London Boulevard inevitably has more in common with the Mike Hodges school of steely English gangsters, positioning Farrell as a modern - day acolyte to Michael Caine's genteel bruisers: well - mannered and polite, but ready to smack a woman or two around if it comes down to it.

Yet these moments are more than balanced by scenes of genuine originality, horror and truth, as when we see images of naked slaves on display in a genteel parlor, or, most unforgettably, become witnesses to the nighttime entertainments of the mad slave owner (Fassbender), who insists that his slaves dance for him.

Yet it's this film — A Room with a View, the first of three E.M. Forster adaptations from producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory — that cemented Merchant - Ivory as shorthand for genteel people in pretty settings.

The second best thing is Vlahos as Cyril, the nascent prig with an effortless sneer that he wields like a mace, and a genteel condescension that shows the poise of an adult to the manner born that will make him the go - to guy for this sort of character for the rest of his professional career.

The film, based on a true story, stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon Northup, a genteel New Yorker born into freedom who was kidnapped in 1841, trafficked to Louisiana, and sold to a series of slave owners (Paul Giamatti, Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Fassbender) who are increasingly cruel and unusual.

Veteran character actor Ivanec, as an amoral scientist, is willing to do just about anything to get at Cole's secrets, including vivisection; and then there's the mysterious, murderous older gentleman (Tom Noonan, billed only as The Slender Man) who dresses like a genteel grandpa and covers his victims in flowers.

One could even go so far as to justify its respectful and numbingly genteel style in that consciousness - raising light: It feels as though the film's admiration for Lili translated into a work that will appeal to the broadest base possible in an effort to increase public engagement.

And so, it might seem that at this time of high tensions, a caper film revolving around genteel southern manners and what might charitably be termed as the «hillbilly» archetype, would be about as welcome as a canteen full of watery grits.

As such, this genteel, overlong adaptation of Richard C. Morais» 2010 novel about two rival restaurants operating in a sleepy French village is not without its pleasures — a high - energy score by A.R. Rahman, exquisite gastro - porn shot by Linus Sandgren, the winningly barbed chemistry of Helen Mirren and Om Puri — all prepared to exacting middlebrow specifications and ensured to go down as tastily and tastefully as possiblAs such, this genteel, overlong adaptation of Richard C. Morais» 2010 novel about two rival restaurants operating in a sleepy French village is not without its pleasures — a high - energy score by A.R. Rahman, exquisite gastro - porn shot by Linus Sandgren, the winningly barbed chemistry of Helen Mirren and Om Puri — all prepared to exacting middlebrow specifications and ensured to go down as tastily and tastefully as possiblas tastily and tastefully as possiblas possible.

The handful of buyers who can afford the purchase price will argue that they need a car as much at home on a genteel cruise with the top down, or slamming through fast bends and rocketing up hills with its V8 in full song.

Beautiful but impractical, these dinosaurs, now relegated to the tourist trade, are many - tiered, nearly gaudy, their names Delta Queen, Julia Belle Swain as prissy and genteel as the wrought - iron finery that lines their decks.

The Astrid Hotel itself was depicted on the mural as it once had been: a genteel mansion perched on a ridge overlooking Carrabec Falls.

And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa - a large, silent house now bereft of brothers, husband, and even servants - life is about to be transformed as impoverished widow Mrs. Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers.

As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian - Regency England; she also creates a lively comedy of manners among her characters.Before she began the novel, Austen wrote, «I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like.»

CAP is probably the worst thing that ever happened — my mother wasn't wrong when she used to describe it as «genteel social welfare»!

He has been on cyclosporine for couple years and it's helps but they also told me I could mix human drops called genteel and they work just as well.

The glamourous Sandy Lane, much loved by Michael Winner and Simon Cowell on the island tends to trip off the tongue easily when considering luxurious accommodation, but others such as Coral Reef Club and the genteel Cobblers Cove are also top picks.

Paris hotels are famous for charging luxury - hotel rates for tiny rooms best described as shabby - genteel.

Perks of staying at this genteel country resort (just off southeastern Georgia's Atlantic coast) include private butlers and access to three legendary golf courses — complete with marsh and St. Simons Sound views, as well as a roaming bagpiper in the evenings.

As soon as you cross the Golden Gate Bridge into Sausalito, you leave the skyscrapers behind for more genteel neighborhoodAs soon as you cross the Golden Gate Bridge into Sausalito, you leave the skyscrapers behind for more genteel neighborhoodas you cross the Golden Gate Bridge into Sausalito, you leave the skyscrapers behind for more genteel neighborhoods.

Wiedel - Kaufmann writes: «where Hogarth, Goya or Dickens proved at least as critical of the hypocrisy of the higher classes as the depravity of the lower, as we move around the exhibition we realise that Bellows» brush was not just adept at the fleshy distortions and brutalising carnality but equally capable of genteel delicacy.

The juxtaposition of manual labor versus genteel living creates a charged atmosphere, recalling the history of black American labor, as well as the realities of all forms of blue - collar work.

Acclaimed in 1972 by John Ashbery as one of the best painting teachers in America, Vicente was also described by a longtime friend and former student, Chuck Close, as a «genteel» soul who happened to be «movie star handsome, elegant beyond belief, and an extremely natty dresser.»

The show (organized with the Joan Mitchell Foundation and with Museum Ludwig in Cologne) credits Mitchell as an important bridge between American and European abstraction, connecting her early New York School years to her late period in Vétheuil, France, where she made landscapes that were very much in the muscular Ab - Ex tradition but also explored the more genteel legacy of late Monet.

A genteel titan who did more than anyone to shape the art world as we know it today, Castelli was born in 1907 in Trieste with the Jewish given name of Leo Krausz and took his time finding his way to fame — he was nearly 50 years old when he opened the Castelli Gallery on East 77th Street in 1957.

SFU Gallery is embedded within Arthur Erickson's Brutalist (and utopian) mountaintop university complex, while the BAG is located in a manor house that over the years has served as the home of a genteel Burnaby family, a monastery, a cult centre, an SFU residence, and since 1967 a public art gallery.

It is clear from his correspondence that Napoleon was envisaging some sort of genteel retirement like that of his brother Lucien, who was living in a country house under the supervision of a single police inspector; but this was never realistic, and the captain of the Bellerophon wrote specifically «I have no authority to agree to any such arrangement... I can not enter into any promise as to the reception he may meet with» [from the British Government]; Napoleon decided to surrender nevertheless.

Nowadays, those notes have gone the way of the fifteen - cent subway token, as have most of the genteel manners that -LSB-...]