gentility formal
genteelness formal

He tells me I have the gentility to say so.

She raised all the girls to be little robots of gentility.

There was a lot of gentility and precision in the way they spoke.

Under the mask of gentility, she was furious with him.

But of him nothing could make a gentleman, because true gentility and his nature were far apart.

With an air of gentility, he greeted the women and kissed the mother's hand.

His kindness, gentility, generosity and love were ever present for us.

This is where the desire for aesthetic gentility ended up.

The store has long had a reputation for gentility and conservatism.

After that show of gentility, we ate directly from the pan.

It was the final throe of what called itself old gentility.

She believes gentility is best instilled at an early age.

As we say (yes, too often) in another profession not known for its gentility, it remains to be seen.

Before he was 13 years old, however, gentility had become genteel poverty.

There was an atypical air of gentility and dignity about her.

With great gentility, she closed the dead man's eyes.

The look is meant to suggest both the gentility and ferocity of the business world.

Never mind that those roots rarely show any hint of true gentility.

We will all be deprived of his wisdom, gentility and compassion.

Gentility, even in Greenwich, often ends at the golf course.

The name calls forth images of old money and low-key gentility.

Gentility and entertainment have nothing to do with it.

I expected a man graciously creeping from middle age into gentility.

She floated toward the door like a vision of Southern beauty and gentility.

To keep a teashop was in her mind the essence of gentility.

The charge of genteelness will also be made against the film, which, in one crucial courtroom scene, goes soft and silly.

Genteelness remains.

As he threaded his way through the guests, he caught a scrap from another conversation that was refreshingly balanced against Hoenveld's notions about genteelness.

Sartorius is a prototype for Undershaft and other prim and proper Shavian villains, and Mr. O'Brien cloaks toughness with genteelness.

Instead of enjoying his success, he retreats into a quiet indifference, interrupted only to rail mentally against the genteelness of bourgeois society or to donate his new wealth to working-class friends and family.

The result of this high-powered collaboration is a movie of such unrelieved genteelness that it makes one long to head for Schrafft's for a double-gin martini, straight up, and a stack of cinnamon toast from which the crusts have been removed.

IN this new age of instant information, where libraries have turned over whole rooms to computers and the Internet, there is still an old-fashioned genteelness to many of the state's community libraries, which still offer the kind of touches that have been around since residents parked their horses outside.

This is the first "Three Sisters" I have seen in which one is allowed to understand something of the hard, self-righteous genteelness of the two older Prozorov sisters: Olga (Olga Barnet), the schoolteacher, and the unhappily married Masha (Vera Sotnikova).

Miss Campion observes Janet in minute detail, the sleeping arrangements of the four sisters when they are children (all four in one bed), her eating habits as a painfully shy young woman, the awful genteelness of her relatives, the clothes she wears, her inability to say aloud what must be going on inside her head.