Sentence examples similar to instead of gentlemen from inspiring English sources

"[Sherlock] operates like a Victorian gentleman instead of a posh, rude man," Moffat said during the Television Critics Association press tour.

He sometimes answers his home telephone with a sonorous "Ladies and Gentlemen" instead of "Hello".

Boys aspiring for a commission were often called young gentlemen instead of their substantive rating to distinguish their higher social standing from the ordinary sailors.

It's an injustice, a crime because I don't know what you don't see in me, I'm the perfect guy and yet you throw yourselves at all these obnoxious men instead of me, the supreme gentleman.

In India, cricket is no longer regarded as a leisurely sport of gentlemen in white trousers but has instead become a sexy symbol of the "new" India.

A Greggs doughnut of a show – albeit filled with Gentlemen's Relish instead of jam, but still a Greggs doughnut.

Instead, they recruited men who were literate but "who had not the rank, habits or station of gentlemen".

He also used it as a means to criticize himself for failing to obtain high office, but coming to the conclusion that the true gentleman displays virtue instead of greed for power.

It is "The League of Gentlemen," not "Gentleman".

Cricketers were a brotherhood of gentlemen sportsmen.

"It's not a profession of gentlemen.