Sentences with phrase «genteel sort»

Greenberg's dialectic made color - field sound formidable, but the art proved lightweight in practice, a genteel sort of taste — the visual equivalent of second - Martini euphoria.

If you're the more genteel sort, perhaps you're still hanging on to a decent life policy you could cash in with Imperial Holdings (IFT: US) or Life Partners Holdings (LPHI: US).

Not exact matches

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.

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.