Word: genteelism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over the floors. There they stood, "one leering, one lowering, and one drooling," a frightful triptych, the terror of the countryside. Basil found inspired use for them. Assuming power as billeting officer, he visited them upon another British quintessence: the middleaged, music-loving, rock-gardening, genteel, post-Pre-Raphaelite people who made up the Garden Party Only list in sister Barbara's address book. On these Basil cleaned up in one heart-squeezing blackmail after another, for they were willing to pay with their own souls for the Connollies' removal. When he decided to return to London...
Angel Street. A genteel Victorian parlor becomes a scarifying torture chamber (TIME...
...this fine forenoon the Ambassador and his lean, genteel, partly French wife had started on their morning constitutional from their stucco house down through the orchards of Cankaya Hill to the Embassy. They had surveyed the distant snowcapped mountains and had just passed the pale green apartment house occupied by British Counselor Geoffrey Thompson. Then, 50 feet away, the bomb went...
...ease in talking with the "little set" he had reigned over before the war; too many of the newcomers are Comrades who talk dogmatic stereotypes which are the death of all free discussion. The gentle schoolmaster, Clanricard, sick at heart in his wife's betrayal of him, makes genteel love to a young Russian and gets the whole sexual dialectic thrown at his head; even so, he thinks: "If enthusiasm and integrity are still to be found in this world, it is in Moscow that they must be sought." From the Genoa conference Jerphanion's friend Jallez writes...
Miss Chase has mastered almost too well the English fiction on which she lectures. She writes in the great genteel evasive tradition, clean as Jane Austen and rather sweeter. Windswept is a treasury of sound thoughts and syntax whose spiritual dimension is revealed in such passages as this...