Sentences with phrase «genteel taste»
The Center Village and Common at Old Sturbridge Village reveals the genteel tastes that were emerging in the early 19th century.
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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.
Before French cinema reinvented itself with jump cuts and cool bobs, Marcel Carné's 19th - century backstage drama was the epitome of good taste: a sumptuous spread of genteel sparring and epic heartache.
If you find the host of American offerings at this auction simply too brash for your tastes, this 1952 Jaguar is a touch more genteel than a Challenger.
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.