A succession of defense witnesses told the jurors that Mr. Hayes, now 47, could be "a gentleman," "polite," "definitely a follower" and even "jovial" before he entered the Petit family house in Cheshire in 2007, where he committed rape and murder.
Joe himself is becoming careless due to the distractions; one mistake is caught by his nurse, Emily, who greatly admires the physician Joe could be ("The Gentleman Is a Dope").
When he describes his current country life, he could be any English gentleman — if that gentleman weren't one of the most admired actors in the world.
If anyone could be called the "gentleman of storm chasing," it would be Tim.
He could be a perfect "gentleman" to his campaign manager, say, while still grabbing and kissing other women without their permission, as multiple women have said the GOP presidential candidate has done over the years. .
I heard no mutterings of disgust, or calls for their money back; indeed, it could be that these gentlemen got exactly what they paid for.
In this part of town, he once said, every last want of a gentleman (or an actor impersonating a gentleman) could be attended to: "I can walk to my tailor's in Jermyn Street, get my shirts from Turnbull & Asser, Lobbs for my boots, Locks for my hats, Wiltons for a little fish, Berry Brothers for the booze, Hatchards for books, and George Trumper for my hair".
The idea that the toothless, scraggly-haired Henry, visibly not a gentleman, could be mistaken for one by his adversary — an earl, no less — is absurd.
From the fact that a gentleman could be ostracized in Cincinnati for using the word "corset" in mixed company to a brief history of longhorn cattle, his book provides an enjoyably anecdotal backward look.
In a subsequent scene there is a caption to the effect that Clive's sister did not know that "a gentleman could be such a cad".Paul Sloane, who produced this effusion, appears to have given more attention to the action of an intermittent electric light than to the acting of the players.
