Sentence examples for gentleman status from inspiring English sources

That Ronny agreed to cover me earned him gentleman status — to all but my mother, who frankly hated him.

In part, this is because the material can be heavy going at times, having not been entirely scrubbed of academese ("the socio-epistemological role of the moral qualities of gentleman status and honor in evaluation truthfulness... ..); a glass of syrah will make the chunkier bits easier to swallow.

007 looks genuinely discomfited, not only because the pane check of his mid-seventies plaid jacket makes your corneas melt, but because his status, as both gentleman and spy, is under threat.

It depends on your skills and your status at the Gentleman Loser.

Entertainment and hospitality were important to a gentleman's 16th-century social status and, according to his nephew, the antiquarian John Wynn, Robert Wynn kept a "worthy plentiful house".

Moving through London's class-ridden world as a gentleman, Pip uses his new status to pursue Estella, a beautiful, heartless heiress he's always loved.

(DE) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, data protection has high status in the EU.

So upholding his status as a suburban gentleman was important.

"During the Enlightenment, a collector's cabinet was the ultimate status symbol for a gentleman scholar," Mr. Brettell said.

Few victims held the high social status of the elderly gentleman in Hawthorne's tale, but he, too, seems to have had a historical model.

Suitability rested on the phrase "eminent men", originally the test applied was one of wealth or social status, as any man entitled to bear a coat of arms was expected to be a gentleman.