Sentences with phrase «genteel new»

The film, based on a true story, stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon Northup, a genteel New Yorker born into freedom who was kidnapped in 1841, trafficked to Louisiana, and sold to a series of slave owners (Paul Giamatti, Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Fassbender) who are increasingly cruel and unusual.

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.

FDR, who won the first of his four terms in 1932, was a well - spoken scion of a distinguished, genteel New York family.

Not exact matches

Cosgrove has a country - doctor sensibility — his manner is genteel and old - fashioned, and his accent is so upstate New York it might as well be Canadian.

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).

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.

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.

The brilliant transformation and elegant new look has kept Ngala's genteel and romantic safari feel but enhanced the guest offering.

The show (organized with the Joan Mitchell Foundation and with Museum Ludwig in Cologne) credits Mitchell as an important bridge between American and European abstraction, connecting her early New York School years to her late period in Vétheuil, France, where she made landscapes that were very much in the muscular Ab - Ex tradition but also explored the more genteel legacy of late Monet.

Most dog breeds originate in the Victorian era, when Darwinism was an exciting new theory and well - bred ladies and gentlemen bred dogs as a genteel hobby.

In the bathroom, Jamie nixed the idea of including a soaker tub for similar spacing reasons: «We're not the bath types,» he says, noting that the room serves as a genteel homage to «the throwback New York City loo.»