Sentence examples for gentleman while the from inspiring English sources

Barcelona (1995), unfolded as a gilded bromance version of An Officer and a Gentleman, while the wayward protagonists of 1998's The Last Days of Disco deconstructed Disney classics to a soundtrack of Sister Sledge and Diana Ross.

Clearly of the belief that to be an English nobleman was infinitely superior to being a German bourgeois, Greville describes George IV as "the most worthless dog that ever lived", William IV as "the silliest old gentleman", while the young Queen Victoria is "a short, vulgar-looking child" and Prince Albert a pushy office manager desperate to be called "king".

The former were considered "gentlemen", while the latter were "in trade".

Throughout it all, the talk remains fanatically gung-ho: "Green-light the Seal incursion!" and "Prepare to reap the whirlwind, gentlemen!" While the audience reaps its own whirlwind, nagging concerns about this film's bloodthirstiness and Pavlovian manipulativeness are slowly but surely chiseled away.

The compromise was between white gentlemen, while the slaves themselves had no say.

This provoked a popular outcry and caused Ricardo to publish his Essay on the Influence of a Low Price of Corn on the Profits of Stock (1815), in which he argued that raising the tariff on grain imports tended to increase the rents of the country gentlemen while decreasing the profits of manufacturers.

We all sat about this academic gentleman while he put the play down as if delivering a papal bull.

He was well clear of Gentlemen while doing the cha-cha.

Nevertheless, he remains a grizzled head of state, he will shortly arrive at the U.N. to address the General Assembly, and it is the job of the Secret Service — in particular, of Agents Keller Sean Pennn) and Woods (Catherine Keener) — to protect the genocidal gentleman while he is visiting New York.

And in his last major piece of acting, in the 1988 movie "Little Dorrit," he travels so far inside the narcissism of Dickens's William Dorrit, who continues to play the role of a Victorian gentleman while languishing in debtor's prison, that he renders the man's folly tragic.

He agreed with the lawyer that Mr. Persico had behaved as a "gentleman" while hiding at his house.