Sentence examples for gallant of from inspiring English sources

Sainte-Beuve, to be fair, called her "the most gracious and gallant of pedagogues".

Mr. Gallant of Nomura asks Mr. Buffett about increased competition in the insurance field, especially reinsurance.

The analyst Cliff Gallant of the firm KBW asks a question about insurance, and how Berkshire accounts for various assumptions.

He became a prominent figure at court with a reputation for being "the greatest gallant of his time, and the greatest gamester both for bowling and cards"; and he is credited with having invented cribbage.

"They certainly don't hold grudges," he said, which was gallant of him, for he had a couple of awkward encounters beneath the surface during the 1980s in the Bahamas.

On a crawl along 25 miles of California Highway 17, Emil Gallant of Soquel said he and a friend used to "take pictures of people doing stupid stuff while they were driving -- like putting on makeup, eating breakfast, talking on cell phones, reading books".

Brando and Loren end up in the romantic grip of a tango; their severe grace embodies the self-mastery required of gallant lovers and of supremely virtuosic artists like Chaplin himself in making their triumphs look effortlessly natural.

Last week marked the anniversary of one of the most gallant displays of the belief in American democracy.

With these properties, these ingenious young men would turn you any required number of pictures - scene, a water lane in Venice, dramatis personae a pair of gallants of same, a pair of ladies of ditto.

So it was little surprise when biologist Corey Freeman-Gallant of Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, and colleagues found in 2001 that local female yellowthroats preferred males with the most vivid yellow bibs.

The Republican-led Congress, outraged at the gallant death of one of their own, demanded a reckoning.