Sentence examples for basic gentleman from inspiring English sources
By St. Clair McKelway The New Yorker, July 12 , 1941P. 7 There is no time like the summer for bringing about the ultimate cleavage in the personality, the final, palpable splitting of the basic gentleman or lady so that you can recognize, and even nod to, the one person in the one half & the other person in the other half.
Such writers rarely noted the strictures on female education — most girls had little beyond basic reading and ciphering; even gentlemen's daughters learned less of history than of needlework — that underlay the trope of the silly, prattling woman.
After two hours, Ms. Holland got up and began to wonder aloud whether, if the gentlemen ever took a basic course on feminism, they would continue to exchange such predictable banalities, which she could no longer bear to hear.
Basic hygiene and a clean appearance is important but a gentleman should not be obsessed with his looks.
The Dignified Older Gentleman.
