Word: genteel
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Defining feminism as the quest for "full political and legal equality of women," Paglia argued that "the real revolution has been lost." She attacked the current "cashmere sweater and pearls--yuppie genteel" feminism...
This alienation is intensified by accumulating reports of late-night harassment, a bonechilling wind-tunnel effect and the stench of urine and rubbish. The late 1950s June Cleaver dreamworld of the pedestrian shopping zone has been steadily turning into a nightmare. With the recent departure of the genteel Cambridge Shop (for Ladies) and the Crimson Shop (for Gentlemen), one can imagine the upper echelons of Harvard Real Estate peering down into the morass of the Square and wringing their hands in dismay...
...sipping soda in a Washington saloon as some pals drank harder stuff, he was seized by a thirst for "deeper spiritual meaning" in his life. Reed chose a church at random from the Yellow Pages, went there the next morning and soon became a born-again charismatic, abandoning the genteel Methodism in which he had been reared...
...Father's mother were absolutely indomitable," says Janet's brother Robert Reno, a New York Newsday columnist. "All the women in the family were. The men were strong too. They just had no talent for marrying spineless women." Janet's maternal grandmother Daisy Sloan Hunter Wood was a genteel Southern lady who lost her own mother and two sisters to tuberculosis and instilled in her children and grandchildren a passionate commitment to duty and family. In World War II, daughter Daisy became a nurse, landing with General Patton's army in North Africa and marching on Italy. Another, Janet...
...seems to take place inside Stephane; it is a story of a woman's passion, told with a man's disconcerting reticence. In an overheated Hollywood summer, this movie is a sorbet that goes straight to the heart. And once there, it has a chilling effect. It says that genteel talk can be the most hurtful obscenity...