Laura, the shy, crippled daughter of the family, suppresses, with a wrenching effort, her shyness in order to entertain Jim, a supposed "gentleman caller"; her mother, Amanda, insists.
It remains a perceived sin, a perfectly legal method of dismissal considered an affront to the supposed gentleman's way of playing the game, but really it might be the best example of what a thoroughly overwrought concept the "spirit of cricket" is.
The conventional wisdom is that hedge funds or private equity groups won't bid against each other after a deal is in contract, following a supposed gentlemen's agreement intended to keep business friction at a minimum and preserve a modicum of social order in the red-meat world of investment banking.
"Suppose the Gentleman B.," one character observes, "is not a simple terrorist but an angel, in the early sense of 'messenger,' and in the fateful cloud he brings, despite the insupportable smell, the corrosive suffocation, lies a message?" By this logic, mass death could be one of the agents that increasingly seek to communicate with the world, like an insistently ringing hotline.
Point Ogle is supposed by this gentleman to be the spot where the bodies lie; and this summer 18555) Mr Anderson of the Hudson's Bay Company started from Great Slave Lake to examine the locality, pay the last tribute of respect to the dead, and collect any written papers that might remain there or books and journals said to be in the hands of the Eskimos.
I couldn't make out whether he is supposed to be a gentleman who has fallen on hard times or a low-born fellow putting on airs.
The shame, ladies and gentlemen, is supposed to be ours.
In the early 20th century, supporters were supposed to act as gentlemen, applauding and supporting both their own team, and the opponents.
Both of these fully admit that the Democrats were entirely justified in what they did, but they both hew to the "Democrats are supposed to fight like gentlemen, according to the rules that their opponents are ignoring... and then Democrats are supposed to gracefully lose, every time" theory of politics.
The supposed ghost was an elegant gentleman of the Old South who lived in the house with his wife and daughter.
He replied, with careful restraint, "The gentleman who was supposed to meet is sitting right over there, eating his lunch alone.
