The rattrap vendor does not perform his gentility well enough to pass himself off for more than he is.
Clerks were continually chided for carrying themselves with a pretence of gentility in their dress, but clerks had little choice in the matter.
It's the Tokyo Dome, in the capital of a country known for its public facade of reserve and gentility.
Rick Linklater's digitally shot, computer-animated movie is a work of homey gentility and apparently easy eloquence.
The Earl had suggested that David pretend to be an orphan whose parents had been American gentility.
The cumulative effect of their choices is to bring a gentleness, or a gentility, to the story.
But the square looks in on itself, exuding an air of imperturbable gentility.
Yet behind the lace curtains and gentility, his upbringing was anything but ordinary.
But as Regency exuberance yielded to Victorian gentility, his style did not move with public taste, and he began to outlive his popularity.
How reassuring it is, to know that our governing party staffs its conferences with persons of such gentility, good sense, and tact.
Once he became rich, he bought a huge house and created this appearance of gentility and breeding in his daughters.
However, I would suggest you have some misconceived conceptions about the gentility of World War II, or certainly its portrayal to the public.
Excellent quotation, but remember that the curtain lecture is on the advantages of poverty, as well as the true provenance of gentility.
These dealers were usually people of independent means, and a certain reticent gentility hovered over their dealings.
The code of gentility was far more pervasive and important than the influence of the group of self-styled gentry.
She projects a mixture of genteelness and gentility that makes her almost impossible to dislike, something that cannot be said of her spouse.
Doing so, she challenges conceptions of gender, race, gentility, and commodity culture that were already in flux after the war.
Head into the wooded foothills to Badenweiler, a spa town with that mix of classical gentility, raffishness and effusive horticulture that marks the better thermal spots.
Chintz armchairs and couch, and a walnut sideboard with light-catching decanters and a crystal fruit bowl on lace, completed to the air of polite gentility.
Pink roses symbolize grace and gentility in modern rose vocabulary.
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Meanwhile, music for the home centred on the piano, which was now the quintessential domestic instrument, badge of female gentility and social respectability.
Individuals can learn to act politely, but they cannot become genteel unless their gentility is publicly acknowledged by persons who are themselves genteel.
With independence approaching, the small community was gripped by a wave of hedonistic debauchery that undermined its pretence at prim parasol-and-petticoat gentility.
Since drinking coffee socially was something that gentility and the aristocracy did, the middle classes could prove their own respectability and gentility by doing the same.
Eschewing the ostentatious gentility of readers, who enjoy parading their superficial knowledge, she pursues her intellectual work without need of an audience.
Since any ill-bred person threatened to undermine everyone else's claims to gentility, such rudeness had to be banned from polite social intercourse.
Packaging these rebuffs with gentility and kindness may or may not succeed.
She represents a fading tradition of gentility, the bizarre criminals are a cross-section of a nation in decline.
Radcliffe's father was in trade, and the family lived in well-to-do gentility.
Balinese dancers use darting eye movements, but the court dancer's face is composed into an almost unchanging expression of aloof gentility.
The color of youth, joy and gentility, in soft pastels, pink flowers charm us with innocence and sweetness.
The sword is in the same style as the emblem used by Trent University, and symbolizes that ancient characteristic of gentility and gallantry.
Wilfreda's  knowledge of the languages and her known gentility will enable her to create unity in community!
Symbolizing gentility, femininity, elegance and refinement, the pink rose also carries additional meanings depending on its hue.
Association with the Tuesday Club offered an opportunity to acquire some of that old world patina of gentility and refinement so desired by the Chesapeake elite.
Dorman justly renders Muir's own gentility and the antinomies of his landscape feelings.
Although he was born into considerable gentility and educated in privileged fashion at a prep school and Eton, there was no money in his family to speak of.
This will to survive boils down to stupidity and gentility Segun claims.
I beg you to give me your attention for a few minutes so that I can respect the laws of gentility and gratefully extend thanks to a great number of my colleagues.
He loathed gentility and social convention.
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So I could, presumably, freely take aim in its well-fenced online garden of gentility at prating, hypocritical Californian prigs, but not at prating, hypocritical American prigs.
Printed music was required, however, for music teachers and their pupils, who were from the privileged minority where domestic music making was considered a proof of gentility.
Usually it's done in a spirit of mutual back scratching and gentility.
The adaptors present the proceedings with an ingeniously involuted double-framework of commuter storytelling and a suffocating Fifties atmosphere of strangulated gentility.
To hide these issues under a cloak of prettified gentility would be a great betrayal of the art form of opera and the huge heritage of deeply-felt music which it incorporates.
The unorthodox use of tartan, which had long been associated with authority and gentility, was then seen as the expression of discontent against modern society.

He will be drunk with his hunters for company, and stain his gentility with droppings of ale.
By that road, his progress to the goal of gentility would be smooth and simple.
I knew that the gentility of the knock had taken both her and her mother aback.
For a good five minutes the pair mauled Mrs. clerihew, who, with an air of high gentility, went on ironing shirts.
But Mrs. clerihew, between her lapses, clung passionately to gentility and the world's esteem.
Heraldry in those days was the recognised mark of hereditary honour and gentility, and coat armour had an intrinsic value.
The old red blood and stainless gentility of great poets will be proved by their unconstraint.
It was upon my vouching personally for your gentility that your challenge was accepted.
Bai Ling, wearing an ornately brocaded silk coat and trousers, looks like a delicate flower, and speaks with the same gentility.
Her sister asserted the family gentility by flouting the poor swain as he loitered about the prison for glimpses of his dear.
What, in the name of gentility, can you know of fashionable life?
He aped gentility, lived in a palace at Kensington, and bought a part of Scotland to make a deer forest of.
He brought out an unexpected primness in Dada, a sort of mincing gentility in correcting his own grammar.
I marvel that you should be satisfied with so scanty a provision of gentility in the olden time, Dickon.
Now, I must say that is the very tip-top of gentility and politeness.
I have seen in my own family that horrible mixture, gentility and Poverty.
She was shabbily dressed, with a trace of gentility in clothes and manner.
After all, one drinks tea largely to please one's fellow men, Barbara, and to give oneself tone and an air of gentility.
Descending in the scale of what is termed gentility, I found darker and deeper themes for speculation.
Letterblair, the accredited legal adviser of three generations of New York gentility, throned behind his mahogany desk in evident perplexity.
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The boy, Leonard Bast, stood at the extreme verge of gentility.
Money must be so subservient to gentility as never to be worth a thought.
Weston was a native of Highbury, and born of a respectable family, which for the last two or three generations had been rising into gentility and property.
Few coaches were abroad, for riders in coaches were liable to be suspected, and gentility hid its head in red nightcaps, and put on heavy shoes, and trudged.
Tom looked at his legs, but left it uncertain whether he preferred his moral advantages to a more vicious length of limb and reprehensible gentility of trouser.
A sort of shivering gentility had kept her aloof from the rest of her fellow-workers, but it took more than a shivering gentility to stave off Polly.

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