Several small dining rooms (ours was wood-paneled and decorated with wrought-iron light fixtures, pewter plates and beer steins) in a converted old mill in the center of the city are the setting for this friendly, dignified, old-fashioned restaurant with a countrified feel and solicitous service.
He is polite and solicitous and makes you feel — even as you try to resist him — that he truly has your interests at heart.
In it an elderly white woman named Nannie dreams she has a male visitor who is at once solicitous and menacing in the way that sex can sometimes feel.
But much of the comedy feels tame, safe and solicitous, lacking in the spontaneous acid truth of the flaying insults in "August".
But liberal Catholics from the church's social justice wing could not help but feel that Benedict was intolerant of the church's left wing and overly solicitous of the right.
But some critics who feel the administration's policies on bailouts and financial reform have been too solicitous of big banks had a positive reaction to the administration's new proposal.
"Kathryn has a lot of talent, but I cannot trust that your company will honor its contract to the soldiers and government of the U.S". Breasseale said the filmmakers had been solicitous of the Army's opinion, "trying to get the look and feel right," and they had been allowed to film at an Army logistics base in Kuwait.
Spacious, with a solicitous staff, it's the one stroke of actual luxury in this array of shops, the one place where Mr. Jacobs's designs feel loved and nurtured, not compressed and tossed off.
The hatred she feels for her needy, overly solicitous tutor, Miss Gallagher, seems gratuitous, to say the least.
In the 1980s this useful phrase, coined by the sociologist Arlie Hochschild, referred to the exhausting requirement faced by people in certain jobs – again, usually women – to act smiley or solicitous, however they felt inside.
"You felt the zest for people, a solicitous tenderness".
