Voorbeelden van gentility

• 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.

• And the role of gentility was therefore going to be central to the fortunes of experimental philosophy.

• In response, a number of promoters refigured their prospects in ways that actually reinforced the terms of a familiar gentility.

• Ideal for the majority of academics who equate using the passive style with gentility.

• There was a literary as well as a social context to prompt reiterated definitions of gentlemanliness, namely, the earlier literary discourse of gentility.

• Truthful testimony was thus seen as a ready concomitant to gentility.

• Undoubtedly, as this notion of metropolitan gentility evolved so did other ' provincial ' notions of ' middling ' decency and respectability.

• But honesty was a characteristic that was routinely attributed to them, and that was reckoned part and parcel of gentility itself.