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temporary gentleman
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Someone who may be considered (through rank etc.) a gentleman for the duration of a war. Abbreviated as TG.
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I opted for a novel: Sebastian Barry's "The Temporary Gentleman," which is set in my wife's home country of Ghana.
Sebastian Barry's The Temporary Gentleman (Faber) has stayed in my mind because it's such a triumph of characterisation.
A "temporary gentleman," with an aspirational working-class mother, he is a complex, amoral, seductive, and knowing antihero: a man defiant of boundaries of class or sex.
O'Hara, who fell out with the author over the literary airing of family secrets, is himself the mainspring of another Barry work, The Temporary Gentleman.
Sebastian Barry's The Temporary Gentleman is the fictionalised memoir of an Irish volunteer in the British army during the second world war.
They took my word that it wouldn't and I developed a capacity for playing a role, for behaving like an officer and a temporary gentleman.
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To allow the market to continue trading while the rebuilding took place, a set of temporary stalls were built in Gentleman's Walk and surrounding streets.
Though he was an avowed monarchist and held the honour of being a gentleman of the king's chamber, Franco accepted both the new regime and his temporary demotion with perfect discipline.
Gentleman, gentleman.
Insurance gentleman.
Gentleman here?
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