Word: genteelism
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Actress Barrymore plays the wealthy, aging owner of a house full of art treasures in genteel, turn-of-the-century London. As a down-at-heel artist who stops one day to admire the original Cellini knocker on the door, Evans wins her confidence with a display of breeding, paintings and poverty. He finds a pretext to move himself, his sickly wife (Betsy Blair) and baby into the house. Then he brings in a couple of confederates as a butler (Keenan Wynn) and maid (Angela Lansbury), imprisons the old lady in her room and takes possession. While looting the house...
Darkness and Day, by Ivy Compton-Burnett. Further astonishing dilemmas of some of Compton-Burnett's genteel Eng lish characters; contrived mainly to let the characters gossip unconventionally about life, death and each other (TIME, March...
...with the careless ease North Americans reserve for four-letter words. People in public life, even second-raters, are often described in the newspapers as ilustre, gentil, eminente. Now you just cannot translate some of these words nor the attitude that prompts them. Their English equivalents should be "illustrious," "genteel," "eminent," but they do not mean the same. Use them on a U.S. citizen and you might get a punch in the nose; use the Spanish words on a Latin and you might get a bow from the waist...
Darkness and Day, by Ivy Compton-Burnett. Genteel English characters gossip unconventionally about life, death and each other (TIME, March...
Darkness and Day, by Ivy Compton-Burnett. Further astonishing dilemmas of some of Compton-Burnett's genteel English characters; contrived mainly to let the characters gossip unconventionally about life, death and each other (TIME, March...