Sentence examples for gentlemen talking from inspiring English sources
I remember one of the real old gentlemen talking about how all he needed to straighten his life out was a High John the Conqueror root.
I recall the late Auschwitz survivor Tadeusz Borowski, in his short story "This Way to the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen," talking about the nightmare within a nightmare of being in a lower bunk, under an inmate with typhus.
"These two gentlemen talk a good game about Armageddon, but I've made it happen," she said, to a standing ovation.
Today I was watching a video by Into, Grindr's (great) digital magazine, where they had older gay gentlemen talk about current gay slang.
The search algorithm still needs a bit of tuning (a search for "Reel Big Fish" built a playlist of nineteen music videos… and one clip called "Jessica the Hippo", which was three minutes of an older gentleman talking to a hippo at a zoo).
One gentleman talked for nearly 40 minutes, recapping virtually everything he'd ever done in his organization.
His first words at the meeting were "Shall we always, gentlemen, talk and never do anything?" All five later swore an oath of secrecy on a prayer book, and then celebrated Mass in another room with Father Gerard, who was ignorant of their pact.
But it's not as alarming as it sounds: they mean "to make love" in the older sense, of "to flirt or woo", and the expression relates to the practice of a gentlemen sweet talking (or, as the Japanese might say, "talking through the nose") to a lady at her balcony – as in the classic Romeo and Juliet scene.
At the water-cooler a gentleman was talking to one of the proofreaders.
"If I did score that many goals and the club still did not want me then we could sit down like gentlemen and talk about it".
If we ever have a fascist coup in Britain, it won't be run by poor white men trying to improve their sad lives by threatening people with dark skins, but by upper-class Christian gentlemen who talk as though they come straight out of a John Buchan novel.
