| 词汇 | example_english_genteel |
| 释义 | Examples of genteelThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. 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. In an age when spatial and social barriers were assiduously cultivated, the sewer enforced connections - both between the home and the public realm and between genteel and working-class districts. Faced with the awkward questioning of policemen and the alarming threat of publicity, the genteel family chooses instead to conduct, with the help of its servants, an in-house investigation. The back matter cans call a nice-nellyism - a genteel euphe(974-78) is an extensive bibliography of the mism - and it therefore is the object of usage subject. Though riding had always been considered a necessary skill for gentlemen, after mid-century it began to gain in popularity amongst women of the genteel classes as well. The stories and poetry, whether set in fanciful, far-off castles or genteel homes of the early republic, involved loves lost or won, and virtue challenged and rewarded. Of central concern is the self-understanding of early seventeenth-century merchants and the ways their expressed ideals departed from the authorized virtues of the court and of genteel society more generally. The genteel wanted a shortcut to perfection. My first and immediate thought on this debate was what a genteel way it is proceeding. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think it is better to be too gentlemanly than too genteel. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The genteel approach of believing that we must not talk about something nasty to the children simply does not help. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Deprivation in the rural areas undoubtedly exists, as many speakers have pointed out, even though it is of the genteel variety. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No doubt this will be so in remote villages and in the genteel suburbs, but the reality for much of the country is different. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Similarly, his genteel gloom about the use of microelectronics in manufacturing industries was not well justified. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I greatly hope that we shall become a little less genteel and a little more patriotic. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In new clause 4 we say that the establishment of the advisory committee cannot be a genteel leisurely affair. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are a genteel type of folk, and many of them are living at this moment in their genteel poverty behind the old aspidistra plant. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All that will happen is some genteel discussion whether any particular limitations or restrictions should be attached to the contract. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The words are a genteel way of saying that you mean to keep the arms and control them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 After all, if one only canes the violent thugs and one applies only a genteel type of punishment it will have no effect on them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We use the semi-genteel word "exclusion" when we know that it means deportation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Unless it is, we shall find ourselves in a position of genteel poverty. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The impression was given that a major scoop was being revealed, if that is not too vulgar a term for a such a genteel paper. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are now two pressures to increase the use of railways and to replace the cosy, genteel and totally unacceptable decline of the old system. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is this a sophisticated, genteel, humanised version of the intolerable technique known as brainwashing? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have also watched the buildings in the cathedral close develop from genteel tattiness into a millionaires' row. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are at least safe in our genteel poverty. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 His, beyond doubt, is an epistle to the genteel. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I believe that recently those efforts have been rather genteel. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think it is a genteel form of betting. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Morale has declined and militancy, if of a genteel character, has increased. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The lady concerned is a genteel person who owns her own bungalow from better days. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, there is no reason why a voluntary system should be accompanied by a form of arm twisting or even of genteel coercion. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Their problems are sometimes referred to in a slightly sneering manner as "genteel" poverty. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I know that there are some people who would regard a position of genteel poverty as preferable to losing some of the trappings of sovereignty which have long since disappeared. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I can remember, in his early days in politics, when he lived in circumstances that could be described as genteel poverty, but not in these latter years. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Therefore, it is not surprising that the advocates of better pay, of what in the modern genteel jargon of politics is called "higher personal incomes," should receive a favourable hearing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 His goal was to entertain readers who were not satisfied with the genteel publications available at the time. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Details of the ladies' genteel lifestyle and theatrical history were shared with the audience for comic effect. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. All these things are essential for understanding what the genteel tradition is and why it is a tragedy. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In some cultures, backhanded compliments are considered a genteel or polite way of expressing disdain. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He refused to play the part of the genteel artist. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The company proposed a genteel resort with large brick bungalows and villas, a temperance hotel plus church, and shops plus tavern. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. By the 18th century the more genteel entertainment of the pleasure gardens had developed. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Women who played the sport of lacrosse typically played the more genteel women's field lacrosse version. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They are distinguished by their portrayal of the group apparently engaged in genteel conversation or some activity, very often outdoors. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. All these characters were from the genteel social classes. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Concerts of genteel music were staged, and there was dancing to various bands on a large open-air wooden platform. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In fact, his family were considered as shabby genteel. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. She told an interviewer in 1935 that this genteel pastime was far from remunerative, so she decided to become a writer. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Her vocabulary was described by one newspaperman as such that would have given any genteel hostess the vapors. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The film tackles the social problem of genteel poverty, focusing on a struggling family. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He is a genteel old man, always neatly dressed with good taste. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He had taken vengeance on the whole genteel pack that embittered his victories and envenomed his defeats. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Her brother suggested tennis as it was considered a genteel sport. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Goods traffic continued to be handled at the original station, the new one retaining a more genteel atmosphere with just passengers, their horse and carriages. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Afi is changed to the more genteel maama, light. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. From the balcony on the right, a genteel crowd observes his passing, as do people in all the windows fronting on the street. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He has made ecumenical sharing a reality-and always with a genteel touch. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Among the more worldly, adab polite, worldly culture permeated the lives of the professional, the courtly and genteel classes. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. She is a genteel, well-looking, handsome woman, with a pair of pretty eyes, and hair as black as jet. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Drawing room comedy typically features wit and verbal banter among wealthy, leisured, genteel, upper class characters. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Despite the prominence of her family in the church, they lived in genteel poverty, their property burdened by unpayable debt. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A childhood of luxury and privilege gave way to an early womanhood of decreased possibilities and genteel poverty. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Living in genteel poverty was more honest than amassing a nest egg and a house in the suburbs. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. An adjoined house that was described as a residence for a genteel family, a further cottage was used as an apprentice house. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. During the 18th century botany was one of the few sciences considered appropriate for genteel educated women. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The genteel classes were bathing for health from using bathing machines, the men and boys swam naked while the girls and women dipped alongside them. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The story is about two sisters who start a school for genteel children. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. His genteel characters find their comfortable lives intolerably oppressive, and long for liberty and freedom, even that of beggars. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Authors with claims to genteel status approached women's participation in the economy with less melodrama, but with their attention equally focused on women's economic liabilities. Hire a lodging ready furnished: let it be a genteel one; that may give you some credit. In short, employment for a heroine turns the ideology of the genteel novel upside down. Food, housing, and a genteel seat in the parlor may be in the contract, but self-respect is not. I have enjoyed trying to portray these genteel ladies on stage and television. The actual interest that presumably comprises a source of income for some of the ladies - their "genteel competency" - is passed over almost entirely. Still, like the realists, the naturalists saw sentimental and adventurous fantasy and, behind that, the genteel tradition as the main source of miasma. Didactic authors from the genteel ranks are more concerned to link the domestic budget to social action. His curriculum still featured courses in mathematics, fortification, and artillery but added horsemanship and other more genteel pursuits to sweeten the fare. Inflation, scarcity of urban housing and unemployment threaten their fragile hold on a genteel life-style. Despite genteel home lives, these well-born women were not afraid to get their hands dirty. As dress, or more specifically, fashion, was a means to this genteel identity, so the diary was another technology of self-fashioning. The one is all aggressive enterprise ; the other is all genteel tradition. In other ways, too, the cultivation of genteel, urbane pleasures was overdetermined by nascent bourgeois influences. Paradoxically, it is the position's traditional association with gentility that destroys it as a desirable, genteel resource. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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