Some of its old-world gentility remains: Goldman agreed to talk for this story only reluctantly, wary of looking like a braggart.

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Fanshawe feels our newfound gentility is a function of our more developed society and people should respect our more fastidious sensibilities.

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She mesmerizes colleagues with a mixture of soft-spoken gentility and effusive warmth.

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The tender, introverted eleven-year-old protagonist, Bud Davies (Leigh McCormack), is nurtured in a milieu of working-class gentility by his widowed mother and his three elder siblings (two brothers and a sister).

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There is usually a certain gentility to Silicon Valley.

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Old fashioned gentility is served here, with sitting rooms and a tiny tap room warmed by peat fires, an ample wine cellar, splendid dinners for 60 euros, and 18 sumptuous bedrooms (100 to 160 euros).

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At odds with this image of New England gentility was how the Lanza household possessed a cache of weapons -- including an assault-style rifle and two handguns -- in a community prized for its stillness.

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Once we get to Huntsville, I expect that we will find a minister and stand side by side in a living room, which will have the modest gentility of the living rooms I have known all my life.

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