(a.) Pertaining to chivalry or knight-errantry; warlike; heroic; gallant; high-spirited; high-minded; magnanimous.
Example Sentences:
(1) For us the clearest memories from that era were of the anxious neighbouring mothers, like Mrs Jackson, who didn’t want their children playing with children from a broken home; the suspicious neighbouring wives, who worried that our manless mother would have sex with their husbands; the chivalrous neighbouring males who offered to “help” our manless mother reverse the horsebox up the drive and then have a quickie in the back of it; the strict or lovely teachers who thought we might be a disruptive influence or simply fail to flourish without the guiding hand of a man.
(2) On "Black Friday", as the suffragette deputation of November 18 1910 became known, when the suffragettes trying to reach parliament were treated particularly violently by roughs in the crowd and police who had orders to push them back, he also again, chivalrously, argued that the protesters "are citizens like the rest of us , and they have right to fair treatment and to the protection of the law".
(3) In bed, her lover was tactful, chivalrous – and boring.
(4) Is it the chivalrous treatment of a defeated enemy, or a concession to the misogynist bigotry that has done so much to disfigure Christianity ?
(5) Hadow puts it more chivalrously: "I see the Arctic as a maiden newly discovered on the social scene, and we're melting away her petticoats, and there are some avaricious types peering underneath, and someone needs to defend her honour."
(6) In 1963 – the year, of course, that sexual intercourse began – he caused uproar by suggesting that "chivalrous" 15-year-old boys always went out with a condom in their pocket.
(7) Some people go mad, some people turn to drink, some people become whores.” The director of Brazil and Twelve Monkeys said he was not quite ready to believe his decade-and-a-half-long mission to bring the cod-chivalrous hero of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra’s famous novel to cinemas was almost over.
(8) Hugh-Jones could only marvel that the gentlemen reviewers of Fleet Street were chivalrous enough not to have finished her off in a way her fellow females were happy to.
(9) What Summerson, contemporary British Railways executives and so many politicians in the mid-60s disliked about St Pancras seems to have been that it reminded them of their essentially Victorian upbringing, all starch and nannies, ice-cold bedrooms, chivalrous tales by Walter Scott and morning doses of cod liver oil.
(10) In a chivalrous age, which expected noble captives to be treated with courtesy, he was cruel.
(11) The ferries are operated by men of a certain age who leap hither and thither, offering twinkly chivalrous winks to the ladies aboard.
(12) But stoners weren’t comic characters originally: in films like Easy Rider , marijuana use is just part of the chivalric code for counter-culture knights-errant like Peter Fonda’s Wyatt.
(13) Rupert Murdoch demands Peta Credlin resign as her 'patriotic duty' Read more Compared to his chivalrous pre-Christmas defence of his chief of staff, in which he pointed out the sexism of attacking her for being hard-nosed and directive, this was quite revealing.
(14) Earlier this year, Wang recalls a playmate turning to Li Heping’s chivalrous daughter and asking what she wanted to be when she grew up.
(15) But in Labour’s internal struggles, “unity” and “democracy” are rhetorical motifs for prettifying a ruthless power play, like the chivalric colours worn by knights before they joust to the death.
(16) Although monastic and chivalric orders throughout antiquity provided the beginnings with hierarchical organizations and a sense of voluntarism and vocation, it was not until the mid-19th century that the concept of a nursing service became codified and more hospital-oriented.
(17) It was a small, chivalrous gesture by Vladimir Putin: draping a shawl around the Chinese president’s wife at the chilly opening of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in Beijing.
Schmuck
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) said some schmuck called Tim Jonze (stupid surname btw) David Bowie – The Next Day An album that's thought-provoking, strange and filled with great songs - listening to The Next Day makes you hope it's not a one-off, that his return continues apace.
(2) After Flight Of The Conchords, she played Paul Rudd 's crudely ambitious assistant in the Steve Carell comedy Dinner For Schmucks and has just voiced characters for Toy Story 3 and the next Shrek movie (one in the eye for the high-school voice coach who said to her, "Oh my God, you have a terrible lisp!").
(3) Among the latter are Judah Friedlander (Roisin Dubh, Fri), best known for his appearances as boorish Frank Rossitano in 30 Rock, and deadpan schmuck Todd Barry (Roisin Dubh, 25 Oct).
(4) Tomorrow, all over the country, "the schmucks" go to the polls.
(5) Mninawa Ntloko, the sports editor of Business Day newspaper, branded them "tiresome vultures", a "mob" and "mean-spirited schmucks" who'd "all gotten it into their thick craniums that SA would make a mess of the World Cup".
(6) Know your Gaelic: A brief guide Yes Sea No Ni hea Hello Dia Duit Goodbye Slán English Béarla Irish Gaeilge He's a total schmuck Is gamal ceart é!
(7) The “Obama is a schmuck” action was an example of how the troll factory is expanding beyond just comments and blogposts to create new kinds of pro-Kremlin content, according to Andrei Soshnikov, a journalist in St Petersburg who was among the first to report on the troll factory and has continued to investigate it.
(8) And I thought, if I can't survive being on stage with someone who can do that, then I'm some kind of schmuck.
(9) if only those schmucks who run the USA team had tried to get Vedad to play for the USA (his parents and sister live in St Louis) but now it's too late.
(10) "The poor schmuck who has to get in on his own has to walk on water," Daniel Saracino, the assistant provost for admissions, told Golden.
(11) The site recently covered an “Obama is a schmuck” rally held by the pro-Kremlin Politkach group of Alexei Mschov, whom the Guardian observed chatting outside Savushkina 55 before walking inside on a recent weekday morning.
(12) They are upset with the 11 guys for being schmucks.
(13) Photograph: Jordan Hoffman for the Guardian Members of the press and their families in the New York area were invited for a Star Wars Day of Play, which I interpreted to mean “don’t be a schmuck and line up in the middle of the night, let Hasbro slip you a gifting bag for attending our event”.