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But Thoreau's prickly Yankee integrity preserved him from the academic gentilities, transient utopianisms and dated rhetoric of his literary day.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Jean has so lived for the purring gentilities of convention that he cannot face life � his social life, that is, inextricable from his sense of self � without Gabrielle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Visions of good and ill breeding, of old vulgarisms and new gentilities, were before her; and she was meditating much upon silver forks, napkins, and finger-glasses.
From Mansfield Park by Austen, Jane
The proud mother's world was not their world of Harley Street gentilities on the one hand, or country clergymen and Hampshire squires on the other.
From North and South by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
They are less direct and more provincial; they are bundled up in gentilities and petty habits; they hide behind old-fashioned reticences which soften the drama of their lives.
From Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) by Doren, Carl Van
