The Earl frowned and pursed his lips. It's genteel to imply nasty insults not to speak them directly. My lord, I may have heard some of the rumors to which you allude.
So, we're very proud of her. Second up is Chris Genteel . Chris? All right. He said he might sing a song for us.
Frederick Douglass, writing just around the time the Second World War, he relates the story of when he was a slave-- a young slave, a kid-- working with a pretty, genteel mistress. She was teaching him how to read.
Now, slavery was all a bit too vulgar to have on British shores. It was all a bit-- it didn't work for the genteel society. So it was all you guys that had it over this side of the Atlantic.
This is from a big journal of the time, The American Whig Review, "We venture the assertion that there is not a more dependent or subservient set of men in this country than of the genteel dry goods clerks in this and other large cities." The American Phrenological Journal had stronger advice for young men facing the prospect of a clerical career.
The white collar was detachable, and yet it was essential as a status marker. It was sort of the perfect symbol of what was pseudo- genteel , the dual nature of office work. And this clerk became a subject of satire in fiction.
You know you've got to get in there and get the kind of ounces that actually our viewers want us to get. And it is true that in America, the tone of an interview is much more genteel and friendly, even with a leader, than it is in England, as a comparison.
But for me, I wanted to work from a much more psychological point of view and really look at-- well, for me it was important that if I was going to tell a movie that was Austen-esque and that looked at genteel society, that I also looked at the world that was funding that society and the economy of that society and the trade that was sponsoring that society.
So it was all you guys that had it over this side of the Atlantic. So when I say I wanted to look at the economy that was holding up this genteel society that you see in "Pride and Prejudice" and these other period dramas that come before-- because Dido was a little bit earlier, actually, then Austen's time-- this is the trade.
thing to have that sense of, "Okay I don't know what my future's gonna hold, but I am gonna live more mindfully; I am going to make time for the things that matter to me." So But when I was there it's a beautiful country, the people are very genteel and welcoming, and I really felt like I got an opportunity to immerse myself in that culture almost more