Sentences with phrase «genteel days»
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.
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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.
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.
Despite sharing Ritchie's fascination with»70s revisionism and rough men calling each other cunts, London Boulevard inevitably has more in common with the Mike Hodges school of steely English gangsters, positioning Farrell as a modern - day acolyte to Michael Caine's genteel bruisers: well - mannered and polite, but ready to smack a woman or two around if it comes down to it.
The genteel Edward Woods was originally cast in the lead part of Tom Powers, but after a few days shooting Wellman switched parts and James Cagney had the volatile lead part — the rest is cinema history.
Unlike Fairfield Porter, a writer and artist who formed friendships with the avant - gardists of his day but practiced a genteel painterly realism himself, Gorky continually pushed his own work into the crosscurrents of Modernism until his moment of disillusionment.
PS I was tempted to call this post «F @ #king the romance out of Valentine's Day» but I was worried about offending my more genteel readers.