Sentences with phrase «more genteel»

PS I was tempted to call this post «F @ #king the romance out of Valentine's Day» but I was worried about offending my more genteel readers.

A more genteel tactic is to ask someone who knows your target to make an introduction.

Lawyer marketing often offends older lawyers used to a more genteel approach.

Firms have been squeezing more billable hours out of their associates, abandoning less lucrative practice areas and showing the door to partners who don't bring in enough business — measures that would have been unheard of in the profession's more genteel days.

I'm not sure what field you work in but in my more genteel field of electronics that is exactly how its done!

So much more genteel.

The show (organized with the Joan Mitchell Foundation and with Museum Ludwig in Cologne) credits Mitchell as an important bridge between American and European abstraction, connecting her early New York School years to her late period in Vétheuil, France, where she made landscapes that were very much in the muscular Ab - Ex tradition but also explored the more genteel legacy of late Monet.

It's a refined and luxurious affair from the deep azure menus to the rich backdrops and remixed perfectly - paced soundtrack, a cut above your usual dungeon crawler that packs a notably more genteel (yet seriously brutal) challenge curve than its successors, alongside retooled optional difficulty levels.

But compared to some more genteel experiences which are perhaps better titled «crawling simulators» EXO ONE gets away with it.

Charming towns and villas set against a backdrop both less rugged and more genteel populate the Como arm.

With a population of four million and a more genteel style than Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi is the cultural capital of Read More»

As soon as you cross the Golden Gate Bridge into Sausalito, you leave the skyscrapers behind for more genteel neighborhoods.

Of course, if your ideal Alanya holiday in the sun demands a little less adrenalin, the clear, calm waters of the Mediterranean which lap up against Alanya beach are ideal for the more genteel pursuit of swimming.

For those who enjoy greater privacy and a more genteel experience, there are Hutong Studios and a Hutong Presidential Suite housed in two villas within the courtyard in a separate wing with its own entrance.

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).

South Carolina opted for a more genteel and humane approach: give them a false sense of security and well - being so they think they've achieved a level of freedom and self - determination, but control them with selective breeding and economic chains.

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.

Despite its 82 - hp and 268 - pound disadvantage, it managed to set outstanding times on a road course, impressive times at the strip, and feels far more genteel and tractable on a daily basis.

Even though «Garland Pose» sounds so much more genteel, the latter translation makes a whole lot more sense.

He was a throwback to a different, arguably more genteel era, though he certainly saw and covered his share of political intrigue and scandal.

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.

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.

Snooping for news — actually, I prefer the more genteel term «sourcing» — involved a call or a walk up to the legislator's office.

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

Are we willing to grant that it is good policy for persons to condone even a «more genteel» form of prostitution — the art of making one's body responsive to another's need but nothing else?

It was a more genteel time of boîtes and café - concerts, and disturbances would usually be limited to a some night owl on a bender wailing about his faithless woman or some lady hysterical over seeing her man with another woman.

North Mexican culture tends to be more aggressive, more American, while central Mexico tends to be more genteel — almost old - fashioned.

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).

Not exact matches

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.

It seemed more important to us to be passionate about our children rather than toward them; the prescribed stance was one of genteel noninvolvement.

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).

Look at how the likes of Chester, York, Salisbury, Bath, Cambridge, Oxford and so many more clichà © d, genteel places have comparatively struggled.

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

The torturers are blandly passive - aggressive and genteel, their motiveless actions appearing alternately logical and irrational, inexorable and impulsive, cruel and — even more cruelly — kind.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Outside of the traditional, genteel Southern «handshake deal» mentality and the eagerness of South Carolina's government to see BMW break ground here, the Spartanburg area is home to more than 60 colleges and universities.

Switching to Sport, Sport +, or Race modes cuts through the genteel veneer, progressively skewing the E63's ride ever more geological and shoving cocaine up the powertrain's nose.

To help contain the added power, Mulsanne Speed's sport mode stiffens the suspension and adjusts the steering for more control at elevated velocities, while permitting genteel wafting abut when all - out clout isn't warranted.

Less glamorous than the Carlyle and less fanciful than the Plaza Athénée, the Lowell at first seems more conservative than its genteel Upper East Side... Read more conservative than its genteel Upper East Side... Read MoreMore

Seven years and $ 134 million in the making, Belmond's takeover of the storied El Encanto (the brand's first West Coast resort) is reinventing a genteel... Read More

The Great Room specializes in French - Asian seafood; The Terrace is genteel and romantic, with candlelit tables overlooking the knockout view; and Bayside, right on the... MORE beach, is an informal spot for snacks and light meals.

But is it still the radical event it was, or a genteel way of adding a few more names to your art knowledge?

A genteel titan who did more than anyone to shape the art world as we know it today, Castelli was born in 1907 in Trieste with the Jewish given name of Leo Krausz and took his time finding his way to fame — he was nearly 50 years old when he opened the Castelli Gallery on East 77th Street in 1957.

Long the preserve of the staid and genteel (old masters, modern masters and the like), the neighborhood has recently been seeing more adventurous fare.

In an age when figurative painting was seen to be dwindling in relevance, becoming little more than a genteel academic tradition, Freud's work would prove its continuous and startling power.

Whereas Frankenstein's creature was a figure of revulsion, an eight - foot grisly caricature of a man, HAL is the extreme opposite — a machine with no outwardly human appearance, quiet, genteel, and soft - spoken — making his transformation into a monster all the more chilling.

In short, the Task Force offers a mix of greater restriction of those who appear to abuse the right of free speech, a mechanism for «positive» organized debate and a nicer environment for the students (although one wonders whether those who have no qualms about verbally beating down those who think differently from them will be persuaded to become genteel debaters because they have more space to engage in their activities).