Sentence examples for gentleman could be from inspiring English sources
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.
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".
This gentleman could be Jim Hutton or Buster Howes or Sean Brady.
On the one hand, gentlemen could be a mere synonym of men used at public places and occasions to distinguish male persons from females, and, on the other hand, acceptance by "society" as a gentleman still required an income derived from sources other than manual labour and retail trade.
Any of these gentlemen could be a good fit to play second fiddle to Affleck, but don't let us tell you that.
The novels hark back to a time when everything a gentleman needed could be obtained within a square mile of St. James's, and Mortdecai himself, alternately pottering around the West End and shuttling around the world on dangerous missions, seems like the result of an unholy collaboration between P. G. Wodehouse and Ian Fleming.
Ladies and gentlemen, Amy Adams could be acting at this level for another 40 years.
But, as the frequently top-hatted gentleman says, "it could be any month really, any 14th, any Saint's day".
Anthony Trollope tells us that his boyhood was "as unhappy as that of a young gentleman could well be," but I'll bet he didn't set up as a young gentleman at the age of five, and, besides, I wasn't a gentleman.
