Sentences with phrase «even genteel»

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

Are we willing to grant that it is good policy for persons to condone even a «more genteel» form of prostitution — the art of making one's body responsive to another's need but nothing else?

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

Even though «Garland Pose» sounds so much more genteel, the latter translation makes a whole lot more sense.

Sleek and satisfying... Almost a drawing room thriller, unhurried and genteel but enlivened with suspense and surprising bursts of sly, even biting, humor.

He's deeply intelligent, and somehow genteel and sophisticated even when he's describing on - stage urination.

The torturers are blandly passive - aggressive and genteel, their motiveless actions appearing alternately logical and irrational, inexorable and impulsive, cruel and — even more cruelly — kind.

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.

Jacob is a polite, reticent boy, clearly brought up to be stiffly genteel («Jardine residence, good evening,» he answers the phone), but with an individualistic talent for art; presented with his picture of a green sky with yellow stars, his art teacher cautions, «Van Gogh ended up cutting off his own ear.»

Even having seen the French import Marguerite earlier this year, which covers the same territory, and Judy Kaye's one - woman show Souvenir a decade ago, I had no feeling of déjà vu watching this genteel and engaging time capsule.

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.

Overlooking tranquil water lily ponds, LeBar offers guests an afternoon of genteel leisure with a High Tea set served with fragrantly brewed tea, or a convivial setting to mingle with friends over cocktails and canapés in the evening.

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.