Sentences with phrase «rather genteel»

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.

Jonathan Jones: Sexuality is key to our fascination with witchcraft, but this rather genteel exhibition denies us a wild ride with the temptresses

Glow has a rather genteel feel to it, with manicured tropical gardens and an elegant dark wood lobby sala with vaulted ceilings.

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

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.»

You know how genteel Southern ladies claim they glisten or glow rather than sweat?

I am still constantly surprised to hear the critics who say the practice of law is now nothing more than a business rather than a genteel profession.