gentility

1 I realise, "perfect" seems dangerously prim and old-hat, an ultimate proof of hopeless gentility.

2 Notwithstanding some ersatz ragtime gentility and some rickety habanera rhythm, the music sounds disarmingly fresh.

3 As the performance continues, he often ups the momentum by interrupting it; there is some latent tension underneath all that gentility.

4 For all the luxurious trappings of the room, the gentility of the service, the precision of the culinary technique, Kim’s approach at Meju is one of anti-luxury: there are no truffles on the menu, no uni, no caviar.

5 Growing up, Ikoyi had reeked of gentility, a faraway gentility that she could not touch: the people who lived in Ikoyi had faces free of pimples and drivers designated “the childrens driver.”

6 The wonder is that despite an overheated climate in Britain in a decade that brought dolly birds, Biba and the Beatles, Ashley gained a massive following for her canny take on Victorian gentility.

7 As a professor of sociology and criminal justice at Clark and Atlanta University, I have witnessed and studied perfunctory Southern ways that are often referred to as Southern "gentility" and Southern "hospitality."

8 The essence of gentility and service, Elizabeth was equal parts public figure and living mystery.

9 He surrounds himself with all the trappings of gentility - dogs, horses, and fine paintings.

他身边满是象征高贵身份的东西——狗，马以及精美的画。

10 But he also holds him in moral contempt, especially for his supposed Southern gentility.

11 An ancient Gentility does not..convey to us any Advantage..of Body or Mind.

12 You only need to bask in Schreck's forced gentility to understand why she was champion at Constitutional debate.

13 With their elaborate picnics, Central Park audiences have maintained a certain gentility, but concerts in the other boroughs were more communal affairs.

14 It was totally unlike them, this lapse from gentility, and it made them much more interesting.

15 If gentility is a prerequisite for reading medieval literature, Wilson has admitted defeat.

16 It made Lydia wonder whether gentility might be a product of genetic engineering.

它使利迪娅考虑文雅是不是遗传工程的成果.

17 Indeed, its determined gentility and grace is its greatest sales pitch and a very attractive one to people searching for a box of calm amidst ever-renewing storms of anger fogged in uncertainty.

18 He needs to find a way to express his particular freshness and gentility.

19 Cora, so observant and determined, makes a perfect witness of this grotesque realm of gentility floating on blood.

20 Dressed in gaudy sportswear, Ms. Valk portrays Jane with a winking, slightly arch gentility, enunciating her lines with the dainty precision of an elocution teacher.

1 彬彬有礼

courteous urbane debonair fair-spoken attention urbanity well bred well mannered genteel courtly gentlemanly chivalrous decorous chivalry well behaved courtesy decency fair civil well-behaved civilly

2 出身高贵

highborn highbred gently

3 绅士们

gentry

4 有教养

polite educated well-educated genteel civilize

5 体面

good proper respectable honourable genteel face-saving decently respectably respectability

6 假斯文

genteel

7 上流阶层

gentle

8 优雅

swell-differous swellelegous fine classic elegant delicate modest fairy refined exquisite silky quaint posh silken genteel ladylike rosewater well-bred daintily fairily concinnity class grace cultivation refinement amenity swank urbanity daintiness classicality refine urbanize

9 绅士

gentlemanly sir gentleman rye gent esquire caballero toff signor sahib

10 风度

style presence bearing demeanour deportment mien

11 贵族

gentle noble aristocratic patrician nobiliary atheling lord prince peer baron aristocracy aristocrat nobleman peerage grandee sirdar baronage nobility silk-stocking quality classy cavalier coroneted sir magnate magnifico signor aristo seignory dicty

12 高贵

good noble dignified patrician lordly elevation nobility grandeur high royal dear distinguished honorable serene exalted haughty princely courtly highly nobly height distinction dignity eminence princeliness ennoble

13 上流社会

right posh glittering genteel society quality social select county exclusive fashionable classy tony tush world class fashion salon gentry monde Belgravia swelldom of fashion

14 名门

blue-blooded family quality blood ancestry high birth blue blood

15 装绅士派头

genteel

16 风度翩翩

handsome turned-on

17 文雅

elegant pleasant cultured dainty grace polish civilized cultivated ladylike delicately civilize pure gentle polite attic humane genteel urbane svelte couth gently prettily finish politesse urbanity urbanize quiet decent finished polished gracious suave debonair decorous maidenly Chesterfieldian distinction suavity gentilesse

18 名门望族

highborn

19 雅致

elegant chic posh tasteful elegantly tastefully slickly dash elegance delicacy