Sentences with phrase «genteel manner»

While the three of us were sitting down for lunch after our conversation with his wife, Lenore, Seliger, in his casual and genteel manner, demonstrated an unusual gift — in a matter of less than five minutes, he duplicated all the American Presidents» signatures nearly in order from memory.

Nowadays, those notes have gone the way of the fifteen - cent subway token, as have most of the genteel manners that -LSB-...]

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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.

The second best thing is Vlahos as Cyril, the nascent prig with an effortless sneer that he wields like a mace, and a genteel condescension that shows the poise of an adult to the manner born that will make him the go - to guy for this sort of character for the rest of his professional career.

And so, it might seem that at this time of high tensions, a caper film revolving around genteel southern manners and what might charitably be termed as the «hillbilly» archetype, would be about as welcome as a canteen full of watery grits.

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.»