Dr. Stephanie Pouch, a resident in her second year of training, wasn't sure what to make of this elderly gentleman's strange complaint.
He was a really quite a strange gentleman.
I rambled on about the strange Victorians and gentlemen versus players and the corporatisation of sport, Kipling, the limping Derek Redmond, the tears of Gazza, empire guilt and conflicted nationalism, the plucky underdog, the importance of the struggle as much as the outcome, Wimbledon as a theatre of valediction which doesn't truly love its winners until they lose, all that.
What was it, this business of being "in love?" It was still rather strange to the 16th-century gentleman, who married for solid dynastic or financial advantage.
How strange, then, to see the two gentlemen on the same platform, beneath Citi's blue banner and Travelers' red umbrella, hailing the merger of their two companies (see article) into the biggest financial group anywhere.
As played by Aden Young, Daniel is a man out of time, a gentleman poet and intellectual, liable to say something strange and philosophical out of the blue.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell The former gentleman (Bertie Carvel) begins a magical apprenticeship with the latter (Eddie Marsan) on a new episode of the fantasy drama.
Sometimes called Den Elake Herren [The Evil Gentleman] (1902 1906), this obscure, anarchic strip featured "a strange and sarcastic little guy who did whatever came into his mind.
If you look at it that way, the worst US captain was Crenshaw and the best was Strange, who at least behaved like a gentleman.
It was a twist I didn't see coming, but it gave rise to a strange and entertaining alliance between the two gentleman killers.
