Sentence examples for gallant about from inspiring English sources

Fantastically amiable, modest, and unshowy, there is something gallant about her, too, as though, deep inside, she is always braced for adversity.

I can't help suspecting she's being rather gallant about their relative contributions to the household income, but she insists, not wholly convincingly, "No, there were loads of times when he and Rick [ Mayall were together – they were doing their live tours.

The British tell only gallant tales about ourselves.

But there's also a good body of literature on how difficult it can be for kids at various ages to grasp abstract concepts like the ones Gallant talks about.

"This place cries to be written about," Mavis Gallant noted in the diary she kept while living in Madrid in the early nineteen-fifties.

By Jon Michaud June 29 , 2012"This place cries to be written about," Mavis Gallant noted in the diary she kept while living in Madrid in the early nineteen-fifties.

Throughout the Second World War, Hollywood made dozens of patriotic combat films, as well as occasional home-front movies (like "Tender Comrade," with Ginger Rogers) about gallant wives.

What one extracts from what (little) Gallant has said about her life is the central fact of her wanting to do what she wanted, which was to write.

That was the tail end of a purple thread that ran back to those Crimean dispatches about gallant British troops pouring fire on the terrible enemy.

You can just about make out Gallant on Please?, the lead track on the EP, pleading "wake up, wake up!" as though to a lover slipping over to the other side.

ASK the Rev. Al Green about his gallant, groove-laden new album, "Lay It Down" (Blue Note), and you're likely to hear a familiar phrase.