Sentence examples for stiff gentility from inspiring English sources

A stiff gentility reigns.

(The Dickinsons, Emily included, were never quite as proper as they seemed; beneath their clannish façade of stiff-necked gentility roiled a soap opera of mad scenes, quarrels, and illicit passions. All of them, Wineapple writes, "loved with greedy ardor").

Gentility and decorum reign.

Gentility made him restless.

He loathed gentility and social convention.

Stiff, indeed.

Gentility was not part of the new ethos, because gentility did not sell books.

But the gentility can be lulling.