Sentences with phrase «in genteel»

In a restored Long Island farmhouse, the white - washed bathroom boasts ceiling lights that are by Remains Lighting, the walls are painted in Benjamin Moore's Stonington Gray and the window frame is painted in Genteel Gray by Pratt & Lambert; the wooden ship artwork was found in Europe.

«I think art should be about now,» she says in her genteel but opinionated way.

For the notoriously private artist, this exhibit seems to have presented another opportunity for subversion: Is there a better way to address the hard realties of racism and wag a finger at the institutionalized art world than to present his work in a genteel mansion converted into a gallery between Madison and Park avenues?

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is in a genteel panic — reliable work isn't selling, galleries are moving and closing, Andrea Rosen has said she'll no longer represent living...

The aristocratic young Frenchwoman may have been reared in the genteel ways of an 18th...

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.

I suspect that although they were probably concerned about what conceivably might harm me, they probably believed the risks were outweighed by the positive experiences I would have with friends actively playing and creating in the genteel, tropical Barbadian bush.

Yet these moments are more than balanced by scenes of genuine originality, horror and truth, as when we see images of naked slaves on display in a genteel parlor, or, most unforgettably, become witnesses to the nighttime entertainments of the mad slave owner (Fassbender), who insists that his slaves dance for him.

Adapted from Ian McEwan's 2007 novel by the author himself, it holds viewers in its genteel grip from start to almost finish.

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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).

Only one of the following properties was designed with hardcore preppers in mind; the rest offer more stylish and genteel answers to possible future widespread problems.

This neighbourhood of spacious lots in the North end of Charlottetown, making its entry to the list this year, is bounded by Graham Rogers Lake on the East and the appropriately genteel Royalty Road at its upper edge.

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.

There are disagreements in which both sides have a plausible case, but there is no plausible case to be made that Benedict, a man of genteel and old - fashioned liberality, is a fanatic and extremist.

This was no genteel deism satisfied that the churches were a great force for moral good in society.

Tracing the course of the author's work from Typee to Billy Budd, Kelley shows convincingly that Melville — though he borrowed from many different sources — belongs completely to none of the established genres of Victorian city writing: the Romantic pastoral that used urban depravity to extol rural virtue; the popular «Reform Literature» of the yellow journalists that sensationalized municipal corruption and disorder; the «scientific» tracts of the emerging city planning movement; or the urban strolls of the flâneur and the Addisonian «spectator» (a genre that reached its peak, for New York, with what Kelley calls the «humorous - genteel - sentimental - melodramatic - ironic» observations of Charles Dickens in his 1842 American Notes).

Situated on a prominent street corner in a prosperous part of town, Holy Communion has white columns and a graceful spire that point seekers toward heaven, and a genteel brick exterior and clear glass windows that represent a different southern tradition, one of measured and rational faith.

In the fourth chapter, Margaret shatters a dinner party's genteel mood to decry the death of Andrés Nin — killed, she believes, by the Soviets.

Speak to her again in the lilting, halting, innocent language of myth, of genteel dialogue, of piercing poetic metaphor — of Platonism.

In addition, the older Puritanism exercised a powerful effect on his imagination by its clarity, its drama, its understanding of evil, and its contrast to the bland optimism and secularizing, genteel Protestantism and liberalism of eastern New England in his timIn addition, the older Puritanism exercised a powerful effect on his imagination by its clarity, its drama, its understanding of evil, and its contrast to the bland optimism and secularizing, genteel Protestantism and liberalism of eastern New England in his timin his time.

For van Gogh, to believe in God now meant not that one should believe all the sermons of the clergymen or «the arguments and Jesuitism of the bigoted, genteel prudes,» but rather that there was a God, «not dead or stuffed, but alive, urging us to love, with irresistible force.»

Third World peoples may be in a position today to teach us not only the rugged lessons of prophecy, but also the genteel and humane insights of wisdom.

In Building a Bridge, our spiritual master looks back fondly on a genteel past.

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.

In these days of rampant atheism and relativism among critical elites in Western societies, of genteel nihilism and «liberal irony» a la Richard Rorty, it is not difficult to see that both Judaism and Christianity are being slated for disappearance by a number of our most «advanced» thinkerIn these days of rampant atheism and relativism among critical elites in Western societies, of genteel nihilism and «liberal irony» a la Richard Rorty, it is not difficult to see that both Judaism and Christianity are being slated for disappearance by a number of our most «advanced» thinkerin Western societies, of genteel nihilism and «liberal irony» a la Richard Rorty, it is not difficult to see that both Judaism and Christianity are being slated for disappearance by a number of our most «advanced» thinkers.

I repeat, the particular relevance; for this wonderful document is directly and powerfully relevant to us all — though I am not holding my breath as I await in hope an enthusiastic response from the English and Welsh Bishops (of this genteel aspiration, more later).

This is not the genteel and parochial South of literary lore, and here Southern - ness is not a trend or fashion sensibility picked up on Pinterest — it extends beyond a devotion to monograms and making tablecloths from burlap found in the local Hobby Lobby.

Fifteen ostensibly genteel sportsmen, who comprise the most feared Rugby club in the East, fought their bloody way to victory in Virginia

The Center Village and Common at Old Sturbridge Village reveals the genteel tastes that were emerging in the early 19th century.

BTW, here are more details about the London presentation, written in typically genteel fashion by my friend Charlie Beckett.

As President John Dramani Mahama's government inches to the final year of its four year mandate, information reaching The aL - hAJJ (www.GhanaPoliticsOnline.Com) indicates the genteel and humble President is gearing up to announce what Flag Staff House sources described as final reshuffle of his government ahead elections in November 2016.

A consistent theme is graft (either the crass cash - stuffed - envelope variety, or more genteel political contributions) in exchange for career advancement, public contracts, and development deals.

He agrees with Hinchey that service in the combative, if not corrupt, state legislature (Hinchey did 18 years) prepared him for the more genteel Congress of the United States.

FDR, who won the first of his four terms in 1932, was a well - spoken scion of a distinguished, genteel New York family.

The Joint Commission on Public Ethics was established in 2011 and is controlled by genteel hacks appointed by Cuomo, Silver and Skelos.

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

Gvasalia is nothing if not unpredictable, so his recent Vetements show opened with a genteel older woman in a fur coat, the polar opposite of the club - kids culture he is known for (read about him on the Vetements website if you're curious).

Hook - up culture is overtaking the once genteel dating scene, and many single women and men in Canada struggle to meet someone who actually wants to settle down.

The Francis Coppola script and Jack Clayton's direction paint a savagely genteel portrait of an upper class generation that deserved in spades what it got circa 1929 and after.

Although he made his name playing ruthless, genteel villains like Die Hard's Hans Gruber and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves» Sheriff of Nottingham, Alan Rickman proved himself equally remarkable in romantic, comic, and good - guy dramatic roles.

According to Deadline, Perkins will play Vyla Quinncannon, «a genteel but formidable businesswoman who owns the local slaughterhouse in Annville.

We also develop a rooting interest in this underdog team as they battle Beckett's powerful former employers, led by jowly Jason Robards and represented in court by a deceptively genteel Mary Steenburgen.

Alfre Woodard has a knowing cameo as a planter's mistress who schools Solomon in the reality for genteel female slaves: submitting to lust is less onerous than backbreaking work in the fields (Patsey escapes neither).

Despite sharing Ritchie's fascination with»70s revisionism and rough men calling each other cunts, London Boulevard inevitably has more in common with the Mike Hodges school of steely English gangsters, positioning Farrell as a modern - day acolyte to Michael Caine's genteel bruisers: well - mannered and polite, but ready to smack a woman or two around if it comes down to it.

Perhaps this genteel approach may make the movie accessible to a wider audience, but the script often straitjackets the dramatic conflict of the story, which concerns a married Danish artist who undergoes gender - reassignment surgery in 1920s Europe.

He steals the scene (and our list) as a genteel verbal sparring partner in Hail, Caesar!

Allen can currently be seen in Fading Gigolo, playing a genteel pimp to John Turturro's middle - aged sex worker and incurable romantic.

Yet it's this film — A Room with a View, the first of three E.M. Forster adaptations from producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory — that cemented Merchant - Ivory as shorthand for genteel people in pretty settings.

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.

Although we are most used to the stuffy dowager that Victoria became in her old age (see The Mudlark [1950] for the genteel view), she obviously had some passion and intensity (see Mrs. Brown [1997] for the livelier view).