Sentence examples for gallant as from inspiring English sources

Even while Breton praised the omnisexual, vicious Sade as a prophet of Surrealist freedom, he wrote love poems as tenderly gallant as Provençal minstrelsy.

And Philip Neal, gallant as a partner throughout the ballet, had difficulty nailing his double tours en l'air in fifth position.

When we're young and unpopular, we need a hero most valiant, as gallant as Rapunzel's prince, to rescue us from the horror of our daily life (and to deliver us to a semi-happy ending, even when it includes blindness).

He could also be gallant, as in recounting his nativity on "the day of Venus," a Friday: "At my birth Venus came toward me, smiling, and we looked long into each other's eyes.

For his part Prince William, representing, with the Duchess of Cambridge, the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh, said his country owed the people of Belgium "a great debt of gratitude for their fortitude and resistance [which was] as gallant as their suffering was great".

Prince William, representing the Queen, praised Belgium and its people "whose resistance was as gallant as their suffering was great" and spoke of the power of reconciliation.. "We were enemies more than once in the last century, and today we are friends and allies," he said.

But the din, bluster and phony sentiment that corrupts movies like "Pay It Forward" and "Bounce" makes Mr. Lonergan's gallant restraint, as well as the intelligence of Laura Linney and Mark Ruffalo in the main roles, seem downright miraculous.

Later on, as a sportswriter, I have enjoyed covering such gallants as Miloslav Mecir, a big graceful cat of a player, the dreadlocked Yannick Noah, and Stefan Edberg, whom I dare say many men would choose to look like, play like and act like.

Suggestions for those in management included pleasantries and promotions for Goofuses and scorn and complaints for Gallants as a means fomenting bad morale.

There's an unapologetic tone to most of Gallant's stories, as well as to the stories about her.

But Mr Gallant said that, as far as he was concerned, "nothing has changed" and he hoped to get a list of users suspected of illegally sharing files.