gentility
Example Sentences
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Through invented details of clothing, Ms. Ng points out, Gainsborough could “subvert the rigid rules of British social class,” elevating sitters into gentility.
What it says about America: The rising tide of gentility and middle-class values swept across American culture during the second half of the 19th century, says Fink.
As Hemingway exclaimed in the voice of Jake Barnes, “It’s funny what a wonderful gentility you get in the bar of a big hotel.”
From Salon
Du Maurier’s world is one of pinched gentility.
Its noble gentility has been subtly adding to the DNA of the California sound.
From Los Angeles Times
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