Word: genteel
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Eddie Zaratsian, who runs Tic-Tock, a Los Angeles floral store, can produce a genteel centerpiece, but perhaps due to his vast clientele in the film industry, he is inclined to create something dramatic rather than traditionally romantic: say, a small, distressed-wood chest filled with mossy greens, chocolate-colored roses and blood-red orchids that would cause the most brooding goth to swoon...
...admits a penchant for the genteel social environment his teas foster...
Drumthwacket, the New Jersey governor's residence, is a genteel, Greek revival masterpiece. The 11,000 square foot spread harkens back to a gentler, calmer time when it was built in 1835. But when Gov. James McGreevey asked the state's Democratic Senators, Robert Torricelli and John Corzine, to the stately manor last Sunday night it wasn't for high tea. It was political...
...festival prizes abroad; both were banned at home, and Tian was forbidden to make movies for seven years. His comeback film, Springtime in a Small Town, is a remake of a 1948 film by the Shanghai director Fei Mu. A young married couple lives in a kind of genteel torpor, broken by the arrival of the wife's ex-lover. More a still life than a drama, Tian's gorgeous portrait of anxiety and anticipation gains power in part from its time and place (China a year before Mao's Revolution), in part from the director's own tiptoeing through...
Early records describe the South End as a bloody execution site for hardened criminals of the seventeenth century. One hundred and fifty years later it had become a genteel area of rustling leaves and gracious houses, before Charles Bulfinch designed a formal layout for the area in 1801. The connecting row houses for which the Back Bay is famous were pioneered here, amid quiet fountains and charming parks...