英语词汇“genteel”造句的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

The university’s genteel nickname, the Cavaliers, and its aristocratic sword-crossed coat of arms seem appropriate today. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Single- handedly he turned it from genteel, ignorable after-dinner entertainment into an all-encompassing emotional experience, a way of perceiving life as a mighty struggle, the cry of the soul, the voice of conscience. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Mother’s shyness and ladylike demeanor had a quieting effect on him, and he was displaying his most genteel behavior. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she came down, carrying fat, sleepy Campbell Junior, her mass of red hair was combed, pinned up, and draped with what she called “my genteel black veil.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Pumblechook was in favour of a handsome premium for binding me apprentice to some genteel trade,—say, the corn and seed trade, for instance. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Rab went into the tavern, and when he came back he had permission to take out the landlady’s genteel nag. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

You probably do not know much about this, because you have always been so closely watched by your father in that well-guarded house with your genteel mother. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The Ladies and Escorts sections are cleaner and quieter and more genteel, and smell better. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I knew a little from our infrequent stays with Baron Greyfallow, and thought I was quite genteel enough without having to memorize forms of address, table manners, and the elaborate snarled rankings of the peerage. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In one fell swoop, Strauss had transformed himself from the genteel Kappellmeister of the Austrian Belle Epoque into the Che Guevara of the musical rebels. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Nina Chandler Murray, an eighty-five-year-old relative of the Poor family of Standard & Poor’s, the investment credit rating firm, is convinced that the world of the elite was more genteel in the old days. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was strangely easy to converse with this genteel hunter. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Lapham was a great manager, but she cared nothing for genteel manners and was the first to laugh at Dorcas’s ‘If it please you, Mother—-just a touch more maple syrup for me.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s too much ornate woodwork here, and the precious layerings of molding and mullion and balustrade and apse, all those thousands of genteel decisions, the studied cuts, just unsettle me. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did this decisively, one jab and one grind, not the series of genteel taps favored by many of the Wives. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

My job is not, however, as genteel as it at first appears, thanks to the sheer volume of clothing in motion. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it was, when she spoke with Reta she moved back and forth between a genteel grace and a childlike exuberance. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She tore small pieces from the loaf and chewed them delicately, somehow making the whole process look genteel. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“To be sure,” said Harriet, in a mortified voice, “he is not so genteel as real gentlemen.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

This will be no genteel exchange of blows. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They stand side by side, their hands folded together in front of their stomachs as proper young ladies should place them, but their smiles aren’t genteel and poised. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

That she has fulfilled her role as a thieving member of the underclass, now indentured to this genteel midwestern white lady, is too perfect for words. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The segment opened with a genteel docent standing before a Rembrandt painting and addressing a group of unshaven men dressed in ragged clothing. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The bowl of fruit in the window was a genteel, artistic display. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Not at all. He was almost genteel as highwaymen go. I had him pegged as a low-ranking officer before he deserted.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then I took a half step backward and made a genteel three-quarter bow. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They had been genteel, efficient, and not terribly savvy. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Indeed, throughout the thirties, Oppenheimer swam upstream against a genteel anti-Semitism in the professions and academia. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Yet the genteel detachment of Pasteur and his contemporaries seemed quaint, even foolish, given the profits to be made in the industrial world. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

There was a genteel tap of the knocker and the musical voice asked again, “Where do Vanished objects go?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He knew nothing of that silent middle class that struggled between genteel poverty and the impossible desire of emulating the golden canaille to which he himself belonged. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw a genteel centaur bearing a princess sidesaddle, and such was the atmosphere of magic that they weren’t out of place here. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Your lady may prefer this. It’s a superior article, a most desirable color, quite chaste and genteel,” he said, shaking out a comfortable gray shawl, and throwing it over Jo’s shoulders. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

We begin to feel subconsciously that / is somehow more genteel than me, even in cases where me is the right choice—for instance, after a preposition. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's believed that the rule stems from the 1800s, when tennis was a genteel sport played primarily at social gatherings, particularly by women. Why do Wimbledon players wear all white? 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z

It’s amusing in its genteel way, but not much blood is drawn. Television Review: ?Wait Wait Don?t Tell Me!? on BBC America - Review 2011-12-22T23:07:54Z

Beyond this genteel scrum, an accompanying weeklong cultural circus swamps the entire metropolitan area with a sea of pop-up events, satellite fairs, celebrity-studded corporate product launches, and not least, over-the-top parties. Masks Off, Wallets Out: Art Basel 2022 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

In the kitchen, meanwhile, some more genteel interaction involves Jackie Oates and Kathryn Roberts practising glorious harmonies on Seeds of Love, the first traditional song collected by Sharp. Folk's man of mystery: is Cecil Sharp a folk hero or villain? 2011-03-24T22:30:02Z

A pun that spans multiple languages—behold the haute dog, a genteel frankfurter—is called “macaronic,” from the Latin word for “medley.” How Wit Reveals the Trickster Beauty of Our Garbage World 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

Like any Southern city worth its salt, Richmond has a genteel side that’s been carefully refined over the centuries. What’s new (and old) in Richmond, Virginia’s trendy capital 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

But there was certainly nothing genteel about the performances, which began with a dynamic rendition of Beethoven’s “Leonore” Overture No. 3, during which the musicians hurtled through the presto coda. Music Review | Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra: Hurtling Through Beethoven, With Grace 2010-03-02T22:19:00Z

His way of condescending to his genteel aunts, to Lily, the caretaker's daughter, to Miss Ivors and to the other guests is presented as essential to his character, an aspect of his alienation. Joyce's Dublin: city of dreamers and chancers 2012-06-15T21:55:00Z

Eastwood also said he approved of “certain things that Trump’s done” but wanted the president to act “in a more genteel way, without tweeting and calling people names”. Clint Eastwood: electing Bloomberg would make my day 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z

Rachel is a genteel, educated, middle-aged woman who wears a suit to work every day. I clean out hoarder houses. Some jobs are even harder than the rest 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z

For a musical about a war — or more precisely, a caesura between hostilities — “All Is Calm” is a staunchly apolitical and warily genteel work. Review: In ‘All Is Calm,’ Thrilling Song in the Trenches 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z

As a personality, he was a throwback to a time when the literature business was famously genteel. Timothy Seldes, Literary Agent, Dies at 88 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

More than a few diners remind me they’re people, not animals, and would prefer a more genteel query. ‘Still working on that?’ and other annoying comments from waiters 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

We spent evenings eating pizza and sharing six-packs of beer in cheap motels, or catching glimpses of small-town life in genteel B&Bs. Mississippi yearning 2010-12-04T00:05:15Z

I feel that more people should speak out against him and not be genteel about it. Robert De Niro Is Always Doing Something 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z

So, it is fitting that this is the venue for avant-garde contemporary art rather than genteel 19th-century paintings. What to see at Impressionist Normandy: 10 best festival events 2010-04-23T09:44:00Z

Literary fame, far from being genteel, drags Zuckerman into the inferno of modern culture, where he is stalked in the street by a lunatic who demands empathy. I loved Jonathan Franzen not wisely but too well 2010-10-07T16:28:00Z

It was the more genteel disciplines of natural science, astronomy, chemistry, botany and anatomy, to which women of a certain class gravitated. Mushrooms, Magma and Love in a Time of Science 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

“Glenconner’s descriptions of these difficult times are evidence of the grit that underlies her genteel affect.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

"He never went to work but when he was cool and sober … his courage and presence of mind never failed him … his address was genteel, and his behaviour void of all cruelty and insolence". John Mullan's 10 of the best: highwaymen 2012-05-18T21:54:02Z

It was a Saturday in early summer, and he was sitting in his office, a handsome, sun-flooded room with large windows that look out over a genteel square. | Peter Ackroyd’s London Calling 2013-09-12T13:00:12Z

Much of the art world, however, hardly seems in the mood for such a genteel tête-à-tête. Friends No More? Jorge Pérez and Donald Trump 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

Reacting against their genteel predecessors, these New Critics claimed that the meaning of a written document — like, say, a metaphysical poem or the transcript of a presidential phone call — was self-contained, discoverable and stable. Review | In the impeachment spin wars, only the English majors can save us 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

Martin packs the Man with the right genteel obsessiveness, leavened by flashes of amusement. Review | At Theater J, Albee’s ‘Occupant’ takes a lifeless look at the life of Louise Nevelson 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z

The mountain continued to develop its reputation for having the best intermediate slopes in the East, earning a loyal following that loved to cruise the miles of genteel, groomed corduroy. In New Hampshire, Can Bretton Woods Get Gnarly? 2011-02-18T19:55:00Z

But after-hours in Manchester is a more genteel and toned-down affair — Burlington or Bennington this is not. 36 Hours in Manchester, Vt. 2014-01-31T18:48:20Z

Centuries ago, Leicester Square was a genteel patch, but now it is brash and loud, bordered by an all-night Chinatown and ringed by West End theaters, carousels and street stalls. | W Hotel, London 2011-05-03T18:54:03Z

As their genteel names suggest, however, Andy and Melissa reside in the regimented world of the well-heeled Protestant class — her family is considerably wealthier — and soon they have been sent to separate private schools. Brian Dennehy and Mia Farrow in ‘Love Letters’ 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

But this is a handsomely packaged collection of such notions, and will provide genteel entertainment to those of a mind to swallow them. Review: ‘Victoria and Abdul,’ a Royal Friendship in a Nest of Vipers 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

While Monteiro’s image is heavy with oppression, Jackson’s photograph, from a series inspired by a free black woman living in genteel British society, is filled with light. At Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, ‘Back Stories’ become inclusive 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z

DeGeneres' deadpan affability hearkened back to the more genteel hosts of the past like Bob Hope and Johnny Carson. Oscars telecast scores highest audience in a decade 2014-03-03T22:51:00Z

She arrives at her aunts’ house to serve as audience surrogate and provide some romantic interest in counterpoint to the genteel yet brutal social and economic warfare that make up the central story. ‘The Gilded Age’ Review: Dime-Store ‘Downton’ 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z

The town — nestled between the lush, green Grand Cape Mount and the mouth of the 40-square-mile, drop-dead gorgeous Lake Piso — oozes with this tatty yet genteel civility, inhabited by people and ruins. My Liberia: A Vacation Paradise 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

Paintings function mostly like genteel wallpaper here, but there are exceptions. Art Review: Winter Antiques Show at Park Avenue Armory - Review 2012-01-19T22:47:07Z

Before 2008, it was best known for its almost yearly productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream: the bucolic setting felt magical, but the work was inert and genteel. Singing in the rain: Regent's Park musicals hit the high notes 2012-05-30T09:04:56Z

But now, more than two months later, the production exudes that sense of deft suaveness customary to the genteel age that “My Fair Lady” — based on George Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion” — epitomizes. What’s it like behind the scenes at ‘My Fair Lady’? We went backstage with Laura Benanti. 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

Graham “grew up with one set of very gendered expectations. She was raised to be a wife, to raise children and engage in genteel, ladylike activities,” Gutierrez said. A new exhibit casts legendary Post publisher Katharine Graham as an accidental feminist trailblazer 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z

It's a time for genteel digressions, and there was Victoria Wood turning in an enjoyable performance as a retired policewoman. Rewind TV: Panorama: Hillsborough – How They Buried the Truth; The Hunt for Britain's Sex Gangs; David Bowie – Five Years; Case Histories 2013-05-25T23:04:04Z

The author recounts Claiborne's unhappy childhood in the Mississippi Delta, where he grew up in genteel poverty, was bullied by schoolmates and found refuge in the kitchen of his mother's boarding house. Review: Bio details revolution in approach to food 2012-05-07T14:57:09Z

Mostly written while touring Europe's sports stadiums in support of Take That, its tracks chugged along at a genteel mid-tempo, its lyrics were sombre and sour. Pet Shop Boys: Electric – review 2013-07-04T14:30:01Z

Ms. Douglas wanted to expand her repertory in a setting more genteel than those drab clubs with two-drink minimums and hecklers. ‘The Living Room Show’ Brings Performances to Los Angeles Homes 2013-12-14T00:12:06Z

Instead, wealthy and middle-class New York City families face an entirely different kind of school choice: turtle ponds and genteel fund-raising letters, or a frantic annual effort to finance the library. Motherlode Blog: Amid Million Dollar PTAs, a School Fights to Keep Its Library 2012-06-04T14:36:45Z

And surely there are people out there who watch because golfers are clean-cut, controversy-free and genteel. Tiger, The Tour And Inside The U.S. Open 2010-06-15T22:00:00Z

Her genteel memoir, “Love, Life and Elephants,” has an animal population big and personable enough to fill a zoo. Books of The Times: ‘Granddad, There’s a Head on the Beach’ and Other Summer Reads 2012-05-24T22:43:29Z

The youth, they will devour this genteel place, so that they might strut away, uniformed. New York, It’s Time to Shop! (Masks on, Please) 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

The quartet appeared determined to dispel the conventional view of Mendelssohn as a purveyor of genteel, well-mannered compositions with a robust reading of the String Quartet in E Minor, Op. Escher String Quartet takes an aggressive approach to chamber music 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

Glenconner’s descriptions of these difficult times are evidence of the grit that underlies her genteel affect. The Sometimes Amusing, Sometimes Appalling Life of a Lady-in-Waiting 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

To its own detriment, the narrative concentrates too much on genteel domestic scenes and refined romantic conversations. Review | Christmas comes early in Jon Clinch’s ‘Marley,’ a clever riff on ‘A Christmas Carol’ 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

The works showed an ambition to escape the genteel associations of traditional ceramics. 2010-02-16T22:40:00Z

One, the Avignon Festival, is a bustling, overcrowded celebration of theater; the other, the Aix-en-Provence Festival, offers a more genteel operatic lineup. At Glamorous French Festivals, Poverty is Only Onstage 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z

Colman simulates a snooty voice, or rather a voice snootier than her already genteel tones. Olivia Colman: 'It's slightly scary … it could all go wrong' 2013-07-07T17:30:00Z

He wears a genteel white lace collar and a satin jacket that is a shimmering study in grays; both contrast strikingly with his level, appraising gaze and homely mug. Art Review: Faces Still Alive, Centuries Later 2011-07-28T22:44:45Z

She was also renowned for “Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady,” a well-received, somewhat fictionalized 1985 memoir in which she plumbed the depths, and the shallows, of her genteel upbringing. Florence King, Writer Who Wielded an Acerbic Wit, Dies at 80 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z

The quartet traces the genteel romance between Wimsey and mystery writer Harriet Vane, perfect for Sayers newcomers or faithful followers: "Have His Carcase," "Gaudy Night," "Busman's Honeymoon" and "Strong Poison." Arts-staff favorites include Dorothy L. Sayers, '12 Minutes Max' 2012-10-28T14:31:05Z

Dowling wants people to know how widespread scam artists are in a business marked by genteel manners and moneyed buyers. CNBC tries reality TV after business hours 2013-03-04T21:13:14Z

Listen to the song today and you find yourself wondering how much difficulty Cocker had restraining himself to such a genteel production. Joe Cocker: Singer made others' songs his own 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

From the beginning of the drama, her affable and genteel demeanor hides a thinly concealed ferocity and strength of character. On German Stages, Women Take Control 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z

Perhaps this is due to her habit of inviting absolutely everyone in genteel Parisian society without discrimination, and then leaking her guest list to the press. Suzette Field's top 10 literary party hosts 2012-12-12T16:27:54Z

She also wields her power by spearheading a genteel protest to raise awareness of the capitalism's continued reliance on slave labor, one clumsily realized subplot among several. A less sexy "Sanditon" doesn't evolve the plot, but so what? That's not why people watch 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z

Blunt and confrontational, Roux is the polar opposite of genteel Gideon. Review | Susie Yang’s ‘White Ivy’ is an entertaining character study of a social climber with a secret 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z

Friday’s concert in the Terrace Theater, co-presented with Washington Performing Arts, was less a collaboration than a genteel drum battle. Two musicians in their prime, sharing music from their genres 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z

Justice Ginsburg read her dissent from the bench, which in the genteel, marbled universe of the Supreme Court, is most unusual — the equivalent of shaming your spouse in front of dinner guests. Review: ‘Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’ 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

Jacob and Janey Young had been great friends of Frank and Nancy Clem, who lived in their genteel neighborhood and shared their “exemplary social qualities.” New True-Crime Books for Fall 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

Into the breach of nostalgia for the old faux mainstream rushes the new genteel tradition, films that represent the decadent side of art-house movies, whether “Birdman” or “Boyhood” or “Mr. Turner.” There Is No “Genius of the System” 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z

The way the characters, from the lowest servant on up, try to maintain a sense of honor and principle in a world that is growing pointedly less genteel. Downton Abbey, I Am Too American to Love You 2013-01-04T18:45:35Z

Cole could be a great artist, but as a voice for his age, he raised little more than a genteel whimper of loss. Review | Did America’s great landscape painter fear progress and hate democracy? 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

Sitting in the hotel den, with its genteel decor of leather and wood, Eco says he was surprised that the novel had even been translated after it first appeared in Italy last year. With 'Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana,' Umberto Eco considers identity 2005-06-13T04:00:00Z

As the genteel presenter himself would have doubtless have put it: "I bid you goodbye." Robert Robinson: tributes paid to doyen of the quiz show 2011-08-13T18:05:32Z

Finally, we reached Marshan, a genteel neighborhood just west of the medina, where broad avenues ran past grandly decaying mansions and pristine palaces. Lost in Tangier 2010-09-11T09:00:00Z

They look a bit incongruous with the gray hausfrau dress, genteel pearls and headscarf worn in the Seattle Repertory Theatre production by actor Nick Garrison. In 'I Am My Own Wife,' a character to remember 2012-02-09T22:08:03Z

It’s also spottier, though his voice, alternating between robust and genteel, saves him more often than not, especially when he taps into Hootie and the Blowfish-era resonance on the tragic “Whiskey and You.” Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-10-24T22:23:00Z

In the genteel world of TV costume , any tensions are usually scripted – and fictional. War declared as Upstairs, Downstairs creator fires volley at Downton Abbey 2010-12-16T19:48:42Z

Tchaikovsky’s sextet fared considerably better, with a genteel breadth of tone, an amiability in the slow movement and a frantic, at times feral intensity to its closing Cossack charge. Review: Emerson String Quartet Caps Banner Season With Works of Mixed Emotions 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

Bradford's genteel second wife Alice and the fiery Eleanor Billington, an Anglican woman and former indentured servant not interested in the least in submitting to "proper" Puritan customs, are the stars and focus of "Beheld." March to the shelves for these new books: Recommended reading for spring break and beyond 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z

“He was suspicious of characters like me,” Irving Howe recalled of a genteel Princeton literary scholar he knew in the late 1940s. ‘A Voice Still Heard,’ a Collection of Essays by Irving Howe 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z

This Mildred looks matronly and well bred, and that miscue is compounded by her genteel speaking tone. | 'Mildred Pierce': Battling the Depression for an Ungrateful Daughter 2011-03-24T11:00:00Z

In the 18th century, the lakes were the first Italian stop on the Grand Tour – the romantic poets adored them – and a genteel atmosphere remains. Top of the lago: a saunter around the Italian lakes 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Sally Soames And lo! as the crisis of Wapping, politicians and cops grows ever more frenetic, along comes an owlish octogenarian in a woolly cardigan recalling the genteel calm of times and Times past. Memoirs by William Rees-Mogg - review 2011-07-13T15:00:02Z

I spent untold hours with this genteel, uncompromising album earlier this year, marveling at Morris’ knockout tenor and finding new nuances within his songwriterly blend of Nashville craft, Beatlesque tunefulness and soul fervor. What music critics left off their year-end lists 2010-12-31T00:14:42Z

Schlump ends up recuperating at a hospital, and the book’s battle scenes are framed by his more genteel adventures. Books by Clare Beams, Hans Herbert Grimm, April Ayers Lawson and Kelly Luce 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

On Salon des Amateurs, meanwhile, Hauschka trades in his usual genteel, prepared piano miniatures for something surprisingly banging. There's nothing new in genre-mixing 2011-02-24T22:32:01Z

The “Downton” red is a genteel departure for the firm, a French claret reminiscent of those favored by the early 20th-century British aristocracy. ‘Downton Abbey’ enters merchandise fray 2013-08-16T02:18:00Z

So dramatic, too, that Bilbao is challenging the supremacy of San Sebastián, the genteel seaside resort to its east, as the Basque Country’s primary tourist destination. | Choice Tables: In Bilbao, It?s Not Just the Museum 2010-10-07T02:19:00Z

It’s chamber-pop that on the band’s first two albums generally revolved around folky guitars and genteel string sections, though there were always surprises. New Music: Albums From Clare and the Reasons and Maroon 5 2012-07-09T20:55:00Z

He’s incredibly civilized and genteel so it’s a very genteel workplace. ArtsBeat: Q. and A. With Tina Fey 2011-04-13T20:22:45Z

The pair meet on a genteel dating site. The best movies of 2019 that you haven't seen 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z

Today, the work of Oehme and van Sweden feels like the classic overstuffed leather chair: luxurious, genteel and slightly old-fashioned. Wild gardens that grew out from Washington 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

While the frenzy for “Downton Abbey” runs its course, two new series remind us that not all television imports from Britain and its former dominions are so genteel. Television Review: ?The Fades? on BBC America; ?Lost Girl? on Syfy - Review 2012-01-14T01:49:07Z

In my opinion, there’s nothing wrong with offering a more genteel view, whether it’s completely objective or not. Liz Smith, Longtime Queen of Tabloid Gossip Columns, Dies at 94 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z

The story opens in 1922, in a genteel suburb of London. The ten best books of 2014

While still dealing with murder, deceit and secrets, Scott's book is much more genteel than May's and McDermid's bleaker offerings. New crime fiction: a trio of 'tartan noir' mysteries 2012-11-07T23:14:04Z

But even that scene is remarkably genteel by current standards. Television: ?Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,? With Alec Guinness - Review 2011-10-22T04:00:07Z

Still, I’m disappointed by the anodyne waltz meter and massed-strings sound of one of the tunes to which they danced, and I find the style, so far, genteel. Erasing Borders Festival Focuses on Indian Dance 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

Comparable humor surfaces elsewhere, including in a genteel discussion of crude nicknames used in Bush circles. Review | A first lady and a diva show their vulnerability in two productions 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

Charlie’s mother, Bonnie, left her genteel North Carolina upbringing when she became pregnant at 15, running away to Nashville. Review | Ed Tarkington’s ‘The Fortunate Ones’ has echoes of ‘Gatsby,’ as a boy becomes enthralled by high society 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z

It’s the story of an orphaned brother and sister of modest means but genteel origins. Pop culture’s “Twilight” plague: How vampire-ifying stories is ruining perfectly good plots 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

A new, commodified attitude reigns in the once genteel world of high fashion. | Style: Dirty Pretty Things 2012-11-30T05:03:15Z

Started as an upper-middle-class hobby, it invades the British public consciousness once a year, marketed less as a sport and more as a burst of genteel anachronisms. Love Game: serving up equality 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

And after slipping a more genteel, antique velvet dress over the black leather dominatrix gear she wore for the audition, Vanda surprises. ‘Venus in Fur’ at Seattle Rep: explosive tango for two 2014-02-14T02:10:42Z

There is something for everyone at this genteel estate, ideal for a quick getaway from the city. Summer Stages: Classical 2010-05-07T21:59:00Z

It was far from the usual scripted, genteel interactions between top agency bureaucrats. ‘It’s John against the world right now’

To the untrained eye many pieces appear to be relatively nondescript reproductions of Asian prototypes, the kind of thing you might find cluttering the home of a rich, genteel great-aunt. Art Review: A Jewel Box for Translucent Treasures 2011-12-15T22:59:09Z

But they were more than a decade younger than Elizabeth and came of age in the early 20th century, amid the Progressive Era and expanded opportunity for white women raised in genteel poverty. The Daughters of the Confederacy Who Turned Their Heritage to Political Ends 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z

The French Riviera, where married Parisian media type Ferdinand and makeshift moll Marianne escape via a blithe crime spree, usually appears on screen in genteel pastels, not the bursting-hot primary colours it does here. The 10 best summer romance films 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

The big groups of shirtless lads jostling past the babystrollers were a bit of a shock after the laid-back, genteel mood of three years ago. Safety must become Latitude festival's top priority 2010-07-19T14:17:00Z

The essays in “Reflections” reflect a background that is geographically expansive, privileged and bereft of big, messy drama — the word “genteel” kept popping into my brain. Claire Messud Looks Back on Life, and the Art That Shaped Her 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

It hardly means you won’t find the experience, relatively genteel as it was, to be viscerally unpleasant. “It’s making us feel like the opposition is evil”: How cable news hurts democracy — and how to fix it 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z

She warned that she needed to burp, and emitted a tiny, genteel pop from her throat, to the delight of her male colleagues. Three Young Actors Bring ‘This Is Our Youth’ to Broadway 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

Some are obviously commercial pieces, done as illustrations for books or magazines of an old and genteel character. Davidson Galleries’ ‘Wood Engraving Invitational’ 2014-01-16T21:48:16Z

You can imagine that BBC listeners were saying much the same thing over a restorative sherry on Sunday after the genteel network broadcast a new adaptation which embellished the original with the F-word. Radio review: Wuthering Heights 2011-03-27T20:30:01Z

The Heritage Madurai, a genteel retreat at the edge of town, is an ideal base from which to explore the temple and the rest of the city. | Madurai, India, Where Time Stands Still 2014-03-21T18:45:45Z

The series flouts a number of unscripted television conventions, beginning with the fact that it is upbeat, genteel and populated by contestants who support and respect one another. Mel and Sue are leaving the tent: Can “The Great British Bake Off” still rise without these key ingredients? 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

Lear's genteel upbringing was cut short by his father's financial embarrassment. Vivien Noakes obituary 2011-03-04T16:06:57Z

In a concert that roared, pounded and groaned emphatically, this piece seemed genteel and tidy, slight even, when measured against Haydn’s own mature masterpieces. Music Review: Three Master Composers and a Lingering Mystery 2011-03-25T22:44:44Z

And he is the “decent” master: a man who must think of himself as a slave to the system he is profits from; a genteel soul and a moral coward. 12 Years a Slave: An Unflinching Take on the Great American Shame 2013-10-18T17:07:02Z

His genteel mother Eve, who was born in New South Wales, was an office secretary, then a beautician. Mick Jagger by Philip Norman – review 2012-10-04T07:00:01Z

We see them cook, clean, potter about in the garden and engage in some genteel recreational folk dancing. Film review: No Greater Love 2010-04-08T22:10:00Z

Lust counterposes the children’s genteel hiking trips and war games with the atrocities Karnau dispassionately documents, drawing both narrators’ segments to emphasize visual details over their context. The Latest in Graphic Novels 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

We arrange to meet at the Church Hill theatre; this large, porticoed theatre on Edinburgh's genteel Morningside Road is the AHSTF's main performance space. What are all these American high school students doing in Edinburgh? 2010-08-17T08:11:00Z

Up to and including its cheap shock ending, “The Lie” invests all its meager stock in the facile, simple-minded idea that depicting banal, outwardly genteel people behaving abominably sheds a profound light on human nature. ‘The Lie’ Review: A Child’s Crime, a Parental Conspiracy 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

That was a remarkable departure from conventions of the Renaissance, in which most queer relationships were depicted in “a genteel context of gay male instruction,” as Maxwell put it. A Book So Far Ahead of Its Time, It Took 87 Years to Find a Publisher 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

Waiters in white jackets and fezzes ushered us upstairs, where we took a table among a genteel crowd of bureaucrats and their wives. | Choice Tables: Tasting Humble and High Cuisine in Istanbul 2011-09-30T18:55:00Z

The passing matrons could be Edwardian, wearing a genteel uniform – funereal hat and oppressively long coat, gloved hands and festoons of pearls round the neck – for a promenade to the shops. The big picture: Julie Christie and Dirk Bogarde film Darling, 1964 2011-02-13T00:05:50Z

This bid for mass appeal was also a smart business decision; unlike Trotter, plenty of black Bostonians were members of the working class, or what the novelist Dorothy West would later call the “genteel poor.” ‘Black Radical’ Remembers a Bold Life and Reclaims It for Our Current Moment 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

It’s an “Upstairs, Downstairs” or “Downton Abbey” of sorts, set not in a manor house but in the genteel bohemian home of Mary-Kay Wilmers, the longtime editor of The London Review of Books. Books of The Times: ‘Love, Nina,’ by Nina Stibbe 2014-04-21T21:47:49Z

If “Pollinator Pathmaker” is, as Ginsberg put it, “a genteel way to think about” extinction issues, Carolina Caycedo’s “This Land is a Poem of Ten Rivers Healing” is more confrontational. At the Serpentine, a Show of Nature’s Healing Power 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

Ms. Aidem, meanwhile, does fine by the role of the Mrs. Croft, with her cool poise disguising a core of genteel ruthlessness. Theater Review: Kathleen Turner in ‘Killing of Sister George’ at Long Wharf 2012-12-07T23:03:45Z

“Beautiful Animals” is set during the refugee crisis, a humanitarian disaster that lurks beneath the surface of the island’s genteel social life. Affluent Idlers Find a Just Cause in a Refugee Swept Ashore 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z

Bowie then sits down with Shore, she of genteel nineteen-forties movie musicals, and attempts to explain, with great seriousness and in depth, why Pop was important, and why their collaboration worked. Postscript: David Bowie, 1947-2016 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

In the mansion’s library, the cut-paper silhouettes in Kara Walker’s 1997 book “Freedom: A Fable” may look like the work of genteel Victorian ladies, but they embed narratives of racial oppression. In Dishes and Dolls, a Foundation of Feminist Art 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

She jokes about frightening, soul-crushing life experiences in a genteel sing-songy voice, smiling a practiced smile that is at once devoid of malice and somewhat flat. Hannah Gadsby’s “Nanette” and the case for quitting comedy 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

The bare-knuckled tactics of the film producer Harvey Weinstein have slammed into the more genteel sensibilities of Broadway, where he is bringing his first musical, “Finding Neverland.” ‘Finding Neverland’ Publicist Resigns After Dispute 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

This sentimental, nearly genteel movie demonstrates there’s a world of difference between invoking magic and conjuring it. Review: In ‘Pete’s Dragon,’ a Magical Bond in Peril Again 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

His early career coincided with journalism’s transition away from a trade for poker-playing, working-class tough guys to a more genteel profession recruiting from the Ivy League. Carl Bernstein’s Eulogy for the Newspaper Business 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

Cathy and Heathcliff will disrupt Radio 3's usually genteel air on Sunday evening with what the station warns are "strong expletives" in a production that attempts to shed new light on the characters. BBC Radio 3's Wuthering Heights to turn the airwaves blue 2011-03-22T10:47:06Z

It’s pretty much all you can ask for in a genteel musical by the theater’s most sophisticated composer. Review | Signature opens season with ‘A Little Night Music,’ one of Sondheim’s precious gems 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

An eager neighbor, it also exudes a genteel eccentricity that plays off the rationalism of Mr. Piano, and of Manhattan’s street grid. Review: A New Whitney Lets New York City Pour In 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

I am sauntering along the genteel pavements of Henley-on-Thames, on the family Sunday of the famous festival. 'I feared I'd be left with prejudiced children who didn't love me': life as a stepmother 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z

Literature itself began to reflect, with an appealing self-consciousness, the image of the genteel reader escaping into her paperback. The Invention of the “Beach Read” 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z

The culture that the Yankees destroyed was a genteel culture. Dixie Outfitters is still fighting the Civil War 2013-09-11T22:59:00Z

That image is a genteel fraud, and so was “Patti Page.” Patti Page: The Oklahoma Thrush With ‘The Tennessee Waltz’ 2013-01-04T21:54:52Z

With its mysterious, rumbling passages in the piano and heroic, large-scale gestures, No. 7 sheds the genteel vestiges of the earlier works. Music Review: Leonidas Kavakos and Enrico Pace in Beethoven Violin Sonatas 2014-03-03T22:56:20Z

Sierra Hull opened her Tuesday-night show at the Living Room with “Easy Come, Easy Go,” her genteel and wistful new single, a burst of adult-contemporary bluegrass. Music Review: Prodigious Talent Discovers Balance 2011-03-09T22:33:48Z

Then we took a night train to Surin, an experience that was deceptively genteel. Elephants, My Brother and Me 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

Grocery shopping was once a relatively genteel pastime. Makers: Grocery Shopping on Speed 2011-12-17T03:36:14Z

Touched not by an angel but an animal print, and producing a very genteel purr. As Milan Fashion Week Ends, Giorgio Armani, Versace, Bottega Veneta and More 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z

But there was nothing particularly genteel or overly familiar and comforting about this music. Concert review: Neil Young at United Center 2012-10-12T06:14:00Z

In the genteel, cultivated and fashionable crowd, Manet painted himself and his friends: the poets Charles Baudelaire and Théophile Gautier, and composer Jacques Offenbach. How Hugo and Manet unveiled Paris's poor and privileged faces 2013-01-26T19:30:01Z

“When you think about the male players – most of whom seem to be white men in this extremely genteel sport – the ones who do explode are ‘bad boys’; they’re charismatic. ‘Of course Serena Williams was angry’: writer Soraya Chemaly on why women should unleash their rage 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Graeme Robertson This literary festival is now in its 19th year and represents an urban alternative to the traditionally genteel rural bookish events. This week's new events 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z

“The Sound and the Fury”, published in 1929 when the then 32-year-old author was poor and unknown, uses a kaleidoscope of narrators to chronicle the decline of a genteel Mississippi family. Signifying something 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Atticus, perhaps, was not the only genteel white liberal pushed in an unexpected direction during those transformative times, which would open the door to the even more divisive civil rights era. The Atticus Finch of your childhood is’t ruined: Read Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman” for the early draft that it is 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

The mean streets of Detroit are far from Cleverly's relatively genteel setting. New in crime fiction: Cleverly, Estleman, Koryta, Penny 2012-08-08T19:47:07Z

The execution is staged amid a genteel garden party attended by gracefully attired White Southerners, at sunset, with pink light glinting through romantic swaths of Spanish moss. Perspective | With ‘The Underground Railroad,’ Barry Jenkins looks squarely at Black trauma. And doesn’t blink. 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

The Archfiend is by turns genteel, seductive, ominous, despairing and cranky as channeled by Kyd, who adapted the script from a centuries-spanning body of texts. One-man show ‘The Devil in His Own Words’ offers an up-close look at the evil deity

Paradoxically, talk of an “Obama bump” comes at a time when the flavor of public conversation around books has gone from genteel Earl Grey to Tea Party red. Cultural Studies: Are You Reading What He?s Reading? 2010-09-03T18:21:00Z

Whirling country dances evoked the genteel tastes of Rameau’s Parisian audiences, yet the flavor of an exotic imaginary was distinctly present. Review | NSO presents an exuberant panorama of early music 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

His father, a lawyer, worked his way out of a poor Lower East Side childhood; his mother was a New York City public-school teacher from a genteel Boston family. In ‘Avid Reader,’ a Celebrated Editor as Shepherd and Alchemist 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

Preserving the spirit of that era is the Claremont Hotel, a genteel 1884 rambler in the Quiet Side town of Southwest Harbor. Don’t call it relaxation. On this Maine island, vacation is for rusticating. 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

Two small dogs — one black, one white — make each other nervous, personifying the genteel standoffs. 2010-01-08T06:23:00Z

Museum administrators just had to hope the protesters reminded “genteel, middle-class liberals” who took steps to avoid permanent damage, he added. How Do You Tell a Vandal From a Visitor? Art Museums Are Struggling. 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z

One show is genteel and the other is gory as all get-out. Two things we love this week 2013-02-13T20:52:24Z

And the zinc bands echo the genteel clapboard siding of those houses. Architecture Review: A Unified Home for Arts Education, With a Split Right Down the Middle 2011-03-09T23:05:21Z

On other songs, like “_____45_____,” a delirious riff between Vernon and a saxophone, he was minimal and genteel, bending his voice away from the beat. Swooning to the Strangeness of Bon Iver 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

The morning of the cigarette incident, Ms. Ono sat in the kitchen of her Dakota apartment, whose genteel décor is leavened with pictures of her with Lennon, and even with his famous bandmates. Yoko Ono’s 1971 MoMA Show Finally Opens 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z

Obviously lots of millennials are drawn to the Brooklyns of the world, places edgier, rawer, more ethnic and soulful, and cheaper than the genteel surroundings favored by their boomer parents, where the millennials were raised. Millennials Answer the Call of Mexican Wine Country 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

It is not uncommon in the genteel world of New York private clubs for members to weigh profit and convenience. Harvard Club Considers a Change, and Some Think It’s the ‘Worst Thing Ever’ 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

The genteel grace and European travels of its wealthy citizens were made possible by the enslavement of about half the population. Critic?s Notebook: Emancipating History 2011-03-11T23:45:18Z

She will be polite and genteel and speak fluent French, Latin, Swahili, Greek and one language that is mostly clicks and glottal stops. Perspective | Just imagine what kind of president we might elect after Trump 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z

Judging from clips posted on the World Series’ website, this “Rite,” with its partial nudity and animalistic movement, may still offend genteel dance lovers. 100th birthday celebrations for ‘The Rite of Spring’ in Seattle 2013-01-16T23:39:04Z

Matthews's rambling chat, familiar from her Sunday morning BBC 6 Music show, is an appropriate frame for this two-hour solo set, which is rowdier than the genteel Cerys by Candlelight banner might suggest. Cerys Matthews – review 2012-12-20T18:17:00Z

If America yearned to relax and focus on something genteel and positive to counteract the alarming acrimony, this show fit the bill. A worthy return for PBS' "All Creatures Great and Small" celebrates the value of the little things 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z

With clients like these, it is little wonder that the typical Stefano Ricci boutique looks more like a genteel private club than a selling floor. Stefano Ricci, Clothier to the 0.001 Percent 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

He played the opening melody with genteel sensitivity before plunging into the drama of the ensuing Prestissimo, unveiling subtleties in Beethoven’s dramatic outburst instead of rendering it a mere whirlwind. Music Review: Tackling the Last of Beethoven?s Sonatas 2010-10-18T22:00:00Z

The orchestra offered a taut, energetic performance of the brooding work, deftly conveying the contrast between the stormy elements and the gracious minuet that unexpectedly surfaces, rendered with genteel precision. Work by Schnittke and Haydn at Mostly Mozart 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

Yet Swain’s works are less commandeering, more genteel. Robert Swain presents color as a transfer of energy 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

To announce her prominence in an exclusive new neighborhood, Williams designed a genteel mansion in a westernized Colonial Revival style. A Photographer Follows Paul Revere Williams Into the West 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

Even so, the movie "specializes in the genteel PG-13 scare, aiming to awe you with its dinosaur verisimilitude rather than shock you with too much blood on the tracks." 'Jurassic World' clones some, not all, of original film's fun, reviews say 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

This is much complained of by those who resent the passing of a more genteel age. Life Zucks 2010-10-18T10:21:00Z

The atmosphere is too genteel to be gothic, but it is haunted nonetheless, by intimations of disorder, lust and violence. Review: ‘The Beguiled,’ Sofia Coppola’s Civil War Cocoon 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

With the line “It is impossible to say just what I mean!,” he speeds up the frustration seething beneath Prufrock’s genteel front, complete with formal necktie. Jeremy Irons Breathes New Life Into ‘The Poems of T.S. Eliot’ 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

He is wickedly funny unfolding agonizing tales of the rise of fabulously wealthy American art collectors who lack the genteel, accommodating ways of the previous generation of fabulously wealthy American art collectors. | 'The Old Masters': Showdown at the Italian Villa, Easels Drawn 2011-01-28T03:01:21Z

From the genteel Thomas the Tank Engine to the rough-and-ready racecar Lightning McQueen, children’s entertainment has been filled with talking cartoon vehicles that run on feelings as much as on fuel. ‘Firebuds’ Gives a Face to Emergency Workers, and Their Vehicles 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z

There’s a genteel political toothlessness that you’d expect from an ABC family sitcom, but maybe there’s something quietly radical about hip-hop inserting itself even into that prosaic format. Rap Disrupted Music First. Now It’s TV and Film. 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

Albert Herring retained Grimes's Suffolk setting, but otherwise appeared completely different: a smallscale, genteel comedy reflecting the delightful idiosyncrasies of English village life. Britten's comic hero Albert Herring: the only virgin in the village 2013-05-08T17:59:01Z

A genteel resort town an hour or so from Bilbao, San Sebastián is a mecca for innovative Basque cuisine, as well as the location for Spain’s most important film festival. European film festivals: six of the best 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

The final image of Blanche in white beside a young man recalled her tragic wedding, the innocence that was destroyed and the genteel hope that has now been crushed for good. Theatrical victory belongs to Blanche in 'Streetcar' opera 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

When Golden returned in 2000 as Studio’s deputy director, art critics knew the institution as sleepy and genteel; she helped to boldly reshape it. At the Studio Museum in Harlem, a curator who loves art ‘on a cellular level’ 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

The artists at hand dealt with the feminine “problem” through a program of genteel idealization and domestication. Art Review: Danish Paintings Show at Scandinavia House 2013-12-05T22:25:09Z

Even as the world is changed by the Depression and World War II, “The Chaperone” stays genteel. Books of The Times: ‘The Chaperone’ by Laura Moriarty 2012-06-14T21:43:56Z

But it’s also desperately romantic and imbued with a genteel air, suggesting these characters ought to exist in another time. Whit Stillman: ‘I find it remarkable that people hate my work’ 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

Sung in a tearful voice over an archly genteel string arrangement, it envisions romance as a chance to “bask in the glory of all our problems.” Pop Music in 2017: Glum and Glummer 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

Where Mr. Reitz had been trained to make pots on a wheel, glaze them delicately and fire them to a genteel finish, his work soon assumed a muscular anarchy. Don Reitz, Who Made Dirt and Salt Into Art, Dies at 84 2014-03-30T00:25:15Z

The college dating scene that Jeffers describes is a treacherous realm in which young women must manage their reputations with exquisite care while young men vacillate erratically between genteel chivalry and sexual predation. Review | ‘The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois’ is the kind of brilliant epic that comes around only once in a decade 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

But it clings to the group’s genteel past by its fingernails. Sleater-Kinney, the Decemberists and Belle and Sebastian look to add to their legacies 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

The Gridiron, organized by an elite club of Washington journalists, is a more genteel version of the correspondents’ dinner, featuring skits and jokes performed by reporters and lawmakers. Comedian Going to White House Correspondents’ Dinner. What About Trump? 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

The title evokes the phrase “peculiar institution” — a genteel term for slavery — which flares when Peterson embodies one of LaQuanda’s boyfriends, an activist railing against private prisons. Review | This galvanizing new play tries to humanize lives lived behind bars 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

She sat ramrod straight, wearing a high-necked emerald gown — there was almost a genteel Victorian sensibility to her restrained displeasure. Perspective | The misguided chivalry of Will Smith 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z

The foul misogynists on Reddit never pretended to be anything other than foul misogynists; it was the genteel chauvinism of the enlightened elites at Kleiner Perkins that carried with it the sting of betrayal. The Education of Ellen Pao 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

That’s probably because football is not the most popular sport for young kids in this corner of genteel New England. Motherlode Blog: Will the concussion risk ever push parents to keep their children out of football? 2012-01-12T18:24:44Z

And most are turning their backs on the once-customary aerodynamic helmets and latex shorts in favor of a look as fetching as it is genteel. Bicycle Chic Gains Speed 2010-09-29T23:32:00Z

As a director, Mr. Tucker is at his best and most comfortable in a middle scene, a genteel reception at which Eliza accidentally outs herself with pleasant conversation like “Not bloody likely.” Review: A Playful ‘Pygmalion’ From Bedlam? Bloody Likely 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

For more information on the resurgence of this genteel art, go to www.bookplatesociety.org. 22 gift books for ardent readers 2011-12-01T20:30:48Z

Overlooking the old port, it gives off a genteel Parisian vibe. How circus-loving Montreal has persisted as the big top of the world 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

The plots of “Arson Plus” and the other Sutton-era stories are simple and their pilferings from the more genteel British mystery tradition evident. The nameless detective who launched Dashiell Hammett’s career 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z

Once the dancers get moving, it's more sweaty than genteel, but romance is definitely on the menu. TV highlights – 10/05/2013 2013-05-10T05:59:01Z

Trelawny of the Wells, an 1898 comedy by playwright Arthur Wing Pinero, is a play of opposites: the tale of a female theatre star and her struggles to adjust to genteel Victorian society. Director Joe Wright: 'I go nuts if I'm idle' 2013-02-20T19:30:01Z

Wenham, Mass., is a genteel hamlet north of Boston, home to horse farms and a venerable teahouse. Game On! Great New Sports Books 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

Dorothea, a civics teacher determined to avoid the fate of spinsterhood, has given herself to the handsome, genteel principal of her school. Theater: New Light, Long After His Sun Set 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z

Like the works you’ll find inside, by Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Mary Cassatt, and Édouard Manet, the house itself now seems lovely and genteel. The 16 Best Small-Town Museums in the U.S. 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

Reached after an amble through genteel older artworks, Ideguchi’s pictures administer a mild future shock. Review | In the galleries: ‘Evolving Traditions’ from a nontraditional artist 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

But the kind of mannered, genteel humility she’s required to assume here doesn’t become her. Theater Review: Nina Arianda Stars in ‘Tales From Red Vienna’ 2014-03-19T02:00:02Z

In a generation, those policies remade Toronto — once a genteel, strait-laced, Anglophile town — so that half the sprawling, tolerant city is foreign-born. While other countries turn Syrian refugees away, Canadians are taking them home 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

Ms. Taylor’s wait-and-see attitude may well be bred in the bone, her discreetness the product of a genteel background. Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Companion, Diana Taylor, Gives a Rare Interview 2013-12-27T23:22:28Z

So it's good news that the show will be back for a second season on PBS, starting January 8, with seven weeks of genteel country-house mayhem and pretty outfits. The return of "Downton Abbey," and more Brit TV 2011-08-01T18:17:11Z

After this robust Christmas entertainment, I look forward to returning to the genteel charms of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus. Cinderella – review 2012-12-19T18:46:18Z

This raises a welter of resentment in the far less genteel Emily. Review: In ‘Mr. Roosevelt,’ an Ailing Cat and a Comedian in Crisis 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

The family’s life of genteel, peripatetic bohemianism was a model Calder would follow. The Biography of Alexander Calder, Part I 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

The show “is a frisky semi-comical drama about a pretty, blond, middle-class woman who is put behind bars and consorts with less genteel inmates — ‘Clueless’ goes correctional,” Alessandra Stanley wrote in The Times in December. ‘Riot in Cell Block 11’ and ‘The Big House’ on DVD 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

The Style Invitational’s real; It’s never refined or genteel. Style Invitational Week 1193: Poedtry II, plus winning limericks 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

“I don’t want to seem pretentious. I’ve never been a genteel photographer.” Harry Benson, an Early Photographer of Trump, Looks Back and Forward 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

Far from my dictionary’s fling, “unrestrained pleasures or dissipation,” this was a genteel affair, as you would ordinarily expect of an evening of violin, two viols and harpsichord. Music Review: Repast Baroque Ensemble at the Baruch Performing Arts Center 2013-05-24T21:17:11Z

And so, in a genteel Edinburgh house, Robert Bruce’s unmarried brother and sister, both very proud and very fearful, were left to tend their brother’s secret. Family history: the shifting secrets of our genealogies – in pictures 2013-01-21T13:49:00Z

He’s not genteel but a Gentile — a boy-God with a Goy bod — whose plan to free the Jews is to rain plagues on the Egyptians. REVIEW: Don't Let Your People Go See Exodus: Gods and Kings 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z

The nervous young man has almost escaped from the funeral reception when the genteel widow thanks him for coming. Theater Review: ‘A Respectable Widow,’ About an Unusual Friendship 2014-04-13T21:06:55Z

She’s a dejected adult, drawn to “the in-between spaces of other people’s existences . . . cultivating a genteel invisibility.” ‘The Girls,’ by Emma Cline: Charles Manson, reimagined 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

It would have taken an income of about £1,000 a year to make a carriage affordable, well beyond most genteel households. Ten questions on Jane Austen 2012-05-18T21:45:05Z

And as the genteel setup of the first act turns to tragedy in the second after Herman falls ill, that chain begins to weigh and cut. Review: ‘Wedding Band,’ a Searing Look at Miscegenation Nation 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z

These successes showed that he had the skills to bridge the gap between the genteel light music of the post-second world war years and the brash new pop of the 1960s. Johnny Pearson obituary 2011-04-06T17:52:35Z

In “The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov,” Andrea Pitzer suggests that such pronouncements were merely part of Nabokov’s public façade — “the genteel, charming cosmopolitan, incapable of being dented or diminished by history.” Vladimir Nabokov, “Houdini of history”? 2013-03-17T19:00:00Z

Advertisement Advertisement Michael Dorf, a founder of the experimental music venue the Knitting Factory, recalled genteel dinners with Reed in which they discussed art, music and their shared appreciation of Willamette Valley pinot noirs. Who Was the Real Lou Reed? 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z

The Hubbard brothers, Ben and Oscar, even boast to a new business partner about their cleverness in "taking over" by marriage the plantation of Oscar's genteel, formerly aristocratic wife, Birdie. Review: Timeless greed stars in 'The Little Foxes' 2010-09-22T19:44:00Z

This realisation unlocks the story's freight of sadness, and explains the genteel, buttoned-down quality of its prose. A brief survey of the short story part 41: Rudyard Kipling 2012-06-21T11:28:42Z

Wohl was the first child of eight in a family of genteel birth and uneven mental health, the Sedgwicks, who moved from Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., to a succession of ranches in California. ‘As It Turns Out,’ a Sister’s Remembrance of Edie Sedgwick and Andy Warhol 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z

In real life, little about James was as genteel as that song. Legendary blues singer Etta James dies in Calif. 2012-01-20T16:40:14Z

Familiarity with classical learning, a hallmark of European and colonial American genteel culture, was not inherently revolutionary. What America Owes to the Greeks and Romans 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

On stage, he revamped venerated mid-19th century works by August Bournonville, the choreographer whose genteel Romantic style is most identified with Danish ballet. Danish Ballet, revamped, takes fresh U.S. tour 2011-06-17T11:28:41Z

That genteel opener serves a role beyond a mere visual call-back to a bit. Hannah Gadsby’s “Nanette” and the case for quitting comedy 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

Ms. Thompson drops in on a Children of the Confederacy convention, to observe genteel racism of a fading sort. Books of The Times: ‘The New Mind of the South,’ by Tracy Thompson 2013-04-23T17:04:03Z

He takes down the Stars and Bars and raises Old Glory above his territory; this movie holds no truck with magnolia-scented nonsense about a genteel Southern way of life menaced by Yankee aggression. Review: Matthew McConaughey Rebels Against Rebels in ‘Free State of Jones’ 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

The performances are often exceptionally strong, though Matthew Rose's beautifully sung Nick Shadow is a bit too genteel to be satisfyingly demonic. The Rake's Progress 2010-08-09T21:01:00Z

The American Queen’s history has been short but eventful, and lovers of the gentle, genteel pastime of steamboat cruising have been watching to see if that history would have any new chapters. The American Queen Paddle-Wheeler Cruises on the Mississippi 2012-06-01T19:22:58Z

The first of these, in 1760, was a huge success, revealing the lively interest of a genteel public in new art. The Royal Academy: a story of sulks and squabbles 2013-01-04T22:55:14Z

Her protagonist, Selin, is an 18-year-old Turkish girl, the daughter of secular Turkish immigrants who raised her in a genteel suburb of New Jersey. Elif Batuman’s ‘The Idiot’ 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z

It was also contentious, to say the least, in design terms – enough to cause apoplexy among local residents in plutocratically genteel South Kensington. The V&A goes underground with shortlisted designs for new gallery 2011-03-03T16:50:41Z

It strikes the note of genteel decay that suffuses the place. Greenwood Gardens in Short Hills, N.J. 2013-04-25T20:46:49Z

Raised in a genteel family, the restless, college-educated young Cain tried out many jobs, including selling insurance, before turning to journalism. Noir classic steps out of the shadows at ACT 2011-10-20T18:50:11Z

Ripped from the genteel stays in which they are often confined by British productions, they renewed in me a sense of the playwright's genius. Sovremennik and the gates of hell 2011-01-04T21:31:00Z

FISHERS, Ind. — The drama unfolding here on the outskirts of Indianapolis involves a dashing, Kentucky-born guerilla fighter, ruthless in plunder and genteel in manners. Theme Park Review: Where Park Visitors Answer a Call to Battle 2011-06-21T17:14:18Z

My room was called the "garden flat" by the genteel landlady who lived upstairs and who often entertained her friends for drinks. Joyce's Dublin: city of dreamers and chancers 2012-06-15T21:55:00Z

The timeslot may lend itself to the mawkish and the genteel but this is no place for scones or whimsy. The Mill, where misery is relentless 2013-07-27T05:00:00Z

Swift is in his element describing Ronnie’s social transformation, which begins when he is evacuated as a child during the war to genteel Oxford, where he lodges with a childless couple, the Lawrences. A Love Triangle and a Variety Show in Seaside England 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z

Ms. Kennedy, one of the American theater’s greatest and least compromising experimentalists, was speaking at a table in a genteel hotel lounge near the Colonial Williamsburg living history site. Adrienne Kennedy, Playwright: Still Quiet, Still Bold, Still Furious 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

And so, to his own surprise, "I have come out of my hole again" to write more books … Such weary, genteel valetudenarianism was typical of Ford, and probably didn't help his reputation. Julian Barnes: a tribute to Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford 2012-08-24T21:55:03Z

Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained” takes place just before the Civil War but celebrates a once-enslaved black man exacting vengeance against an evil plantation owner who makes Simon Legree look genteel. Exhibition Review: ‘The Civil War in America’ at Library of Congress 2013-01-10T20:02:01Z

It’s the dainty sound made by objects and gestures of genteel dignity and refined luxury. “Get Out”: Jordan Peele’s Radical Cinematic Vision of the World Through Black Eyes 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

The show begins with a genteel Impressionist canvas by the American Theodore Robinson, purchased by Etta with money earmarked for redecorating the family apartments. Art Review: What They Loved and What They Bought 2011-05-06T06:15:06Z

They keep their voices high, small and tremulous over a brusque beat topped with quasi-Baroque keyboards and strings, a genteel backdrop for deep neediness. Rosalía and Rauw Alejandro’s Love Trilogy, and 8 More New Songs 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

His Raymond is as neutrally genteel and well-spoken as a docent in a museum. Theater Review: ‘Far From Heaven,’ at Playwrights Horizons 2013-06-03T02:00:01Z

Though punctilious about his honor, in civilian life Poe normally comported himself with genteel courtliness. Review | Is Poe the most influential American writer? A new book offers evidence. 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z

Today Paris is still the different cities encapsulated by Hugo and Manet; Manet's chic Left Bank haunts are as fashionable and relatively genteel as 150 years ago. How Hugo and Manet unveiled Paris's poor and privileged faces 2013-01-26T19:30:01Z

She vividly conjures “the fading walk-up flats in far-flung London postal codes of former courtiers and retainers”: their tables crowded with “tasteful knickknacks,” their stair carpets reeking of “downward mobility and pointless, genteel sacrifice.” Tina Brown Catches Up With Royal Intrigue in ‘The Palace Papers’ 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

The History cable-network reality series draws about 5.5 million viewers a week, and its success lies in its rugged approach to the traditionally genteel antiques world. At Home With Mike Wolfe: Mike Wolfe, of ?American Pickers,? at Home in Iowa 2011-08-24T22:41:38Z

A portrait of the Lowell household on Boston’s prosperous Beacon Hill early in the last century, it details a largely forgotten world of wealth, privilege and the ritually calibrated manners of genteel New England. Why Robert Lowell, Famed as a Poet, Should Be Remembered for His Prose 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Contre Jour/Rex Features The vast mansion secluded by poplars on Paris's moneyed western outskirts in Neuilly looked from the outside like a genteel haven of the impossibly rich French upper classes. Mystery of the L'Oreal heir, 'Mr Nicolas' and the envelopes stuffed with euros 2012-07-03T21:39:13Z

Curator Asma Naeem suggests that silhouettes flourished in America because they were cheap and easily made and were distinct from the genteel European tradition of formal portraiture. Review | Before photography, the silhouette helped leave an impression 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

Mr. Sauer was joined by the cellist Colin Carr for an elegantly wrought interpretation of this genteel, ornamental piece, whose sunny dialogue unfolds gracefully, with the two instruments often finishing each other’s phrases. Music Review: Beethoven Elegant and Beethoven Frenetic 2011-06-07T21:43:37Z

Perhaps by then the tone will be a little less genteel. Review: David Attenborough Is Back, and He Brought the Walruses 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

The arrival of the Black, genteel older couple creates, as the narrative bruisingly points out, an opportunity to play Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. What Happens When a Vacation Goes Wrong — and Not in a Funny Way? 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

So was Café Loup, the genteel but unpretentious West Village bistro that continues to bridge generations in terms of its appeal to editors, academics and writers. A Critic’s Tour of Literary Manhattan 2012-12-14T17:13:34Z

This is why calls for genteel discourse from on high always feel like deeply nostalgic fantasies offered in bad faith. The Civility Wars 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z

Pretty, genteel and increasingly venerable, the paintings of 20th-century D.C. colorists are now enjoying a commercial revival. Review | In the galleries: Show at American University invokes the ‘Eternal Feminine’ 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

The harshness of that environment is in sharp contrast to the almost genteel delicacy of the objects discovered there in recent decades in ancient cemeteries. Exhibition Review: Another Stop on a Long, Improbable Journey 2011-02-20T21:00:36Z

The National Gallery of Art offered a genteel soundtrack to its extensive collection of old Flemish masters Sunday. Viols give a glimpse into a musical past at the National Gallery of Art 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

Actresses keep fleeing the genteel personas the show saddled them with, finding refuge in seamier characters. Review: Another ‘Downton Abbey’ Heroine Goes Dark 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

I watched Brandt play half of a genteel couple battling their neighbors in the Karen Zacarías comedy “Native Gardens” at a matinee, then smoothly switch to the witty Clairee from “Steel Magnolias” that evening. In a Small Mountain Town, a Beloved Theater Company Prevails 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z

Little white-collared capelets embroidered like antique handkerchiefs — genteel versions of the superhero standard that also appeared, longer and with a beaded Art Deco argyle for evening — were the focus of swirling mid-calf dresses and coats. At Fendi and Prada, Moving Beyond the Shoulder Pad 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

His network of contacts is nonpareil; his manner solicitous and genteel; his work ethic fanatical. The ‘Consummate’ London Restaurateur Is Briskly Shown the Exit 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

Crespino, who holds a wonderful title — he is the Jimmy Carter professor of history at Emory University — displays a confident understanding of the era of genteel white supremacists like A. C. Lee. Harper Lee and Her Father, the Real Atticus Finch 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

The second of six children of a “genteel poor” Mississippi family, she abided by her parents’ “trinity of education, faith and service.” Kill a Dead-End Job and Make the Leap to Career Happiness 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

The clapboard villa with wraparound porch is a genteel Victorian home, crammed with dark furniture and family photos. Word up: new Chicago museum celebrates American authors 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

He had a sure if genteel touch, and a keen sense of the play of light on surfaces, that infused his paintings with mood and a sense of presence that flattered his subjects. Aaron Shikler, Portrait Artist Known for Images of America’s Elite, Dies at 93 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

Pennsylvania’s GOP politics were long genteel and respectful, more country club than WWE. Dr. Oz’s Trump-infused Senate run is coming down to the wire 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

We tag along for a visit to a genteel gallery opening in St. Gallen, Switzerland, but what sticks in the mind is Motherwell’s self-aware observations about the simultaneity of art movements. In the Documentaries of the Blackwood Brothers, Great Artists Explored 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z

You won't believe Hinds is Irish, so wonderfully does he capture a Southerner whose genteel facade dissolves. Review: A noisy 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' distracts 2013-01-18T01:32:11Z

But its genteel environs belie the area’s status as Namibia’s adventure capital — opportunities for sand boarding, parasailing and extreme dune driving abound. 7 Days, 1,500 Miles in Namibia 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

Ms. Sawyer’s Methodist Kentucky upbringing and genteel manner, meanwhile, is still very much with her as she enters the broadcasting business in the role of weather girl in 1967. ‘The News Sorority’ Links Sawyer, Couric and Amanpour 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

It is not dissimilar to Cam's big society – the vaguely formulated idea that communities would be enhanced by more volunteering and genteel social responsibility. Edmund Burke: Philosopher, Politician, Prophet by Jesse Norman – review 2013-05-19T09:00:02Z

What about genteel Japan, the fetish mecca — or the puritanical yet gratuitous United States? A White-Knuckle Ride to the Dark Side of Love and Infidelity 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z

The Bombay I grew up in – though it had long been India's financial centre – was genteel and tame in comparison. Amit Chaudhuri: my new perspective on Calcutta 2013-02-02T07:01:14Z

Mr. Foster wrote and arranged a number of songs for the band, none more celebrated than “Shiny Stockings,” a puckishly genteel theme set at a cruising medium tempo with a slow but powerful crescendo. Frank Foster, Jazz Saxophonist, Composer and Arranger, Dies at 82 2011-07-27T03:26:25Z

But for a brief moment at Washington National Cathedral, during the Government Hall of Fame Gala on Sept. 19, all was genteel. Don’t sleep on Wilbur Ross 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

The Levenger Catalog, which specializes in reader-friendly gewgaws, promotes a genteel fantasy of reading constructed around an “ergonomic and ambidextrous” reading table, personalized bookmarks, bespoke pens for note-taking and bespoke notebooks in which to scribble. Perspective | Where do you read books? I read at the mall. 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

There is the music-hall jollity, The Phantom Of The Opera, Fu Manchu and more, all wrapped up in grand and lavish ruse that is classically Doctor Who – genteel, horrific and just a bit deranged. The Talons Of Weng Chiang: Doctor Who classic episode #9 2013-06-28T09:00:00Z

Didion, who now resides on Manhattan’s genteel Upper East Side in a “cavernous” apartment, would, of course, be placed firmly in the latter category. From literary heavyweight to lifestyle brand: exploring the cult of Joan Didion 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

The earliest albums are nominally jazz, with songbook standards in genteel combo settings. Playlist: Look Back at a Legend, Then Revisit Disco 2011-04-01T21:50:45Z

It is a genteel, verdant corner of provincial England — let’s call it Austenland. Edwardian travelers of ‘Room with a View’ come to 5th Avenue stage 2014-04-10T00:10:47Z

Then the 73-year-old Rolling Stones front man referred to the three-day event as "the Palm Springs retirement home for genteel English musicians." Rolling Stones bring fireworks to Desert Trip festival 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z

Yet Mr. Leguizamo, who made his name in the late 1980s and ’90s by embracing and simultaneously sending up his Latino heritage, confided that he once dreamed of genteel assimilation. A Day Out in the Boxing Gym With John Leguizamo 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

Mr. Osborne’s drama about the tempestuous romance between the working-class Jimmy and the genteel Alison caused a sensation when it made its debut at the Royal Court Theater in 1956. Theater Review: ?Look Back in Anger,? Starring Matthew Rhys 2012-02-03T03:03:00Z

He fumed the other afternoon over a pot of tea in a genteel Left Bank cafe. Abroad: In Planning a History Museum, Sarkozy Opens a Can of Worms Instead 2011-03-08T10:23:38Z

"Finding Neverland" seemed just the right genteel fit for modern Broadway. 'Finding Neverland' ready to fly after a bumpy trip to Broadway 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

Warm and soft and benignly manipulative — the movie’s sole death is scandalously opportune — “Summerland” brims with genteel sentiment and British briskness. ‘Summerland’ Review: A Writer’s Life, Past and Present 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

Director Brendan Maher lingers on the genteel brutality of asking for volunteers and politely filing boy soldiers out to their deaths. ‘Outlander’ Season 3, Episode 1: All That Was Me Is Gone 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

Once considered standoffish, genteel and politically marginal, they are now viewed as being emblematically engaged players within the power network of global capitalism. Making Museums Moral Again 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

“The Paying Guests” opens in 1922, in a genteel suburb of London called Champion Hill. Michael Dirda reviews ‘The Paying Guests,’ by Sarah Waters

Tim Boy Tom Laurie Who retires to live in genteel poverty with her parents following the death of her husband George? Austerity in literature 2010-05-24T11:13:00Z

Almost every time I saw Donna, it was in very genteel settings. Donna Summer remembered by Nile Rodgers 2012-12-22T23:00:01Z

So would the genteel life of a children’s piano teacher. Rosa Rio, Organist From Silent Films to Soap Operas, Dies at 107 2010-05-15T04:45:00Z

The origins of the show can be traced to the early 1900s and a genteel horse show held in Southampton as a hospital benefit. Where to Show Off Your $5 Million Horse 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z

I loved the way they treated the children in their care, their soft-spoken and genteel ways. I was adopted at 41 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z

Her words hang in the air, deliciously transgressive in the genteel atmosphere of clinking porcelain. Julie Delpy: ‘Women were bred to be directors’ 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

She conveyed her message in the solidity of her stance, in her genteel smile and her determined finger jabs. Perspective | Stacey Abrams, a sea-blue dress and the politics of appearance 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

His character, the genteel, fair-haired David, serves as an homage to Scott's own work as he calls to mind Ian Holm's android Ash from the original "Alien." Review: `Prometheus' a gorgeous, intense trip 2012-06-04T21:54:11Z

Similarly, in Ives’s work the comfortable past — parlor songs and marching bands, church hymns and genteel poetry — is seen as if from a misty distance, both recognized and reinvented. Music Review: Brooklyn Art Song Society at Galapagos Art Space - Review 2012-01-15T23:12:38Z

First, Deborah Moggach follows the film success of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel with a version of that genteel comedy transplanted to Wales. Fiction for spring – preview 2012-12-30T00:05:22Z

“She had a very high cap, and her wool was much frizzled in her neck,” Hutchinson wrote, “but not enough to answer the large curls in fashion. She is neither handsome nor genteel — pert enough.” Movie Review: ‘Belle’ Centers On a Biracial Aristocrat in the 18th Century 2014-05-01T22:04:13Z

That he might conjure a genteel mechanical image of wartime deception is no surprise. 'Apparitions' at the Hammer explores low-tech art in a high-tech world 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

Many of the items in the new Haspel line don’t look so genteel; those telltale stripes are relegated to the pocket linings of pants and inner seams of tweed jackets. Haspel's New Take on Seersucker Is Tailor-Made for Fall 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

Dreamy, ticklish, turbulent and ghostly by turns, the tiny pieces convey an acute disquiet and a genteel testing of compositional and emotional boundaries, qualities Mr. Hough keenly conveyed. Music Review: Stephen Hough, Putting Piano Music in Perspective 2014-04-14T22:14:42Z

His cabin, after all, was only a brisk walk away from the genteel town of Concord. Going offline: the benefits of a break from the internet 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z

The image of the genteel, benevolent Southern slave owner was the creation of early 20th century artists and writers like D.W. 'The Half Has Never Been Told' looks at the economics of slavery 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Though swathed in eldritch atmospherics, Zola Jesus's songs pack a brutal, emotional punch, rendering the genteel witchery-woo of Florence + The Machine and Bat For Lashes a tad twee by comparison. Will Zola Jesus herald the second coming of goth? 2010-08-20T23:08:00Z

That was true throughout the store: I was attended to and asked after at a level I associate with the most genteel corners of the South. Nordstrom Men: Choose Your Own Adventure 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

All the same, this genteel shocker earns its place in Hammer’s campy canon of superior B-movie schlock. ‘The Quiet Ones’: Horror flick is more creaky than creepy 2014-04-24T22:08:21Z

Probably not a show for people who like their theater subtle or genteel, but just right for the audience WET typically draws to its Capitol Hill digs. 5 things to do this weekend, far from Seattle Center 2012-05-25T19:52:22Z

Yet the book is not offering some idealized vision of safe, genteel life — far from it. In Praise of Maurice Sendak 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

Her cut-paper silhouettes and animations, exhibited and owned by museums across the United States and abroad, harness genteel 19th-century imagery to magnify the dysfunctions bred by slavery. Kara Walker Creates a Confection at the Domino Refinery 2014-04-25T14:00:08Z

Along with the aromatic bean, and French china, they brought with them a taste for long frocks and genteel ballroom steps. 10 of the best places to enjoy the dances and music of Cuba 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

"He considers American cities a 'wasteland' run by Jews and Black people, though the words he uses to denote these groups are considerably less genteel than these," he writes. The right is getting weirder about sex 2023-10-09T04:00:00Z

In eras 50 years apart, George and Mitt Romney found themselves isolated in a GOP increasingly uninterested in their brand of genteel, country-club conservatism. Like his dad, retiring Mitt Romney embraced moderate conservatism. He fears the GOP has lost its way 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z

This has played well with an electorate that likes its leaders genteel and statesmanlike. Tharman Shanmugaratnam: Singapore picks a president who could've been much more 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z

Formed in 2011, the band initially struggled to get a gig in its home town, often regarded as the genteel little sister to trendy Brighton. Britain's Royal Blood finds spiritual home in US 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z

See, now that you genteel rich folk have decided to legitimize a fist-based approach to economic conflict resolution, us poors finally have a shot at getting ahead in this country. Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg: Fight me, cowards 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z

"I would describe the Obama years as genteel, intellectual and a lot of fun," he has said. FDA head Robert Califf battles misinformation — sometimes with fuzzy facts 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z

The Bairstow decision has already become one of the most infamous incidents in Ashes history, a moment that incensed the usually genteel Lord's crowd. Staggering Stokes ton not enough to deny Australia 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z

Its perverse protagonist, Lester Ballard, reveled in the kind of abominable behavior that more genteel writers like William Faulkner danced around. Appreciation: I thought I was done with Cormac McCarthy, but he wasn’t done with me 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

However Scott Hollas is happy to hang up his trainers, and since his incident the school have changed the parents' sprint to a more genteel pursuit. Dads' race at school sports day put me in A&E 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z

The kernel of this genteel copy contains a coded value statement about power, or at least the expression of it. When the abstract ideals of hard buildings meet the actual needs of soft bodies 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z

The genteel vibe came to a halt that summer, when Speaker John A. Boehner walked away from a deal because he was not able to wrangle the Republicans in his caucus. How Past Debt Limit Crises Shaped Biden’s No-Negotiation Stance 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

Today, some more genteel people want to be poised in 2024 to break the two-party grip on presidential politics. Opinion | Voters do not want a Biden-Trump rematch. A third option might appeal. 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

In real life, however, Mr. Jaffee was the opposite of a smart aleck: a genteel, unassuming man whose in-person humor was delivered with a wink, not a cudgel. Al Jaffee, King of the Mad Magazine Fold-In, Dies at 102 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z

For his part, the drummer has swapped lager and vodka for a more genteel addiction: tea. Metallica: How Earl Grey tea fuels the band's music 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z

Woods, McIlroy and Scheffler are headliners who now share the stage with a story that has consumed and divided an otherwise genteel game. LIV Golf dispute, Tiger Woods make this Masters unlike any other 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z

“We’ve become very genteel, haven’t we? We don’t want to go in the alley. We don’t want to go in the trenches.” Novelist Don Winslow is out to save America from Donald Trump — and an existential crisis 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z

For nearly four decades, Jean-Luc Picard of “Star Trek” has largely been presented as genteel, erudite and — at times — quite buttoned up. ‘Star Trek’, swear words and TV characters’ changing mores 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z

He was also a nudist — the genteel synonym back then was “naturist.” How the deadly Long Beach earthquake in 1933 propelled California's seismic safety rules 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z

In many ways, Powell was the epitome of a white genteel Southerner. Why Is Affirmative Action in Peril? One Man’s Decision. 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z

The limit was a vestige of the city’s genteel Quaker disposition. Opinion | It’s a Philly thing: Why the city’s fans over-celebrate 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z

Over the next half century, he brought to life a parade of buttoned-down aristocrats, pompous executives and genteel society men who wore their business suits like armor. Charles Kimbrough, ‘Murphy Brown’ actor with prim persona, dies at 86 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z

The Senate, where lawmakers pride themselves on a genteel code of conduct as they work from wooden desks that have been there for generations, has seemed largely insulated from the forces roiling the wider GOP. A South Dakota Senate aide’s allegation roils GOP politics 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

In one-on-one interviews, she was best known for delving, with genteel insistence, into the private lives and emotional states of movie stars, heads of state and other high-profile subjects. Barbara Walters, a First Among TV Newswomen, Is Dead at 93 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z

Williams laughed while saying something else he learned: Usually quiet and genteel, Batum would curse out coaches by wagging his finger and clucking his tongue. At 1,006 games and counting, Clippers' Nicolas Batum is one of NBA's survivors 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

The industrial action taken by Royal Mail workers also appears to be curiously genteel, especially compared to the violence that sometimes marked the miners' strikes of the early 1980s. Inside Royal Mail's biggest sorting office on strike day 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

Amid the pageantry of a social season, the pursuit of an eligible partner — and, in some instances, love — is a mashup of genteel historical romance and steamy 21st century fiction. How Netflix sells the dream of royalty to 'Bridgerton' fans 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z

His critics contend — especially on social media — that, for a troll, Buoy in his first month with the Kraken has seemed rather genteel. ‘Hey, it’s Buoy!’ Game night with the Kraken’s new mascot 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

What this means is that this version of Remarque’s battlefield story intercuts periodically between dismal scenes on the Western Front and more genteel conversations taking place around a very different form of conflict. Review | ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’: A German’s grim view of World War I 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z

To tens of millions of viewers, the veteran actress with a trace of a British accent personified Jessica Fletcher, the widow-turned-detective whose genteel manner masked her wits. Angela Lansbury, Broadway luminary and ‘Murder, She Wrote’ star, dies at 96 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z

The genteel world of chess has been rocked by accusations of cheating made by the game’s leading player. Chess world rocked by cheating accusation made by Carlsen 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z

His patter was an insane mix of folksy, rural phrases — a wandering, genteel yarn-spinner from the backwoods, and all of this masked the fact that he was completely fearless and shockingly blunt. Perspective | Conan O’Brien remembers Norm Macdonald one year after the comic’s death 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

For a time, a cereal manufacturer clogged up the genteel streets with lorries, but it has since moved. Poundbury suburb showcases King Charles's vision of British life 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

“That was a different era, a more genteel bipartisan era, at least when public officials had a health challenge,” Mr. Sabato said. Stroke-addled Fetterman’s Senate run buoyed by ‘carpetbagger’ attack on Oz 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

If you don’t know his dashing, genteel chamber music, the Seattle Baroque Orchestra is presenting a tasty sampler, most of it spotlighting his beloved violin. 6 Seattle-area classical music picks for fall 2022 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

In each tale, she is as we know her — genteel, frail, elderly and wise. Perspective | Miss Marple is Agatha Christie’s best character. A new book reminds us why. 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

The Criterion Blu-ray includes both new and vintage interviews, which get into how unusual it was in the blaxploitation era for a Black actor to make such a genteel western. Review: Sylvester Stallone finds nuance in superhero deconstruction 'Samaritan' 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

To be “genteel,” that is, a member of the gentry, meant to be refined, free of all rudeness. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z

And even if only on the canvas, Salman Toor imagines a rich, genteel atmosphere in which his ethnicity and queerness come together in harmony. Resurrecting the Forgotten Art of the AIDS Era 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z

Even in Connecticut, a state that once defined a more genteel and moderate brand of Republicanism, Mr. Trump’s choice for Senate upset the local party’s candidate. What Liz Cheney’s Lopsided Loss Says About the State of the G.O.P. 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z

The plant has a genteel true rose fragrance and bears umbels of small pink blooms. How one shriveled scented geranium sparked an entire collection/obsession 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z

Tennis at Wimbledon is very often a reminder of the sport's genteel past - the players in white outfits, and strawberries and cream for the spectators. Wimbledon finalist Vere Thomas St Leger Goold who became a murderer 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z

They called not for the eradication of drinking but for a more restrained and genteel style of imbibing. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z

These days, it’s hard to say “Jell-O pudding pop” without conjuring up an unsavory image of a genteel TV doctor gone bad. Homemade rocket pops are a red, white and blue taste of summer 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z

KATE: So you might discern if my wit is acceptable, my manners genteel. 'Bridgerton' star Simone Ashley on Kate Sharma's humanity and representation 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z

Golf is typically the most genteel of sports, with its hushed greenside whispers and polite, muffled applause. Wicked Rude: LIV XIV ready for a traditional Boston welcome 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

"The time for gentile politics as usual has come to an end," Cawthorn wrote, before editing the post to say "genteel politics." Madison Cawthorn threatens “Dark MAGA” revenge and end of “gentile politics” after election loss 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

To defend the system of forced labor on which their economic survival and genteel lifestyles depended, elite southerners developed several proslavery arguments that they levied at those who would see the institution dismantled. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, there is a ruckus in the genteel world of golf. PGA Tour Denies Golfers Waivers for Saudi-Backed Tournament 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z

The president said that Mr. Portman, who helped author the administration’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure package, was a throwback to a more genteel era on Capitol Hill. Biden reminisces about bipartisan camaraderie with segregationists during Ohio swing 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

Perspective | The Masters is supposed to be gorgeous and genteel. Facing calamity, Scottie Scheffler remained calm. Does a Masters title await? 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z

Augusta National is supposed to be gorgeous and genteel. Perspective | The Masters is supposed to be gorgeous and genteel. This year, it’s a brute. 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

These men and their families could lead genteel lives without manual labor, and were numerous enough to shape national standards of consumption, behavior, gender roles, morality, and religion. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z

There is nothing folksy, never mind pastoral or genteel, about Crews. The problematic white, male Southern writer who inspired a diverse generation 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z

After Signature’s return to live theater in November with a boisterous staging of Jonathan Larson’s “Rent,” some may experience the genteel sophistication of “She Loves Me” as a bit, well, tame. If you heart Broadway melodies, you’re bound to fall for ‘She Loves Me’ at Signature Theatre 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z

Ottawa is known for ice skaters on the frozen Rideau Canal and a generally more genteel style of politics than that in the United States. Canadian police push back COVID protesters in bid to end siege 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z

Canadian politics may in fact be more genteel than in many other places, but not because Canadians are innately kinder. Baffled by the Chaos in Canada? So Are Canadians. 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z

Religious upheaval was not limited to the genteel families of mill owners. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z

As a kid, Shepard favored punk rock and skateboarding over the more genteel pastimes of the South. Shepard Fairey on art, skateboarding and the culture of change in Charleston, S.C. 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

Civility, they said, is a quaint remnant of a genteel past. Column: Is civility really passe in American politics? 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z

But Kyner’s pigmented sculptures, mostly of women in theatrically twisting poses, are more boisterous than genteel. Review | In the galleries: An old-fashioned style gets an updated twist 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

Working-class women could be thus catered for, but for the more genteel ladies, a chamber pot in their curtained carriage was the way to go. London's long-term lav affair: A history of public toilets in the capital 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z

They were perplexing thefts, lacking a clear motive or payoff, and they happened in the genteel, not particularly lucrative world of publishing: Someone was stealing unpublished book manuscripts. F.B.I. Arrests Man Accused of Stealing Unpublished Book Manuscripts 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z

Almodóvar has never been afraid to throw a lot at his viewers, and this summary might at first suggest an incongruous narrative exercise, a reckless mix of genteel absurdity and historical gravity. Review: 'Parallel Mothers,' with a superb Penélope Cruz, is Pedro Almodóvar at his best 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

When the Chicken King opened a glitzy eatery in a genteel corner of the Big Easy, the Vampire Queen saw red. Full coverage: The work of Anne Rice, vampire romance pioneer 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z

It’s a quieter, more genteel mass robbery, but it is also destroying lives, condemning small businesses to ruin, and placing into question the future of our great nation. Democrats’ smash-and-grab politics 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

She has the Southern woman’s mix of genteel and steely that Hollywood movies never get quite right. Inside one Georgia school district’s battle to serve healthy, homemade food despite shortages and soaring prices 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

Some watch the emptying of the building, with its genteel, tattered charm, with sorrow. In Welcoming Prince Charles, Egypt’s Leader Sends a Message 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

It encompassed a scattering of industrial towns like Skinningrove and Loftus but more typical were remote farming communities stretched out along the Cleveland Way and the genteel coastal resort of Saltburn. Ashok Kumar: Teesside's gentle, tenacious and respected pioneer 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z

Like the pandemic itself, the figure is a provocateur, about to reveal the fury underlying the genteel dinner, tearing at the social fabric that props up the system. Umar Rashid’s narrative paintings collapse past, present and future into a darkly comic vision of colonialism 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

After the Civil War it would be spoken of in only genteel euphemisms, like "the peculiar institution." White America's "hidden wound" threatens to destroy the country — and not for the first time 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

I was kicked out of Social Dance, a genteel weekly event where the white kids in my town dressed up in modest suits and floor-length dresses and learned the fox trot and the waltz. The Myth of Asian American Identity 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

The usually genteel Metropolitan King County Council, where members are loathe to criticize each other, erupted on Wednesday over a political mailer from Councilmember Kathy Lambert that a majority of her colleagues denounced as racist. Majority of King County Council denounces Kathy Lambert campaign mailer as racist 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

This is a city that has long been international and proudly parochial, genteel and tough-as-nails, feminist in theory and male-dominated in its politics, liberal and — I’m being extremely polite — deeply divided by race. Opinion | Boston’s quiet revolution 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

But you said it, Justin: There’s a real dank, human lustiness to “The Green Knight” that brings the genteel, courtly ideals of Gawain’s social programming crumbling back down to Earth. Did you love or loathe 'The Green Knight'? Either way, you're not alone 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z

Ostensibly places for genteel amusement and edification, zoos expanded beyond big and fearsome animals to include reptile houses, aviaries and insectariums. Opinion | Modern Zoos Are Not Worth the Moral Cost 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

Love the Golden Age of crime fiction — that is, genteel mayhem from the 1920s and ’30s — but want to expand your horizons? Spring reading: 2 classics from the Golden Age of crime fiction, plus 2 new titles 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z

When a friend from the genteel Dutch village of Bussum suggested she come there and open a boardinghouse, it seemed soothing. The Woman Who Made van Gogh 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

Lloyd is a genteel anti-Semite, convinced that his privilege is proof of his superiority. Review: Cynthia Ozick, nearly 93, writes her age in the evocative novella "Antiquities" 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

At a time when children's literature told the stories of genteel English schoolchildren, she wrote about what she called ordinary, "grubby kids". Beverly Cleary, children's author behind Ramona Quimby, dies aged 104 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

The beret is both bohemian and genteel at the same time. Are the beret wearers of Silver Lake and Echo Park here for revolution or croissants? 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

While many Crime Classics books focus on genteel murder or plot mechanics — that is, the pure puzzle — others go deeper, offering memorable characters and insights into the social and political concerns of their era. Spring reading: 2 classics from the Golden Age of crime fiction, plus 2 new titles 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z

Southern plantations have often been prettied up in popular culture to portray a genteel lifestyle with sometimes benevolent owners. Editorial Roundup: Nebraska 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z

“The surface Navy is really traditional: Go to sea, sit down in the wardroom, white tablecloths —it’s a very genteel part of the business. Elliott was a grunt, a lead-a-squad-of-Marines-into-combat kind of guy.” How an admiral and a war vet-turned-novelist teamed up on a smart technothriller 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

Fear of street violence may have played a role: Crack dealers carried guns, whereas Purdue Pharma executives dealt death in more genteel ways. Perspective | Prisons are getting Whiter. That’s one way mass incarceration might end. 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

He thinks about his father, a police officer with a genteel personality. Perspective | Our sports need a healthier version of masculinity, and men need to create it 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z

They worry that Mr Trump will hurt their community's "genteel" atmosphere, said one lawyer, Philip Johnston, who works for an organisation called Preserve Palm Beach. Florida town allows Donald Trump to stay at his Mar-a-Lago resort 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

Johnson said neighbors of the club fear Trump’s residency will turn Mar-a-Lago into "a permanent beacon for his more rabid, lawless supporters," destroying the town’s "genteel" character. Trump Mar-a-Lago residency backed by Palm Beach council president, but still no vote held 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

Whatever the case may be, sexual naivete — or at least the appearance of it — would have been vital for a genteel young woman hoping to marry well, says Vickery. The truth about sex in 'Bridgerton's' England 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z

At the same time, Biden is steeped in a different, more genteel political era, one of true cross-party friendships and bipartisan transactions. Opinion | Will Biden be able to compromise with Republicans? The glass is three-quarters empty. 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

The pandemic forced the event to move from its traditional spot in April to this week, when it will begin Thursday without spectators, or as they’re called at genteel Augusta, “patrons.” The special ingredient of those brilliant white sand traps at the Masters 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z

Mr. Cornyn’s gentle distancing from Mr. Trump foreshadows a far less genteel battle to come. Win or Lose, Trump and Biden’s Parties Will Plunge Into Uncertainty 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z

Pence's authoritarian masculinity is the genteel version favored in the patriarchal religious and regional communities that compose Trump's most loyal base: Southern conservatives and white evangelical Christians. Authoritarian white masculinity: Trump and Pence’s political debate strategy 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z

The house of Givenchy, which had Audrey Hepburn as its muse, is synonymous with genteel elegance and exquisitely refined good taste. Fashion archive, 15 October 1996 – Alexander McQueen, the bull in a fashion shop 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z

Even during what is now looked back on as a more genteel era in presidential politics, there was no shortage of conspiracy theories. Trump refuses remote debate with Biden. Nixon and Kennedy did one 60 years ago today 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

But progressives were also angry about her genteel demeanor, an attribute of another era when the Senate was a more respectful, bipartisan place. Democrats, Facing Critical Supreme Court Battle, Worry Feinstein Is Not Up to the Task 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z

Cameron used the genteel title — “Miss” — as a matter of formality but also as a kind of armor. Perspective | Miss Breonna Taylor 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z

Jena Malone walks an expert line between razored, genteel condescension and hateful resentment as a poisonous Southern belle named Elizabeth, arguably the film’s most fearsome character. Review: Janelle Monáe can't save 'Antebellum' from its hollow, high-concept horrors 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

There were few people, if any, who had a bad word to say about him, a testimony to the New Zealand-born Fahey’s genteel and always understanding demeanor. Friday Sports in Brief 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z

But the process has been more genteel, despite the gunplay in Gulfport last week, with county boards of supervisors putting “cancel culture” to a vote. ‘Cancel culture’ put to vote in Mississippi counties: ‘We’re trying to do it the right way’ 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

The modern men’s superstars have been genteel by comparison, in part because of a stricter code of conduct. Novak Djokovic Out of U.S. Open After Accidental Hit of Line Judge 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z

The Aug. 23 game was the first genteel match between the rivals since the historic lineup became part of the MLS schedule in 2011. A rivalry defanged? 2020 Cascadia Cup matches have been surprisingly civil between Sounders, Timbers 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z

Both women were considered outcasts in the genteel, mostly White sport of tennis. Angela Buxton, who won Wimbledon doubles title with Althea Gibson, dies at 85 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z

For those uninitiated, the tradition of tailgating around football stadiums on Saturday mornings has blossomed from something that used to seem genteel to something that seems booming. In the SEC, tailgating is almost as important as the actual football. This season, it’s in jeopardy. 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z

“The first marlin were caught near the Carolina coast in 1939 – but the winds of war were upon us,” says Foster, a genteel retired school teacher in his 70s. Blue marlin remains a sportfishing dream – but for how much longer? 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z

His cockiness borders on arrogance and, while he mostly speaks the truth, that rubs some people the wrong way in the genteel game of golf. Column: Trash talk and then some trashy play for Koepka 2020-08-09T04:00:00Z

He wanted to see a grand promenade built along its banks and promoted the development of genteel tree-lined streets. Critics want racist senator’s name stripped from Reno park 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z

Tennessee Republicans say the race is a departure from the more genteel primaries of the past. No Southern hospitality in GOP Senate clash in Tennessee 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

Connors is the bridge between the genteel, upper-middle class snootiness of the amateur tennis club and the modern, ultra-focused, hard-hitting professional game. The greatest male tennis player of the last 50 years: the fans' verdict 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z

The trope of the romantic, genteel Southern plantation runs deep in American history. Southern neighborhoods have been named ‘plantations’ for decades. That could be changing. 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

For now they remain trapped in all of these neatly stacked cardboard boxes in this room of the dead on the outskirts of genteel Adelaide. The room of the dead: how a museum became a halfway house for bones and spirits 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z

Britell’s scoring work on the stellar second season added new themes and expanded on his canvas of genteel classical dances, conveying a filthy-rich family’s distorted perception of themselves. These composers are likely to score big with Emmy voters 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

Mr. Schorner, known for his formality and genteel ways, never complained. Dieter Schorner, acclaimed pastry chef who revived creme brulee, dies at 83 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

By then, the idea of a candlelit commemoration seemed to belong to another Hong Kong: to the restrained, almost genteel activism that endured for so long. How Hong Kong caught fire: the story of a radical uprising 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

Washington Archbishop Wilton Gregory has made a name as a genteel, middle-of-the-road diplomat, a reputation that served him as he rose into some of the most powerful positions in the U.S. Wilton Gregory, America’s only black Catholic archbishop, goes from diplomat to detractor in the wake of George Floyd’s death 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

Once a watermill, the grand setting would seemingly be an elegant retreat for a genteel getaway. 'It was like herding cats' - World in Motion revisited 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

The common park was once surrounded by terraced houses built for the genteel who flocked to the area in the 19th century. ‘We Grieve’: Community project unites neighbors in healing 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z

But their working relationship, though inevitably lopsided, is appreciably warmer and more genteel than what we’re used to. Review: 'The High Note,' a soothing music-biz fairy tale, falls short of perfect pitch 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is a more erudite and genteel populist than Lukashenko or Trump, but he shares their contempt for facts and their proclivity for lying. Opinion | Trump isn’t the only populist leader losing the battle against the coronavirus 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

“Green Acres,” which premiered in 1965, tells the tale of a New York City attorney who attempts to live the life of a genteel farmer alongside his wife in Hooterville. ‘Green Acres’ star Tom Lester dead at 81 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

It was a combination of the unspoken possibilities and the mismatch of the genteel New Englander and the gruff Texan, who irritated most everyone close to Kennedy, especially his brother Robert, the attorney general. Perspective | Biden transformed the vice presidency. Whom can he pick to follow his lead? 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

Pleased as punch, Sherry thanked Bressan as the genteel troubadour moved down to the next window. Music therapist takes on role of wandering troubadour 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z

Yiadom-Boakye constructs her figures with firm, declarative brushwork on linen or heavy canvas, rather than the more genteel, decorous bravura often undertaken by a Romney or a Reynolds. Review: At the Huntington Library, 'Blue Boy' and 'Pinkie' get new neighbors 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

As he sees it, it’s a combination of eccentricity, genteel sportsmanship and competitiveness — but not at all costs — with a dash of humor and wit. It’s Among the World’s Hardest Sled Runs. Why Weren’t Women Allowed to Use it? 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

Seventeen years ago, Mr. Lhéritier crashed through the doors of the genteel market for manuscripts with all the subtlety of a famished wild boar. A Billion-Dollar Scandal Turns the ‘King of Manuscripts’ Into the ‘Madoff of France’ 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

Mr. Eastwood, 89, said he approves of “certain things that Trump’s done” but wishes he would act “in a more genteel way, without tweeting and calling people names,” the paper reported. A Bloomberg presidency would make Clint Eastwood’s day, actor hints in interview 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z

Her own genteel look belied a tough core. Dawn Mello, Who Revived Bergdorf Goodman and Gucci, Dies at 88 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z

Should Democrats embrace more forceful language, or maintain a genteel tone? Impeachment trial should remove any lingering doubt: Republicans are beyond redemption 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

The reaction showed, among other things, that the pointed rhetoric that marked the four-month House impeachment investigation — and characterizes the rough-and-tumble House generally — does not necessarily play well in the more genteel Senate. Senators urge House impeachment managers to tone it down after testy debate 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

This populist style won the loyalty of the “genteel poor,” a black working class that demanded leaders be responsive to their concerns. Review | The ‘unapologetic blackness’ of William Monroe Trotter 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

Settling into Knopf’s cluttered Park Avenue offices with the carefree aplomb of a court jester, the black-bearded boss seemed amusedly uninterested in literary power and the genteel backstabbing politics of the publishing world. Sonny Mehta, Knopf publisher who guided millions to great reads, is dead at 77 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z

The genteel conservatism of “Downton Abbey” is not a rigid, extremist ideology whose adherents are bent on power at all costs. Opinion | ‘Downton Abbey’ reminds us what ‘conservatism’ really means 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

He was an academic, and his apartment was filled with genteel clutter—calligraphy scrolls on the wall, rosewood furniture, a grand piano, and sheet music covering every surface. Hong Kong’s Protest Movement and the Fight for the City’s Soul 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

In a perfect metaphor to his service, this consummate genteel Southerner managed to serve from 1999 through 2019 yet will never vote on a presidential impeachment. Analysis | A beloved senator heads into retirement with no clear successor to fill the void 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

Noticeably absent from the 30-second spot was the president’s genteel sidekick: Mike Pence. Biden’s lead may be bigger than you think 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

The bare-knuckle ads are a rarity in the genteel legal world and an example of the increasing toxicity of political debate over Trump’s nominees. Activist group targets law firms over support for group behind Kavanaugh pick 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z

The bare-knuckle ads are a rarity in the city’s genteel legal world and an example of the increasing toxicity of the political debate over Trump’s judicial nominees. Activists target conservative legal group over Kavanaugh 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z

A black man in a parking lot holds up the Black Power fist while a white woman in genteel Savannah, Georgia, wants to turn them over to the cops. Review: ‘Queen & Slim’ is romantic, urgent and beautiful 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z

He added, “And as for the president, God bless his heart” - a phrase often used by genteel Southerners to politely deprecate someone. Democrat Edwards wins reelection in conservative Louisiana 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z

He added, “And as for the president, God bless his heart” — a phrase often used by genteel Southerners to politely deprecate someone. Democrat Edwards wins reelection in conservative Louisiana 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z

As wrenching as Watergate was, the hearings themselves now appear almost genteel. When Watergate Was Appointment TV 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

Sherry, whose public manner was genteel, “knew how to get what she wanted,” Haynes said. Todd Haynes Rewrites the Hollywood Playbook 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

单词	genteel
例句	genteel The university’s genteel nickname, the Cavaliers, and its aristocratic sword-crossed coat of arms seem appropriate today. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Single- handedly he turned it from genteel, ignorable after-dinner entertainment into an all-encompassing emotional experience, a way of perceiving life as a mighty struggle, the cry of the soul, the voice of conscience. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Mother’s shyness and ladylike demeanor had a quieting effect on him, and he was displaying his most genteel behavior. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z When she came down, carrying fat, sleepy Campbell Junior, her mass of red hair was combed, pinned up, and draped with what she called “my genteel black veil.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Mr. Pumblechook was in favour of a handsome premium for binding me apprentice to some genteel trade,—say, the corn and seed trade, for instance. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Rab went into the tavern, and when he came back he had permission to take out the landlady’s genteel nag. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z You probably do not know much about this, because you have always been so closely watched by your father in that well-guarded house with your genteel mother. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z The Ladies and Escorts sections are cleaner and quieter and more genteel, and smell better. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I knew a little from our infrequent stays with Baron Greyfallow, and thought I was quite genteel enough without having to memorize forms of address, table manners, and the elaborate snarled rankings of the peerage. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In one fell swoop, Strauss had transformed himself from the genteel Kappellmeister of the Austrian Belle Epoque into the Che Guevara of the musical rebels. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Nina Chandler Murray, an eighty-five-year-old relative of the Poor family of Standard & Poor’s, the investment credit rating firm, is convinced that the world of the elite was more genteel in the old days. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z It was strangely easy to converse with this genteel hunter. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Mrs. Lapham was a great manager, but she cared nothing for genteel manners and was the first to laugh at Dorcas’s ‘If it please you, Mother—-just a touch more maple syrup for me.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s too much ornate woodwork here, and the precious layerings of molding and mullion and balustrade and apse, all those thousands of genteel decisions, the studied cuts, just unsettle me. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She did this decisively, one jab and one grind, not the series of genteel taps favored by many of the Wives. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z My job is not, however, as genteel as it at first appears, thanks to the sheer volume of clothing in motion. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z As it was, when she spoke with Reta she moved back and forth between a genteel grace and a childlike exuberance. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She tore small pieces from the loaf and chewed them delicately, somehow making the whole process look genteel. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “To be sure,” said Harriet, in a mortified voice, “he is not so genteel as real gentlemen.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z This will be no genteel exchange of blows. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z They stand side by side, their hands folded together in front of their stomachs as proper young ladies should place them, but their smiles aren’t genteel and poised. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z That she has fulfilled her role as a thieving member of the underclass, now indentured to this genteel midwestern white lady, is too perfect for words. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The segment opened with a genteel docent standing before a Rembrandt painting and addressing a group of unshaven men dressed in ragged clothing. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The bowl of fruit in the window was a genteel, artistic display. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “Not at all. He was almost genteel as highwaymen go. I had him pegged as a low-ranking officer before he deserted.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Then I took a half step backward and made a genteel three-quarter bow. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z They had been genteel, efficient, and not terribly savvy. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Indeed, throughout the thirties, Oppenheimer swam upstream against a genteel anti-Semitism in the professions and academia. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Yet the genteel detachment of Pasteur and his contemporaries seemed quaint, even foolish, given the profits to be made in the industrial world. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z There was a genteel tap of the knocker and the musical voice asked again, “Where do Vanished objects go?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He knew nothing of that silent middle class that struggled between genteel poverty and the impossible desire of emulating the golden canaille to which he himself belonged. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She saw a genteel centaur bearing a princess sidesaddle, and such was the atmosphere of magic that they weren’t out of place here. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “Your lady may prefer this. It’s a superior article, a most desirable color, quite chaste and genteel,” he said, shaking out a comfortable gray shawl, and throwing it over Jo’s shoulders. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z We begin to feel subconsciously that / is somehow more genteel than me, even in cases where me is the right choice—for instance, after a preposition. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It's believed that the rule stems from the 1800s, when tennis was a genteel sport played primarily at social gatherings, particularly by women. Why do Wimbledon players wear all white? 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z It’s amusing in its genteel way, but not much blood is drawn. Television Review: ?Wait Wait Don?t Tell Me!? on BBC America - Review 2011-12-22T23:07:54Z Beyond this genteel scrum, an accompanying weeklong cultural circus swamps the entire metropolitan area with a sea of pop-up events, satellite fairs, celebrity-studded corporate product launches, and not least, over-the-top parties. Masks Off, Wallets Out: Art Basel 2022 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z In the kitchen, meanwhile, some more genteel interaction involves Jackie Oates and Kathryn Roberts practising glorious harmonies on Seeds of Love, the first traditional song collected by Sharp. Folk's man of mystery: is Cecil Sharp a folk hero or villain? 2011-03-24T22:30:02Z A pun that spans multiple languages—behold the haute dog, a genteel frankfurter—is called “macaronic,” from the Latin word for “medley.” How Wit Reveals the Trickster Beauty of Our Garbage World 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Like any Southern city worth its salt, Richmond has a genteel side that’s been carefully refined over the centuries. What’s new (and old) in Richmond, Virginia’s trendy capital 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z But there was certainly nothing genteel about the performances, which began with a dynamic rendition of Beethoven’s “Leonore” Overture No. 3, during which the musicians hurtled through the presto coda. Music Review \| Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra: Hurtling Through Beethoven, With Grace 2010-03-02T22:19:00Z His way of condescending to his genteel aunts, to Lily, the caretaker's daughter, to Miss Ivors and to the other guests is presented as essential to his character, an aspect of his alienation. Joyce's Dublin: city of dreamers and chancers 2012-06-15T21:55:00Z Eastwood also said he approved of “certain things that Trump’s done” but wanted the president to act “in a more genteel way, without tweeting and calling people names”. Clint Eastwood: electing Bloomberg would make my day 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z Rachel is a genteel, educated, middle-aged woman who wears a suit to work every day. I clean out hoarder houses. Some jobs are even harder than the rest 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z For a musical about a war — or more precisely, a caesura between hostilities — “All Is Calm” is a staunchly apolitical and warily genteel work. Review: In ‘All Is Calm,’ Thrilling Song in the Trenches 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z As a personality, he was a throwback to a time when the literature business was famously genteel. Timothy Seldes, Literary Agent, Dies at 88 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z More than a few diners remind me they’re people, not animals, and would prefer a more genteel query. ‘Still working on that?’ and other annoying comments from waiters 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z We spent evenings eating pizza and sharing six-packs of beer in cheap motels, or catching glimpses of small-town life in genteel B&Bs. Mississippi yearning 2010-12-04T00:05:15Z I feel that more people should speak out against him and not be genteel about it. Robert De Niro Is Always Doing Something 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z So, it is fitting that this is the venue for avant-garde contemporary art rather than genteel 19th-century paintings. What to see at Impressionist Normandy: 10 best festival events 2010-04-23T09:44:00Z Literary fame, far from being genteel, drags Zuckerman into the inferno of modern culture, where he is stalked in the street by a lunatic who demands empathy. I loved Jonathan Franzen not wisely but too well 2010-10-07T16:28:00Z It was the more genteel disciplines of natural science, astronomy, chemistry, botany and anatomy, to which women of a certain class gravitated. Mushrooms, Magma and Love in a Time of Science 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z “Glenconner’s descriptions of these difficult times are evidence of the grit that underlies her genteel affect.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z "He never went to work but when he was cool and sober … his courage and presence of mind never failed him … his address was genteel, and his behaviour void of all cruelty and insolence". John Mullan's 10 of the best: highwaymen 2012-05-18T21:54:02Z It was a Saturday in early summer, and he was sitting in his office, a handsome, sun-flooded room with large windows that look out over a genteel square. \| Peter Ackroyd’s London Calling 2013-09-12T13:00:12Z Much of the art world, however, hardly seems in the mood for such a genteel tête-à-tête. Friends No More? Jorge Pérez and Donald Trump 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Reacting against their genteel predecessors, these New Critics claimed that the meaning of a written document — like, say, a metaphysical poem or the transcript of a presidential phone call — was self-contained, discoverable and stable. Review \| In the impeachment spin wars, only the English majors can save us 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Martin packs the Man with the right genteel obsessiveness, leavened by flashes of amusement. Review \| At Theater J, Albee’s ‘Occupant’ takes a lifeless look at the life of Louise Nevelson 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z The mountain continued to develop its reputation for having the best intermediate slopes in the East, earning a loyal following that loved to cruise the miles of genteel, groomed corduroy. In New Hampshire, Can Bretton Woods Get Gnarly? 2011-02-18T19:55:00Z But after-hours in Manchester is a more genteel and toned-down affair — Burlington or Bennington this is not. 36 Hours in Manchester, Vt. 2014-01-31T18:48:20Z Centuries ago, Leicester Square was a genteel patch, but now it is brash and loud, bordered by an all-night Chinatown and ringed by West End theaters, carousels and street stalls. \| W Hotel, London 2011-05-03T18:54:03Z As their genteel names suggest, however, Andy and Melissa reside in the regimented world of the well-heeled Protestant class — her family is considerably wealthier — and soon they have been sent to separate private schools. Brian Dennehy and Mia Farrow in ‘Love Letters’ 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z But this is a handsomely packaged collection of such notions, and will provide genteel entertainment to those of a mind to swallow them. Review: ‘Victoria and Abdul,’ a Royal Friendship in a Nest of Vipers 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z While Monteiro’s image is heavy with oppression, Jackson’s photograph, from a series inspired by a free black woman living in genteel British society, is filled with light. At Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, ‘Back Stories’ become inclusive 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z DeGeneres' deadpan affability hearkened back to the more genteel hosts of the past like Bob Hope and Johnny Carson. Oscars telecast scores highest audience in a decade 2014-03-03T22:51:00Z She arrives at her aunts’ house to serve as audience surrogate and provide some romantic interest in counterpoint to the genteel yet brutal social and economic warfare that make up the central story. ‘The Gilded Age’ Review: Dime-Store ‘Downton’ 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z The town — nestled between the lush, green Grand Cape Mount and the mouth of the 40-square-mile, drop-dead gorgeous Lake Piso — oozes with this tatty yet genteel civility, inhabited by people and ruins. My Liberia: A Vacation Paradise 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Paintings function mostly like genteel wallpaper here, but there are exceptions. Art Review: Winter Antiques Show at Park Avenue Armory - Review 2012-01-19T22:47:07Z Before 2008, it was best known for its almost yearly productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream: the bucolic setting felt magical, but the work was inert and genteel. Singing in the rain: Regent's Park musicals hit the high notes 2012-05-30T09:04:56Z But now, more than two months later, the production exudes that sense of deft suaveness customary to the genteel age that “My Fair Lady” — based on George Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion” — epitomizes. What’s it like behind the scenes at ‘My Fair Lady’? We went backstage with Laura Benanti. 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Graham “grew up with one set of very gendered expectations. She was raised to be a wife, to raise children and engage in genteel, ladylike activities,” Gutierrez said. A new exhibit casts legendary Post publisher Katharine Graham as an accidental feminist trailblazer 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z It's a time for genteel digressions, and there was Victoria Wood turning in an enjoyable performance as a retired policewoman. Rewind TV: Panorama: Hillsborough – How They Buried the Truth; The Hunt for Britain's Sex Gangs; David Bowie – Five Years; Case Histories 2013-05-25T23:04:04Z The author recounts Claiborne's unhappy childhood in the Mississippi Delta, where he grew up in genteel poverty, was bullied by schoolmates and found refuge in the kitchen of his mother's boarding house. Review: Bio details revolution in approach to food 2012-05-07T14:57:09Z Mostly written while touring Europe's sports stadiums in support of Take That, its tracks chugged along at a genteel mid-tempo, its lyrics were sombre and sour. Pet Shop Boys: Electric – review 2013-07-04T14:30:01Z Ms. Douglas wanted to expand her repertory in a setting more genteel than those drab clubs with two-drink minimums and hecklers. ‘The Living Room Show’ Brings Performances to Los Angeles Homes 2013-12-14T00:12:06Z Instead, wealthy and middle-class New York City families face an entirely different kind of school choice: turtle ponds and genteel fund-raising letters, or a frantic annual effort to finance the library. Motherlode Blog: Amid Million Dollar PTAs, a School Fights to Keep Its Library 2012-06-04T14:36:45Z And surely there are people out there who watch because golfers are clean-cut, controversy-free and genteel. Tiger, The Tour And Inside The U.S. Open 2010-06-15T22:00:00Z Her genteel memoir, “Love, Life and Elephants,” has an animal population big and personable enough to fill a zoo. Books of The Times: ‘Granddad, There’s a Head on the Beach’ and Other Summer Reads 2012-05-24T22:43:29Z The youth, they will devour this genteel place, so that they might strut away, uniformed. New York, It’s Time to Shop! (Masks on, Please) 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z The quartet appeared determined to dispel the conventional view of Mendelssohn as a purveyor of genteel, well-mannered compositions with a robust reading of the String Quartet in E Minor, Op. Escher String Quartet takes an aggressive approach to chamber music 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z Glenconner’s descriptions of these difficult times are evidence of the grit that underlies her genteel affect. The Sometimes Amusing, Sometimes Appalling Life of a Lady-in-Waiting 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z To its own detriment, the narrative concentrates too much on genteel domestic scenes and refined romantic conversations. Review \| Christmas comes early in Jon Clinch’s ‘Marley,’ a clever riff on ‘A Christmas Carol’ 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z The works showed an ambition to escape the genteel associations of traditional ceramics. 2010-02-16T22:40:00Z One, the Avignon Festival, is a bustling, overcrowded celebration of theater; the other, the Aix-en-Provence Festival, offers a more genteel operatic lineup. At Glamorous French Festivals, Poverty is Only Onstage 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z Colman simulates a snooty voice, or rather a voice snootier than her already genteel tones. Olivia Colman: 'It's slightly scary … it could all go wrong' 2013-07-07T17:30:00Z He wears a genteel white lace collar and a satin jacket that is a shimmering study in grays; both contrast strikingly with his level, appraising gaze and homely mug. Art Review: Faces Still Alive, Centuries Later 2011-07-28T22:44:45Z She was also renowned for “Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady,” a well-received, somewhat fictionalized 1985 memoir in which she plumbed the depths, and the shallows, of her genteel upbringing. Florence King, Writer Who Wielded an Acerbic Wit, Dies at 80 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z The quartet traces the genteel romance between Wimsey and mystery writer Harriet Vane, perfect for Sayers newcomers or faithful followers: "Have His Carcase," "Gaudy Night," "Busman's Honeymoon" and "Strong Poison." Arts-staff favorites include Dorothy L. Sayers, '12 Minutes Max' 2012-10-28T14:31:05Z Dowling wants people to know how widespread scam artists are in a business marked by genteel manners and moneyed buyers. CNBC tries reality TV after business hours 2013-03-04T21:13:14Z Listen to the song today and you find yourself wondering how much difficulty Cocker had restraining himself to such a genteel production. Joe Cocker: Singer made others' songs his own 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z From the beginning of the drama, her affable and genteel demeanor hides a thinly concealed ferocity and strength of character. On German Stages, Women Take Control 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Perhaps this is due to her habit of inviting absolutely everyone in genteel Parisian society without discrimination, and then leaking her guest list to the press. Suzette Field's top 10 literary party hosts 2012-12-12T16:27:54Z She also wields her power by spearheading a genteel protest to raise awareness of the capitalism's continued reliance on slave labor, one clumsily realized subplot among several. A less sexy "Sanditon" doesn't evolve the plot, but so what? That's not why people watch 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z Blunt and confrontational, Roux is the polar opposite of genteel Gideon. Review \| Susie Yang’s ‘White Ivy’ is an entertaining character study of a social climber with a secret 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z Friday’s concert in the Terrace Theater, co-presented with Washington Performing Arts, was less a collaboration than a genteel drum battle. Two musicians in their prime, sharing music from their genres 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z Justice Ginsburg read her dissent from the bench, which in the genteel, marbled universe of the Supreme Court, is most unusual — the equivalent of shaming your spouse in front of dinner guests. Review: ‘Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’ 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z Jacob and Janey Young had been great friends of Frank and Nancy Clem, who lived in their genteel neighborhood and shared their “exemplary social qualities.” New True-Crime Books for Fall 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Into the breach of nostalgia for the old faux mainstream rushes the new genteel tradition, films that represent the decadent side of art-house movies, whether “Birdman” or “Boyhood” or “Mr. Turner.” There Is No “Genius of the System” 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z The way the characters, from the lowest servant on up, try to maintain a sense of honor and principle in a world that is growing pointedly less genteel. Downton Abbey, I Am Too American to Love You 2013-01-04T18:45:35Z Cole could be a great artist, but as a voice for his age, he raised little more than a genteel whimper of loss. Review \| Did America’s great landscape painter fear progress and hate democracy? 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Sitting in the hotel den, with its genteel decor of leather and wood, Eco says he was surprised that the novel had even been translated after it first appeared in Italy last year. With 'Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana,' Umberto Eco considers identity 2005-06-13T04:00:00Z As the genteel presenter himself would have doubtless have put it: "I bid you goodbye." Robert Robinson: tributes paid to doyen of the quiz show 2011-08-13T18:05:32Z Finally, we reached Marshan, a genteel neighborhood just west of the medina, where broad avenues ran past grandly decaying mansions and pristine palaces. Lost in Tangier 2010-09-11T09:00:00Z They look a bit incongruous with the gray hausfrau dress, genteel pearls and headscarf worn in the Seattle Repertory Theatre production by actor Nick Garrison. In 'I Am My Own Wife,' a character to remember 2012-02-09T22:08:03Z It’s also spottier, though his voice, alternating between robust and genteel, saves him more often than not, especially when he taps into Hootie and the Blowfish-era resonance on the tragic “Whiskey and You.” Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-10-24T22:23:00Z In the genteel world of TV costume , any tensions are usually scripted – and fictional. War declared as Upstairs, Downstairs creator fires volley at Downton Abbey 2010-12-16T19:48:42Z Tchaikovsky’s sextet fared considerably better, with a genteel breadth of tone, an amiability in the slow movement and a frantic, at times feral intensity to its closing Cossack charge. Review: Emerson String Quartet Caps Banner Season With Works of Mixed Emotions 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Bradford's genteel second wife Alice and the fiery Eleanor Billington, an Anglican woman and former indentured servant not interested in the least in submitting to "proper" Puritan customs, are the stars and focus of "Beheld." March to the shelves for these new books: Recommended reading for spring break and beyond 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z “He was suspicious of characters like me,” Irving Howe recalled of a genteel Princeton literary scholar he knew in the late 1940s. ‘A Voice Still Heard,’ a Collection of Essays by Irving Howe 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z This Mildred looks matronly and well bred, and that miscue is compounded by her genteel speaking tone. \| 'Mildred Pierce': Battling the Depression for an Ungrateful Daughter 2011-03-24T11:00:00Z In the 18th century, the lakes were the first Italian stop on the Grand Tour – the romantic poets adored them – and a genteel atmosphere remains. Top of the lago: a saunter around the Italian lakes 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z Photograph: Sally Soames And lo! as the crisis of Wapping, politicians and cops grows ever more frenetic, along comes an owlish octogenarian in a woolly cardigan recalling the genteel calm of times and Times past. Memoirs by William Rees-Mogg - review 2011-07-13T15:00:02Z I spent untold hours with this genteel, uncompromising album earlier this year, marveling at Morris’ knockout tenor and finding new nuances within his songwriterly blend of Nashville craft, Beatlesque tunefulness and soul fervor. What music critics left off their year-end lists 2010-12-31T00:14:42Z Schlump ends up recuperating at a hospital, and the book’s battle scenes are framed by his more genteel adventures. Books by Clare Beams, Hans Herbert Grimm, April Ayers Lawson and Kelly Luce 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z On Salon des Amateurs, meanwhile, Hauschka trades in his usual genteel, prepared piano miniatures for something surprisingly banging. There's nothing new in genre-mixing 2011-02-24T22:32:01Z The “Downton” red is a genteel departure for the firm, a French claret reminiscent of those favored by the early 20th-century British aristocracy. ‘Downton Abbey’ enters merchandise fray 2013-08-16T02:18:00Z So dramatic, too, that Bilbao is challenging the supremacy of San Sebastián, the genteel seaside resort to its east, as the Basque Country’s primary tourist destination. \| Choice Tables: In Bilbao, It?s Not Just the Museum 2010-10-07T02:19:00Z It’s chamber-pop that on the band’s first two albums generally revolved around folky guitars and genteel string sections, though there were always surprises. New Music: Albums From Clare and the Reasons and Maroon 5 2012-07-09T20:55:00Z He’s incredibly civilized and genteel so it’s a very genteel workplace. ArtsBeat: Q. and A. With Tina Fey 2011-04-13T20:22:45Z The pair meet on a genteel dating site. The best movies of 2019 that you haven't seen 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z Today, the work of Oehme and van Sweden feels like the classic overstuffed leather chair: luxurious, genteel and slightly old-fashioned. Wild gardens that grew out from Washington 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z While the frenzy for “Downton Abbey” runs its course, two new series remind us that not all television imports from Britain and its former dominions are so genteel. Television Review: ?The Fades? on BBC America; ?Lost Girl? on Syfy - Review 2012-01-14T01:49:07Z In my opinion, there’s nothing wrong with offering a more genteel view, whether it’s completely objective or not. Liz Smith, Longtime Queen of Tabloid Gossip Columns, Dies at 94 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z The story opens in 1922, in a genteel suburb of London. The ten best books of 2014 While still dealing with murder, deceit and secrets, Scott's book is much more genteel than May's and McDermid's bleaker offerings. New crime fiction: a trio of 'tartan noir' mysteries 2012-11-07T23:14:04Z But even that scene is remarkably genteel by current standards. Television: ?Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,? With Alec Guinness - Review 2011-10-22T04:00:07Z Still, I’m disappointed by the anodyne waltz meter and massed-strings sound of one of the tunes to which they danced, and I find the style, so far, genteel. Erasing Borders Festival Focuses on Indian Dance 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Comparable humor surfaces elsewhere, including in a genteel discussion of crude nicknames used in Bush circles. Review \| A first lady and a diva show their vulnerability in two productions 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z Charlie’s mother, Bonnie, left her genteel North Carolina upbringing when she became pregnant at 15, running away to Nashville. Review \| Ed Tarkington’s ‘The Fortunate Ones’ has echoes of ‘Gatsby,’ as a boy becomes enthralled by high society 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z It’s the story of an orphaned brother and sister of modest means but genteel origins. Pop culture’s “Twilight” plague: How vampire-ifying stories is ruining perfectly good plots 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z A new, commodified attitude reigns in the once genteel world of high fashion. \| Style: Dirty Pretty Things 2012-11-30T05:03:15Z Started as an upper-middle-class hobby, it invades the British public consciousness once a year, marketed less as a sport and more as a burst of genteel anachronisms. Love Game: serving up equality 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z And after slipping a more genteel, antique velvet dress over the black leather dominatrix gear she wore for the audition, Vanda surprises. ‘Venus in Fur’ at Seattle Rep: explosive tango for two 2014-02-14T02:10:42Z There is something for everyone at this genteel estate, ideal for a quick getaway from the city. Summer Stages: Classical 2010-05-07T21:59:00Z It was far from the usual scripted, genteel interactions between top agency bureaucrats. ‘It’s John against the world right now’ To the untrained eye many pieces appear to be relatively nondescript reproductions of Asian prototypes, the kind of thing you might find cluttering the home of a rich, genteel great-aunt. Art Review: A Jewel Box for Translucent Treasures 2011-12-15T22:59:09Z But they were more than a decade younger than Elizabeth and came of age in the early 20th century, amid the Progressive Era and expanded opportunity for white women raised in genteel poverty. The Daughters of the Confederacy Who Turned Their Heritage to Political Ends 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z The French Riviera, where married Parisian media type Ferdinand and makeshift moll Marianne escape via a blithe crime spree, usually appears on screen in genteel pastels, not the bursting-hot primary colours it does here. The 10 best summer romance films 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z The big groups of shirtless lads jostling past the babystrollers were a bit of a shock after the laid-back, genteel mood of three years ago. Safety must become Latitude festival's top priority 2010-07-19T14:17:00Z The essays in “Reflections” reflect a background that is geographically expansive, privileged and bereft of big, messy drama — the word “genteel” kept popping into my brain. Claire Messud Looks Back on Life, and the Art That Shaped Her 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z It hardly means you won’t find the experience, relatively genteel as it was, to be viscerally unpleasant. “It’s making us feel like the opposition is evil”: How cable news hurts democracy — and how to fix it 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z She warned that she needed to burp, and emitted a tiny, genteel pop from her throat, to the delight of her male colleagues. Three Young Actors Bring ‘This Is Our Youth’ to Broadway 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z Some are obviously commercial pieces, done as illustrations for books or magazines of an old and genteel character. Davidson Galleries’ ‘Wood Engraving Invitational’ 2014-01-16T21:48:16Z You can imagine that BBC listeners were saying much the same thing over a restorative sherry on Sunday after the genteel network broadcast a new adaptation which embellished the original with the F-word. Radio review: Wuthering Heights 2011-03-27T20:30:01Z The Heritage Madurai, a genteel retreat at the edge of town, is an ideal base from which to explore the temple and the rest of the city. \| Madurai, India, Where Time Stands Still 2014-03-21T18:45:45Z The series flouts a number of unscripted television conventions, beginning with the fact that it is upbeat, genteel and populated by contestants who support and respect one another. Mel and Sue are leaving the tent: Can “The Great British Bake Off” still rise without these key ingredients? 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z Lear's genteel upbringing was cut short by his father's financial embarrassment. Vivien Noakes obituary 2011-03-04T16:06:57Z In a concert that roared, pounded and groaned emphatically, this piece seemed genteel and tidy, slight even, when measured against Haydn’s own mature masterpieces. Music Review: Three Master Composers and a Lingering Mystery 2011-03-25T22:44:44Z And he is the “decent” master: a man who must think of himself as a slave to the system he is profits from; a genteel soul and a moral coward. 12 Years a Slave: An Unflinching Take on the Great American Shame 2013-10-18T17:07:02Z His genteel mother Eve, who was born in New South Wales, was an office secretary, then a beautician. Mick Jagger by Philip Norman – review 2012-10-04T07:00:01Z We see them cook, clean, potter about in the garden and engage in some genteel recreational folk dancing. Film review: No Greater Love 2010-04-08T22:10:00Z Lust counterposes the children’s genteel hiking trips and war games with the atrocities Karnau dispassionately documents, drawing both narrators’ segments to emphasize visual details over their context. The Latest in Graphic Novels 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z We arrange to meet at the Church Hill theatre; this large, porticoed theatre on Edinburgh's genteel Morningside Road is the AHSTF's main performance space. What are all these American high school students doing in Edinburgh? 2010-08-17T08:11:00Z Up to and including its cheap shock ending, “The Lie” invests all its meager stock in the facile, simple-minded idea that depicting banal, outwardly genteel people behaving abominably sheds a profound light on human nature. ‘The Lie’ Review: A Child’s Crime, a Parental Conspiracy 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z That was a remarkable departure from conventions of the Renaissance, in which most queer relationships were depicted in “a genteel context of gay male instruction,” as Maxwell put it. A Book So Far Ahead of Its Time, It Took 87 Years to Find a Publisher 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Waiters in white jackets and fezzes ushered us upstairs, where we took a table among a genteel crowd of bureaucrats and their wives. \| Choice Tables: Tasting Humble and High Cuisine in Istanbul 2011-09-30T18:55:00Z The passing matrons could be Edwardian, wearing a genteel uniform – funereal hat and oppressively long coat, gloved hands and festoons of pearls round the neck – for a promenade to the shops. The big picture: Julie Christie and Dirk Bogarde film Darling, 1964 2011-02-13T00:05:50Z This bid for mass appeal was also a smart business decision; unlike Trotter, plenty of black Bostonians were members of the working class, or what the novelist Dorothy West would later call the “genteel poor.” ‘Black Radical’ Remembers a Bold Life and Reclaims It for Our Current Moment 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z It’s an “Upstairs, Downstairs” or “Downton Abbey” of sorts, set not in a manor house but in the genteel bohemian home of Mary-Kay Wilmers, the longtime editor of The London Review of Books. Books of The Times: ‘Love, Nina,’ by Nina Stibbe 2014-04-21T21:47:49Z If “Pollinator Pathmaker” is, as Ginsberg put it, “a genteel way to think about” extinction issues, Carolina Caycedo’s “This Land is a Poem of Ten Rivers Healing” is more confrontational. At the Serpentine, a Show of Nature’s Healing Power 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Ms. Aidem, meanwhile, does fine by the role of the Mrs. Croft, with her cool poise disguising a core of genteel ruthlessness. Theater Review: Kathleen Turner in ‘Killing of Sister George’ at Long Wharf 2012-12-07T23:03:45Z “Beautiful Animals” is set during the refugee crisis, a humanitarian disaster that lurks beneath the surface of the island’s genteel social life. Affluent Idlers Find a Just Cause in a Refugee Swept Ashore 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z Bowie then sits down with Shore, she of genteel nineteen-forties movie musicals, and attempts to explain, with great seriousness and in depth, why Pop was important, and why their collaboration worked. Postscript: David Bowie, 1947-2016 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z In the mansion’s library, the cut-paper silhouettes in Kara Walker’s 1997 book “Freedom: A Fable” may look like the work of genteel Victorian ladies, but they embed narratives of racial oppression. In Dishes and Dolls, a Foundation of Feminist Art 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z She jokes about frightening, soul-crushing life experiences in a genteel sing-songy voice, smiling a practiced smile that is at once devoid of malice and somewhat flat. Hannah Gadsby’s “Nanette” and the case for quitting comedy 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z The bare-knuckled tactics of the film producer Harvey Weinstein have slammed into the more genteel sensibilities of Broadway, where he is bringing his first musical, “Finding Neverland.” ‘Finding Neverland’ Publicist Resigns After Dispute 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z This sentimental, nearly genteel movie demonstrates there’s a world of difference between invoking magic and conjuring it. Review: In ‘Pete’s Dragon,’ a Magical Bond in Peril Again 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z His early career coincided with journalism’s transition away from a trade for poker-playing, working-class tough guys to a more genteel profession recruiting from the Ivy League. Carl Bernstein’s Eulogy for the Newspaper Business 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z Cathy and Heathcliff will disrupt Radio 3's usually genteel air on Sunday evening with what the station warns are "strong expletives" in a production that attempts to shed new light on the characters. BBC Radio 3's Wuthering Heights to turn the airwaves blue 2011-03-22T10:47:06Z It’s pretty much all you can ask for in a genteel musical by the theater’s most sophisticated composer. Review \| Signature opens season with ‘A Little Night Music,’ one of Sondheim’s precious gems 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z An eager neighbor, it also exudes a genteel eccentricity that plays off the rationalism of Mr. Piano, and of Manhattan’s street grid. Review: A New Whitney Lets New York City Pour In 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z I am sauntering along the genteel pavements of Henley-on-Thames, on the family Sunday of the famous festival. 'I feared I'd be left with prejudiced children who didn't love me': life as a stepmother 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z Literature itself began to reflect, with an appealing self-consciousness, the image of the genteel reader escaping into her paperback. The Invention of the “Beach Read” 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z The culture that the Yankees destroyed was a genteel culture. Dixie Outfitters is still fighting the Civil War 2013-09-11T22:59:00Z That image is a genteel fraud, and so was “Patti Page.” Patti Page: The Oklahoma Thrush With ‘The Tennessee Waltz’ 2013-01-04T21:54:52Z With its mysterious, rumbling passages in the piano and heroic, large-scale gestures, No. 7 sheds the genteel vestiges of the earlier works. Music Review: Leonidas Kavakos and Enrico Pace in Beethoven Violin Sonatas 2014-03-03T22:56:20Z Sierra Hull opened her Tuesday-night show at the Living Room with “Easy Come, Easy Go,” her genteel and wistful new single, a burst of adult-contemporary bluegrass. Music Review: Prodigious Talent Discovers Balance 2011-03-09T22:33:48Z Then we took a night train to Surin, an experience that was deceptively genteel. Elephants, My Brother and Me 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Grocery shopping was once a relatively genteel pastime. Makers: Grocery Shopping on Speed 2011-12-17T03:36:14Z Touched not by an angel but an animal print, and producing a very genteel purr. As Milan Fashion Week Ends, Giorgio Armani, Versace, Bottega Veneta and More 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z But there was nothing particularly genteel or overly familiar and comforting about this music. Concert review: Neil Young at United Center 2012-10-12T06:14:00Z In the genteel, cultivated and fashionable crowd, Manet painted himself and his friends: the poets Charles Baudelaire and Théophile Gautier, and composer Jacques Offenbach. How Hugo and Manet unveiled Paris's poor and privileged faces 2013-01-26T19:30:01Z “When you think about the male players – most of whom seem to be white men in this extremely genteel sport – the ones who do explode are ‘bad boys’; they’re charismatic. ‘Of course Serena Williams was angry’: writer Soraya Chemaly on why women should unleash their rage 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Photograph: Graeme Robertson This literary festival is now in its 19th year and represents an urban alternative to the traditionally genteel rural bookish events. This week's new events 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z “The Sound and the Fury”, published in 1929 when the then 32-year-old author was poor and unknown, uses a kaleidoscope of narrators to chronicle the decline of a genteel Mississippi family. Signifying something 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Atticus, perhaps, was not the only genteel white liberal pushed in an unexpected direction during those transformative times, which would open the door to the even more divisive civil rights era. The Atticus Finch of your childhood is’t ruined: Read Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman” for the early draft that it is 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z The mean streets of Detroit are far from Cleverly's relatively genteel setting. New in crime fiction: Cleverly, Estleman, Koryta, Penny 2012-08-08T19:47:07Z The execution is staged amid a genteel garden party attended by gracefully attired White Southerners, at sunset, with pink light glinting through romantic swaths of Spanish moss. Perspective \| With ‘The Underground Railroad,’ Barry Jenkins looks squarely at Black trauma. And doesn’t blink. 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z The Archfiend is by turns genteel, seductive, ominous, despairing and cranky as channeled by Kyd, who adapted the script from a centuries-spanning body of texts. One-man show ‘The Devil in His Own Words’ offers an up-close look at the evil deity Paradoxically, talk of an “Obama bump” comes at a time when the flavor of public conversation around books has gone from genteel Earl Grey to Tea Party red. Cultural Studies: Are You Reading What He?s Reading? 2010-09-03T18:21:00Z Whirling country dances evoked the genteel tastes of Rameau’s Parisian audiences, yet the flavor of an exotic imaginary was distinctly present. Review \| NSO presents an exuberant panorama of early music 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z His father, a lawyer, worked his way out of a poor Lower East Side childhood; his mother was a New York City public-school teacher from a genteel Boston family. In ‘Avid Reader,’ a Celebrated Editor as Shepherd and Alchemist 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z Preserving the spirit of that era is the Claremont Hotel, a genteel 1884 rambler in the Quiet Side town of Southwest Harbor. Don’t call it relaxation. On this Maine island, vacation is for rusticating. 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Two small dogs — one black, one white — make each other nervous, personifying the genteel standoffs. 2010-01-08T06:23:00Z Museum administrators just had to hope the protesters reminded “genteel, middle-class liberals” who took steps to avoid permanent damage, he added. How Do You Tell a Vandal From a Visitor? Art Museums Are Struggling. 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z One show is genteel and the other is gory as all get-out. Two things we love this week 2013-02-13T20:52:24Z And the zinc bands echo the genteel clapboard siding of those houses. Architecture Review: A Unified Home for Arts Education, With a Split Right Down the Middle 2011-03-09T23:05:21Z On other songs, like “_____45_____,” a delirious riff between Vernon and a saxophone, he was minimal and genteel, bending his voice away from the beat. Swooning to the Strangeness of Bon Iver 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z The morning of the cigarette incident, Ms. Ono sat in the kitchen of her Dakota apartment, whose genteel décor is leavened with pictures of her with Lennon, and even with his famous bandmates. Yoko Ono’s 1971 MoMA Show Finally Opens 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z Obviously lots of millennials are drawn to the Brooklyns of the world, places edgier, rawer, more ethnic and soulful, and cheaper than the genteel surroundings favored by their boomer parents, where the millennials were raised. Millennials Answer the Call of Mexican Wine Country 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z It is not uncommon in the genteel world of New York private clubs for members to weigh profit and convenience. Harvard Club Considers a Change, and Some Think It’s the ‘Worst Thing Ever’ 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z The genteel grace and European travels of its wealthy citizens were made possible by the enslavement of about half the population. Critic?s Notebook: Emancipating History 2011-03-11T23:45:18Z She will be polite and genteel and speak fluent French, Latin, Swahili, Greek and one language that is mostly clicks and glottal stops. Perspective \| Just imagine what kind of president we might elect after Trump 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z Judging from clips posted on the World Series’ website, this “Rite,” with its partial nudity and animalistic movement, may still offend genteel dance lovers. 100th birthday celebrations for ‘The Rite of Spring’ in Seattle 2013-01-16T23:39:04Z Matthews's rambling chat, familiar from her Sunday morning BBC 6 Music show, is an appropriate frame for this two-hour solo set, which is rowdier than the genteel Cerys by Candlelight banner might suggest. Cerys Matthews – review 2012-12-20T18:17:00Z If America yearned to relax and focus on something genteel and positive to counteract the alarming acrimony, this show fit the bill. A worthy return for PBS' "All Creatures Great and Small" celebrates the value of the little things 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z With clients like these, it is little wonder that the typical Stefano Ricci boutique looks more like a genteel private club than a selling floor. Stefano Ricci, Clothier to the 0.001 Percent 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z He played the opening melody with genteel sensitivity before plunging into the drama of the ensuing Prestissimo, unveiling subtleties in Beethoven’s dramatic outburst instead of rendering it a mere whirlwind. Music Review: Tackling the Last of Beethoven?s Sonatas 2010-10-18T22:00:00Z The orchestra offered a taut, energetic performance of the brooding work, deftly conveying the contrast between the stormy elements and the gracious minuet that unexpectedly surfaces, rendered with genteel precision. Work by Schnittke and Haydn at Mostly Mozart 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z Yet Swain’s works are less commandeering, more genteel. Robert Swain presents color as a transfer of energy 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z To announce her prominence in an exclusive new neighborhood, Williams designed a genteel mansion in a westernized Colonial Revival style. A Photographer Follows Paul Revere Williams Into the West 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z Even so, the movie "specializes in the genteel PG-13 scare, aiming to awe you with its dinosaur verisimilitude rather than shock you with too much blood on the tracks." 'Jurassic World' clones some, not all, of original film's fun, reviews say 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z This is much complained of by those who resent the passing of a more genteel age. Life Zucks 2010-10-18T10:21:00Z The atmosphere is too genteel to be gothic, but it is haunted nonetheless, by intimations of disorder, lust and violence. Review: ‘The Beguiled,’ Sofia Coppola’s Civil War Cocoon 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z With the line “It is impossible to say just what I mean!,” he speeds up the frustration seething beneath Prufrock’s genteel front, complete with formal necktie. Jeremy Irons Breathes New Life Into ‘The Poems of T.S. Eliot’ 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z He is wickedly funny unfolding agonizing tales of the rise of fabulously wealthy American art collectors who lack the genteel, accommodating ways of the previous generation of fabulously wealthy American art collectors. \| 'The Old Masters': Showdown at the Italian Villa, Easels Drawn 2011-01-28T03:01:21Z From the genteel Thomas the Tank Engine to the rough-and-ready racecar Lightning McQueen, children’s entertainment has been filled with talking cartoon vehicles that run on feelings as much as on fuel. ‘Firebuds’ Gives a Face to Emergency Workers, and Their Vehicles 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z There’s a genteel political toothlessness that you’d expect from an ABC family sitcom, but maybe there’s something quietly radical about hip-hop inserting itself even into that prosaic format. Rap Disrupted Music First. Now It’s TV and Film. 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Albert Herring retained Grimes's Suffolk setting, but otherwise appeared completely different: a smallscale, genteel comedy reflecting the delightful idiosyncrasies of English village life. Britten's comic hero Albert Herring: the only virgin in the village 2013-05-08T17:59:01Z A genteel resort town an hour or so from Bilbao, San Sebastián is a mecca for innovative Basque cuisine, as well as the location for Spain’s most important film festival. European film festivals: six of the best 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z The final image of Blanche in white beside a young man recalled her tragic wedding, the innocence that was destroyed and the genteel hope that has now been crushed for good. Theatrical victory belongs to Blanche in 'Streetcar' opera 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z When Golden returned in 2000 as Studio’s deputy director, art critics knew the institution as sleepy and genteel; she helped to boldly reshape it. At the Studio Museum in Harlem, a curator who loves art ‘on a cellular level’ 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z The artists at hand dealt with the feminine “problem” through a program of genteel idealization and domestication. Art Review: Danish Paintings Show at Scandinavia House 2013-12-05T22:25:09Z Even as the world is changed by the Depression and World War II, “The Chaperone” stays genteel. Books of The Times: ‘The Chaperone’ by Laura Moriarty 2012-06-14T21:43:56Z But it’s also desperately romantic and imbued with a genteel air, suggesting these characters ought to exist in another time. Whit Stillman: ‘I find it remarkable that people hate my work’ 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z Sung in a tearful voice over an archly genteel string arrangement, it envisions romance as a chance to “bask in the glory of all our problems.” Pop Music in 2017: Glum and Glummer 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z Where Mr. Reitz had been trained to make pots on a wheel, glaze them delicately and fire them to a genteel finish, his work soon assumed a muscular anarchy. Don Reitz, Who Made Dirt and Salt Into Art, Dies at 84 2014-03-30T00:25:15Z The college dating scene that Jeffers describes is a treacherous realm in which young women must manage their reputations with exquisite care while young men vacillate erratically between genteel chivalry and sexual predation. Review \| ‘The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois’ is the kind of brilliant epic that comes around only once in a decade 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z But it clings to the group’s genteel past by its fingernails. Sleater-Kinney, the Decemberists and Belle and Sebastian look to add to their legacies 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z The Gridiron, organized by an elite club of Washington journalists, is a more genteel version of the correspondents’ dinner, featuring skits and jokes performed by reporters and lawmakers. Comedian Going to White House Correspondents’ Dinner. What About Trump? 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z The title evokes the phrase “peculiar institution” — a genteel term for slavery — which flares when Peterson embodies one of LaQuanda’s boyfriends, an activist railing against private prisons. Review \| This galvanizing new play tries to humanize lives lived behind bars 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z She sat ramrod straight, wearing a high-necked emerald gown — there was almost a genteel Victorian sensibility to her restrained displeasure. Perspective \| The misguided chivalry of Will Smith 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z The foul misogynists on Reddit never pretended to be anything other than foul misogynists; it was the genteel chauvinism of the enlightened elites at Kleiner Perkins that carried with it the sting of betrayal. The Education of Ellen Pao 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z That’s probably because football is not the most popular sport for young kids in this corner of genteel New England. Motherlode Blog: Will the concussion risk ever push parents to keep their children out of football? 2012-01-12T18:24:44Z And most are turning their backs on the once-customary aerodynamic helmets and latex shorts in favor of a look as fetching as it is genteel. Bicycle Chic Gains Speed 2010-09-29T23:32:00Z As a director, Mr. Tucker is at his best and most comfortable in a middle scene, a genteel reception at which Eliza accidentally outs herself with pleasant conversation like “Not bloody likely.” Review: A Playful ‘Pygmalion’ From Bedlam? Bloody Likely 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z For more information on the resurgence of this genteel art, go to www.bookplatesociety.org. 22 gift books for ardent readers 2011-12-01T20:30:48Z Overlooking the old port, it gives off a genteel Parisian vibe. How circus-loving Montreal has persisted as the big top of the world 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z The plots of “Arson Plus” and the other Sutton-era stories are simple and their pilferings from the more genteel British mystery tradition evident. The nameless detective who launched Dashiell Hammett’s career 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z Once the dancers get moving, it's more sweaty than genteel, but romance is definitely on the menu. TV highlights – 10/05/2013 2013-05-10T05:59:01Z Trelawny of the Wells, an 1898 comedy by playwright Arthur Wing Pinero, is a play of opposites: the tale of a female theatre star and her struggles to adjust to genteel Victorian society. Director Joe Wright: 'I go nuts if I'm idle' 2013-02-20T19:30:01Z Wenham, Mass., is a genteel hamlet north of Boston, home to horse farms and a venerable teahouse. Game On! Great New Sports Books 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z Dorothea, a civics teacher determined to avoid the fate of spinsterhood, has given herself to the handsome, genteel principal of her school. Theater: New Light, Long After His Sun Set 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z Like the works you’ll find inside, by Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Mary Cassatt, and Édouard Manet, the house itself now seems lovely and genteel. The 16 Best Small-Town Museums in the U.S. 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Reached after an amble through genteel older artworks, Ideguchi’s pictures administer a mild future shock. Review \| In the galleries: ‘Evolving Traditions’ from a nontraditional artist 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z But the kind of mannered, genteel humility she’s required to assume here doesn’t become her. Theater Review: Nina Arianda Stars in ‘Tales From Red Vienna’ 2014-03-19T02:00:02Z In a generation, those policies remade Toronto — once a genteel, strait-laced, Anglophile town — so that half the sprawling, tolerant city is foreign-born. While other countries turn Syrian refugees away, Canadians are taking them home 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Ms. Taylor’s wait-and-see attitude may well be bred in the bone, her discreetness the product of a genteel background. Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Companion, Diana Taylor, Gives a Rare Interview 2013-12-27T23:22:28Z So it's good news that the show will be back for a second season on PBS, starting January 8, with seven weeks of genteel country-house mayhem and pretty outfits. The return of "Downton Abbey," and more Brit TV 2011-08-01T18:17:11Z After this robust Christmas entertainment, I look forward to returning to the genteel charms of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus. Cinderella – review 2012-12-19T18:46:18Z This raises a welter of resentment in the far less genteel Emily. Review: In ‘Mr. Roosevelt,’ an Ailing Cat and a Comedian in Crisis 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z The family’s life of genteel, peripatetic bohemianism was a model Calder would follow. The Biography of Alexander Calder, Part I 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z The show “is a frisky semi-comical drama about a pretty, blond, middle-class woman who is put behind bars and consorts with less genteel inmates — ‘Clueless’ goes correctional,” Alessandra Stanley wrote in The Times in December. ‘Riot in Cell Block 11’ and ‘The Big House’ on DVD 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z The Style Invitational’s real; It’s never refined or genteel. Style Invitational Week 1193: Poedtry II, plus winning limericks 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z “I don’t want to seem pretentious. I’ve never been a genteel photographer.” Harry Benson, an Early Photographer of Trump, Looks Back and Forward 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z Far from my dictionary’s fling, “unrestrained pleasures or dissipation,” this was a genteel affair, as you would ordinarily expect of an evening of violin, two viols and harpsichord. Music Review: Repast Baroque Ensemble at the Baruch Performing Arts Center 2013-05-24T21:17:11Z And so, in a genteel Edinburgh house, Robert Bruce’s unmarried brother and sister, both very proud and very fearful, were left to tend their brother’s secret. Family history: the shifting secrets of our genealogies – in pictures 2013-01-21T13:49:00Z He’s not genteel but a Gentile — a boy-God with a Goy bod — whose plan to free the Jews is to rain plagues on the Egyptians. REVIEW: Don't Let Your People Go See Exodus: Gods and Kings 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z The nervous young man has almost escaped from the funeral reception when the genteel widow thanks him for coming. Theater Review: ‘A Respectable Widow,’ About an Unusual Friendship 2014-04-13T21:06:55Z She’s a dejected adult, drawn to “the in-between spaces of other people’s existences . . . cultivating a genteel invisibility.” ‘The Girls,’ by Emma Cline: Charles Manson, reimagined 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z It would have taken an income of about £1,000 a year to make a carriage affordable, well beyond most genteel households. Ten questions on Jane Austen 2012-05-18T21:45:05Z And as the genteel setup of the first act turns to tragedy in the second after Herman falls ill, that chain begins to weigh and cut. Review: ‘Wedding Band,’ a Searing Look at Miscegenation Nation 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z These successes showed that he had the skills to bridge the gap between the genteel light music of the post-second world war years and the brash new pop of the 1960s. Johnny Pearson obituary 2011-04-06T17:52:35Z In “The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov,” Andrea Pitzer suggests that such pronouncements were merely part of Nabokov’s public façade — “the genteel, charming cosmopolitan, incapable of being dented or diminished by history.” Vladimir Nabokov, “Houdini of history”? 2013-03-17T19:00:00Z Advertisement Advertisement Michael Dorf, a founder of the experimental music venue the Knitting Factory, recalled genteel dinners with Reed in which they discussed art, music and their shared appreciation of Willamette Valley pinot noirs. Who Was the Real Lou Reed? 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z The Hubbard brothers, Ben and Oscar, even boast to a new business partner about their cleverness in "taking over" by marriage the plantation of Oscar's genteel, formerly aristocratic wife, Birdie. Review: Timeless greed stars in 'The Little Foxes' 2010-09-22T19:44:00Z This realisation unlocks the story's freight of sadness, and explains the genteel, buttoned-down quality of its prose. A brief survey of the short story part 41: Rudyard Kipling 2012-06-21T11:28:42Z Wohl was the first child of eight in a family of genteel birth and uneven mental health, the Sedgwicks, who moved from Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., to a succession of ranches in California. ‘As It Turns Out,’ a Sister’s Remembrance of Edie Sedgwick and Andy Warhol 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z In real life, little about James was as genteel as that song. Legendary blues singer Etta James dies in Calif. 2012-01-20T16:40:14Z Familiarity with classical learning, a hallmark of European and colonial American genteel culture, was not inherently revolutionary. What America Owes to the Greeks and Romans 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z On stage, he revamped venerated mid-19th century works by August Bournonville, the choreographer whose genteel Romantic style is most identified with Danish ballet. Danish Ballet, revamped, takes fresh U.S. tour 2011-06-17T11:28:41Z That genteel opener serves a role beyond a mere visual call-back to a bit. Hannah Gadsby’s “Nanette” and the case for quitting comedy 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z Ms. Thompson drops in on a Children of the Confederacy convention, to observe genteel racism of a fading sort. Books of The Times: ‘The New Mind of the South,’ by Tracy Thompson 2013-04-23T17:04:03Z He takes down the Stars and Bars and raises Old Glory above his territory; this movie holds no truck with magnolia-scented nonsense about a genteel Southern way of life menaced by Yankee aggression. Review: Matthew McConaughey Rebels Against Rebels in ‘Free State of Jones’ 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z The performances are often exceptionally strong, though Matthew Rose's beautifully sung Nick Shadow is a bit too genteel to be satisfyingly demonic. The Rake's Progress 2010-08-09T21:01:00Z The American Queen’s history has been short but eventful, and lovers of the gentle, genteel pastime of steamboat cruising have been watching to see if that history would have any new chapters. The American Queen Paddle-Wheeler Cruises on the Mississippi 2012-06-01T19:22:58Z The first of these, in 1760, was a huge success, revealing the lively interest of a genteel public in new art. The Royal Academy: a story of sulks and squabbles 2013-01-04T22:55:14Z Her protagonist, Selin, is an 18-year-old Turkish girl, the daughter of secular Turkish immigrants who raised her in a genteel suburb of New Jersey. Elif Batuman’s ‘The Idiot’ 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z It was also contentious, to say the least, in design terms – enough to cause apoplexy among local residents in plutocratically genteel South Kensington. The V&A goes underground with shortlisted designs for new gallery 2011-03-03T16:50:41Z It strikes the note of genteel decay that suffuses the place. Greenwood Gardens in Short Hills, N.J. 2013-04-25T20:46:49Z Raised in a genteel family, the restless, college-educated young Cain tried out many jobs, including selling insurance, before turning to journalism. Noir classic steps out of the shadows at ACT 2011-10-20T18:50:11Z Ripped from the genteel stays in which they are often confined by British productions, they renewed in me a sense of the playwright's genius. Sovremennik and the gates of hell 2011-01-04T21:31:00Z FISHERS, Ind. — The drama unfolding here on the outskirts of Indianapolis involves a dashing, Kentucky-born guerilla fighter, ruthless in plunder and genteel in manners. Theme Park Review: Where Park Visitors Answer a Call to Battle 2011-06-21T17:14:18Z My room was called the "garden flat" by the genteel landlady who lived upstairs and who often entertained her friends for drinks. Joyce's Dublin: city of dreamers and chancers 2012-06-15T21:55:00Z The timeslot may lend itself to the mawkish and the genteel but this is no place for scones or whimsy. The Mill, where misery is relentless 2013-07-27T05:00:00Z Swift is in his element describing Ronnie’s social transformation, which begins when he is evacuated as a child during the war to genteel Oxford, where he lodges with a childless couple, the Lawrences. A Love Triangle and a Variety Show in Seaside England 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z Ms. Kennedy, one of the American theater’s greatest and least compromising experimentalists, was speaking at a table in a genteel hotel lounge near the Colonial Williamsburg living history site. Adrienne Kennedy, Playwright: Still Quiet, Still Bold, Still Furious 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z And so, to his own surprise, "I have come out of my hole again" to write more books … Such weary, genteel valetudenarianism was typical of Ford, and probably didn't help his reputation. Julian Barnes: a tribute to Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford 2012-08-24T21:55:03Z Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained” takes place just before the Civil War but celebrates a once-enslaved black man exacting vengeance against an evil plantation owner who makes Simon Legree look genteel. Exhibition Review: ‘The Civil War in America’ at Library of Congress 2013-01-10T20:02:01Z It’s the dainty sound made by objects and gestures of genteel dignity and refined luxury. “Get Out”: Jordan Peele’s Radical Cinematic Vision of the World Through Black Eyes 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z The show begins with a genteel Impressionist canvas by the American Theodore Robinson, purchased by Etta with money earmarked for redecorating the family apartments. Art Review: What They Loved and What They Bought 2011-05-06T06:15:06Z They keep their voices high, small and tremulous over a brusque beat topped with quasi-Baroque keyboards and strings, a genteel backdrop for deep neediness. Rosalía and Rauw Alejandro’s Love Trilogy, and 8 More New Songs 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z His Raymond is as neutrally genteel and well-spoken as a docent in a museum. Theater Review: ‘Far From Heaven,’ at Playwrights Horizons 2013-06-03T02:00:01Z Though punctilious about his honor, in civilian life Poe normally comported himself with genteel courtliness. Review \| Is Poe the most influential American writer? A new book offers evidence. 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z Today Paris is still the different cities encapsulated by Hugo and Manet; Manet's chic Left Bank haunts are as fashionable and relatively genteel as 150 years ago. How Hugo and Manet unveiled Paris's poor and privileged faces 2013-01-26T19:30:01Z She vividly conjures “the fading walk-up flats in far-flung London postal codes of former courtiers and retainers”: their tables crowded with “tasteful knickknacks,” their stair carpets reeking of “downward mobility and pointless, genteel sacrifice.” Tina Brown Catches Up With Royal Intrigue in ‘The Palace Papers’ 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z The History cable-network reality series draws about 5.5 million viewers a week, and its success lies in its rugged approach to the traditionally genteel antiques world. At Home With Mike Wolfe: Mike Wolfe, of ?American Pickers,? at Home in Iowa 2011-08-24T22:41:38Z A portrait of the Lowell household on Boston’s prosperous Beacon Hill early in the last century, it details a largely forgotten world of wealth, privilege and the ritually calibrated manners of genteel New England. Why Robert Lowell, Famed as a Poet, Should Be Remembered for His Prose 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Photograph: Contre Jour/Rex Features The vast mansion secluded by poplars on Paris's moneyed western outskirts in Neuilly looked from the outside like a genteel haven of the impossibly rich French upper classes. Mystery of the L'Oreal heir, 'Mr Nicolas' and the envelopes stuffed with euros 2012-07-03T21:39:13Z Curator Asma Naeem suggests that silhouettes flourished in America because they were cheap and easily made and were distinct from the genteel European tradition of formal portraiture. Review \| Before photography, the silhouette helped leave an impression 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Sauer was joined by the cellist Colin Carr for an elegantly wrought interpretation of this genteel, ornamental piece, whose sunny dialogue unfolds gracefully, with the two instruments often finishing each other’s phrases. Music Review: Beethoven Elegant and Beethoven Frenetic 2011-06-07T21:43:37Z Perhaps by then the tone will be a little less genteel. Review: David Attenborough Is Back, and He Brought the Walruses 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z The arrival of the Black, genteel older couple creates, as the narrative bruisingly points out, an opportunity to play Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. What Happens When a Vacation Goes Wrong — and Not in a Funny Way? 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z So was Café Loup, the genteel but unpretentious West Village bistro that continues to bridge generations in terms of its appeal to editors, academics and writers. A Critic’s Tour of Literary Manhattan 2012-12-14T17:13:34Z This is why calls for genteel discourse from on high always feel like deeply nostalgic fantasies offered in bad faith. The Civility Wars 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Pretty, genteel and increasingly venerable, the paintings of 20th-century D.C. colorists are now enjoying a commercial revival. Review \| In the galleries: Show at American University invokes the ‘Eternal Feminine’ 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z The harshness of that environment is in sharp contrast to the almost genteel delicacy of the objects discovered there in recent decades in ancient cemeteries. Exhibition Review: Another Stop on a Long, Improbable Journey 2011-02-20T21:00:36Z The National Gallery of Art offered a genteel soundtrack to its extensive collection of old Flemish masters Sunday. Viols give a glimpse into a musical past at the National Gallery of Art 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Actresses keep fleeing the genteel personas the show saddled them with, finding refuge in seamier characters. Review: Another ‘Downton Abbey’ Heroine Goes Dark 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z I watched Brandt play half of a genteel couple battling their neighbors in the Karen Zacarías comedy “Native Gardens” at a matinee, then smoothly switch to the witty Clairee from “Steel Magnolias” that evening. In a Small Mountain Town, a Beloved Theater Company Prevails 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z Little white-collared capelets embroidered like antique handkerchiefs — genteel versions of the superhero standard that also appeared, longer and with a beaded Art Deco argyle for evening — were the focus of swirling mid-calf dresses and coats. At Fendi and Prada, Moving Beyond the Shoulder Pad 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z His network of contacts is nonpareil; his manner solicitous and genteel; his work ethic fanatical. The ‘Consummate’ London Restaurateur Is Briskly Shown the Exit 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Crespino, who holds a wonderful title — he is the Jimmy Carter professor of history at Emory University — displays a confident understanding of the era of genteel white supremacists like A. C. Lee. Harper Lee and Her Father, the Real Atticus Finch 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z The second of six children of a “genteel poor” Mississippi family, she abided by her parents’ “trinity of education, faith and service.” Kill a Dead-End Job and Make the Leap to Career Happiness 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z The clapboard villa with wraparound porch is a genteel Victorian home, crammed with dark furniture and family photos. Word up: new Chicago museum celebrates American authors 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z He had a sure if genteel touch, and a keen sense of the play of light on surfaces, that infused his paintings with mood and a sense of presence that flattered his subjects. Aaron Shikler, Portrait Artist Known for Images of America’s Elite, Dies at 93 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Pennsylvania’s GOP politics were long genteel and respectful, more country club than WWE. Dr. Oz’s Trump-infused Senate run is coming down to the wire 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z We tag along for a visit to a genteel gallery opening in St. Gallen, Switzerland, but what sticks in the mind is Motherwell’s self-aware observations about the simultaneity of art movements. In the Documentaries of the Blackwood Brothers, Great Artists Explored 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z You won't believe Hinds is Irish, so wonderfully does he capture a Southerner whose genteel facade dissolves. Review: A noisy 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' distracts 2013-01-18T01:32:11Z But its genteel environs belie the area’s status as Namibia’s adventure capital — opportunities for sand boarding, parasailing and extreme dune driving abound. 7 Days, 1,500 Miles in Namibia 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Ms. Sawyer’s Methodist Kentucky upbringing and genteel manner, meanwhile, is still very much with her as she enters the broadcasting business in the role of weather girl in 1967. ‘The News Sorority’ Links Sawyer, Couric and Amanpour 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z It is not dissimilar to Cam's big society – the vaguely formulated idea that communities would be enhanced by more volunteering and genteel social responsibility. Edmund Burke: Philosopher, Politician, Prophet by Jesse Norman – review 2013-05-19T09:00:02Z What about genteel Japan, the fetish mecca — or the puritanical yet gratuitous United States? A White-Knuckle Ride to the Dark Side of Love and Infidelity 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z The Bombay I grew up in – though it had long been India's financial centre – was genteel and tame in comparison. Amit Chaudhuri: my new perspective on Calcutta 2013-02-02T07:01:14Z Mr. Foster wrote and arranged a number of songs for the band, none more celebrated than “Shiny Stockings,” a puckishly genteel theme set at a cruising medium tempo with a slow but powerful crescendo. Frank Foster, Jazz Saxophonist, Composer and Arranger, Dies at 82 2011-07-27T03:26:25Z But for a brief moment at Washington National Cathedral, during the Government Hall of Fame Gala on Sept. 19, all was genteel. Don’t sleep on Wilbur Ross 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z The Levenger Catalog, which specializes in reader-friendly gewgaws, promotes a genteel fantasy of reading constructed around an “ergonomic and ambidextrous” reading table, personalized bookmarks, bespoke pens for note-taking and bespoke notebooks in which to scribble. Perspective \| Where do you read books? I read at the mall. 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z There is the music-hall jollity, The Phantom Of The Opera, Fu Manchu and more, all wrapped up in grand and lavish ruse that is classically Doctor Who – genteel, horrific and just a bit deranged. The Talons Of Weng Chiang: Doctor Who classic episode #9 2013-06-28T09:00:00Z Didion, who now resides on Manhattan’s genteel Upper East Side in a “cavernous” apartment, would, of course, be placed firmly in the latter category. From literary heavyweight to lifestyle brand: exploring the cult of Joan Didion 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z The earliest albums are nominally jazz, with songbook standards in genteel combo settings. Playlist: Look Back at a Legend, Then Revisit Disco 2011-04-01T21:50:45Z It is a genteel, verdant corner of provincial England — let’s call it Austenland. Edwardian travelers of ‘Room with a View’ come to 5th Avenue stage 2014-04-10T00:10:47Z Then the 73-year-old Rolling Stones front man referred to the three-day event as "the Palm Springs retirement home for genteel English musicians." Rolling Stones bring fireworks to Desert Trip festival 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z Yet Mr. Leguizamo, who made his name in the late 1980s and ’90s by embracing and simultaneously sending up his Latino heritage, confided that he once dreamed of genteel assimilation. A Day Out in the Boxing Gym With John Leguizamo 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Osborne’s drama about the tempestuous romance between the working-class Jimmy and the genteel Alison caused a sensation when it made its debut at the Royal Court Theater in 1956. Theater Review: ?Look Back in Anger,? Starring Matthew Rhys 2012-02-03T03:03:00Z He fumed the other afternoon over a pot of tea in a genteel Left Bank cafe. Abroad: In Planning a History Museum, Sarkozy Opens a Can of Worms Instead 2011-03-08T10:23:38Z "Finding Neverland" seemed just the right genteel fit for modern Broadway. 'Finding Neverland' ready to fly after a bumpy trip to Broadway 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z Warm and soft and benignly manipulative — the movie’s sole death is scandalously opportune — “Summerland” brims with genteel sentiment and British briskness. ‘Summerland’ Review: A Writer’s Life, Past and Present 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Director Brendan Maher lingers on the genteel brutality of asking for volunteers and politely filing boy soldiers out to their deaths. ‘Outlander’ Season 3, Episode 1: All That Was Me Is Gone 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z Once considered standoffish, genteel and politically marginal, they are now viewed as being emblematically engaged players within the power network of global capitalism. Making Museums Moral Again 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z “The Paying Guests” opens in 1922, in a genteel suburb of London called Champion Hill. Michael Dirda reviews ‘The Paying Guests,’ by Sarah Waters Tim Boy Tom Laurie Who retires to live in genteel poverty with her parents following the death of her husband George? Austerity in literature 2010-05-24T11:13:00Z Almost every time I saw Donna, it was in very genteel settings. Donna Summer remembered by Nile Rodgers 2012-12-22T23:00:01Z So would the genteel life of a children’s piano teacher. Rosa Rio, Organist From Silent Films to Soap Operas, Dies at 107 2010-05-15T04:45:00Z The origins of the show can be traced to the early 1900s and a genteel horse show held in Southampton as a hospital benefit. Where to Show Off Your $5 Million Horse 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z I loved the way they treated the children in their care, their soft-spoken and genteel ways. I was adopted at 41 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z Her words hang in the air, deliciously transgressive in the genteel atmosphere of clinking porcelain. Julie Delpy: ‘Women were bred to be directors’ 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z She conveyed her message in the solidity of her stance, in her genteel smile and her determined finger jabs. Perspective \| Stacey Abrams, a sea-blue dress and the politics of appearance 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z His character, the genteel, fair-haired David, serves as an homage to Scott's own work as he calls to mind Ian Holm's android Ash from the original "Alien." Review: `Prometheus' a gorgeous, intense trip 2012-06-04T21:54:11Z Similarly, in Ives’s work the comfortable past — parlor songs and marching bands, church hymns and genteel poetry — is seen as if from a misty distance, both recognized and reinvented. Music Review: Brooklyn Art Song Society at Galapagos Art Space - Review 2012-01-15T23:12:38Z First, Deborah Moggach follows the film success of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel with a version of that genteel comedy transplanted to Wales. Fiction for spring – preview 2012-12-30T00:05:22Z “She had a very high cap, and her wool was much frizzled in her neck,” Hutchinson wrote, “but not enough to answer the large curls in fashion. She is neither handsome nor genteel — pert enough.” Movie Review: ‘Belle’ Centers On a Biracial Aristocrat in the 18th Century 2014-05-01T22:04:13Z That he might conjure a genteel mechanical image of wartime deception is no surprise. 'Apparitions' at the Hammer explores low-tech art in a high-tech world 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Many of the items in the new Haspel line don’t look so genteel; those telltale stripes are relegated to the pocket linings of pants and inner seams of tweed jackets. Haspel's New Take on Seersucker Is Tailor-Made for Fall 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Dreamy, ticklish, turbulent and ghostly by turns, the tiny pieces convey an acute disquiet and a genteel testing of compositional and emotional boundaries, qualities Mr. Hough keenly conveyed. Music Review: Stephen Hough, Putting Piano Music in Perspective 2014-04-14T22:14:42Z His cabin, after all, was only a brisk walk away from the genteel town of Concord. Going offline: the benefits of a break from the internet 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z The image of the genteel, benevolent Southern slave owner was the creation of early 20th century artists and writers like D.W. 'The Half Has Never Been Told' looks at the economics of slavery 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Though swathed in eldritch atmospherics, Zola Jesus's songs pack a brutal, emotional punch, rendering the genteel witchery-woo of Florence + The Machine and Bat For Lashes a tad twee by comparison. Will Zola Jesus herald the second coming of goth? 2010-08-20T23:08:00Z That was true throughout the store: I was attended to and asked after at a level I associate with the most genteel corners of the South. Nordstrom Men: Choose Your Own Adventure 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z All the same, this genteel shocker earns its place in Hammer’s campy canon of superior B-movie schlock. ‘The Quiet Ones’: Horror flick is more creaky than creepy 2014-04-24T22:08:21Z Probably not a show for people who like their theater subtle or genteel, but just right for the audience WET typically draws to its Capitol Hill digs. 5 things to do this weekend, far from Seattle Center 2012-05-25T19:52:22Z Yet the book is not offering some idealized vision of safe, genteel life — far from it. In Praise of Maurice Sendak 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Her cut-paper silhouettes and animations, exhibited and owned by museums across the United States and abroad, harness genteel 19th-century imagery to magnify the dysfunctions bred by slavery. Kara Walker Creates a Confection at the Domino Refinery 2014-04-25T14:00:08Z Along with the aromatic bean, and French china, they brought with them a taste for long frocks and genteel ballroom steps. 10 of the best places to enjoy the dances and music of Cuba 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z "He considers American cities a 'wasteland' run by Jews and Black people, though the words he uses to denote these groups are considerably less genteel than these," he writes. The right is getting weirder about sex 2023-10-09T04:00:00Z In eras 50 years apart, George and Mitt Romney found themselves isolated in a GOP increasingly uninterested in their brand of genteel, country-club conservatism. Like his dad, retiring Mitt Romney embraced moderate conservatism. He fears the GOP has lost its way 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z This has played well with an electorate that likes its leaders genteel and statesmanlike. Tharman Shanmugaratnam: Singapore picks a president who could've been much more 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z Formed in 2011, the band initially struggled to get a gig in its home town, often regarded as the genteel little sister to trendy Brighton. Britain's Royal Blood finds spiritual home in US 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z See, now that you genteel rich folk have decided to legitimize a fist-based approach to economic conflict resolution, us poors finally have a shot at getting ahead in this country. Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg: Fight me, cowards 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z "I would describe the Obama years as genteel, intellectual and a lot of fun," he has said. FDA head Robert Califf battles misinformation — sometimes with fuzzy facts 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z The Bairstow decision has already become one of the most infamous incidents in Ashes history, a moment that incensed the usually genteel Lord's crowd. Staggering Stokes ton not enough to deny Australia 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z Its perverse protagonist, Lester Ballard, reveled in the kind of abominable behavior that more genteel writers like William Faulkner danced around. Appreciation: I thought I was done with Cormac McCarthy, but he wasn’t done with me 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z However Scott Hollas is happy to hang up his trainers, and since his incident the school have changed the parents' sprint to a more genteel pursuit. Dads' race at school sports day put me in A&E 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z The kernel of this genteel copy contains a coded value statement about power, or at least the expression of it. When the abstract ideals of hard buildings meet the actual needs of soft bodies 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z The genteel vibe came to a halt that summer, when Speaker John A. Boehner walked away from a deal because he was not able to wrangle the Republicans in his caucus. How Past Debt Limit Crises Shaped Biden’s No-Negotiation Stance 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z Today, some more genteel people want to be poised in 2024 to break the two-party grip on presidential politics. Opinion \| Voters do not want a Biden-Trump rematch. A third option might appeal. 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z In real life, however, Mr. Jaffee was the opposite of a smart aleck: a genteel, unassuming man whose in-person humor was delivered with a wink, not a cudgel. Al Jaffee, King of the Mad Magazine Fold-In, Dies at 102 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z For his part, the drummer has swapped lager and vodka for a more genteel addiction: tea. Metallica: How Earl Grey tea fuels the band's music 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z Woods, McIlroy and Scheffler are headliners who now share the stage with a story that has consumed and divided an otherwise genteel game. LIV Golf dispute, Tiger Woods make this Masters unlike any other 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z “We’ve become very genteel, haven’t we? We don’t want to go in the alley. We don’t want to go in the trenches.” Novelist Don Winslow is out to save America from Donald Trump — and an existential crisis 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z For nearly four decades, Jean-Luc Picard of “Star Trek” has largely been presented as genteel, erudite and — at times — quite buttoned up. ‘Star Trek’, swear words and TV characters’ changing mores 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z He was also a nudist — the genteel synonym back then was “naturist.” How the deadly Long Beach earthquake in 1933 propelled California's seismic safety rules 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z In many ways, Powell was the epitome of a white genteel Southerner. Why Is Affirmative Action in Peril? One Man’s Decision. 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z The limit was a vestige of the city’s genteel Quaker disposition. Opinion \| It’s a Philly thing: Why the city’s fans over-celebrate 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Over the next half century, he brought to life a parade of buttoned-down aristocrats, pompous executives and genteel society men who wore their business suits like armor. Charles Kimbrough, ‘Murphy Brown’ actor with prim persona, dies at 86 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z The Senate, where lawmakers pride themselves on a genteel code of conduct as they work from wooden desks that have been there for generations, has seemed largely insulated from the forces roiling the wider GOP. A South Dakota Senate aide’s allegation roils GOP politics 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z In one-on-one interviews, she was best known for delving, with genteel insistence, into the private lives and emotional states of movie stars, heads of state and other high-profile subjects. Barbara Walters, a First Among TV Newswomen, Is Dead at 93 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z Williams laughed while saying something else he learned: Usually quiet and genteel, Batum would curse out coaches by wagging his finger and clucking his tongue. At 1,006 games and counting, Clippers' Nicolas Batum is one of NBA's survivors 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z The industrial action taken by Royal Mail workers also appears to be curiously genteel, especially compared to the violence that sometimes marked the miners' strikes of the early 1980s. Inside Royal Mail's biggest sorting office on strike day 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Amid the pageantry of a social season, the pursuit of an eligible partner — and, in some instances, love — is a mashup of genteel historical romance and steamy 21st century fiction. How Netflix sells the dream of royalty to 'Bridgerton' fans 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z His critics contend — especially on social media — that, for a troll, Buoy in his first month with the Kraken has seemed rather genteel. ‘Hey, it’s Buoy!’ Game night with the Kraken’s new mascot 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z What this means is that this version of Remarque’s battlefield story intercuts periodically between dismal scenes on the Western Front and more genteel conversations taking place around a very different form of conflict. Review \| ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’: A German’s grim view of World War I 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z To tens of millions of viewers, the veteran actress with a trace of a British accent personified Jessica Fletcher, the widow-turned-detective whose genteel manner masked her wits. Angela Lansbury, Broadway luminary and ‘Murder, She Wrote’ star, dies at 96 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z The genteel world of chess has been rocked by accusations of cheating made by the game’s leading player. Chess world rocked by cheating accusation made by Carlsen 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z His patter was an insane mix of folksy, rural phrases — a wandering, genteel yarn-spinner from the backwoods, and all of this masked the fact that he was completely fearless and shockingly blunt. Perspective \| Conan O’Brien remembers Norm Macdonald one year after the comic’s death 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z For a time, a cereal manufacturer clogged up the genteel streets with lorries, but it has since moved. Poundbury suburb showcases King Charles's vision of British life 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z “That was a different era, a more genteel bipartisan era, at least when public officials had a health challenge,” Mr. Sabato said. Stroke-addled Fetterman’s Senate run buoyed by ‘carpetbagger’ attack on Oz 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z If you don’t know his dashing, genteel chamber music, the Seattle Baroque Orchestra is presenting a tasty sampler, most of it spotlighting his beloved violin. 6 Seattle-area classical music picks for fall 2022 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z In each tale, she is as we know her — genteel, frail, elderly and wise. Perspective \| Miss Marple is Agatha Christie’s best character. A new book reminds us why. 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z The Criterion Blu-ray includes both new and vintage interviews, which get into how unusual it was in the blaxploitation era for a Black actor to make such a genteel western. Review: Sylvester Stallone finds nuance in superhero deconstruction 'Samaritan' 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z To be “genteel,” that is, a member of the gentry, meant to be refined, free of all rudeness. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z And even if only on the canvas, Salman Toor imagines a rich, genteel atmosphere in which his ethnicity and queerness come together in harmony. Resurrecting the Forgotten Art of the AIDS Era 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z Even in Connecticut, a state that once defined a more genteel and moderate brand of Republicanism, Mr. Trump’s choice for Senate upset the local party’s candidate. What Liz Cheney’s Lopsided Loss Says About the State of the G.O.P. 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z The plant has a genteel true rose fragrance and bears umbels of small pink blooms. How one shriveled scented geranium sparked an entire collection/obsession 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z Tennis at Wimbledon is very often a reminder of the sport's genteel past - the players in white outfits, and strawberries and cream for the spectators. Wimbledon finalist Vere Thomas St Leger Goold who became a murderer 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z They called not for the eradication of drinking but for a more restrained and genteel style of imbibing. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z These days, it’s hard to say “Jell-O pudding pop” without conjuring up an unsavory image of a genteel TV doctor gone bad. Homemade rocket pops are a red, white and blue taste of summer 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z KATE: So you might discern if my wit is acceptable, my manners genteel. 'Bridgerton' star Simone Ashley on Kate Sharma's humanity and representation 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z Golf is typically the most genteel of sports, with its hushed greenside whispers and polite, muffled applause. Wicked Rude: LIV XIV ready for a traditional Boston welcome 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z "The time for gentile politics as usual has come to an end," Cawthorn wrote, before editing the post to say "genteel politics." Madison Cawthorn threatens “Dark MAGA” revenge and end of “gentile politics” after election loss 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z To defend the system of forced labor on which their economic survival and genteel lifestyles depended, elite southerners developed several proslavery arguments that they levied at those who would see the institution dismantled. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z In the meantime, there is a ruckus in the genteel world of golf. PGA Tour Denies Golfers Waivers for Saudi-Backed Tournament 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z The president said that Mr. Portman, who helped author the administration’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure package, was a throwback to a more genteel era on Capitol Hill. Biden reminisces about bipartisan camaraderie with segregationists during Ohio swing 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Perspective \| The Masters is supposed to be gorgeous and genteel. Facing calamity, Scottie Scheffler remained calm. Does a Masters title await? 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z Augusta National is supposed to be gorgeous and genteel. Perspective \| The Masters is supposed to be gorgeous and genteel. This year, it’s a brute. 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z These men and their families could lead genteel lives without manual labor, and were numerous enough to shape national standards of consumption, behavior, gender roles, morality, and religion. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z There is nothing folksy, never mind pastoral or genteel, about Crews. The problematic white, male Southern writer who inspired a diverse generation 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z After Signature’s return to live theater in November with a boisterous staging of Jonathan Larson’s “Rent,” some may experience the genteel sophistication of “She Loves Me” as a bit, well, tame. If you heart Broadway melodies, you’re bound to fall for ‘She Loves Me’ at Signature Theatre 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z Ottawa is known for ice skaters on the frozen Rideau Canal and a generally more genteel style of politics than that in the United States. Canadian police push back COVID protesters in bid to end siege 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z Canadian politics may in fact be more genteel than in many other places, but not because Canadians are innately kinder. Baffled by the Chaos in Canada? So Are Canadians. 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z Religious upheaval was not limited to the genteel families of mill owners. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z As a kid, Shepard favored punk rock and skateboarding over the more genteel pastimes of the South. Shepard Fairey on art, skateboarding and the culture of change in Charleston, S.C. 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z Civility, they said, is a quaint remnant of a genteel past. Column: Is civility really passe in American politics? 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z But Kyner’s pigmented sculptures, mostly of women in theatrically twisting poses, are more boisterous than genteel. Review \| In the galleries: An old-fashioned style gets an updated twist 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z Working-class women could be thus catered for, but for the more genteel ladies, a chamber pot in their curtained carriage was the way to go. London's long-term lav affair: A history of public toilets in the capital 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z They were perplexing thefts, lacking a clear motive or payoff, and they happened in the genteel, not particularly lucrative world of publishing: Someone was stealing unpublished book manuscripts. F.B.I. Arrests Man Accused of Stealing Unpublished Book Manuscripts 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z Almodóvar has never been afraid to throw a lot at his viewers, and this summary might at first suggest an incongruous narrative exercise, a reckless mix of genteel absurdity and historical gravity. Review: 'Parallel Mothers,' with a superb Penélope Cruz, is Pedro Almodóvar at his best 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z When the Chicken King opened a glitzy eatery in a genteel corner of the Big Easy, the Vampire Queen saw red. Full coverage: The work of Anne Rice, vampire romance pioneer 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z It’s a quieter, more genteel mass robbery, but it is also destroying lives, condemning small businesses to ruin, and placing into question the future of our great nation. Democrats’ smash-and-grab politics 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z She has the Southern woman’s mix of genteel and steely that Hollywood movies never get quite right. Inside one Georgia school district’s battle to serve healthy, homemade food despite shortages and soaring prices 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Some watch the emptying of the building, with its genteel, tattered charm, with sorrow. In Welcoming Prince Charles, Egypt’s Leader Sends a Message 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z It encompassed a scattering of industrial towns like Skinningrove and Loftus but more typical were remote farming communities stretched out along the Cleveland Way and the genteel coastal resort of Saltburn. Ashok Kumar: Teesside's gentle, tenacious and respected pioneer 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z Like the pandemic itself, the figure is a provocateur, about to reveal the fury underlying the genteel dinner, tearing at the social fabric that props up the system. Umar Rashid’s narrative paintings collapse past, present and future into a darkly comic vision of colonialism 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z After the Civil War it would be spoken of in only genteel euphemisms, like "the peculiar institution." White America's "hidden wound" threatens to destroy the country — and not for the first time 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z I was kicked out of Social Dance, a genteel weekly event where the white kids in my town dressed up in modest suits and floor-length dresses and learned the fox trot and the waltz. The Myth of Asian American Identity 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z The usually genteel Metropolitan King County Council, where members are loathe to criticize each other, erupted on Wednesday over a political mailer from Councilmember Kathy Lambert that a majority of her colleagues denounced as racist. Majority of King County Council denounces Kathy Lambert campaign mailer as racist 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z This is a city that has long been international and proudly parochial, genteel and tough-as-nails, feminist in theory and male-dominated in its politics, liberal and — I’m being extremely polite — deeply divided by race. Opinion \| Boston’s quiet revolution 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z But you said it, Justin: There’s a real dank, human lustiness to “The Green Knight” that brings the genteel, courtly ideals of Gawain’s social programming crumbling back down to Earth. Did you love or loathe 'The Green Knight'? Either way, you're not alone 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z Ostensibly places for genteel amusement and edification, zoos expanded beyond big and fearsome animals to include reptile houses, aviaries and insectariums. Opinion \| Modern Zoos Are Not Worth the Moral Cost 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z Love the Golden Age of crime fiction — that is, genteel mayhem from the 1920s and ’30s — but want to expand your horizons? Spring reading: 2 classics from the Golden Age of crime fiction, plus 2 new titles 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z When a friend from the genteel Dutch village of Bussum suggested she come there and open a boardinghouse, it seemed soothing. The Woman Who Made van Gogh 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z Lloyd is a genteel anti-Semite, convinced that his privilege is proof of his superiority. Review: Cynthia Ozick, nearly 93, writes her age in the evocative novella "Antiquities" 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z At a time when children's literature told the stories of genteel English schoolchildren, she wrote about what she called ordinary, "grubby kids". Beverly Cleary, children's author behind Ramona Quimby, dies aged 104 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z The beret is both bohemian and genteel at the same time. Are the beret wearers of Silver Lake and Echo Park here for revolution or croissants? 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z While many Crime Classics books focus on genteel murder or plot mechanics — that is, the pure puzzle — others go deeper, offering memorable characters and insights into the social and political concerns of their era. Spring reading: 2 classics from the Golden Age of crime fiction, plus 2 new titles 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z Southern plantations have often been prettied up in popular culture to portray a genteel lifestyle with sometimes benevolent owners. Editorial Roundup: Nebraska 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z “The surface Navy is really traditional: Go to sea, sit down in the wardroom, white tablecloths —it’s a very genteel part of the business. Elliott was a grunt, a lead-a-squad-of-Marines-into-combat kind of guy.” How an admiral and a war vet-turned-novelist teamed up on a smart technothriller 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z Fear of street violence may have played a role: Crack dealers carried guns, whereas Purdue Pharma executives dealt death in more genteel ways. Perspective \| Prisons are getting Whiter. That’s one way mass incarceration might end. 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z He thinks about his father, a police officer with a genteel personality. Perspective \| Our sports need a healthier version of masculinity, and men need to create it 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z They worry that Mr Trump will hurt their community's "genteel" atmosphere, said one lawyer, Philip Johnston, who works for an organisation called Preserve Palm Beach. Florida town allows Donald Trump to stay at his Mar-a-Lago resort 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z Johnson said neighbors of the club fear Trump’s residency will turn Mar-a-Lago into "a permanent beacon for his more rabid, lawless supporters," destroying the town’s "genteel" character. Trump Mar-a-Lago residency backed by Palm Beach council president, but still no vote held 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z Whatever the case may be, sexual naivete — or at least the appearance of it — would have been vital for a genteel young woman hoping to marry well, says Vickery. The truth about sex in 'Bridgerton's' England 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z At the same time, Biden is steeped in a different, more genteel political era, one of true cross-party friendships and bipartisan transactions. Opinion \| Will Biden be able to compromise with Republicans? The glass is three-quarters empty. 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z The pandemic forced the event to move from its traditional spot in April to this week, when it will begin Thursday without spectators, or as they’re called at genteel Augusta, “patrons.” The special ingredient of those brilliant white sand traps at the Masters 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Cornyn’s gentle distancing from Mr. Trump foreshadows a far less genteel battle to come. Win or Lose, Trump and Biden’s Parties Will Plunge Into Uncertainty 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z Pence's authoritarian masculinity is the genteel version favored in the patriarchal religious and regional communities that compose Trump's most loyal base: Southern conservatives and white evangelical Christians. Authoritarian white masculinity: Trump and Pence’s political debate strategy 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z The house of Givenchy, which had Audrey Hepburn as its muse, is synonymous with genteel elegance and exquisitely refined good taste. Fashion archive, 15 October 1996 – Alexander McQueen, the bull in a fashion shop 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Even during what is now looked back on as a more genteel era in presidential politics, there was no shortage of conspiracy theories. Trump refuses remote debate with Biden. Nixon and Kennedy did one 60 years ago today 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z But progressives were also angry about her genteel demeanor, an attribute of another era when the Senate was a more respectful, bipartisan place. Democrats, Facing Critical Supreme Court Battle, Worry Feinstein Is Not Up to the Task 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z Cameron used the genteel title — “Miss” — as a matter of formality but also as a kind of armor. Perspective \| Miss Breonna Taylor 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z Jena Malone walks an expert line between razored, genteel condescension and hateful resentment as a poisonous Southern belle named Elizabeth, arguably the film’s most fearsome character. Review: Janelle Monáe can't save 'Antebellum' from its hollow, high-concept horrors 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z There were few people, if any, who had a bad word to say about him, a testimony to the New Zealand-born Fahey’s genteel and always understanding demeanor. Friday Sports in Brief 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z But the process has been more genteel, despite the gunplay in Gulfport last week, with county boards of supervisors putting “cancel culture” to a vote. ‘Cancel culture’ put to vote in Mississippi counties: ‘We’re trying to do it the right way’ 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z The modern men’s superstars have been genteel by comparison, in part because of a stricter code of conduct. Novak Djokovic Out of U.S. Open After Accidental Hit of Line Judge 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z The Aug. 23 game was the first genteel match between the rivals since the historic lineup became part of the MLS schedule in 2011. A rivalry defanged? 2020 Cascadia Cup matches have been surprisingly civil between Sounders, Timbers 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z Both women were considered outcasts in the genteel, mostly White sport of tennis. Angela Buxton, who won Wimbledon doubles title with Althea Gibson, dies at 85 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z For those uninitiated, the tradition of tailgating around football stadiums on Saturday mornings has blossomed from something that used to seem genteel to something that seems booming. In the SEC, tailgating is almost as important as the actual football. This season, it’s in jeopardy. 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z “The first marlin were caught near the Carolina coast in 1939 – but the winds of war were upon us,” says Foster, a genteel retired school teacher in his 70s. Blue marlin remains a sportfishing dream – but for how much longer? 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z His cockiness borders on arrogance and, while he mostly speaks the truth, that rubs some people the wrong way in the genteel game of golf. Column: Trash talk and then some trashy play for Koepka 2020-08-09T04:00:00Z He wanted to see a grand promenade built along its banks and promoted the development of genteel tree-lined streets. Critics want racist senator’s name stripped from Reno park 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z Tennessee Republicans say the race is a departure from the more genteel primaries of the past. No Southern hospitality in GOP Senate clash in Tennessee 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z Connors is the bridge between the genteel, upper-middle class snootiness of the amateur tennis club and the modern, ultra-focused, hard-hitting professional game. The greatest male tennis player of the last 50 years: the fans' verdict 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z The trope of the romantic, genteel Southern plantation runs deep in American history. Southern neighborhoods have been named ‘plantations’ for decades. That could be changing. 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z For now they remain trapped in all of these neatly stacked cardboard boxes in this room of the dead on the outskirts of genteel Adelaide. The room of the dead: how a museum became a halfway house for bones and spirits 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z Britell’s scoring work on the stellar second season added new themes and expanded on his canvas of genteel classical dances, conveying a filthy-rich family’s distorted perception of themselves. These composers are likely to score big with Emmy voters 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Schorner, known for his formality and genteel ways, never complained. Dieter Schorner, acclaimed pastry chef who revived creme brulee, dies at 83 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z By then, the idea of a candlelit commemoration seemed to belong to another Hong Kong: to the restrained, almost genteel activism that endured for so long. How Hong Kong caught fire: the story of a radical uprising 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z Washington Archbishop Wilton Gregory has made a name as a genteel, middle-of-the-road diplomat, a reputation that served him as he rose into some of the most powerful positions in the U.S. Wilton Gregory, America’s only black Catholic archbishop, goes from diplomat to detractor in the wake of George Floyd’s death 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z Once a watermill, the grand setting would seemingly be an elegant retreat for a genteel getaway. 'It was like herding cats' - World in Motion revisited 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z The common park was once surrounded by terraced houses built for the genteel who flocked to the area in the 19th century. ‘We Grieve’: Community project unites neighbors in healing 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z But their working relationship, though inevitably lopsided, is appreciably warmer and more genteel than what we’re used to. Review: 'The High Note,' a soothing music-biz fairy tale, falls short of perfect pitch 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is a more erudite and genteel populist than Lukashenko or Trump, but he shares their contempt for facts and their proclivity for lying. Opinion \| Trump isn’t the only populist leader losing the battle against the coronavirus 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z “Green Acres,” which premiered in 1965, tells the tale of a New York City attorney who attempts to live the life of a genteel farmer alongside his wife in Hooterville. ‘Green Acres’ star Tom Lester dead at 81 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z It was a combination of the unspoken possibilities and the mismatch of the genteel New Englander and the gruff Texan, who irritated most everyone close to Kennedy, especially his brother Robert, the attorney general. Perspective \| Biden transformed the vice presidency. Whom can he pick to follow his lead? 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Pleased as punch, Sherry thanked Bressan as the genteel troubadour moved down to the next window. Music therapist takes on role of wandering troubadour 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z Yiadom-Boakye constructs her figures with firm, declarative brushwork on linen or heavy canvas, rather than the more genteel, decorous bravura often undertaken by a Romney or a Reynolds. Review: At the Huntington Library, 'Blue Boy' and 'Pinkie' get new neighbors 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z As he sees it, it’s a combination of eccentricity, genteel sportsmanship and competitiveness — but not at all costs — with a dash of humor and wit. It’s Among the World’s Hardest Sled Runs. Why Weren’t Women Allowed to Use it? 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Seventeen years ago, Mr. Lhéritier crashed through the doors of the genteel market for manuscripts with all the subtlety of a famished wild boar. A Billion-Dollar Scandal Turns the ‘King of Manuscripts’ Into the ‘Madoff of France’ 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z Mr. Eastwood, 89, said he approves of “certain things that Trump’s done” but wishes he would act “in a more genteel way, without tweeting and calling people names,” the paper reported. A Bloomberg presidency would make Clint Eastwood’s day, actor hints in interview 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z Her own genteel look belied a tough core. Dawn Mello, Who Revived Bergdorf Goodman and Gucci, Dies at 88 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z Should Democrats embrace more forceful language, or maintain a genteel tone? Impeachment trial should remove any lingering doubt: Republicans are beyond redemption 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z The reaction showed, among other things, that the pointed rhetoric that marked the four-month House impeachment investigation — and characterizes the rough-and-tumble House generally — does not necessarily play well in the more genteel Senate. Senators urge House impeachment managers to tone it down after testy debate 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z This populist style won the loyalty of the “genteel poor,” a black working class that demanded leaders be responsive to their concerns. Review \| The ‘unapologetic blackness’ of William Monroe Trotter 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Settling into Knopf’s cluttered Park Avenue offices with the carefree aplomb of a court jester, the black-bearded boss seemed amusedly uninterested in literary power and the genteel backstabbing politics of the publishing world. Sonny Mehta, Knopf publisher who guided millions to great reads, is dead at 77 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z The genteel conservatism of “Downton Abbey” is not a rigid, extremist ideology whose adherents are bent on power at all costs. Opinion \| ‘Downton Abbey’ reminds us what ‘conservatism’ really means 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z He was an academic, and his apartment was filled with genteel clutter—calligraphy scrolls on the wall, rosewood furniture, a grand piano, and sheet music covering every surface. Hong Kong’s Protest Movement and the Fight for the City’s Soul 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z In a perfect metaphor to his service, this consummate genteel Southerner managed to serve from 1999 through 2019 yet will never vote on a presidential impeachment. Analysis \| A beloved senator heads into retirement with no clear successor to fill the void 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Noticeably absent from the 30-second spot was the president’s genteel sidekick: Mike Pence. Biden’s lead may be bigger than you think 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z The bare-knuckle ads are a rarity in the genteel legal world and an example of the increasing toxicity of political debate over Trump’s nominees. Activist group targets law firms over support for group behind Kavanaugh pick 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z The bare-knuckle ads are a rarity in the city’s genteel legal world and an example of the increasing toxicity of the political debate over Trump’s judicial nominees. Activists target conservative legal group over Kavanaugh 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z A black man in a parking lot holds up the Black Power fist while a white woman in genteel Savannah, Georgia, wants to turn them over to the cops. Review: ‘Queen & Slim’ is romantic, urgent and beautiful 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z He added, “And as for the president, God bless his heart” - a phrase often used by genteel Southerners to politely deprecate someone. Democrat Edwards wins reelection in conservative Louisiana 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z He added, “And as for the president, God bless his heart” — a phrase often used by genteel Southerners to politely deprecate someone. Democrat Edwards wins reelection in conservative Louisiana 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z As wrenching as Watergate was, the hearings themselves now appear almost genteel. When Watergate Was Appointment TV 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z Sherry, whose public manner was genteel, “knew how to get what she wanted,” Haynes said. Todd Haynes Rewrites the Hollywood Playbook 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z
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