But Lumpkin warns they need be mindful of the eccentric landlord who believes himself to be a gentleman rather than an innkeeper.
For example, Emily Dickinson frequently uses personification in her poems, as in this poem about a snake: "A narrow fellow in the grass / occasionally rides; / You may have met him, -- did you not, / His notice sudden is".[6] Here, the snake is a "narrow fellow" who "rides" in the grass, which makes it seem almost like a dashing Victorian gentleman, rather than a reptile.
His verbal clangers have made him look like a gentleman amateur, rather than a seasoned politician capable of taking down a Clinton or a Biden.
Wearing tennis shoes and loose-fitting, draw-string pants, Mr. Mancuso, a tall, strapping man with big hands and thinning hair, tried to strike the part of a gentleman farmer, rather than a feared fighter.
Call me old-fashioned, but a gray-haired gentleman is rather pleasing to my eye.
The fact that he's not an older gentleman but rather a contemporary makes it all the more confusing that their romance can't just blossom.
Here is the damnedest rubber horse ever made, here are flowered trunks for the gentleman and a rather indecent little suit for his mate.
Instantly, right in front of his distraught siblings, he is transformed into "an elderly gentleman, handsomely but rather dowdily dressed, who was looking down at them through spectacles and asking them the nearest way to the railroad station".
Luke, an old-fashioned gentleman who calls rather than texts, eventually takes Sophia on a date – a barbecue picnic by a lake that the North Carolina tourism board ought to take kindly to.
Page has the unfortunate habit of over-characterizing some of the voices, and he makes Knightley sound too old — imposing, certainly, but almost crusty, as if Knightley were a retiring country gentleman of sixty rather than what he is, a vigorous young man of thirty-seven.
But it was difficult for them to fathom why Fra Angelico portrayed a girl talking to a man with wings in "The Annunciation" or why in Rembrandt's "Moses Breaking the Tablets of Law," a gentleman who looks rather down-at-the-heels but has beams of light shining from horns on his head, is bounding down a mountainside carrying two heavy stone tablets.
