Exempel på genteel

• Sectarianism was not, therefore, simply an expression of working-class antagonisms but enjoyed a healthy support in the genteel suburbs.

• Indeed, it was because of this sanctification that they could betray codes of genteel conduct without reprisal.

• In particular, he casts aspersions on the genteel pretensions of the upper middle classes, and the old boy network's efforts to monopolize professional careers.

• The clip-clop of horses' hooves today may evoke flowing silk dresses and frock coats, carriages and a genteel way of life that has disappeared.

• He also became critical of the emptiness of the genteel life he was supposed to emulate.

• The ornamental cottage is to an equivalent degree a reduction in the social equipment which might be expected by a genteel family.

• Rather, she sought a genteel method of putting food on the table for her family.

• Historians have often been too ready to accept this image of the reluctant genteel governess without question.

• Certainly, a literary distinction between genteel merchants and vulgar manufacturers had popular currency throughout the period.

• As the figure of the highway robber received further elaboration over the course of the early modern period, his links with genteel status were restored.

• He goes on to discuss the various ways he could have handled this same material "in the 'genteel,' 'romantic,' or 'facetious' manners" (60; ch. 6).

• Archaeological dialogues are not always genteel affairs.

• The genteel urbanity of the residential zone's crescents and squares juxtaposes with a strict geometric grid-plan in the separate industrial zone.

• The temptation to cultural cringe must have been very great for these youthful newcomers, faced with a frighteningly competitive genteel society in which their status required to be defended.

• Much work on regulation is marked by a kind of genteel millenarianism: we always seem to be at the end of some era and the start of another.