Sentences with phrase «genteel lady»
«She was a lovely, genteel lady,» said former Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman.
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It was a more genteel time of boîtes and café - concerts, and disturbances would usually be limited to a some night owl on a bender wailing about his faithless woman or some lady hysterical over seeing her man with another woman.
You know how genteel Southern ladies claim they glisten or glow rather than sweat?
The best known recent example of the style is the low - budget Lady Macbeth, which again tackled race issues in a more apparently - conventional period: here, in an adaptation of the Russian story Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, Florence Pugh's genteel Katherine, trapped in a loveless marriage, embarks on a Lady Chatterley style love affair with an estate worker, played by another mixed - race actor, Cosmo Jarvis.
A loose remake of the hit 1964 Broadway musical My Fair Lady, Lady Maiko (also a musical) takes the basic premise of genteel sensibility and applies it to the contemporary realm of traditional Kyoto geisha and maiko (those in...
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.
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.