«GENTILITY»的英语 引用
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gentility的知名引用和例句
I loved England's gentility and its civility. I'm from the Bronx, with a Bronx accent. I love the beauty of its language, the ways it's spoken. I love the green grass of England and the flowers.
Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.
Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.
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The Gospel of
Gentility: American Women Missionaries in ...
In this engrossing narrative, Jane Hunter uses diaries, reminiscences, and letters to recreate the backgrounds of the missionaries and the problems and satisfactions they found in China.
2
Gentility and the Comic Theatre of Late Stuart London
The book examines how gentility was portrayed at London's theatres during the early modern era.
Mark Stanley Dawson, 2005
3
The Quest for
Gentility in China: Negotiations Beyond Gender ...
The cost of this self—sacrii of maintaining gentility is noticeable — as is the
power of the ideals th such action. In Hammond's tale of political intrigue another
aspect of g becomes apparent: that of careful manipulation of one's image,
including ...
Daria Berg, Chloe Starr, 2007
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series.
Henry Francis Dryden, 2010
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The sorrows of
gentility
CHAPTER I. "Shabby gentility" is to social life what " Brummagen wares " are to
the things they imitate. In both cases there is elaborate workmanship bestowed
on a worthless material, to produce the result which the honest Jew desired,
when ...
Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury, 1856
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J.W. De Forest and the rise of American
gentility
The most complete biography of an American novelist whose life & works reflected the turbulent social & cultural changes of the 19th century.
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Consumption and the Making of Respectability, 1600–1800
Tying together of several distinct cultural patterns during this century to create a culture of respectability and its impact on popular culture, trade, politics, social dynamics, and literature, this original and thoughtful work provides a ...
8
Women's humor in the age of
gentility: the life and works of ...
This new book demonstrates that her sardonic, antisentimental wit represents an entirely different strain in women's writing of the time, earning her an important role in the emergence of a distinctive tradition of women's humor in America.
A delightful marriage of Pride and Prejudice with Bridget Jones's Diary, Janet Mullany's The Rules of Gentility transports us to the days before designer shoes, apple martinis, and speed dating—when great bonnets, punch at Almack's, and ...
10
Civil Tongues and Polite Letters in British America
Benjamin Franklin here offered a critical commonplace of the period when he
said that imitation was insufficient to learn gentility. Gentility entailed an
internalization of manners and taste. Mere imitation was not enough. The ideal of
conduct ...
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Roger Rees, Tony winner and 'Cheers' actor, dies at 71
"Roger was that rare combination of extraordinary talent and enormous kindness and gentility," said Todd Haimes, the artistic director of the ... «Newsday, 七月 15»
Finley: The risk of scrubbing history
Southerners, broken by the horrors of war, were permitted to indulge their fantasies of honor and gentility and cling to the notion that their cause ... «The Detroit News, 七月 15»
Sydney University's 'Quadrangle' was the site of Australia's first …
It developed out of this notion that tennis was a game of gentility, where males and females could play together in mixed doubles. 'Students ... «Daily Mail, 七月 15»
Lincoln is revealed as the road rage capital of Britain - and 69-year …
And while it may have an image of quiet gentility, the cathedral city of Lincoln has emerged as the road rage capital of Britain. The city, which ... «This is Money, 七月 15»
EOCO – Deafening Silence of Justice
Snippets of information that we are picking refer to such breaches by the relevant authorities whose officers fake gentility to effect their diabolic ... «GhanaWeb, 七月 15»
Leaf Rapids: Lucky Stars
... so ironically, reminiscent of the sounds identified with the band of the same name—comes across with the gentility and simplicity of a lullaby. «PopMatters, 七月 15»
AdaCore President Robert BK Dewar (1945-2015)
“His intensity in technical debate was matched by his gentility in personal relationships, and I owe Robert a great debt in his helping me find ... «Embedded Computing Design, 七月 15»
A Month in the Country review: Getting a grip on some love angles
... comes the clearest prefiguring of Chekhov, and a Russia that will soon sweep away the idle gentility of the leisured classes. “I clown for them ... «Irish Times, 七月 15»
In cod we trust: there's no plaice like Hackney for fish and chips
Then it was an adjoining room with pretensions to gentility with 'serviettes' and 'cruets', which eventually morphed into designer establishments ... «Hackney Citizen, 七月 15»
Bill Cosby, the Confederate flag and America
Beneath the veneer of states' rights and gentility rested a privilege built on abuse and violence. The Confederate flag was their symbol. It's hard ... «Mennonite World Review, 七月 15»
