Word: genteel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Things had to warm up a bit after all this saccharine, and they did. Still, Monday's first installment of the "great debate" was a remarkably genteel affair. No one really called anyone a liar (Kennedy came closer, but then, Nixon came closer to lying); Kennedy even accepted without comment or quarrel Nixon's assertion that the two candidates differ not on the goals for America, but only on the means by which to attain them. There is, after all, a point at which a difference on means becomes in effect a difference on ends...
...from the winter session. During the regular term, for example, Radcliffe girls were not permitted to walk through the Yard without an escort. In the summer, however, more than 50 per cent of the students were women, mostly teachers from the Boston area. The number of women necessitated a genteel pattern of social mixing. In place of the current 50 cent mixers, engraved invitations were delivered to each man, graciously requesting "the pleasure of your company at Memorial Hall to meet the ladies of the Summer School...
...from literary jerry-building. What saves it is its subtle, flexible prose, which can gallop in tense, comma-strewn sentences when Northern cavalry slashes through the Carolinas, or laze through a hot summer afternoon with three plaintive, motherless Negro children. And when Pierce softly traces Miss Ellen's genteel footsteps, he enlivens in a rare, vivid way the mind of the Old South...
...Affair, by C. P. Snow. The eighth novel in the author's projected eleven-volume cycle on Britain's New Men uses a scientific scandal to set off a typically reflective, genteel-and slow-moving-investigation of one of the dilemmas of power: how to judge not, yet still do justice...
...Affair, by C. P. Snow. The eighth novel in the author's projected eleven-volume cycle on Britain's New Men uses a scientific scandal to set off a typically reflective, genteel - and slow-moving - discussion of one of the dilemmas of power: how to judge not, yet still do justice...