Bone china and lace tablecloth and genteelly rusted Volvo parked at the family home in Concord, Mass.
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The parents trash one another like professional wrestlers as the board members stammer genteelly, swathing their similar hostilities in H.R.-department-safe passive aggression.
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There was a time, he said, when the paper "genteelly waited until before the New York primary," but that no longer makes sense, if it ever did, he said.
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After the war, though, he was a Liberal Republican who wrote for the moderate Nation, edited the staid Atlantic Monthly, and genteelly hid from his children the novels of Émile Zola.
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Before GiveDirectly sent everyone the equivalent of twenty-two U.S. dollars a month (delivered through a mobile app), Village X had dirt roads, no home electricity, and what Lowrey genteelly calls an "open defecation" model for some families.
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Our Egyptian hosts also sent us frequent invitations to Foreign Ministry receptions, affording us a chance to practice our kindergarten Arabic and execrable French with low-level envoys from minor nations while sipping fruit juice in a genteelly shabby salon.
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As can be seen in "Diane Arbus: In the Beginning," opening July 12 at the Met Breuer, Diane was drawn to genteelly dressed middle-age women in white gloves and pearls, who anxiously observed all proprieties — just like her mother, Gertrude Nemerov.
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For many of the women who strolled upper Madison Avenue on a recent fall day, it was time to shed the hoodies, biker coats, platform sneakers and country-style floral dresses that until recently denoted cool in favor of a genteelly understated, increasingly formal and durable look.
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For years, rosewood gavel in hand, she presided over the sale of hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of treasures — teasing, cajoling, seducing and ever so genteelly shaming in the unimpeachable diction of her native England: "I'll wait," she might tell a recalcitrant bidder in her foremost schoolmarm tones.
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When President Franklin D. Roosevelt justified his abandonment of anti-lynching laws because, otherwise, the Southern Democrats who chaired powerful committees would "block every bill I ask Congress to pass," he was genteelly operating within the customary boundaries of a transactional political system, but he was cooly rationalizing a morally gruesome choice.
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On the other hand, performing a favor or acting genteelly before the high ranking characters of the game might result in promotion via social interaction without having to "level"-up.
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The 21st century has seen a move towards adventure sports as a form of individual escapism, transcending the routines of life. Examples include white water rafting, paragliding, canyoning, base jumping and more genteelly, orienteering.
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He was a Roman Catholic. I presume my following reason will plead an apology for mentioning his religion. He was a great economist, but would spend money as genteelly as any man occasionally. He had three sons, Mark, John, and Terence, whom he educated in the first style.
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When hungry, many would wander over to artist Marie Vassilieff's soup kitchen (more genteelly called her cantine) for a meal and conversation with fellow starving artists. The Russian painter Pinchus Kremegne got off the train at the Gare de l'Est with three rubles in his pocket. The only words in French he knew was the phrase "Passage Dantzig"; but that was all he needed to get him there.
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William Thompson was an American criminal and con artist whose deceptions probably caused the term confidence man to be coined. Operating in New York City in the late 1840s, a genteelly dressed Thompson would approach an upper- class mark, pretending they knew each other, and begin a brief conversation. After initially gaining the mark's trust, Thompson would ask whether he had the confidence to lend Thompson his watch. Upon taking the watch, Thompson would depart, never returning the watch.
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He was a Roman Catholic. [...] He was a > great economist, but would spend money as genteelly as any man occasionally. > He had three sons, Mark, John, and Terence, whom he educated in the first > style. A blind harper named Dominic Mungan, almost certainly the same man, was noted by Edward Bunting to have been born around 1715 in Tyrone, and was said to have been an "admirable performer", particularly skilled in quiet passages, and conversant with the music of Handel and Corelli in addition to the traditional harp repertoire.
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Smith started at an open mic night at the Get Me High lounge in November 1984 called the Monday Night Poetry Reading. Even as poets scoffed at artists "performing" their work, rather than genteelly "reading" it, the event grew in popularity. Smith saw his approach as an "up yours" to establishment poets he considered snooty and effete, because at their events, "no one was listening". According to Smith, who once attended a conventional reading with his manuscripts concealed inside a newspaper, With a like-minded troupe, Smith hosted the first poetry slam at the Get Me High Lounge in the Bucktown neighborhood in 1986.
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During the Second World War Nicholson was a member of the Oxford Playhouse company, where she played one of her two favourite parts of her career, Mrs Boyle in Juno and the Paycock. She achieved local celebrity, but remained a lesser name in the West End. This changed in 1947, when her portrayal of a genteelly acid spinster in Wynyard Browne's Dark Summer established her as a leading character actress. Throughout the rest of her career Nicholson was cast in a succession of striking stage roles, including Margaret in The Lady's Not for Burning (1949, London, and 1950, New York), Miss Teresa in Graham Greene's The Living Room (New York, 1954), Ivy in The Family Reunion (1956), Sarita in Waiting in the Wings (1960), Avdotya Nazarovna in John Gielgud's production of Ivanov (1965), and Miss Nisbitt in Forty Years On (1968).
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British film critic Phil Hardy calls Incense for the Damned a 'fairly faithful adaptation of Simon Raven's modern vampire novel, Doctors Wear Scarlet'. But he finds that the film fails to adequately convey the novel's notion that 'vampirism is not a supernatural phenomenon, but a sexual disturbance related to impotence'. Hardy also says that the 'subversive potential' of the story is wasted on time- consuming 'depictions of "hippy" decadence with clichéd psychedelic effects, badly staged chase sequences and facile oppositions between alleged Greek paganism and the genteelly repressive Oxford cricket pitch'. Hamilton points out the historical context of the film, noting that it was made 'at a time when anxiety about the so-called counterculture movement was coming to its peak and the drugs, psychedelic music and anti-Vietnam War protests were taking a more sinister turn'; e.g.
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