Brighton and Eastbourne, its more genteel neighbours, have reinvented themselves, but Hastings stagnated.
English isn't as encumbered with many of the genteel honorifics of Japanese, nor does it rely so heavily on implication.
GONE are the genteel days when a central bank's role in oiling financial markets was limited to providing short-term cash loans in exchange for slightly less liquid collateral.
The pigeon is a beautiful and genteel bird.
In fairness, Goldman was a very different (and far more genteel) firm than Salomon.
For many poor, young, urban blacks, King was too middle-class and genteel, too Southern, too churchly and high-flown; Malcolm had lived as they had.
She is too genteel for words.
TAKING your hat off at the door may seem like a throwback to a more genteel age.
The trouble is that, as the unhappiness at HP makes clear, the alternative to clubbishness is not some genteel exchange of views called “accountability”, but often strife and division.
You are genteel enough, you look like a lady from a wellbred family.
He came from a genteel family.
Like other seaside towns, it was hit by the advent of mass air travel; Brighton and Eastbourne, its more genteel neighbours, have reinvented themselves, but Hastings stagnated.
He joined a traditional bourgeois marriage. He called his wife “mother” and lived in a genteel middle-class home.
After a cycle tour of historic, genteel St Andrews town we crossed breathtaking eight-mile-long Confederation Bridge into Prince Edward Island, or peI.
You are genteel enough, you look like a lady.
The result was a festival of genteel special-pleading.
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