Sentences with phrase «for genteel»

Italy's fondness for bitterness in cocktails may seem a bit extreme for genteel imbibers.

The adaptation of E. Nesbit's 1906 novel sees three children and their mother forced to swap Edwardian city luxury for genteel rural poverty up north.

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).

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.

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).

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

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.

The genteel Senate forces a Hobbesian choice, nasty and brutish: to get the stimulus to the people who need it most requires diluting it for families who also need it, while bestowing cash on those who plainly don't.

This was no genteel deism satisfied that the churches were a great force for moral good in society.

Tracing the course of the author's work from Typee to Billy Budd, Kelley shows convincingly that Melville — though he borrowed from many different sources — belongs completely to none of the established genres of Victorian city writing: the Romantic pastoral that used urban depravity to extol rural virtue; the popular «Reform Literature» of the yellow journalists that sensationalized municipal corruption and disorder; the «scientific» tracts of the emerging city planning movement; or the urban strolls of the flâneur and the Addisonian «spectator» (a genre that reached its peak, for New York, with what Kelley calls the «humorous - genteel - sentimental - melodramatic - ironic» observations of Charles Dickens in his 1842 American Notes).

Yesterday, we got news that the genteel crowd of bibliophile video game fans will get their Jane Austen game and now, today, something for the purist among you.

Many of us middle - aged genteel Christians know we settled for considerably less.

For van Gogh, to believe in God now meant not that one should believe all the sermons of the clergymen or «the arguments and Jesuitism of the bigoted, genteel prudes,» but rather that there was a God, «not dead or stuffed, but alive, urging us to love, with irresistible force.»

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?

If anyone wants to purchase a more genteel copy of this cartoon for their living room or Sunday school room, David may accomodate you.

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.

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).

The setting was genteel, but for a while last week at Mexico City's brick - red Chapultepec Sports Club the 4,000 feverish partisans crowding the awning - covered stands had heady visions of reliving the revolutionary days of a quarter of a century ago when Mexico threw off the Yanqui yoke.

Snooping for news — actually, I prefer the more genteel term «sourcing» — involved a call or a walk up to the legislator's office.

A consistent theme is graft (either the crass cash - stuffed - envelope variety, or more genteel political contributions) in exchange for career advancement, public contracts, and development deals.

He agrees with Hinchey that service in the combative, if not corrupt, state legislature (Hinchey did 18 years) prepared him for the more genteel Congress of the United States.

Gvasalia is nothing if not unpredictable, so his recent Vetements show opened with a genteel older woman in a fur coat, the polar opposite of the club - kids culture he is known for (read about him on the Vetements website if you're curious).

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 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.

Dominic Cooke, who directs and who is at the helm of a miniseries of Shakespeare histories, projects the genteel nature of life in a small English town, where Edward may be considered more of a hayseed than is the love of his life despite his scholarly affinity for history.

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.

The Nicklebys have been living a genteel and prosperous country life, until their father dies, leaving his two children and wife to fend for themselves.

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.»

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

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 terraFor 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 terrafor 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.

Yesterday my colleague Whitney Downs and I released a new USCC report that seeks to provide a roadmap for those business and civic leaders tired of genteel gestures, aimless initiatives, and sitting on their hands.

If you find the host of American offerings at this auction simply too brash for your tastes, this 1952 Jaguar is a touch more genteel than a Challenger.

To help contain the added power, Mulsanne Speed's sport mode stiffens the suspension and adjusts the steering for more control at elevated velocities, while permitting genteel wafting abut when all - out clout isn't warranted.

Which, of course, they are, and the movie gets some mileage out of the tension between their wild natures (tearing out the throats of chickens) and their genteel demeanors (Mr. Fox's fondness for making toasts).

South Carolina opted for a more genteel and humane approach: give them a false sense of security and well - being so they think they've achieved a level of freedom and self - determination, but control them with selective breeding and economic chains.

She tried to convince me what I wanted to do — be a journalist — was no fit profession for a lady, while a little genteel buying and selling was okay.

That's what my mom used to call «buying and selling» a genteel hobby for a lady (according to her, don't ask me.

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.

For those who enjoy greater privacy and a more genteel experience, there are Hutong Studios and a Hutong Presidential Suite housed in two villas within the courtyard in a separate wing with its own entrance.

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

Of course, if your ideal Alanya holiday in the sun demands a little less adrenalin, the clear, calm waters of the Mediterranean which lap up against Alanya beach are ideal for the more genteel pursuit of swimming.

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

The Great Room specializes in French - Asian seafood; The Terrace is genteel and romantic, with candlelit tables overlooking the knockout view; and Bayside, right on the... MORE beach, is an informal spot for snacks and light meals.

A genteel Edwardian ambience characterizes a resort with a fine beach, excellent accommodation and opportunities for swimming, sailing, riding, windsurfing, water - skiing, parasailing, snorkelling, fishing, playing tennis and golf.

Set in the King William Historic District of San Antonio in Texas, Brackenridge House is a genteel bed and breakfast inn that offers a comfortable, home - away - from - home retreat for a relaxing weekend away.

For the notoriously private artist, this exhibit seems to have presented another opportunity for subversion: Is there a better way to address the hard realties of racism and wag a finger at the institutionalized art world than to present his work in a genteel mansion converted into a gallery between Madison and Park avenuFor the notoriously private artist, this exhibit seems to have presented another opportunity for subversion: Is there a better way to address the hard realties of racism and wag a finger at the institutionalized art world than to present his work in a genteel mansion converted into a gallery between Madison and Park avenufor subversion: Is there a better way to address the hard realties of racism and wag a finger at the institutionalized art world than to present his work in a genteel mansion converted into a gallery between Madison and Park avenues?

This makes for some powerful moments of reverse unravelling that contrast starkly with William Playfair's genteel Georgian gallery interior.

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.

Extending this line of thought, «Home / Museum Arranged for Living and Viewing,» Lawler's 1984 exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut, transformed a gallery into a genteel domestic interior, complete with a grandfather clock and lemon yellow walls.

While the three of us were sitting down for lunch after our conversation with his wife, Lenore, Seliger, in his casual and genteel manner, demonstrated an unusual gift — in a matter of less than five minutes, he duplicated all the American Presidents» signatures nearly in order from memory.