Sentences with phrase «genteel living»

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.

My father next persuaded me to study theology at Cambridge in preparation for a genteel life as a country vicar.

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When you say it that bluntly, it cheapens the underlying truth, so let me attempt to be a bit more genteel: We work so that we might tend to the many other things we care about in life (the vast majority of which cost money).

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.

If anyone wants to purchase a more genteel copy of this cartoon for their living room or Sunday school room, David may accomodate you.

Life is neither farce nor genteel comedy, it says, but something we must sit at in mourning garments, hoping its bitter taste will purge us of our folly.

«Genteels, academics and journalists could all live there,» Eunice Goes, associate professor at Richmond University tells me.

Dominic Cooke, who directs and who is at the helm of a miniseries of Shakespeare histories, projects the genteel nature of life in a small English town, where Edward may be considered more of a hayseed than is the love of his life despite his scholarly affinity for history.

The Nicklebys have been living a genteel and prosperous country life, until their father dies, leaving his two children and wife to fend for themselves.

Paired with: Gods and Monsters (1998)- James Whale (Ian McKellan), esteemed director of Frankenstein and many others, is living a wealthy genteel retirement in California tended to by his faithful housekeeper Hanna (Lynn Redgrave).

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And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa - a large, silent house now bereft of brothers, husband, and even servants - life is about to be transformed as impoverished widow Mrs. Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers.

But this isn't the genteel mining towns most Christian authors write about, where basically everyone is nice (except the evildoer), and the seedier parts of frontier life are kept to the side.

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.»

What about the neighbours who always keep up with the Joneses, but are actually living just one payslip away from (genteel) poverty?

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The art world is in a genteel panic — reliable work isn't selling, galleries are moving and closing, Andrea Rosen has said she'll no longer represent living...

Unlike the «proletarian blue - collar paint - flinger» Jackson Pollock, Motherwell was genteel and brainy, and while the Abstract Expressionists died tragically young in car crashes or drug overdoses, he lived long and prospered.

Extending this line of thought, «Home / Museum Arranged for Living and Viewing,» Lawler's 1984 exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut, transformed a gallery into a genteel domestic interior, complete with a grandfather clock and lemon yellow walls.

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.

It is clear from his correspondence that Napoleon was envisaging some sort of genteel retirement like that of his brother Lucien, who was living in a country house under the supervision of a single police inspector; but this was never realistic, and the captain of the Bellerophon wrote specifically «I have no authority to agree to any such arrangement... I can not enter into any promise as to the reception he may meet with» [from the British Government]; Napoleon decided to surrender nevertheless.

The genteel peach - soft spectrum of pastels in the living room (pictured above) took their cue from its key artwork, an oscillating orb of colours by Charlotte Hallberg.