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Перевод: gentility
[существительное] претензия на элегантность; аристократические замашки; родовитость ; знатность ; знать
Тезаурус:
- "Seaside towns have lost their air of gentility," he said over a pint of Courage in the Royal, another gloomy relic of better days.
- Despite her bleak background and threadbare, Dickensian sartorial habits, she certainly transmits an aura of elegance and gentility.
- It's an interesting mix of gentility and potency.
- After the timid The Maggie (1953, High and Dry in US), Mackendrick's Ealing oeuvre culminates in The Ladykillers (1955) where a gang of bank robbers, masquerading as an unlikely string quartet, engages in a battle of wills with an unutterably sweet and totally irritating landlady, symbol of Ealing's (and England's) determination not to think about the modern world, smothering the horrors and the nightmares in gentility.
- Presumably other members of the Jacobson family must have given Belle some help, because in spite of having left most of their possessions in Johannesburg, they achieved a state of gentility during the year or two they lived in Cape Town, according to Herbert's notes.
- He criticised the WEA for allowing some branches to be "swallowed up by the vortex of gentility", failing to engage in serious study and neglecting their mission to manual workers: he wanted such branches closed.
- In the light of that brutality I don't think we need concern ourselves about gentility, spurious or otherwise.
- The history of Gainsborough Pictures shows just how strong were the forces dragging them away from conflict and passion, towards gentility.
- Discs Mansions is the epitome of new business gentility, tucked away in a sweet little Victorian cottage mews in Hammersmith, just around the corner from Island Records - which is probably no coincidence, as we'll find out later.
- Wordsworth's accent frequently struck Southern ears as harsh: even though suburban gentility had not yet forced all regional speakers to conform to the colourless vowel-sounds of the Home Counties if they wished to be socially acceptable, and even though Coleridge, like Sir Walter Raleigh before him, spoke broad Devon all his life without being taken for a peasant, it is clear that Wordsworth's accent did contribute to a general impression of roughness.
- In spite of being a member of this lite fighting unit, learning to kill people in extremely unpleasant ways, Leslie retained the gentility of Victorian ellipsis in the matter of writing profanities!
- Generally speaking, though, suburban gentility has seeped across the map.
- They tormented her enough on the grounds of her pale skin, her thin body and her grandmother's pretensions to gentility and the shoes only gave them another cause to tease.
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