Sentences with phrase «genteel form»

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mm2205: Your reply is well - formed and genteel.

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?

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.

She was great to work with because she really wanted to get under the surface of what might be a very genteel art form.

Walker's ironic appropriation of this genteel art form — born of the era of colonialism and slavery — belies the violence and sorrow of the scenes she depicts.

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.