Sentences with phrase «become genteel»

In short, the Task Force offers a mix of greater restriction of those who appear to abuse the right of free speech, a mechanism for «positive» organized debate and a nicer environment for the students (although one wonders whether those who have no qualms about verbally beating down those who think differently from them will be persuaded to become genteel debaters because they have more space to engage in their activities).

Not exact matches

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.

Although we are most used to the stuffy dowager that Victoria became in her old age (see The Mudlark [1950] for the genteel view), she obviously had some passion and intensity (see Mrs. Brown [1997] for the livelier view).

When did business become such a genteel sport?

In an age when figurative painting was seen to be dwindling in relevance, becoming little more than a genteel academic tradition, Freud's work would prove its continuous and startling power.