genteel造句

He came from a genteel family.

She is too genteel for words.

The pigeon is a beautiful and genteel bird.

The result was a festival of genteel special-pleading.

You are genteel enough, you look like a lady.

You are genteel enough, you look like a lady from a wellbred family.

Brighton and Eastbourne, its more genteel neighbours, have reinvented themselves, but Hastings stagnated.

In fairness, Goldman was a very different (and far more genteel) firm than Salomon.

TAKING your hat off at the door may seem like a throwback to a more genteel age.

He joined a traditional bourgeois marriage. He called his wife “mother” and lived in a genteel middle-class home.

English isn't as encumbered with many of the genteel honorifics of Japanese, nor does it rely so heavily on implication.

Like other seaside towns, it was hit by the advent of mass air travel; Brighton and Eastbourne, its more genteel neighbours, have reinvented themselves, but Hastings stagnated.

For many poor, young, urban blacks, King was too middle-class and genteel, too Southern, too churchly and high-flown; Malcolm had lived as they had.

After a cycle tour of historic, genteel St Andrews town we crossed breathtaking eight-mile-long Confederation Bridge into Prince Edward Island, or PEI.

GONE are the genteel days when a central bank's role in oiling financial markets was limited to providing short-term cash loans in exchange for slightly less liquid collateral.

The trouble is that, as the unhappiness at HP makes clear, the alternative to clubbishness is not some genteel exchange of views called “accountability”, but often strife and division.