Word: gentlemanly
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...sorry to bother you....I just wanted to let you know that you inspired me to create a poem about what true beauty is. I entered it into a national poetry contest to share it with others to see what they thought. I received a phone call from the gentleman who ran the contest, and he was very moved by the poem. He said that the words came very close to revealing what God has created the emotion of love for. I hope that this letter doesn't bother you, I'm not going to show up on your doorstep...
...some kind of world government threatening U.S. sovereignty, which doesn?t reveal much understanding of international diplomacy," says Dowell. "But what may be more important is that Holbrooke is trying to draw Helms into the process of U.S. relations with the rest of the world." And being a Southern gentleman, Helms? repaid his hosts? hospitality by inviting all the Security Council ambassadors to Washington to address his Senate committee. Good thing Cuba?s not on the Security Council at the moment...
...Game he gets an ailing man involved in a murder plot only because the man once spoke abruptly to Tom. Then, when the man desperately tries to kill a Mafia goon, who shows up to help but Ripley? Good deeds or bad, they're just caprices for a gentleman rogue...
...personality in his work. Confession (except to a priest) wasn't part of his culture. His objectivity formed itself around an almost punitively observed decorum. He must have felt he was a great painter, but his life's struggle was to establish himself as a great gentleman. No court was more hedged with exact signs and symbols of degree than that of the Spanish monarchy. Velazquez spent much of his adult life lobbying, campaigning, espaliering the family tree and sucking up to the noblesse in order to be granted the red cross of a Knight of Santiago; it meant more...
...Hart, who would be a groomsman at McCain's second marriage in 1980. "I was amazed at his total experience and his emotional management." The admiration and familiarity not only made McCain a very effective advocate for the Navy; it also got him thinking about himself as the Distinguished Gentleman from Somewhere. "He looked at those guys," says Jay Smith, McCain's early political guru, "and said, I can do this...