Sentences with phrase «by genteel»

It's a well - acted soap with one too many plot lines, tied together by genteel audio - visual sutures and supported by the brittle metaphor of its title.

HARTFORD — The surging popularity of Donald Trump is clashing with a decades - old Connecticut tradition personified by the genteel New England Republican who is fiscally conservative and socially inclusive.

The Joint Commission on Public Ethics was established in 2011 and is controlled by genteel hacks appointed by Cuomo, Silver and Skelos.

What followed was, by the genteel standards of Westminster politics, brutal.

Not exact matches

This neighbourhood of spacious lots in the North end of Charlottetown, making its entry to the list this year, is bounded by Graham Rogers Lake on the East and the appropriately genteel Royalty Road at its upper edge.

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.

In the fourth chapter, Margaret shatters a dinner party's genteel mood to decry the death of Andrés Nin — killed, she believes, by the Soviets.

In addition, the older Puritanism exercised a powerful effect on his imagination by its clarity, its drama, its understanding of evil, and its contrast to the bland optimism and secularizing, genteel Protestantism and liberalism of eastern New England in his time.

The genteel Episcopalians, high on the hill, and the all - over Baptists, down by the river.

In these days of rampant atheism and relativism among critical elites in Western societies, of genteel nihilism and «liberal irony» a la Richard Rorty, it is not difficult to see that both Judaism and Christianity are being slated for disappearance by a number of our most «advanced» thinkers.

BTW, here are more details about the London presentation, written in typically genteel fashion by my friend Charlie Beckett.

Adapted from Ian McEwan's 2007 novel by the author himself, it holds viewers in its genteel grip from start to almost finish.

They also pick up Red Rock's cocky sheriff, Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), but when the blizzard begins to brew, the group stops halfway at Minnie's Haberdashery, a lodge temporarily run by Bob «Marco the Mexican» (Demián Bichir) and already occupied by racist Confederate General Sandy Smithers (Bruce Dern), genteel hangman Oswaldo Mobray (Tim Roth), and quiet, mysterious cowboy Joe Gage (Michael Madsen).

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.

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.

The best known recent example of the style is the low - budget Lady Macbeth, which again tackled race issues in a more apparently - conventional period: here, in an adaptation of the Russian story Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, Florence Pugh's genteel Katherine, trapped in a loveless marriage, embarks on a Lady Chatterley style love affair with an estate worker, played by another mixed - race actor, Cosmo Jarvis.

Adapted by 89 - year - old screenwriter James Ivory, it exhibits that specific brand of watchable, genteel restraint that made Merchant Ivory the arthouse Marvel Studios of the 1980s and «90s.

Danish director Thomas Vinterberg's genteel adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic 19th century novel is beautiful to look at — filmed in bucolic Dorset, Somerset and Oxfordshire by cinematographer Charlotte Bruus Christensen.

The movie also features plenty of pop songs, and, for that matter, its genteel Britishness is outdone by any given Aardman feature.

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 possible.

Paired with: Gods and Monsters (1998)- James Whale (Ian McKellan), esteemed director of Frankenstein and many others, is living a wealthy genteel retirement in California tended to by his faithful housekeeper Hanna (Lynn Redgrave).

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening Thanksgiving 2008 BIG BUDGET FILMS Australia (PG - 13 for violence, sensuality and profanity) Romance drama, set at the dawn of WWII just before the bombing of Darwin by the Japanese, chronicles the love relationship which blossoms between a genteel heiress (Nicole Kidman) and the rough - hewn rancher (Hugh Jackman) who helps her drive a herd of 2,000 head of cattle to market across hundreds of miles of unforgiving terrain.

I suspect that although they were probably concerned about what conceivably might harm me, they probably believed the risks were outweighed by the positive experiences I would have with friends actively playing and creating in the genteel, tropical Barbadian bush.

By no means do we suggest that the debate about the future of public education in Los Angeles should be a genteel affair devoid of passion, intensity, and authenticity.

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.

The Americans look genteel by comparison.

Such vibrancy, fuelled by Hamilton's Pop aesthetic, seems far removed from the pared - back spaces and muted colours of genteel Kettle's Yard — with its focus on British modernism.

Walls are pocked with bullet holes, upholstery savaged by gunfire, and genteel neoclassical interiors tarnished by peeling paint.

The whole scene resembled the aftermath of a stadium rock concert disrupted by overzealous fans, and contrasted sharply with the clean, pure lines of the space and the genteel tenor of a crowd that included dealer Jeanne Greenberg - Rohatyn; curators Richard Flood, Chrissie Iles, and Neville Wakefield; artist Elizabeth Peyton; and Violette's London dealer Maureen Paley.

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.»

Over the past decade, she has gained international recognition for her room - sized tableaux, which depict historical narratives haunted by sexuality, violence and subjugation and are made using the paradoxically genteel eighteenth - century art of cut - paper silhouettes.

Peter Lang AG, Witney: Publication, Genteel Mavericks: Professional Women Sculptors in Victorian Britain by Shannon Hunter Hurtado - # 3,000

I remember being taken by his discreet disposition and bohemian elegance — what Virginia Woolf would have called «impoverished genteel.»

At Masters, there was some typically brilliant work: Sigmar Polke's wonderfully warped photocopies, a series of virtuoso pencil sketches by Lucian Freud, and a classic example of Cy Twombly's genteel graffiti.

By 2014, boringly, the middle class has thoroughly caught up with avant gardism, assimilated it, and turned it into a genteel cult.

Her cut - paper silhouettes and animations, exhibited and owned by museums across the United States and abroad, harness genteel 19th - century imagery to magnify the dysfunctions bred by slavery.

The genteel peach - soft spectrum of pastels in the living room (pictured above) took their cue from its key artwork, an oscillating orb of colours by Charlotte Hallberg.

In a restored Long Island farmhouse, the white - washed bathroom boasts ceiling lights that are by Remains Lighting, the walls are painted in Benjamin Moore's Stonington Gray and the window frame is painted in Genteel Gray by Pratt & Lambert; the wooden ship artwork was found in Europe.