Old Mr. Letterblair, the accredited legal adviser of three generations of New York gentility, throned behind his mahogany desk in evident perplexity.
The hotel has an air of faded gentility.
If learning and gentility are signs of civilization, perhaps our almost-big brains are straining against their residual atavism, struggling to expand.
She thinks expensive clothes are a mark of gentility.
Goodall had no academic training, having grown up in the middle-class gentility of Bournemouth in the postwar years, a time when women were expected to be wives and little else.
Chivalric prowess of the medieval knights represented by Richard Lionheart had the profound influence on the gentility of the United Kingdom and citizen's characters.
He took her hand with discreet gentility.
Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity, and afraid of being overtaken.
Susan Mann's Ningbo women benefited from their reputation for diligence, skill, and gentility.