CYTATY ZE SŁOWEM «GENTEEL»
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genteel.
A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.
All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.
Writing is not a genteel profession; it's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.
Everyone's surprised when they meet me. I guess it's because I've played tough cookies for so long... It's what I do best. I'm not sure I could pull off a genteel Southern belle.
A lot of people say, 'I always knew Lucky Luciano as a very smooth, very elegant, very powerful man.' All the accounts of him as an older man were that he was very genteel but he still had the look of smothered violence behind his eyes.
I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.
KSIĄŻKI POWIĄZANE ZE SŁOWEM «GENTEEL»
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genteel w następujących pozycjach bibliograficznych Książki powiązane ze słowem
genteel oraz krótkie ich fragmenty w celu przedstawienia kontekstu użycia w literaturze.
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Genteel Rebel: The Life of Mary Greenhow Lee
As a Confederate sympathizer in the hotly contested small border town of Winchester, Virginia, she ran an underground postal service, hid contraband under her nieces' dresses, abetted the Rebel cause, and was finally banished.
2
Genteel Pagan: The Double Life of Charles Warren Stoddard
Presenting a biography of a homosexual writer by a gay literary historian, this book offers new material on the formation of gender roles in late 19th-century America.
Roger Austen, John William Crowley,
1995
1926. The book begins: I have nothing, she thought, but myself.
4
Racial Propositions: "
Genteel Apartheid" in Postwar California
Little focus has been placed on the historic soils that nourished these conflicts.
5
Genteel Rhetoric: Writing High Culture in Nineteenth-century ...
An examination of how the New England intelligentsia set out to establish cultural independence from England through a uniquely American literature.
Dorothy C. Broaddus,
1999
6
The Rudiments of
Genteel Behavior
Charmingly, this very rare book of 1737, reprinted in facsimile, provides delightful text and images explaining 'deportment'. The text is remarkably direct, precise and informative.
7
The
Genteel Tradition: Nine Essays
That address appears in this collection of nine essays touching on American idealism and materialism and American endeavor, sacred and profane.
George Santayana, Douglas L. Wilson,
1998
8
Jessie: The Story of a
Genteel Lady in Frontier Alaska
Clues in the trunk about the owner's life-a photo album, a journal, a postcard collection and a diary-led the author on an international treasure hunt which revealed the story of Jessie.
9
A
Genteel Endeavor: American Culture and Politics in the ...
American Culture and Politics in the Gilded Age John Tomsich. the middle
classes; any effect on the rest of America would be incidental. The genteel writers
firmly resisted attempts to extend their audience much beyond its size at mid-
century.
10
The Mark Twain Encyclopedia
First coined as a term in 1911 by George Santayana, the genteel tradition
designates a hegemonic influence in American life from the early decades of the
nineteenth century to the first decade of the twentieth. The tradition, originating in
the ...
J. R. LeMaster, James Darrell Wilson, Christie Graves Hamric,
1993
WIADOMOŚCI, KTÓRE ZAWIERAJĄ SŁOWO «GENTEEL»
Sprawdź, o czym dyskutuje się w prasie krajowej i zagranicznej oraz jak jest stosowane słowo
genteel w wiadomościach.
Williamson Aims at Trump's 'WHINOs'–and Misses the Mark
... sometimes unfairly–seem to share the fanciful idea that the GOP primary was all set to be a genteel affair until Trump crashed the party. It is a ... «Breitbart News, Lip 15»
Review: 'Arabella' Brings Intrigue to the Munich Opera Festival
Even the debauchery of the ball, where Arabella and Mandryka finally meet, has a genteel atmosphere. When Eir Inderhaug's uneasy ... «New York Times, Lip 15»
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... sometimes unfairly–seem to share the fanciful idea that the GOP primary was all set to be a genteel affair until Trump crashed the party. «Hot Air, Lip 15»
He's afraid of blood
With his spectacles and genteel features, he looks every bit like the sensitive neurosurgeon he played in the show, but he says he could never ... «The Straits Times, Lip 15»
Why The Outcast is no ordinary period drama
Set in an aesthetically pleasing and sunny version of the past, full of rolling lawns, huge country houses and genteel drinks parties, it's as ... «Radio Times, Lip 15»
Lord Green can't get out of this HSBC grilling
... chair of the upper house's economic affairs committee, has invited him to have his say at a genteel-sounding session on “banking culture”. «HITC, Lip 15»
Save for the golden years
Not even government servants, who could once upon a time lead genteel lives on their pensions. In India, we don't have a mindset towards ... «Mid-Day, Lip 15»
10 Of The Best Books Of Summer 2015
Furious when she rejects an arranged marriage, Clara's father sends her to a genteel home for nervous invalids. But when his fortune is lost in ... «Huffington Post, Lip 15»
Epic memories
Navratilova's guarded carping is especially unfortunate, given that she transformed women's tennis from a prissy, genteel sport into a properly ... «Calcutta Telegraph, Lip 15»
Photo Flash: Sneak Peek at Marianna Bassham in The Gamm's A …
... beauty whose brutish brother-in-law, Stanley, cruelly exposes Blanche's genteel façade and brings her last gasp at meaning to a tragic end. «Broadway World, Lip 15»