These, in turn, are usefully understood as expressing the semantic resonances of ' politeness ', namely, a concern with form, sociability, improvement, worldliness, and gentility.
Her family was one of those whose claim to gentility was supported by limited real property combined with the noninheritable profits of office.%!
Linked to the growth of urban gentility was the transformation of these four towns into centres of consumption.
At times, the dualism is effective, as with the discussion of gentility and its links with the consumption of calicoes and silks.
Her indifference to the question of gentility is surprising, particularly when considering many of the vitriolic contemporary opinions about women's work.
It is true that the complex of values that underlay the new discourse of gentility centered on male behavior, as in the original chivalric ideal.
Noble, doing his best to give the scene a veneer of gentility, could not hide the vile reality.
The language and tone of instructional books about wax flower modelling highlight the gentility and respectability of modelling and looking at wax flowers.
