Sentences with word «genteel»
The word "genteel" means being polite, well-mannered, and refined in a sophisticated way. Full definition
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.
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When we meet them, they live in genteel poverty without much parental guidance because their pastor father (Dylan Baker) is off ministering to soldiers in the war and their mother Marmee (Emily Watson) has gone to him when he falls ill.
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.
The height of 1920s elegance and style, the Belmond British Pullman sails serenely through the stunning English countryside - a truly genteel way to pass through the best of British scenery.
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.
Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed play George and Mary Bailey, a happy couple living a life of genteel poverty in the small American town of Bedford Falls.
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.
The Joint Commission on Public Ethics was established in 2011 and is controlled by genteel hacks appointed by Cuomo, Silver and Skelos.
Hook - up culture is overtaking the once genteel dating scene, and many Irish singles struggle to meet someone who actually wants to settle down.
At least one lawyer writing about the cross-examination scene says Finch should have thrown civility out the window in order to win, but we just can't see such behavior from genteel Gregory Peck.
FDR, who won the first of his four terms in 1932, was a well - spoken scion of a distinguished, genteel New York family.
Take a speedboat from St. Kitts and in 30 minutes you'll be awash in the refined, genteel atmosphere of Montpelier Plantation in Nevis.
This is Nathan's dream, to create a work of genteel art from nothing.
He is not the sort of screenwriter / director who points out in a most genteel manner that white liberals are «full of it.»
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.
You know how genteel Southern ladies claim they glisten or glow rather than sweat?
Hook - up culture is overtaking the once genteel dating scene, and many single women and men in Canada struggle to meet someone who actually wants to settle down.
Lawyer marketing often offends older lawyers used to a more genteel approach.
Today, it's a terminally genteel affair, although every year the RA tries to invigorate this moribund garden party.
Exquisite Hamptons inspired genteel country retreat!
Its effective power band is wide and deep, and if not the most genteel - sounding sixers, its robust sound - track suits its style of performance.
Showrooming is just a «genteel form of shoplifting» author David Nicholls told an audience at the London Book Fair Digital Minds Conference this morning (13th April).
If you're the more genteel sort, perhaps you're still hanging on to a decent life policy you could cash in with Imperial Holdings (IFT: US) or Life Partners Holdings (LPHI: US).
They would create the image that MMA fans would make British football hooligans seem genteel by comparison.
«In the 18th century, for example, sculpture was considered to be a craft — not a highfalutin» activity,» Stella says, echoing the editor and art historian Russell Lynes's lament from the pages of the Art in America portfolio that «needlepoint has unfortunately been considered a suitably genteel pastime.»
Look at how the likes of Chester, York, Salisbury, Bath, Cambridge, Oxford and so many more clichà © d, genteel places have comparatively struggled.
The solarium of her Upper East Side town house is a model of genteel taste; the furniture is upholstered with floral prints, which perfectly match the pistachio - colored walls.
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.»
It is, perhaps, a gentle, almost genteel take on emptiness, detachment and anomie.
But compared to some more genteel experiences which are perhaps better titled «crawling simulators» EXO ONE gets away with it.
Thus - in sharp contrast to the conventional and rather genteel American Impressionism that represented the most popular American art of the period - these American Realists set about capturing the spontaneous moments of urban life.
Boutique Hotel Genteel hotel set in a half - timbered building offering free WiFi & an upscale restaurant.
My hosts were my first introduction to the famous sophistication and genteel elegance of Lucknavian Muslim traditions.
In Florence this small genteel residence, combines the feel of a traditional Florentine home with all the amenities of a good hotel and a friendly staff.
Firms have been squeezing more billable hours out of their associates, abandoning less lucrative practice areas and showing the door to partners who don't bring in enough business — measures that would have been unheard of in the profession's more genteel days.
Only one of the following properties was designed with hardcore preppers in mind; the rest offer more stylish and genteel answers to possible future widespread problems.
Arsenal in particular priced itself outside ordinary working class folk The middle class soft pink cheeked people that pay their money are for the most part too genteel to be properly vocal in their support.
In keeping with this year's theme as established by Big Randy today's explorer comes from Gateshead appropriately enough and goes by the suitably genteel name of Harold Crichton - Browne.
Equally impressive is how genteel and comfortable the E63 is around town.
Before French cinema reinvented itself with jump cuts and cool bobs, Marcel Carné's 19th - century backstage drama was the epitome of good taste: a sumptuous spread of genteel sparring and epic heartache.
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 foyer sets the home's genteel tone with an antique demilune, one of the pair the homeowner and designer Julie Nightingale scored at a French flea market, and an antique Swedish daybed from Circa Antiques in Westport.
She was great to work with because she really wanted to get under the surface of what might be a very genteel art form.
The prosaic, even genteel image countered his alleged monster status.
«She was a lovely, genteel lady,» said former Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman.
If you want to shake off the shadows of the prison and experience Belfast's brighter, more genteel side, I highly recommend the C.S. Lewis bus tour.
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).