gentlefolk

Example Sentences

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I thought, you could hang all these other aspects on that in a fun way,” said Coppola, thinking of screwball comedies and the “Thin Man” gentlefolk mysteries.

From Los Angeles Times

It can feel almost cruel to watch Chekhov’s great late plays from the smug vantage point of the present: we can see, all too clearly, the future that awaits his bewildered Russian gentlefolk.

From The New Yorker

It’s for everyone who, like me, has found themselves in Anne Elliot’s predicament at the start of “Persuasion” — for us gentlefolk who have lost their natural “bloom” and would kindly like it back.

From Washington Post

Marketed as “Tweedpunk”, Sir, You Are Being Hunted will put players in what appears to be a procedurally generated Derbyshire – complete with gorse, high grass and rocky outcroppings, being hunted mercilessly by robotic gentlefolk.

From Forbes

Because imagine them trying to act like proper mannered gentlefolk!

From Time