(1) Days and Nights in the Forest , which began as a comedy about Calcuttan gents on safari for aboriginal villagers, before shading into something almost too dark for my comprehension.
(2) She concluded her speech with a message for the audience - perhaps all of us - perhaps some of us - perhaps one person in particular, a snowy haired gent from Queensland.
(3) A new albumin variant of a family in Rome has been studied and, in respect of CISMEL standards, it has been classified as "very fast type gent".
(4) The susceptibility patterns of clinical Gram-negative isolates were determined to cefotaxime (CTX) and desacetylcefotaxime (dCTX) alone and in combination with gentamicin (GENT) or tobramycin (TOB) by an agar dilution technique.
(5) The estimation of the variants' relative mobility at three pH allowed us to distinguish three fast-moving variants (Gent, Vanves, and Reading) and five slow-moving variants (Sondrio, Roma, Christchurch, Lille, and B) in the French population.
(6) Instead, he was re-imagined as a suave gent in a v-neck cashmere sweater, mixing drinks, listening to records, and appreciating the 'finer things in life', like jazz and beautiful women.
(7) While Gent’s performance appeared slightly more nervous at the end of the second half, the hosts maintained their lead until the final whistle.
(8) Mark Rylance was a perfect gent, David Oyelowo took my phone from me and took the picture repeatedly until he was satisfied and Ava DuVernay was just brilliant.
(9) I would describe her as … sheepish.” He later said: “Ms Cafferkey got through the screening area with what I would call as deception.” After Cafferkey tested positive for Ebola, Nick Gent, a doctor and deputy dead of PHE’s emergency response department, was drafted in to assess the efficacy of the screening process.
(10) The properties of these revertants suggest that reversion of double opal-mutants is effected by the activity of some gent-suppressor appeared in the phage genome.
(11) Following Bishop's withdrawal, the list of candidates is understood to include Sir Christopher Gent, the former Vodafone chief and non-executive chairman of GlaxoSmithKline; Sir Christopher Bland, the former BT chairman; the British Airways chairman Martin Broughton; and Niall FitzGerald, the former chief executive of Unilever and deputy chairman of Thomson Reuters.
(12) He would replace Sir Christopher Gent, the current chairman, who has indicated he intends to stand down at the end of 2015 after almost 10 years in the role at the pharmaceutical company, which is battling for its reputation in the midst of bribery allegations.
(13) Proper gent of radio and Junior Choice was a classic.
(14) Ladies, don your pantsuits, and gents, grab your red power ties: we're headed to Washington for the main event.
(15) Zenit lead on a maximum nine points after they won 3-1 at home to Lyon, with Gent and Lyon each on one point.
(16) What a gent x August 27, 2014 Sue Perkins (@sueperkins) All getting a little inflamed for my liking.
(17) Corporate governance codes mean Gent and Broughton would have to give up their chairmanships to take the post.
(18) The monster who had caused misery for thousands was the dapper gent serving him sweet tea, playing Cliff Richard records and teaching his grandchildren to care for injured animals.
(19) He was one of the very old-school London criminal gents.
(20) The dapper gent kicked off his career at 15 in Ernest Hemingway’s old haunt Chicote, before opening this cocktail lounge in 1992.
Genteel
Definition:
(a.) Possessing or exhibiting the qualities popularly regarded as belonging to high birth and breeding; free from vulgarity, or lowness of taste or behavior; adapted to a refined or cultivated taste; polite; well-bred; as, genteel company, manners, address.
(a.) Graceful in mien or form; elegant in appearance, dress, or manner; as, the lady has a genteel person. Law.
(a.) Suited to the position of lady or a gentleman; as, to live in a genteel allowance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cleeve Hill was once the site of a 'bawdy' racecourse, before it was moved down the hill into genteel Cheltenham.
(2) While the opening tranche of "tales" derive from the work of forgotten contemporary humorists, the pieces of London reportage that he began to contribute to the Morning Chronicle in autumn 1834 ("Gin Shops", "Shabby-Genteel People", "The Pawnbroker's Shop") are like nothing else in pre-Victorian journalism: bantering and hard-headed by turns, hectic and profuse, falling over themselves to convey every last detail of the metropolitan front-line from which Dickens sent back his dispatches.
(3) An hour north of Paris in genteel Chantilly, England have prepared in unusually low-key fashion two years after a humiliating World Cup in which they were sent packing after two matches.
(4) Gustave's beatific smile and genteel demeanour work harmoniously with the purple hotel uniforms (Anderson does love a man in uniform).
(5) How popular would "Boris Island" – the mayor's fantasy airport in the Thames estuary – be in Clacton and genteel Frinton?
(6) From the late 1950s to the 1970s, the new, subsidised British drama was making waves at the Royal Court Theatre and in the regions - and finding critical support from commentators weary of the genteel West End theatre.
(7) Last week, the UK Statistics Authority gave him a reprimand that broke from the genteel language of the civil service.
(8) They signed Bush expressly as the first major British female exponent of this genteel genre.
(9) It is another to be given a genteel kicking by David Hare (who wrote in this newspaper last week that the Labour leader was worse than Neil Kinnock).
(10) Today Paris is still the different cities encapsulated by Hugo and Manet; Manet's chic Left Bank haunts are as fashionable and relatively genteel as 150 years ago.
(11) The wild, unstable undercliff on the Dorset-Devon border provided John Fowles with the perfect landscape to contrast with the genteel world of Lyme Regis in The French Lieutenant’s Woman (“In summer it is the nearest this country can offer to a tropical jungle”).
(12) This being a story about powerful, litigious people, it was composed in befittingly genteel terms; the pair are described as having a "friendship".
(13) It's a sleepy little town, beloved by genteel visitors who come for its microclimate – said to be 3C warmer than the rest of France – and exotic gardens.
(14) Norbert Smith: A Life was a brilliant satirical one-off on the history of British cinema through the eyes of a genteel luvvie who had seen it all, from 30s Will Hay comedies through to swinging 60s thrillers.
(15) There, his mother, in her mid-30s, dressed in a spotless white blouse, and with a Lady Diana-like haircut, was reading a newspaper and sipping from a genteel white teacup.
(16) She was born Muriel Camberg to a Jewish engineer father and an English, music-teacher mother, in the genteel Edinburgh inner suburb of Bruntsfield.
(17) But in the summer of 1983 this genteel corner, bypassed by shoppers and tourists, found itself a focus of national interest.
(18) An acrimonious divorce, scandal over a young model and nude photos at pool parties – Silvio Berlusconi's family traumas might not seem the ideal backdrop for the genteel spouses' programme at a G8 summit.
(19) And the genteel visitors who first inspected it had no means of knowing that even as expert an anatomist as Stubbs had got some details wrong.
(20) In the genteel, cultivated and fashionable crowd, Manet painted himself and his friends: the poets Charles Baudelaire and Théophile Gautier, and composer Jacques Offenbach.