| 单词 | gentility |
| 例句 | "It's funny what a wonderful gentility you get in the bar of a big hotel," I said. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z He admired the gentility of the city’s citizens and the cleanliness of its streets. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Growing up, Ikoyi had reeked of gentility, a faraway gentility that she could not touch: the people who lived in Ikoyi had faces free of pimples and drivers designated “the childrens driver.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Martin’s manners have sense, sincerity, and good-humour to recommend them; and his mind has more true gentility than Harriet Smith could understand.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z It was totally unlike them, this lapse from gentility, and it made them much more interesting. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z But a butler might surpass his master in gentility and remain, nevertheless, the butler. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “You’re such a Yankee, Bull. Living in the South so many years, and you still haven’t been touched by the South. The gentility, the courtliness, none of it.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “You have not seen the beauty, intelligence, and gentility of the elfin nobility.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Such a shame you girls haven’t the gentility to join our club. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She hung there corpse-like; her hands turned outwards, as, in paintings of Christ, he stands when with gentility he reveals to Thomas the holes torn in his side and palms. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Beneath his Old South gentility, however, Keith was as opposed to desegregation as any Klansman and worked the system expertly to frustrate changes in Durham’s social order. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I feel oppressed, too, by the mandatory gentility of Wal-Mart culture. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z We have fallen upon a plantation downriver with infinitely less gentility and infinitely unhappier issue. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The fleet passes vast plantations laid upon the banks in unspeakable gentility. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “It is not about wealth,” the Rev. Everly Thomas explains with antique gentility. ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ arises from a tragic footnote in American history 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z Arguments about states' rights or fantasies of antebellum gentility were scythed by her storytelling. Perspective | Toni Morrison not only remade American literature, she challenged us to resist the tenacity of racism 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z He was a tall, well-tailored mixture of Southern gentility and roughneck talk. T Magazine: The Ring Cycle 2011-11-28T15:00:57Z The adagio, a full two minutes longer than on Mr. Norrington’s London recording, was an oasis of gentility. Music Review | Roger Norrington: A Revolutionary Returns, Embracing Subtle Change 2010-02-22T23:12:00Z Bellows was enraptured by muddy, sweaty modern life; he may have been scared by the sight of modern art when he eventually got to the Armory, since he soon retreated into gentility or grandiosity. George Bellows: Modern American Life – review 2013-03-17T00:05:47Z A former law student and leftwing activist, Oshima worked in direct opposition to what he felt was the timid gentility of postwar Japanese cinema. Nagisa Oshima dies aged 80 2013-01-15T13:50:08Z Cora, so observant and determined, makes a perfect witness of this grotesque realm of gentility floating on blood. Oprah’s book club pick: ‘The Underground Railroad,’ by Colson Whitehead 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z There is a gentility to much of the work, with a deliberate embrace of haute couture in the houndstooth tweed Edwardian suit from a 2003 homage to Christian Dior. Style: Feeling the Flow of Yamamoto 2011-03-14T13:01:10Z But he also holds him in moral contempt, especially for his supposed Southern gentility. The Unsettling Arrival of Speculative 9/11 Fiction 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Working on paper and canvas, he gave a veneer of gentility and preternatural, even timeless calm to the Midwestern river valleys in the decades before the Civil War. Review: George Caleb Bingham’s Serene Images of Rivers and Frontier Life, at the Met 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z With equipment problems, sound bleed from a distant stage and the gentility, Bowerbirds aren't cut out for the festival stage. Lollapalooza Day 3: Jack White, Florence + the Machine, At the Drive-In and the amazing Amadou and Mariam 2012-08-06T06:00:00Z But accurately or not, such subcultures see in Gorey’s work an invitation “to return to a time of gentility,” to quote the promoters of the annual Edwardian Ball, a celebration of Gorey. Nightshade Is Growing Like Weeds 2011-03-06T00:26:18Z The essence of gentility and service, Elizabeth was equal parts public figure and living mystery. Our Elizabethan Age of Pop Culture 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Tempers flared, privacy was rare and gentility in short supply. Review | Juliet Grames’s immigrant story avoids the New World fairy tale 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z With Beverly Monroe, she is this soft-spoken woman from the South with a degree in organic chemistry, the epitome of southern gentility, and suddenly she gets wrongfully accused of the murder of her longtime partner. Dave Eggers on working for justice through oral history: “There wasn’t much that allowed those people to seem fully human” 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z Miss Manners appreciates the gentility of concealing the price of a present from the recipient. Miss Manners: There’s no point in hiding a gift card’s amount 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Smith writes about yardbird intellects, refugees from good taste and urban ease; her characters are shabby-genteel with the gentility knob turned down pretty low. Ali Smith’s ‘Summer’ Ends a Funny, Political, Very Up-to-Date Quartet 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z He needs to find a way to express his particular freshness and gentility. Generation Genius! 2012-09-27T18:27:45Z The long, lean, covered-up collection from The Row , with its textured surfaces and sweet gentility, was in a world of its own. Marc Jacobs: Optical Allusions 2012-09-11T17:04:44Z Tom plays up the boffin-ish cleverness and gentility we ascribe to presenters of Radio 3. Comic Relief challenge: how hard can standup be? 2011-03-18T10:28:07Z But through his teens, the gentility of Lu Xun's early years faded into impoverished disgrace. Rereading: Lu Xun's The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z One of the many outrages that Smith portrays so powerfully is that white atrocities must never be acknowledged, the veneer of Southern gentility must never be scratched no matter how horrific the crime. Why write a novel about a race that’s not your own? The case of ‘Ginny Gall’ 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z The teenager who sewed her own skirts with babysitting money grew into a woman with no schooling, and little interest, in Southern glamour or gentility. The undeniable fun of chile con queso, before & after my parents' divorce 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z The narrator is contemptuous of French gentility but attracted to it as well. Viet Thanh Nguyen Packs Plenty of Action and Outrage Into ‘The Committed’ 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z As a professor of sociology and criminal justice at Clark and Atlanta University, I have witnessed and studied perfunctory Southern ways that are often referred to as Southern "gentility" and Southern "hospitality." Southern hospitality doesn’t always apply to Black people, as revealed in killing of Ahmaud Arbery 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z And if it lacked any sartorial energy to compel the Armani look forward, it had a pleasing gentility. Special Report: Fashion: Giorgio Armani Sends Out a Shimmering Collection 2011-09-26T17:07:04Z The grace and gentility — so different from London’s more raucous side — puts Mr. Schwab into a class of his own. Fashion Review: London Fashion Week Shows Its Kooky Side 2012-02-19T17:51:50Z Q: Many of the reviewers who praised the recent Muppets movie cited its warmth and the gentility of the Muppets' world. Book Talk: Absurdist Jim Henson film that wasn't 2012-01-19T10:01:06Z What he and other establishment Republicans want is to be able to pursue nasty, bigoted policies while maintaining an air of gentility that garners respect in the mainstream media. Rubio and Cruz are the real monsters: Liberals should be rooting for Trump — and he’ll be easier to beat come November 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z It’s a résumé that reeks a bit of worthy cultural gentility — people gathering to nod and sigh solemnly in the presence of sanctified masterpieces. Review: Listening (Yes, Listening) to the Beauty of van Gogh 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Now they are bought by Palm Beach decorators, antiques dealers, professionals, business executives and others who want the look of cultured gentility without the price tag. Ken Perenyi, Art Forger, Now Sells His Work as Copies 2012-07-18T22:12:11Z But, more than that, it offers a glimpse of a bygone era of White House style and gentility that feels more jarring than palliative. The Oscars and the Election 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z It was a time of great style and gentility, and wonderful clothes. What It Was Like to Be Photographed by Bill Cunningham 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z It is, of course, trying to escape the false gentility of Mrs Henderson Presents, the story of an earlier owner of the Windmill theatre, but it goes too far in the other direction. The Look of Love – review 2013-04-27T23:03:01Z With its earnest staging of a cosmopolitan gentility mostly foreign to this small isolated farm town, the salon had a poignant elegance. Colette’s Burgundy 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z The brisk, intelligent efficiency that Ms. Errico exudes in the early scenes should remain the dominant note, rather than the benevolent gentility she emphasizes in the last act. Theater Review | 'Candida': Two Men Who Adore Her, One Woman in the Middle 2010-03-08T06:35:00Z As the performance continues, he often ups the momentum by interrupting it; there is some latent tension underneath all that gentility. The Playlist: Zayn’s Bizarrely Great Sleaze Rock and 13 More New Songs 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z She agreed to an interview at the request of Mayor Riley, who correctly predicted she would second his testimony that Charleston’s reputation for gentility will survive even this perceived affront by Bravo. When Bravo Comes to Charleston 2014-04-18T19:56:40Z But mostly, Howard and his ilk also want to shut down the community center to keep its undesirable clientele from spoiling the village’s quaint gentility. Review: ‘The Casual Vacancy,’ Based on J. K. Rowling’s Novel, on HBO 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive This is absolute classic British black-and-white , creepy and atmospheric despite – or perhaps because of – the elegance and gentility of its visuals. The Innocents: No 11 best horror film of all time 2010-10-22T10:44:00Z The ballroom at Gadsby’s is a reproduction — and a vision of gentility that “Centennial of the Everyday” deftly undermines. Review | In the galleries: Simple objects speak about living in an 18th-century hostelry 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z Across town in the Garden District, channels Louisiana gentility through a mid-century modern lens. The South's Best Gastropubs 2011-11-02T13:50:06.253Z As guerrilla warfare tears away the facade of imperial gentility and tens of thousands of Portuguese flee the province they thought was theirs, Elizabeth finds her own domestic bliss equally imperiled. ‘No. 4 Imperial Lane’: A powerful elegy for lost love and lost empire 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z It’s one example of how the renovation and reinstallation is intended to eliminate the Wadsworth’s shabby gentility — but not to sand down the edges of its eccentricity, or that of the collections. The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford Puts Final Touches on a Comeback 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z The romantic roses, as rings and necklaces, fed the spirit of Christian Dior for romance and gentility that was too revved up in the runway show. Special Report: Fashion: 3 Weddings and a Dior Carnival 2011-07-04T18:10:04Z She opted instead for the faded gentility of the Polish Club, established during the war to provide émigrés with a meeting place and latterly familiar to some as a rather laid-back watering hole. Black Vodka by Deborah Levy – review 2013-02-18T19:00:02Z Mary’s sense of destiny, Tom’s steadiness, Alistair’s diffident gentility — all of these harden, rather than develop, as the novel runs its course. Chris Cleave’s ‘Everyone Brave Is Forgiven,’ about love and redemption in WWII 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z It's there in the internal contradiction of her name: "Lady" with its suggestions of gentility, sweetness, high breeding; "Gaga" with its intimations of infantility, madness, antic spirit. Feminist icon? 2010-09-17T07:00:00Z But the radical designer was never comfortable inside a shell of couture gentility. Pierre Cardin: One Step Ahead of Tomorrow 2010-03-22T21:00:00Z As it returns for its much-awaited fourth season, "Downton Abbey" remains a saga about elegance, tradition and gentility -- and the pressures of preserving them. Fans are up for 'Downton Abbey' starting season 4 2014-01-02T15:40:23Z You only need to bask in Schreck's forced gentility to understand why she was champion at Constitutional debate. In an Amy Coney Barrett reality, "What the Constitution Means to Me" is even more gutting 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z Indeed, its determined gentility and grace is its greatest sales pitch and a very attractive one to people searching for a box of calm amidst ever-renewing storms of anger fogged in uncertainty. "Downton Abbey" is entirely unnecessary, and essential viewing for super-fans 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z Dr. Ash’s old-world affect tilts and curdles, his mien shifting from twinkly “Mad Men” gentility to something cooler and more menacing. A Cabin in the Woods, Intermittent Wi-Fi and a Dead Landline 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Its styling – a skin of brushed aluminium with a panel of inlaid leather – flattered the user, advertising modernity while hinting at gentility. Elegy for the Polaroid 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z Off screen, the Knoxville, Tenn., native radiated a warm Southern gentility rarely seen in her movies. Patricia Neal (1926-2010): A Life of Tragedy and Triumph 2010-08-11T08:40:00Z He liked Somerset because it was "less cleaned-up" than the home counties: as Whitfield writes, he had a hatred for "English gentility … 'snug cottages with roses around the door'". William Scott, the painter who made the everyday into a masterpiece 2013-03-02T08:00:10Z Maybe the designer should keep to her soft gentility, but re-explore the archives. Special Report: Fashion: Skirting the Issue of Gender 2011-06-26T16:53:58Z Elegant French-style villas with pastel colors, frilly balconies and mansard roofs grace the lakeshore and instill an air of gentility. Lake Geneva: Switzerland’s Riviera 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z One is cultivating and protecting a sense of gentility. Popcast: Our Vacations with Ariana Grande and Kate Bush 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z I speculated that this bifurcated sleeping arrangement had something to do with Southern gentility, Papa’s late-night ham radio habit, or some unseen rift in their marriage. Family Matters: Married, but Sleeping Alone 2010-07-23T18:19:00Z He played the first movement of the epochal Sonata No. 2 with less violence than circumspection, gentility and wit. Review: ‘Au Revoir, Pierre,’ a Celebration of Boulez 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z “You don’t necessarily think that this radical movement was going on amidst all this gentility,” he said. Addition to Landmark Is Disputed 2011-01-05T23:05:07Z He emerged as a symbol of racial pride, crossing Tin Pan Alley gentility with street patois, and sometimes singing directly about black frustrations. Louis Armstrong’s Life in Letters, Music and Art 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Rather than reproduce the reassuring image of gentility and glamour we’ve come to associate with Jacqueline Kennedy, it continually undermines that consensus version of one of the 20th century’s most private public figures. ‘Jackie,’ art and accuracy in a post-fact world 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Nick can see through Gatsby’s pretense, but he warms to the native gentility, the dogged hopefulness behind the affected airs and dirty business deals. Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby: From Jazz Age to Baz Age 2013-05-09T18:30:54Z And then there are the funny bits – in a dark drama about a heinous crime entirely resistant to categorization, or moral gentility. Isabelle Huppert's rape non-victim makes Elle a perversely compulsive film 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z The Welford Park tent is a bastion of gentility and encouragement, not threats and befuddlement. A delicious end to an uneven season of "GBBO" 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z And don’t fall for the fake gentility of I as an object. Why Weird Al's 'Word Crimes' Is English for Dummies 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z It is engrossing despite its gentility and is so sublimely written that it felt like a luxury to read. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z But English gentility was fascinated by the crude, mysterious vocabulary of the “canting crew.” ArtsBeat: The Dulpickles and Nigmenogs of 1699 2011-04-01T18:30:00Z If gentility is a prerequisite for reading medieval literature, Wilson has admitted defeat. Dante in Love by AN Wilson ? review 2011-07-15T08:00:01Z One of the many outrages that Smith portrays so powerfully is that white atrocities must never be acknowledged, the veneer of Southern gentility must never be scratched no matter how horrific the crime. Why write a novel about a race that’s not your own? The case of ‘Ginny Gall’ 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Dressed in gaudy sportswear, Ms. Valk portrays Jane with a winking, slightly arch gentility, enunciating her lines with the dainty precision of an elocution teacher. | 'Vieux Carr?': The Boarders Put the Polish on Eccentric 2011-02-23T03:01:40Z But it is also imperative to call BS on the more comfortable members of society who scold about gentility. Your rage is justified, and it's not "vituperative" 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z A gentle and wry bow-tied lawyer and stalwart of countless civic boards, Tom Lewis wears his gentility lightly. Becoming Michael Lewis 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Yet Liverpool is still strong on nuance, gentility and intent, and Liverpool hasn't been as quiet since the day after it was bombed. Rewind TV: The Hour; The Apprentice; Show Me the Funny; Imagine; Richard Hammond's Journey to the Centre of the Planet; Twenty Twelve ? review 2011-07-23T23:06:24Z Typical for Kubrick, who had great love for the blackly comic, they settled on a mash-up that brought an air of perverse gentility to the menacing young hooligan played by McDowell. McDowell's cricket gear inspired `Clockwork' thug 2011-05-19T16:21:11Z It was well done, but lacked the emotional gentility of the designer’s work. Special Report: Radical Surgery on Regular Menswear 2010-06-28T11:14:00Z People outside the literary world sometimes caricature it as a dainty, over-polite, aristocratic scene build on deference and gentility; the stereotype may grow from the old schoolyard taunt that reading is for “sissies.” Salman Rushdie digs in on the Charlie Hebdo PEN fight: “Our fellow artists were murdered for their ideas and you won’t stand up for them” 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z I realise, "perfect" seems dangerously prim and old-hat, an ultimate proof of hopeless gentility. Brief Encounter: No 1 2010-10-16T10:54:00Z Usually it’s done in a spirit of mutual back scratching and gentility. Levine?s Injury Causes Headaches Around the Musical World 2011-09-21T12:00:22Z Some reviewers still felt that Mr. Gurney was terminally limited by the gentility that shaped his characters. A Patrician Older Gentleman Morphs Into an Angry Young Man 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z The capital's wealth was bringing accomplished artists from all over Europe, and the consumption of culture was becoming the best way to display your gentility. The Royal Academy: a story of sulks and squabbles 2013-01-04T22:55:14Z You Could Google Her NANTUCKET, Mass. ON this island of faded gentility, Wendy Schmidt — tall, blond and whippet thin — has long been a figure of some fascination. Nantucket Benefits From a Google Long-Distance Marriage 2012-08-29T20:34:37Z North Haven proved to be “a haven for the very rich,” but the island’s summer people were inclined toward a familiar New England-style shabby gentility, and “somehow we have infiltrated.” Elizabeth and Alice 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z As Machiavelli went on to suggest, the master liar must never show any weakness or gentility; he must always be, or at least appear to be, brutal, exuding righteous anger, control, power. Don't look away: It's a mistake to ignore Donald Trump's interview with Tucker Carlson 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z Yet, thanks to Cloud, who brought gentleness and gentility to the role, the character could never be easily written off, or out, as a gangland plot device. Angus Cloud was the moral backbone of 'Euphoria' 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z Described as a study of masculinity, the collection blended strength and gentility with a focus on refinement. Fashion, star power and a martial aura fuse at Givenchy’s collection at Paris Fashion Week 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z That sort of gentility is not unusual for this stage of the campaign. Column: After verdict in sexual abuse case, will Trump pay a political price? That's up to his GOP rivals 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z Evidence of their gentility is that they aspire to be expendable: They hope their labors will be rendered unnecessary by one or both parties’ sparing voters in 2024 the unappetizing menu of 2020 reheated. Opinion | Voters do not want a Biden-Trump rematch. A third option might appeal. 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z But he and others were most impressed by both Olmos’ disarming gentility and fearlessness. Award-winning retired AP journalist Harold Olmos dead at 78 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Director Michael Arden and set designer Dane Laffrey admirably conjure a Georgia of wild contradiction, of gentility and prejudice, of religious faith and mendacious immorality. Review | Ben Platt takes the lead in a too-stately ‘Parade’ on Broadway 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z But Josephine’s amateur sleuthing draws her deep into the tangled racial history of West Mills, a town that girds its gentility with an elaborate structure of deceit. Review | Indecent secrets lurk in De’Shawn Charles Winslow’s ‘Decent People’ 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z But despite that, the atmosphere is one of gentility and calm. Review | A forgotten Impressionist is rediscovered at the Phillips Collection 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z What was an eerie gentility about separate cultures in “The Order of Myths” has been intensified here by a much more starkly delineated, probing and galling portrait of slavery’s ensnarled legacies. Review: 'Descendant' pays powerful witness to the legacy of the slave ship the Clotilda 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z And she has entered the final hours of her historic tennis career with a nail art manicure that boldly rebukes traditions of gentility. Perspective | Serena Williams insists audiences see her, not just her stats 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z The British American gentry modeled themselves on the English aristocracy, who embodied the ideal of refinement and gentility. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z He exemplifies the very best of old-fashioned Southern gentility. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Explaining nil on NIL 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z "She’s not bad, just unremarkable in a role that strikes a single, clanging note of hysterical gentility throughout." The Glass Menagerie: Amy Adams' West End debut gets mixed reviews 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Some economists and sports marketing executives, though, believe that the club’s motive for keeping prices low is not as benevolent as Southern gentility. Appearing This Year at the Masters: Azaleas, Green Jackets and Inflation 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z Ironically, the cloying values of sentimentality and gentility made space for middle-class women to grow and flourish, and build their strength for greater challenges to male power. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z They created their own standards of gentility and honor, defining ideals of southern White manhood and womanhood and shaping the culture of the South. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Among the Republicans, there were early flashes of gentility: Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the committee’s senior Republican, pulled out a chair for Judge Jackson just before the hearing began. Jackson Vows to Be Independent on Supreme Court if Confirmed 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z She may have been reacting to her mother’s rigid notions of gentility and propriety. Review | Lorraine Hansberry was ahead of her time 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z For all his gentility, Mr. Freed could be acid in his observations. Richard Freed, classical music critic, dies at 93 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z It is the most hauntingly and psychologically complex ghost story I’ve ever seen, presented with an ambiguous gentility that is literally spine-chilling. Horror icons and experts pick 25 underrated scary movies for Halloween 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z Contemporaries gushed about Lee’s gentility, dignity, probity, manners, presence, composure, etc. Opinion | This scrupulous biography of Robert E. Lee is exactly what the country needs 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z To quote “The Official Preppy Handbook”: “Charm is the Preppy’s suit of armor, the façade of unflappable gentility that doesn’t crack under pressure.” Perspective | Tucker Carlson’s many, many sins against the preppy code 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Echoing several films chronicling the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, “Civil War” examines white supremacist terror that went unpunished and undocumented for decades, in favor of “Old South” images of romance, gentility and moral innocence. Review | A documentary delves into the divide between Americans’ views of the Civil War 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z In its time, the resort was an elegant and off-the-path destination that was an exclusive playground for mobsters, Hollywood royalty and the local Southern gentility of high society. Jimmy Hoffa buried at Georgia golf course once popular with Mafia bosses, defense lawyer claims 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z And her defenders say critics confuse Ms. Feinstein’s patrician gentility for senility. Democrats, Facing Critical Supreme Court Battle, Worry Feinstein Is Not Up to the Task 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z Defiance simmers below the surface of Southern gentility. Opinion | ‘Let Freedom Ring’ From Georgia 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z They imagine a world of benevolent masters, and speak with misty eyes of gentility and honor and the land. Opinion | You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate Monument 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z “She comes through it all with the greatest gentility and strength,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a fellow Californian, said in an interview. Drawing on Decades of Activism, Karen Bass Leads Democrats’ Policing Overhaul 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z There is a very deliberate gentility and comfort you can’t get with another garment.” Come as you are: the cardigan returns to men's fashion fray 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z But in a city known for Southern gentility, many neighbors seem proud to remain above the political fray. Impeachment Divides a Nation, a District and a Dinner Table 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Thad Cochran, a Mississippi Republican who brought Southern gentility to Washington and Washington largesse to the South over nearly four decades in the U.S. Thad Cochran, Mississippi Republican and former Senate Appropriations Committee chairman, dies at 81 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Wolfe’s main complaint was that the magazine was constrained by the bounds of what he considered milquetoast gentility and what Hersey would have considered human decency. John Hersey and the Art of Fact 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z His grace and gentility have rarely been recognized with such respect. Feedback: Ken Berry's comedy, the new Fox Nation, and Mystery Writers' award reversal 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z Marlin Fitzwater, who was the late president’s White House press secretary, said the ceremony “will show a quality of gentility and kindness that he was noted for.” Bush funeral to hark back to 'kinder, gentler' era in U.S. politics 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z While even Michael S. Dukakis, his Democratic opponent in 1988, has offered praise in recent days, he would hardly agree that gentility defined the Bush campaign that painted him as a criminal-coddling, unpatriotic lefty. A Kinder, Gentler Nation? Maybe for a Few Days 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Our town is a lovely mix of old Florida Gulf-side hamlet and Deep South gentility, blue-collar redneck ethos, military town and artist colony. Opinion | After Hurricane Michael, we are homesick on our own streets 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z For some, Sam was a nod to the university’s history and traditions of Southern gentility. Review | The making of Black Lives Matter — and making it more inclusive 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z The polite Japanese gesture, a regular part of Osaka’s routine, has a gentility that seems at odds with the power she flexes on court and the stern expression on her face. Naomi Osaka’s Breakthrough Game 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z It’s the bless-your-heart brand of gentility that is decorous and polished on the surface but sharp and piercing just below that. Perspective | The genius of Tom Wolfe’s white suits 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z Arguably the most ridiculous is the tone of Victorian gentility written into a series of stiff tweets on Thursday. Death by sex and television? It’s how Trump would want to go | Marina Hyde 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z If Blanche appeals to Stella's honor and gentility, Stanley speaks directly to the carnal pleasures that are integral to her life force. Brilliant acting and direction drive a modern 'Streetcar Named Desire' 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z His was a disarming combination of qualities, with a gentility and sincere interest in people that only enriched his zeal as a journalist and acumen as a businessman, friends and former colleagues say. ‘He was a relationship guy:’ Mason Sizemore, beloved former president of Seattle Times, dies at 76 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z The sweltering-hot summer of 1858 had made London's malodorous river impossible to politely ignore, or to discuss obliquely with "gentility of speech". How the humble S-bend made modern toilets possible 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z The savagery of Juan’s murder had shaken many inhabitants of Jerez, where, despite the drug problems in the city’s poorer barrios, an atmosphere of conservative Catholic gentility still prevailed. The father who went undercover to find his son’s killers 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Because while Chattanooga has advanced beyond its choo-choo days, it still embraces old-fashioned Southern gentility. You’re going where? Chattanooga 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z The senatorial gentility of yore has, at times, given way to the rancor and harsh words of the Twitter age. The Senate subway: The new epicenter of American democracy? 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z An adaptation of a story by Daphne du Maurier, “My Cousin Rachel” is written and directed by Roger Michell into a story of deceptive gentility, a complex story of duplicity masked by polite behaviors. Indie Focus: Politeness steps aside in 'Beatriz at Dinner' and 'It Comes at Night' 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z A mild-mannered Manhattan lawyer of unfailing gentility and civility, Howard is no fire-breathing Cromwell. Opinion | How we waste a massive amount of infrastructure money — before building even starts 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z She ridiculed Allen Ginsberg, her husband’s former student, for his “shabby gentility” and “talent for self-promotion.” The Feuds of Diana Trilling 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z Born and raised in North Carolina, Lynch still projects the steely gentility that Norling identified decades earlier. Loretta Lynch’s Ideal of Justice 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Despite this gentility I’ve endured FBI investigations and personal threats, and once had to travel on book tour with a bodyguard. Trump changed everything. Now everything counts | Barbara Kingsolver 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z It is easy to disregard or even disparage gentility — until confronted, as Americans now are, with its utter absence. The greatness of Vin Scully: baseball’s storyteller, our friend 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z “There is an old-world gentility about him,” he said. Moment in Convention Glare Shakes Up Khans’ American Life 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z I'm all for animal gentility, but asking Beef to embrace "Tofu" is all types of wrong. Andrew "Beef" Johnston tells PETA that he won't change his name to "Tofu" - Golf Digest 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z As often as not, Owen would remain silent until his parents gently goad him into response, at which point his face lights up and the gentility of his spirit shines through. ‘Life, Animated’ shows autistic son relating to world through Disney cartoons 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z It is a specific place, made by the collision between gentility and brutality. Donald Trump’s National Campaign 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z Though it enjoys a deserved reputation for rough-and-tumble politics, South Carolina is also a highly religious state with an expectation of at least surface gentility from its public figures. With a Slur for Ted Cruz, Donald Trump Further Splits Voters 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z Norment, in particular, usually stands as a symbol of that gentility, enforcing arcane rules and speaking old-fashioned flourishes. Black state lawmaker shares deep frustrations with her own party 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z And if there has been an outbreak of gentility across the Republican field, there is a conspicuous exception for one woman: Mrs. Clinton. Republicans Try to Woo Women With a Softer Tone in New Hampshire 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z The aggression in Southern culture is heightened by the fact that it often passes as gentility. Letter of Recommendation: Cracker Barrel 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Last spring, however, the discussion lost its academic gentility. The Trials of Alice Goffman 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Society’s stereotypes about feminine gentility and maternal nurturing were violated. Fox News fuels white rage: Daniel Holtzclaw, Laquan McDonald and the corporate media’s #blacklivesmatter problem 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z That could be tricky for a man whose family code is one of polite gentility and even bipartisanship, not angry yelling and boorishness. Debate Offers Jeb Bush a Chance to Take the Family Gloves Off 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z Whether the candidates maintain the same gentility during Tuesday’s debate remains to be seen, but Clinton will be surrounded by a group of underdog candidates hungry to leave an impression. Democrats Set to Face Off in First Presidential Debate 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z The gentility of establishment politics in Charleston was performed one night at Mother Emanuel at a wake for Herbert Ulysses Gaillard Fielding. After Charleston 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z But a notion has long bubbled away in the West that the Japanese as a people are inherently unpredictable and dangerous - the famous gentility masking something menacing. Three Western myths about Japan - BBC News 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Lying in a fine lamina of gentility on every surface. The troubleshooting teddies of Tirana - BBC News 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z To say I wasn’t exactly champing at the bit to play “Arkham Knight” is to err on the side of gentility. ‘Batman: Arkham Knight’ review: A game worthy of the comic book’s legacy 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z On the campus of the nation’s leading college for Negro young women — pious, sedate, encrusted with the traditions of gentility and moderation — these exhortations, for the first time, are being firmly rejected. Speak loudly and get into trouble: Howard Zinn’s enduring lesson about respectability politics 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Throughout Virginia, people were talking about the loss of part of the state’s history, a school known for its southern charm, its gentility, its early adoption of an engineering degree, its equestrian program. Sweet Briar College to close because of financial challenges 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z It saw the antebellum South as a paradise of Anglo gentility and the Reconstruction Era as the crushing of that dream. D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation 100 Years Later: Still Great, Still Shameful 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z “Our women students brought a good measure of gentility” to what had been “a kind of rough, raunchy, macho place,” Father Hesburgh later wrote. The Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, ex-Notre Dame president, dies at 97 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z She became known for an exuberant, freewheeling and blunt style of speech and operation that often seemed at odds with the state’s tradition of gentility. Betty Jane Diener, blunt Virginia secretary of commerce in 1980s, dies 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Around the eyes she resembles pictures of the young Ellin, with the same combination of sharpness and gentility. The Cabaret Beat 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z Hollywood had long romanticized the antebellum South as a home of vanished gentility; D.W. "We're the People:" John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath at 75 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z The offenses against gentility include a harrowing childbirth and, against virtue and Hollywood conventions, a heroine of unprecedented selfishness who lies and cheats her way through Reconstruction, stealing her sister’s man in the process. What Is It About Gone With the Wind That Still Enchants Us? 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z With its thick carpet, dark mahogany-paneled walls and heavy curtains, the room looked every bit the bastion of gentility it was built to be more than a century ago. Venerable Los Angeles Athletic Club aims for more youthful look 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z There are miles of monotonous ugliness, disrupted not by splendor, but by gentility — the pretty whitewashed homes and stately squares in the well-heeled districts of West and North London. The Knowledge, London's Legendary Taxi-Driver Test, Puts Up a Fight in the Age of GPS 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z But each Williams house bears his unique stamp of gentility: opulence with restraint, sophistication and warmth. Architecture of Paul Revere Williams, born 120 years ago, still 'remarkable' 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z They plunged a Capitol that puts a premium on gentility more deeply than ever into harsh, Washington-style enmity. Gov. Terry McAuliffe vetoes portions of Virginia budget, vows to expand Medicaid “It coats everything in a cozy patina of ‘literary’ gentility.” The Secret Haters of 'The Goldfinch' Grab Their Torches Regardless of the outcome, it was clear that feelings were running high in a state where gentility is a value in politics - if not a practice. Runoff in Mississippi for GOP Senate nomination 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z The ability to play the piano was thought to be nearly as important to the marriage potential of single ladies as their skill in cooking and sewing, signaling a young woman’s gentility and culture. Op-Ed Contributors: The Wrong Way to Protect Elephants 2014-03-26T19:51:12Z In a sport where gentility is next to godliness, brashness is a grave offense, punishable on social media. On Golf: Patrick Reed’s Confidence Overflows, Upsetting the Golfing Gentry 2014-03-10T17:56:53Z Known for its pottery and its classical music, Bennington exudes an early American gentility. Bulwark in Revolutionary War, Town in Vermont Faces Heroin Scourge 2014-03-06T01:49:49Z A blue-collar kid from Belleville, Ill., Connors, who is now 60, joined the men’s tour as the sport was shaking its country-club gentility. The U.S. Open Issue: Jimmy Connors, Ladies’ Man 2013-08-23T09:00:01Z Suffice it to say that they were indeed vile and most certainly should not have been uttered by anyone with the slightest pretensions to gentility or, let us face it, manners. The British Twitter Insults Rumpus: Sadly, Yes, This Is What Some People Are Like 2013-08-05T15:48:00Z “They ignore the most basic standards of gentility and respect,” Mr. Castro continued. Havana Journal: For Cuba, a Harsh Self-Assessment 2013-07-24T00:04:28Z In response, Woods strove to restore a tone of golf gentility, all punctilious decorum on Twitter. Golf swings from the absurd to the ridiculous, of course 2013-05-22T18:28:21Z I couldn’t help associating the gentility, good-humored common sense and pace of this novel with my image of a country doctor spinning yarns. Ferrol Sams, Doctor Turned Novelist, Dies at 90 2013-02-02T04:58:51Z The softness of these well-educated chaps comes through, their essential gentility. David Cameron, caterpillar cake and chums: a spread of privilege? 2012-10-12T17:36:52Z They say all this because they are jealous, because they don’t want to believe in your goodness, they don’t want to believe that gentility and kindness can be as strong as greed or aggression. The City: Trieste 2012-07-09T05:00:00Z I learned, as you would expect, many things in those six hours, such as one should never judge a team's performance by the gentility of their name: those Shepperton Ladies are fearsome. Cricket and other baffling British habits 2012-07-03T23:05:55Z Yes, the game was once dominated by the educated elite gentility, but they rarely played gently. India Ink: Is Cricket Really a 'Gentleman's Game?' 2012-05-10T06:05:57Z Mrs. Meares, who kept the house in Lillie Road, was an Irishwoman whose husband had grown tired of her gentility and left her. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z I like the gentility and pace of play at the fancier tracks. Public And Private Golf Are Their Own Unique, Vexing Experiences 2012-04-17T04:00:00Z The strong, stolid figure, the fine old face traced with the lineage of gentility, the cane that pounded down the sidewalks as he went where he willed. Historic Fredericksburg The Story of an Old Town 2012-04-11T02:00:30.517Z Then, on the other hand, every person who has made money sends one of his sons into the army, because thereby he acquires a stamp of gentility. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z If he has to ask another player for anything, he does so in a way to establish his claim to gentility. The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society 2012-03-30T02:00:17.867Z For all his gentility, Mr. Verrilli is also known for being passionate. Donald Verrilli, the Lawyer Who Will Defend Obama?s Health Law 2012-03-24T05:59:37Z At such an hour the streets were unsafe for a woman without escort, much more for a girl of gentility. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z His character was bad, and he had long forfeited such claim as he had ever possessed--I believe it was a misty one? on the distaff side--to gentility. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z They had no affected display of superior accomplishments to delight society, and had no flattering encomiums passed upon them for their gentility. Geoffery Gambado A Simple Remedy for Hypochondriacism and Melancholy Splenetic Humours 2012-03-14T02:00:27.650Z And yet I apprehend, that true gentility is altogether independent of fortune or fashion, of time, customs, or opinions of any kind. The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society 2012-03-30T02:00:17.867Z And never let a vulgar, degrading fear of compromising your claims to gentility, tempt you to the inhumanity of wounding the feelings of the humblest of your humble friends! The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z And the standard of expediency is not a good one for this purpose, nor is the standard of custom, nor yet the standard of gentility or the standard of success in life. Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities 2012-02-26T03:00:14.933Z Nothing perhaps, as Noble observes, injured the Heralds’ College more than this shameful tribunal, which proceeded to fine and imprisonment for mere words spoken against the gentility of the plaintiff. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z The Doctor was expecting to see an elegant, lady-like woman, something slender, and answering to the attenuated gentility of the being in whom "hope deferred, evidently made the heart sick." Geoffery Gambado A Simple Remedy for Hypochondriacism and Melancholy Splenetic Humours 2012-03-14T02:00:27.650Z In the habits, manners, and characters of old Sparta and old Rome, we find an antipathy to all the elements of modern gentility. The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society 2012-03-30T02:00:17.867Z Now then, for my "new reading:"—In DRESS, always obey the dictates of Fashion, regulated by good sense, and hate shabby gentility as you would the devil! The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z Some, of a poetic turn, have called them the "butterflies of the sea;" others a "frill," from their fancied resemblance to that once indispensable badge of gentility. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z This, independently of its absurdity, is an unfortunate idea; for coats of arms are as certainly marks of honour as these were badges of disgrace; and as Morgan says, ‘innocens was Adam’s best gentility.’ The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z It had its origin in nothing more substantial than his vanity; which was tickled by the opportunity of talking to a man who, with some pretensions to gentility, could be patronised. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z And Mr. Pybus, pulling down his waistcoat, looked as if he suspected that he had imbibed much of his lordship's gentility. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z "Culture" and "gentility" had been no help to her. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z Licentiousness and blasphemy were mistaken for signs of gentility, and little regard was paid to virtue. Old Church Lore 2012-01-31T03:00:14.880Z The remnants of faded gentility were strangely mixed with bareness and poverty. The Story of Charles Strange, Vol. 3 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:22.303Z He has been accused of vanity for assuming so much pomp in his equipage and gentility in his dress. The Freedmen's Book 2012-01-05T03:00:39.763Z He may not be up to Miss Jennings's standard of gentility, but he is the best man we have, and I intend to make him foreman next week. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z She had met no man since they had parted who bespoke high-breeding and gentility with more immediate directness. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z They were rather better looking houses if a sort of shabby gentility can be called anything except the worst. Diana Tempest, Volume I (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:36.223Z From what he saw there he drew his portraits of place and persons in the “Pickwick Papers;” and the impression after reading them is undoubtedly one of faded gentility. The Bath Road History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway 2011-11-06T02:00:11.073Z His gentility must stoop to vulgar peasant identification, and tell what he knows about the oxen on the farm. Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z It was a beautiful letter, full of most beautiful sentiments expressed with great elegance and gentility. Dr. Lavendar's People 2011-10-13T02:00:52.167Z At this period East Broadway wore only a waning grace of gentility; some few conservative nabobs still lingered there, obstinately defying plebeian inroads. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z Grace and gentility of appearance are attributes of this most interesting, attractive, and valuable family of trees. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z The line of misconduct to which she most objected was an undue assumption of gentility; she had no patience with boarders who gave themselves airs. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z Chaucer's Prioress had evidently studied the sections on table proprieties, and her gentility, which was so tender-hearted, might well have been developed under the admonishments of the ethical passages which often accompanied them. Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z Then, Dot's mother had to renew her acquaintance with May's mother; and May's mother always stood on her gentility; and Dot's mother never stood on anything but her active little feet. The Cricket on the Hearth A Fairy Tale of Home 2011-10-02T02:00:12.587Z They live on a large scale, and though food and clothes are dearer with them than with us, they must still be better fed and clothed than we are—as gentility requires. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z Shabby gentility, one may insist, thinking of the untidy, frayed-out edges that adorn the silky outer bark of almost every birch tree in the woods. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z The gentility of bishops, the propriety of parsons, even the impressiveness of a restored cathedral, give less of a charm to life than that. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z Thus, in addition to aristocracy of birth, there was a conditional gentility to which those who had the claim of merit might aspire. Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z They were Basques, like Anna, but of the small government employee class, who put on airs of gentility, and wore hats and leather shoes. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z They have no affectations of gentility; and by a natural consequence they are essentially free from all vulgarity. Mind Amongst the Spindles 2011-09-20T02:00:13.677Z She had never met any one more refined, or who showed truer gentility than these people. Polly and Her Friends Abroad 2011-09-18T02:00:29.443Z A month ago I sent him two thousand primers for our impoverished shabby gentility, of whom no one thinks and who involuntarily or rather in spite of their will, are there losing their Polish spirit. Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z "Believe me, I am a very broken-down gentleman; but still, my gentility survives, I suppose, and I am willing to treat it as a commercial asset, if that is what you mean." The Duke Decides 2011-09-14T02:00:47.307Z "Oh, this craft of singing is the touchstone of gentility now-a-days," said Cocklescraft, twirling his velvet bonnet by the gold tassel appended to the crown. Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's 2011-09-11T02:00:10.443Z The result was a flat in a quiet, unpretentious neighborhood, which yet took on a semblance of gentility from its proximity to Crana Street. Those Dale Girls 2011-09-05T02:00:18.917Z All the redeeming virtues in the world, we should feel, could not put the man who saw no harm in these things in the front rank of real gentility. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z Meantime Walpole, through his scholarly friend the poet Gray, had come to doubt the antiquity of Rowley's verse; and the plebeianism of this correspondent has shocked his gentility. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z When it came to kindness, which is the flower of all gentility, the virtues of the lower deck were even more strikingly apparent. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z They had not obscured his firm fixed impressions of gentility. The Locusts' Years 2011-08-16T02:00:41.777Z She possessed an air approaching gentility, and although her clothes were much worn, they were of good material. The Coming of the King 2011-08-13T02:00:24.197Z All your suppositions about Chekhov’s soulful gentility fly out the doors of the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater with this tornadic rendering of a country estate consuming itself in the misery of missed opportunities. Theater review: A recharged ?Uncle Vanya? at Kennedy Center 2011-08-07T21:49:00Z Melancholy and morose, standing in their loneliness, we trim them into keeping with our wishes and so adopt them into our good graces, as ornaments of our estates, heraldries of our gentility. Tablets 2011-07-25T02:00:17.487Z Highbourne Gardens was one of those London suburbs which contrive to preserve a faint aroma of gentility for many years after the real gentlefolk have left it. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z To be emotionless and self-possessed is the object of gentility all the world over. Crying for the Light, Vol. 1 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:10.740Z Their presence is inevitably a hindrance to the full enjoyment of family privacy, and often enough their gentility is an excuse for incompetence. Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women 2011-07-20T02:00:13.547Z I remember the mother so revered by the son, as fragile yet dignified, and the fineness of the feminine element imparted gentility to her boy. Revisiting the Earth 2011-07-12T02:00:36.337Z Clubs and public courses exist in working-class areas, but the sport’s dominant image remains one of relative gentility. Northern Ireland?s McIlroy Transcends Boundaries 2011-07-11T04:12:19Z The farmer was not exactly a chieftain, but he was well enough connected to be considered respectable; to back up his gentility he possessed numerous flocks of sheep and a goodly drove of oxen. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z It was entered by the side door, and not through the shop—that was of itself a sign of gentility. Crying for the Light, Vol. 1 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:10.740Z “At this moment I am trying to imagine that I am in the same world as that hateful suburb, with its prim villas and stucco gentility—its dull, flat, mediocre pretensions to ‘prettiness.’ Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z “Are you from Meerut?” he asked, his voice and manner conveying a curious blend of brusqueness and gentility, as his tired horse willingly pulled up alongside Nejdi. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z Not quite at ease, she minded her table manners, and behaved with a gentility quietly noted and silently commended by the elder women. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z Not a rough word was spoken, and it was somewhat pathetic to observe the manner in which several of them endeavoured to assume an air of gentility. If Any Man Sin 2011-06-12T02:00:05.887Z I, at least, shall do what I can to give our car an appearance of gentility. The Automobile Girls at Newport Watching the Summer Parade 2011-06-01T02:00:25.733Z By people of breeding we are treated with politeness and gentility, and the low and vulgar we do not seek. Spinning-Wheel Stories 2011-05-28T02:00:23.707Z People of impecunious gentility, who can't issue orders in any houses but their own, construct in their own, with much ease, loopholes whence they can fire upon the enemy who makes his attack from--within. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z The life of this man had been secretly bad; he had deluded himself with maxims and rules of gentility. Sons and Fathers 2011-05-16T02:00:19.893Z Belle-Ann ever remembered her first meeting with this man, whose deferential manner was rich with little original courtesies which were innate manifestations of gentility that were born with the man. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z "Upon that assurance," said Don Quixote, "with your grace's leave, I, for this time, wave my punctilio of gentility; and, debasing myself to the meanness of the offender, qualify him to measure lances with me." The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z His gentility, in the best sense, is in full vigor. From the Easy Chair, series 2 2011-04-29T02:00:06.407Z “We may expect but slight consideration for gentility here,” continued the adventurer. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z It was upon my vouching personally for your gentility that your challenge was accepted. Sons and Fathers 2011-05-16T02:00:19.893Z Fanshawe feels our newfound gentility is a function of our more developed society and people should respect our more fastidious sensibilities. Should spitting in the street be banned? 2011-04-20T11:03:31Z As she saw it, life was too grim and serious for one to foster pride in one's ancestors simply because they, being men and women of gentility, wealth, and influence, had stood higher than others. The Hills of Refuge A Novel 2011-04-09T02:00:10.530Z This kind of phraseology put their gentility quite out of the question with Mr. Joy, and without further ceremony he ordered one of his waiters to call in a watchman. Mornings at Bow Street A Selection of the Most Humorous and Entertaining Reports which Have Appeared in the 'Morning Herald' 2011-04-08T02:00:09.863Z "You are perhaps not aware, ma'am," said she, with a mincing, lisping accent, the very essence of gentility, "that this instrument is not a 'house piano.'" The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:06.657Z It wears such an air of gentility and refinement. Sons and Fathers 2011-05-16T02:00:19.893Z However, I fancied myself wearing it with my silk dress, and thought it would give me an air of great gentility. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z “Who are you?” said I to a woman who flung herself at my feet, and who bore in her countenance evident marks of former gentility. The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] 2011-03-27T02:00:17.093Z The mansion had an aspect of gentility, and its various forms of architecture made it doubly interesting. Fast as the Wind A Novel 2011-03-22T02:00:19.407Z For pity's sake, and true gentility's, Hear and respect me! A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z Oh yes, they're capital people; free and easy, you know, and no stupid stuck-up gentility about them. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z The northern spirit was free and individualistic; the southern made for great estates and a conscious gentility ruling over a dusky subject multitude. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z And he was not at all afraid of being borne down or overwhelmed by any amount of gentility. A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:28.240Z And, on the whole, he felt positively relieved when Slater came to announce, with her chronic air of resentful gentility, that "Miss Maxfield's young woman was waiting for her in the hall." A Charming Fellow, Volume II (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:26.237Z If a man is buying a house, it is ten chances to one that Mrs. Grundy's opinion concerning gentility of situation will carry the day against cosiness and real comfort. My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z Perhaps he finds the atmosphere of Squirearchical gentility very stagnant, the bed of roses stifling—perhaps, too, the severe privations he has at different times undergone have injured him. The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman 2011-02-26T03:00:49.377Z For three centuries French remained the court speech, and the mark of civilization and gentility. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z At Cumberland Street she got off, and went down that broad street of tall grey houses with their air of decayed gentility. The Setons 2011-02-10T03:00:48.400Z It was painful to note their contrivances for keeping up the appearance of gentility. The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains 2011-02-09T03:00:48.583Z And yet Stowel prides itself more upon its reserve than upon anything else, except perhaps its gentility. A Lame Dog's Diary 2011-02-04T03:00:23.707Z The fellow is the lowest of the low; but even that's better, in some respects, than a species of half gentility, for he actually has n't one in the world belonging to him. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:20.520Z It is shabby gentility alone that provokes the smile of sarcastic meaning; and thus the simple dwellings of the fishermen, in all their humility, offered nothing to the eye of critical remark. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:16.820Z “Now, if one represented that peculiar Bostonian intellectual gentility, the Nation kind of thing, as a very wicked, sour lady’s-maid with a tremendous influence over the Spinster’s conduct….” Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z He hoped he could do the heart-broken and disappointed lover, whose feelings were tempered by the calm repression of high gentility. Parlous Times A Novel of Modern Diplomacy 2011-01-13T03:01:14.887Z And a "momentary gentleman" would be even more appropriate, she thought, because at an instant of deep emotion all decent men were raised to the heights of Nature's gentility. Vision House 2011-01-13T03:01:00.407Z It was a manifestation of her regard for blood, gentility, name, and her hatred of labor. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z Poor Mr. Lancaster, to have thy gentility questioned by so competent a judge, as Mr. Gideon Welles! Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z She had the same flair for respectability as had the Misses Darcy for gentility. Why Joan? 2011-01-02T03:00:20.290Z You would not, I am sure, have me put off my gentility now that I cease to wear its livery. The Wayfarers 2010-12-30T03:00:22.387Z They are, Mr. Sacks wrote, “suave assassins, devastating advocates without compromising their gentility.” Sidebar: Sotomayor Guides Court?s Liberal Wing 2010-12-27T23:47:45Z Elsie, my dear, we must give up our present surroundings, and take up with gentility in its cheapest form.' The Ivory Gate, a new edition 2010-12-25T03:00:10.617Z In this way, India’s experience seems to feed into a tradition of seeing line etiquette as a marker of modernity, of graduating from chaos to order, whims to rules, brutality to gentility, scarcity to abundance. Currents: Jumping In and Out of Line 2010-08-06T12:33:00Z The tumult threw a harsh light on a state where its inhabitants like to think of themselves as reflecting Southern gentility, but one also known for its bare-knuckled politics. In Big Primary Day, Struggle to Gain Power, or Keep It 2010-06-09T00:14:00Z It was, Bunker shows, a form of Christianity blended “with ideas about gentility and good government, and seasoned with Greek and Roman ideals of republican virtue.” Book Review - Making Haste From Babylon - By Nick Bunker 2010-05-21T16:55:00Z Obviously, that level of gentility and decorum is difficult to maintain at regular tour events. With Woods?s Masters Return Comes a Whole Lot of Security 2010-03-27T17:43:00Z Fans at the Georgia club's annual Masters tournament are known for their gentility — they are referred to as "patrons" — and media access is tightly controlled. Tiger Woods plans to return in Masters next month | Golf 2010-03-17T05:31:00Z Thus, sir, for the sake of the gentility and delicacy of her leddyship's organ of smelling, forty stomachs were left twice a-week to yearn with hunger. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 To my mind he presented the picture of a poor scholar, or of gentility in ruins. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 It has been frequently urged by inconsiderate persons, that, where there is a tendency to corpulency, stays are necessary to limit exuberant growth, and confine the form within the limits of gentility. Dress as a Fine Art With Suggestions on Children's Dress As it is with coats, so it is with that which we call gentility. Rachel Ray But now, Lady T—to use a poetic figure—I am prepared to cut an eight on the frozen lake of gentility. The Cabinet Minister A farce in four acts With a somewhat nervous air the chosen committee entered the sanctum of gentility, awkwardly twirling their caps in their hands. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers But in a world where Mars can reach out in a single night and smite a city a thousand miles away, we cannot suffer wisdom to hesitate in an inaudible gentility. The Salvaging Of Civilisation He perceived that they would bear the burden of existence in the future, struggling to preserve their gentility against the envy of the class beneath them and the contempt of those above. Sinister Street, vol. 1 The words 'vicar' and 'Cray' suggested something like domestic service without its rights, gentility without its privileges. A Bed of Roses The nether world, on the other hand, was peopled with deities of the second class and by ordinary human beings, who had no pretensions to gentility. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II It comes in through your doors and windows, from the streets and alleys in your neighborhood; it comes in without scraping its feet, and goes down your throat, unwashed, with small respect for your gentility. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. She came toward me in her faded, far from sumptuous, gentility. The Great Miss Driver All these things show," said I, "that the staff of power has passed from the hands of gentility into those of labor. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 Larger and more progressive business buildings had crowded up to the street lines on both sides of it, and yet it managed to preserve somehow an air of ancient gentility. Hempfield A Novel They were snobs in their own way, he felt confident, and their gentility was an affair of effort. Helena Brett's Career He was taller than the average negro, and there was a simple dignity—an air of gentility and serene affability—in his attitude and bearing that attracted the attention of Mr. Hotchkiss. Gabriel Tolliver A Story of Reconstruction She was tall, had pale-brown hair with a broad parting in the middle, a very long inquiring nose, faded blue eyes, an absolutely flat chin, and—inconceivable gentility. The Great Miss Driver "O gentility!" thought I, "can you endure this last shock?" Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 There was not the slightest attempt at finery, or display, or gentility. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. If you wish to enter, you must pay; if you wish to show your gentility and sit near the lecturer, you must pay twopence more. The Religious Life of London Not all the fine things that fine people possess, Should teach them the poor to despise; For ’tis in good manners, and not in good dress, That the truest gentility lies. Holiday House A Series of Tales I allow for her natural taste, for her standards of gentility. The Great Miss Driver Its population consists of widows and maiden ladies, in bonds to their ancient gentility. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 Visiting amongst the Tartars is a frank, simple affair, altogether exempt from the endless formalities of Chinese gentility. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] No low beatings and knockings about; no jokings and squeakings like your precious Punch’s, but always the same, with a constantly unchanging air of coldness and gentility.” The Religious Life of London Darius Thorpe, although he had been only a sailor, understood somewhat of manners among people of gentility, and he saluted properly—which we had forgotten to do—while awaiting an opportunity to ascend the stairs. Commodore Barney's Young Spies A Boy's Story of the Burning of the City of Washington To improve the gentility of his appearance he put on a cast-off wig, which he procured from a servant. History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia To merit that title which was equivalent to that of knight, many qualities were indispensable: courtesy, courage, gentility, poetry, diction, strength, and address. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern Here was gentility enough in all conscience, even had the reputation of her evening parties not been the talk of the town. Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands It teaches “the religion of deportment, of gentility, of clerical reserve.” The Religious Life of London I can dance, sing, ride, fence, understand the languages—Now I can't conceive how running you through the body should contribute one jot more to my gentility. The Constant Couple or, A Trip to the Jubilee Talk of gentility! see what gullibility Fashionable dupes of homœopathy betray, Who smallest globules cram with the very biggest flam, Swallowing both together in the most prodigious way. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) Her gentility was one of breeding, but it did not involve the brain. Women of England Mr. Warbler had reached the last stages of shabby gentility. The History and Records of the Elephant Club That is sufficient; and we have no right to question the genius for want of gentility, unless the former ran in families, or could be bequeathed with a fortune, which is not the case. A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time There is nothing which people will not pretend to like, if a liking for it is supposed to be one of the marks and indications of gentility. The Intellectual Life It was he who first confirmed her vague gropings after what one might call, for want of a better word, gentility. Command The real test applied to them is not the test of breeding, which relates to the past, but of gentility, which is the measure of the present life. Women of England If necessity be the mother of invention, poor gentility is the "stepmother." Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas They make free use of the oil extracted from the cocoa-nut; with this they anoint their bodies, considering it the extreme of gentility to have the skin entirely saturated with it. A Narrative of the Shipwreck, Captivity and Sufferings of Horace Holden and Benj. H. Nute Who were cast away in the American ship Mentor, on the Pelew Islands, in the year 1832; and for two years afterwards were subjected to unheard of sufferings among the barbarous inhabitants of Lord North's island The explanation is, that as classical accomplishments are considered to be one of the evidences of gentility, whoever speaks loudly in their favor affirms that he has the tastes and preferences of a gentleman. The Intellectual Life As we came in from sea, dazzle-painters swarmed on us, bespattered creatures with no bowels of compassion, who painted over our cherished glass and teakwood and brass port-rims—the last lingering evidences of our gentility. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war The most uncouth man fails not in tact of gentility, when he gives any service to ladies. Why a National Literature Cannot Flourish in the United States of North America What sacrifices did they not make to the genius of "gentility"! Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas The hearse was followed by very few carriages, but the cortége of pedestrians stretched away in the sunshine, up and down the classic gentility of Piccadilly, on a scale that was highly impressive. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. He seemed also to feel less satisfaction in the idle gentility of his own daughters, since he had been witness to the simplicity, modesty, and usefulness of those of Mr. Worthy. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales Steam has certainly given a new gentility to our seafaring, but it cannot wholly smooth out the uneven sea-road. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war The american ladies are disposed to gentility as well as any lady in the world; and were, here, italian ladies, who had changed their italian custom, I could not, nor I should wonder for it. Why a National Literature Cannot Flourish in the United States of North America To me, this was a precious document; it was a patent of gentility at once. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas And I've known good women who wore cheap finery and aped gentility. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. Betty was reminded again of the gentility of her new situation, as she crept up to bed in one of Mrs. Sponge's garrets, five stories high. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales “How does ye, Mr. Deviloh?” inquired the old farmer, in his exceedingly countrified, agonizingly familiar manner; extending a big, rough, red, and very filthy hand to be shaken by this exquisite sprig of refined gentility. Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 Fashion tosses the feathered head—and gentility turns away her painted cheek from the Mountain Bard; but when, at the shrine of true poetry, did ever such votaries devoutly worship? Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) There was a crude gentility in his manner that added to the pathos of his words. The Silent Barrier But it flourishes for all that, and all genteel people, looking into each other's eyes with the desperation of gentility, agree to endure it for gentility's sake. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. He was always taunting me for that gentility on which I so much valued myself. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales I have enough to portion my daughter, and even to make that foolish boy a gentleman, according to his notions of gentility. Olla Podrida Or rather, upon that first occasion, we were conscious of a sense as of district-visiting on our part, and reduced evangelical gentility on the part of our hostess. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) The imported limpets on this Swiss rock of gentility were not sure of their own grip. The Silent Barrier The solicitous traveler secured a seat at table opposite Miss Garnet and put more majestic gentility into his breakfasting than he had ever done before. John March, Southerner Yet her whole notion of gentility was, that it consisted in being rich and idle; and, though she was willing to be a drudge herself, she resolved to make her daughters gentlewomen on this principle. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales It is not genteel, and persons doubtful of their gentility ridicule it. Report of the Proceedings at the Examination of Charles G. Davis, Esq., on the Charge of Aiding and Abetting in the Rescue of a Fugitive Slave Held in Boston, in February, 1851. I never feel like a gentleman there, and I cannot perceive a semblance of gentility in any one who makes part of the travelling mob. Railway Adventures and Anecdotes extending over more than fifty years It was plain that, apart from any scruples concerning our gentility, he had some difficulty in picking up the thread of his story. Aliens From the number of great families with which it has been associated Chester has been named “the mother and nurse of English gentility.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" As to gentility, Mr. Bragwell," replied Worthy, "I am not sure that this is among the wisest of our pretensions. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales No pretensions to gentility had ever been in the family, but an acceptance of their commonplace lot, with little striving for higher things. Home Life of Great Authors Mrs. Cunningham did not live in a flat, but in the comparative gentility of "up-stairs rooms" over a gaudy undertaking establishment. The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself I saw away ahead, and wondered if they would have any luck in their fight with gentility! Aliens He is far better than Apemantus in "Timon of Athens," for there is no hypocrisy in him, no egoism, and, comfortable trait in such a personage, no pretence of gentility. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 But he will do well," added he, "not to affect a frothy gentility, which will sit but clumsily upon him. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales “A braw day to ye, Mistress Elliott,” said she, and hostility and gentility were nicely mingled in her tones. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston A mysterious voice, of unparalleled selectness, or bon-ton, or gentility, emanated from a neighbouring retreat with an accidentally open door, where the lady of the house was corresponding with philanthropists in spite of interruptions. When Ghost Meets Ghost Sometimes I have fancied that some strain of chivalry had kept him under the illusion of birth and gentility. Aliens He was unshaved, but his face bore evidence of former gentility and manhood, in spite of the fact that it was now dissipated. The Missing Tin Box or, The Stolen Railroad Bonds With the sharp contrast of a dream came the old clam-digger, barefoot in the mud, her basket of soiled clothes on her shoulder,—her son Derrick, a vulgar lad, aping gentility, behind her. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 All his life he had been a prey to gentility, had cast himself free from it, only to relapse again in such fashion as this. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman Her mother's beauty and her father's gentility had given to Lizzie many advantages over her cousins. A Country Gentleman and his Family My children should never come under the influence of that gentility that had spoiled our early lives. Aliens Against mere beauty he was proof: it was her unmistakable gentility that now robbed him of the courage of his cowardice. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) "Not all the fine things that fine ladies possess Should teach them the poor to despise; For 'tis in good manners, and not in good dress, That the truest gentility lies." Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 It is hard to say how it came about; perhaps it was because she unconsciously felt the absence in Bazarov of all gentility, of all that superiority which at once attracts and overawes. Fathers and Children But there is a deadly evil among us, though you will hear of it from neither press nor pulpit, which I am disposed to rank first in the number—the affectation of gentility. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative You can understand from that that my mother had grasped the principle of gentility all right. Aliens And by birth she belonged to the class of small townsfolk who are nobody, and whose gentility is more appalling than their homeliness. Sir Tom To this, he readily assented, and searched diligently for his cardcase, but that mark of gentility p. 228was not at hand. Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign His college life has little of restraint, and nothing of necessary gentility. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 Heavy workingmen’s dishes lay on the tables, the plating was worn from the knives, and the last echoing ghost of vanished gentility was dispelled by a voice from the kitchen. Shadow Mountain He had never agreed with the theory of gentility which had taken such a hold of my mother. Aliens Even an inferior woman could not associate with a superior man that long without some of his gentility passing to her, thought he. The Bondboy This young man had tried everything that was genteel: he had even aspired to literature: sought employment on the Press, on the Stage, everywhere in fact where gentility seemed to reign. The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit The dignity and reduced gentility of his appearance made the small garden cut a sorry figure. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 It would please me if you would permit me to forget your gentility for an hour. Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story And yet she was so obsessed with this notion of gentility that she deliberately gave me a soft time. Aliens In the interim, Mrs. Jipson and the daughters not only got over their hysterics, but ideas of gentility, as practised "above Bleecker street." The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes With Borrow "individual" means simply "person": a piece of literary gentility of which he, of all others, ought to have been ashamed. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Both streets were now given over to what is termed decayed gentility. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart This was no rough bully of the seas; Carew's bearing and dandified apparel bespoke gentility. Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story His daughters, my cousins, couldn't make him see the importance, in England, of gentility. Aliens Ladies had a different but equally doubtful mode of asserting their gentility. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) As for the diatribes against gentility, Borrow has only done very clumsily what Thackeray had done long before without clumsiness. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 In a corner of the garden, at the angle of the parapet, rises that classic emblem of rural gentility, the pigeonnier, the old stone dovecote. The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 His boasted gentility was gone with his courage; and superstitious terror had quite overcome his Western skepticism. Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story I saw that my shipmates knew nothing about culture or public schools or art or gentility. Aliens From the sham gentility it spreads to the daughters of workingmen. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 They could still be exclusive and foller the star of gentility till it stood over the cold marble palace of disdainful nobility. Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife "Permit me to give you a lesson in gentility," she said. Lords of the Housetops Thirteen Cat Tales Mr. Haviland had lived in a melancholy gentility on a pension which died with him, and at his death the children were left with nothing but the pittance they inherited from their mother. Audrey Craven And you know, in your parts, there's a good deal of gentility creeping in. Aliens After all, fortunes alone do not make real gentility––thanks be! The Gorgeous Girl This was intended to bring Terence up to the level of gentility for which he was credited by compensating for the barbarity of Roman social manners. Prefaces to Terence's Comedies and Plautus's Comedies (1694) Really these Portuguese have some slight tincture of gentility in them, though they are neither Castilian nor English,’ he continued, making us another low bow. A Supplementary Chapter to the Bible in Spain That glamour of intellectual gentility, which England sets such store by, had made him unfit for the outdoor brutalities of northern life. Murder Point A Tale of Keewatin It had been a strain on them to maintain an appearance of gentility, and their recoil had been merely that of a stretched piece of elastic. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real It was, however, a decayed family, so impoverished as to find it difficult to maintain the position of gentility. Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi American Pioneers and Patriots But you must throw all ideas of gentility to the winds, banish the thought of refinement, and prepare for a rough, hard struggle, and it may be a long one, too. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand She had always an air of gentility about her; people called her “a betterish sort o’ body.” Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI What a Moloch this gentility has been and still is! The Skilful Cook A Practical Manual of Modern Experience As yet the Kettering family was a new experience to him, and though the stiff gentility and aggressive hospitality so far exhibited had made him somewhat uncomfortable, his judgment of these people was favourable enough. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real And if your gentility——' 'But I cannot afford two hundred pounds,' interrupted Barstein, alarmed. Ghetto Comedies A man would not be likely to receive an invitation to the governor's ball unless he had some pretensions to gentility, or was locally important. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand To keep up gentility putteth people to strange shifts, and often to ridiculous ones—and to both of these extremities she was driven. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI He was particularly pleased with the snow-hill scenes, and said that Mr. Smith's vulgar gentility was admirably portrayed; and when Sir Clement joins them, he said there was a shade of character prodigiously well marked. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 He might have been called fine-looking, but that his fine looks, like his gentility, of which he made a faded show in his dress and manners, appeared to have gone somewhat to seed. The Young Surveyor; or Jack on the Prairies With a curtsey, after the fashion of Worms gentility, she withdrew. The Grey Woman and other Tales Madame's airs of gentility, though very amusing, were of course treated with due respect. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Long after the nobility has lost every other social function connected with its vocation the ideals of the nobility have survived in our conception of the gentleman, genteel manners and bearing—gentility. Introduction to the Science of Sociology "Creep out of that shell of gentility, you little hermit-crab," he cried, "and tell me how you would like to live in Melford for the rest of your natural life." The Belovéd Vagabond Hadleigh had always prided itself on its gentility, as a watering-place it was select and exclusive; only the upper middle classes, and a sprinkling of the aristocracy, were the habitual frequenters of the little town. Not Like Other Girls This street is called at one part Garratt, and afterwards, where it emerges into gentility and, comparatively, country, Brook Street. The Grey Woman and other Tales In two years Eleanor absorbed something of their grave gentility from these Spanish women. The Readjustment Such an evident air of gentility sat upon him, that I mentally congratulated myself that I was to be associated with him. The Love Story of Abner Stone The liveried gentleman became excited and insolent—assuring me, through the guide, that no stranger of any pretensions to gentility ever offered him less than a ruble. The Land of Thor The lower wages often paid for more highly-skilled work simply mean that the women take out a larger portion of their wage in "gentility." The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production He was bound, in the presence of his friends, to keep up the assumption of belief in the gentility of Flora, in her heirship to Nevers. The Duke's Motto A Melodrama The veneer of gentility had underneath it the pure gold of character. 'Lizbeth of the Dale Beth missed the drift of this remark in considering the expression "play the agreeable," which was unpleasantly suggestive to her of under-bred gentility. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius The Dane approached the iron gate, and, leering through the bars, seemed to doubt our gentility. A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition In brief there was every appearance of gentility on straitened means. The Brothers Karamazov Cyd accepted the rebuke, and thereafter imitated the manners of his companions, even carrying his ideas of gentility to extremes. Watch and Wait or The Young Fugitives And Sarah Emily, highly pleased, would drag a chair across the bare floor and plant herself down with a satisfied thud right on top of the family gentility. 'Lizbeth of the Dale And so the castle which had towered so promisingly in the air a moment ago, was dashed to the dust with one touch of shabby gentility's tarnished wand. Theo A Sprightly Love Story What they did enjoy was not the flowers themselves but their association with gentility. Progress and History Doubtless he has picked up his gentility in the servants’ hall of some great house, and seeks to curry your favor by airing it.” The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel Still there was an air about these men—an air I cannot describe, but which led me at the moment to doubt their gentility. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West The cousins had ever set before themselves perfect refinement and gentility as the one condition to be devoutly striven for, and the only one in keeping with the Gordon traditions. 'Lizbeth of the Dale It is because the indefinable, but to those who can perceive it unmistakable, aura of "gentility"—in the true and not the debased sense—is, at best, questionably present. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Aunt Julia is one of the bugbears of the Blake family, her gentility and general fineness being altogether too much for them. Only an Irish Girl Never, for a fraction of a second, during their common military association, had Ballinghall given him to understand that he regarded him otherwise than as a mere Tommy without any pretensions to gentility. The Rough Road With scarce more care for them than would be shown by a foreign invader, gentility pursues its ungentle aims. Change in the Village She looked at him closely, noting with pride the new air of gentility even one year at college had given the boy. 'Lizbeth of the Dale They have imbibed ideas of gentility and desire for excitement utterly foreign to the quiet, peaceful life of an agriculturist. The Toilers of the Field It was a little hand, white and soft, the hand of a lady born of generations of gentility. Winning the Wilderness Fine clothes are there supposed to express the wealth of the possessor; and a lady’s gown determines her right to the title, which, after all, presents the lowest claims to gentility. Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life It was this air of polite gentility that struck Harry so strongly. The Wooden Horse I say "gentility"—but that is not exactly the word; for there is not the remotest trace of snobbishness in Henry James. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Very naturally I desired to restrict my activities to boys coming from homes of the utmost culture and refinement, where principles of undoubted gentility were implanted from the cradle up. Fibble, D.D. She has always, you know, had strange notions in her head, gorgiko notions, I suppose we may call them, about gentility and the like, and reading and writing. Old Familiar Faces She has the essence of gentility, and indeed her manners are better bred than most of our ladies. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 In the New World alone, labor was deemed compatible with gentility. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) It is these things that distinguish civilization from savagery, and so unmistakably lift the cultured person above the one who does not see fit to cultivate the grace of gentility. The Girl Wanted In Brief, she professed to be satisfied with my gentility and Ancient Lineage, though worldly goods I had none to offer her. The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... Something may be found then for Rebecca to do," thought Ruth, "that will not so greatly shock her notions of gentility. Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers It is not less closely related to gentility. How To Behave: A Pocket Manual Of Republican Etiquette, And Guide To Correct Personal Habits Embracing An Exposition Of The Principles Of Good Manners; Useful Hints On The Care Of The Person, Eating, Drinking, Exercise, Habits, Dress, Self-Culture, And Behavior At Home; The Etiquette Of Salutations, Introductions, Receptions, Visits, Dinners, Evening Parties, Conversation, Letters, Presents, Weddings, Funerals, The Street, The Church, Places Of Amusement, Traveling, Etc., With Illustrative Anecdotes, a Chapter on Love and Courtship, and Rules of Order for Debating Societies Her aunt, a faded, anæmic-looking lady of somewhat too obtrusive gentility, was still sitting with her hand pressed to her heart. Anna the Adventuress C. R. Dorr. modesty, gentility, enlightenment, all of these and more are essential to success and for the highest achievement of the true purpose of living. The Girl Wanted He will be drunk with his hunters for company, and stain his gentility with droppings of ale. Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters Dirty and coarse hands are no less marks of slothfulness and lowbreeding than clean and delicate hands are of refinement and gentility. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources There were carriages of every description of gentility or of shabbiness; there were horses and mules, donkey carts and ox carts, all crowded with eager spectators, and there were many foot passengers. Her Mother's Secret This "belated traveller" of a carpet-bag had all the appearance of a faded and bedraggled gentility,—was, in fact, a veritable tramp among luggage. Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 The true diagnostic of modern gentility is parasitism. Maxims for Revolutionists It is a vase—variously pronounced to rhyme with 'parse' or 'pause,' according to one's pretensions to gentility. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 5th, 1914 He has an insane veneration for the tall silk hat which is the badge of modern gentility, and, given an old silk hat, he will never allow it off his head. Peeps At Many Lands: Australia Next another graybeard, carrying an ivory cane and wearing a handsome fur coat, the only indications of his recent high station in provincial society except the unmistakable reserve and dignity of gentility. World's War Events, Vol. II So she put on her Prince of Wales’s cloak, and, postponing further reflection over the bridge-party till a less busy occasion, set forth in unencumbered gentility for the morning gossip. Miss Mapp The fatal reservation of the gentleman is that he sacrifices everything to his honor except his gentility. Maxims for Revolutionists We are told of one boy that his gentility was so great that he would not wipe his hands like the others, but waved them about in the air until they were dry! The Children's Book of London Deerbrook is a story of an English country village, its petty feuds, its gentilities, its chances and changes of fortune. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 6: Harriet Martineau Her family had some claims to superior gentility; she was fastidious, delicate in frame, and accused of pride by her neighbours. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill No matter the gentility of his intentions in waiting there in this odd manner, by the experiences of squatting in traditional Asian toilets a witness to his execrable posture would ineluctably link it to excrement. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais There was little to choose between them in outward gentility, despite the immense disparity of their chances. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel But everywhere the house had traces of its former gentility. Duffels There seems to be a tendency for the coarseness of the larger nuts to prevail in the hybrids, a certain loss of gentility beneath a showy exterior. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Seventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. September 8 and 9, 1916. Perhaps Bobtail ate too much for strict gentility, but he excused himself by declaring that not only the stewards, but all the party, "kept making him eat more of the fixins." Little Bobtail or The Wreck of the Penobscot. Then he stared out of the window so as to have a pretense to turn to a woman's gentility. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais He wore no gloves; but the bloated rubicundity of his hands was relieved by a profusion of rings, which—even without the cigar in his mouth—were quite sufficient to establish his claims to gentility. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 They are, in cold fact, what Dickens describes: "a dustbin of individual accidents," of damaged dignity, and often of damaged gentility. Eugenics and Other Evils On his head was a low cap surmounted by long waving feathers, and his manners and appearance were not devoid of grace and gentility. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 You may laugh at such assumptions of gentility, but did any one of his shipmates ever know Mr. Chucks to do an unhandsome or a mean action?—and why? From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life The generality of his countrymen are far more careful not to transgress the customs of what they call gentility than to violate the laws of honour or morality. The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' It stood apart, like the house that held it, poor and shabby, but bearing a baffling atmosphere of gentility, of superiority, and of reserve. Mr. Opp Old age and poverty—a life-long poverty, she thinks—could at no time have so effaced the marks of native gentility which were once so visible in a face otherwise strikingly ugly, thin, and care-worn. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Anyone who had any pretensions to gentility had a row of Lombardies at the foot of his lawn or up his lane, or at any rate one on either side of his front door. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 No man of her acquaintance had ever possessed truer standards: no sophistication or cultural growth such as she herself had know could have given him a truer gentility. The Snowshoe Trail Gypsyism they think is particularly low, and the use of gypsy words in literature beneath its gentility; so they object to gypsy words being used in ‘Lavengro’ where gypsies are introduced speaking. The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' In truth, I felt no small alarm for my friend, for I knew him to have no more than that passable facility with the sword which is essential to gentility. The God of Love Nothing, in some circles, would prove so fatal to a lady’s reputation for gentility, as the character of a working woman. The Young Maiden Though Shakespeare had acquired a legal badge of gentility with his coat of arms in 1599, the histrionic taint—according to Davies—proved a bar to his official promotion. Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 “All your fraternity lay claim to gentility,” replied the magistrate; “perhaps you will state why you were running down the street.” Japhet in Search of a Father They were dead and buried, in every sense of the word, until Scott resuscitated them—how?—by the power of fine writing, and by calling to his aid that strange divinity, gentility. The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' She was shabbily dressed, with a trace of gentility in clothes and manner. Land of the Burnt Thigh They affect a sort of secondhand gentility, cultivate great brooches, silver guard-chains, and whiskers, and have the air of persons claiming vice-royalty in the dominions in which they live and move and have their being. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 461 Volume 18, New Series, October 30, 1852 |
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