Sentences with phrase «most genteel»

One of the most genteel and enjoyable vintage events in the country is the annual Lime Rock Park Historics.

Its effective power band is wide and deep, and if not the most genteel - sounding sixers, its robust sound - track suits its style of performance.

Not exact matches

The genteel Senate forces a Hobbesian choice, nasty and brutish: to get the stimulus to the people who need it most requires diluting it for families who also need it, while bestowing cash on those who plainly don't.

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» thinkers.

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

genteel, will listen to most types of music, likes intellectual challenges.

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.

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).

Early cars have an ambience that is all their own and not found in later 911s: it's a combination of smaller engines (most early cars had less than 2.4 litres to play with), wonderful cabin build quality and a certain genteel sophistication to the controls that was lost once the cars put on a bit of weight and went to wider wheels and tyres.

But this isn't the genteel mining towns most Christian authors write about, where basically everyone... Continue reading →

But this isn't the genteel mining towns most Christian authors write about, where basically everyone is nice (except the evildoer), and the seedier parts of frontier life are kept to the side.

Thus - in sharp contrast to the conventional and rather genteel American Impressionism that represented the most popular American art of the period - these American Realists set about capturing the spontaneous moments of urban life.

Last Friday, after making an appearance at Tesco's in Corstorphine [a genteel suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland] we had a wee geek dinner in Leith with one of Scotland's most respected bloggers, Ewan McIntosh.

In most areas, biased and incompetent reviewers are all too common (if you talk to the reviewees, anyway), not to mention a healthy level of genteel back - stabbing and dirty dealings in general.

Most dog breeds originate in the Victorian era, when Darwinism was an exciting new theory and well - bred ladies and gentlemen bred dogs as a genteel hobby.

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