genteelly in a sentence

Examples

1. Today, while the mainstream audio-book industry has mushroomed into a fiercely competitive $ 1.4 billion business, Hecht, 65, maintains a genteelly profitable cottage industry amid the behemoths surrounding him.
2. By contrast, the Senate is genteelly fractious; Democrats are differing over whether Clinton should insist on a trial, and even some conservative Republicans say it would be silly to make him concede he lied.
3. As the OED lumbers genteelly into the new millennium, it is heartening to note that however vital its computers have become, they can never fully replace the work of its pencil-wielding, flesh-and-blood staff.
4. Mark Jacoby and Marin Mazzie also sing beautifully, but their roles as a proper Victorian husband and wife, each privately troubled and often genteelly at odds with the other, are not clearly defined by either the prose or the music.
5. One of the key props is what this newspaper once genteelly referred to as " an artificial sex toy, " but it feels like a mere echo of the zipper and hair-gel scenes from " Mary ."
6. He genteelly hands sweaters to his victims as he herds them into meat lockers, softly says " please " and " thank you " as he scoops the cash into a bag, and saunters away with a cheery farewell.
7. He has also appeared co-hosting a segment called " ConTROVersy " with the Daily Show's other English correspondent, John Oliver, in which the pair calmly and genteelly discussed former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair over tea, parodying American stereotypes of Britons.
8. When Tennessee Williams wrote " The Glass Menagerie " in the early 1940s, he had Tom, the aspiring writer who worked in a St . Louis warehouse and lived miserably with his genteelly poor mother and sister, go to the movies to escape his life.
9. Subtly, he conveys the pent-up feelings of a man who has back-burnered himself for too long and is ready for some catalyst to help launch him into a more active form of life than the genteelly gloomy one into which he seems to have imploded.
10. "I fell in love when I first saw the neighborhood, " said Joy Lo, a New Jersey native who works for a public relations firm and lives in Ju'er Lane, a cluster of renovated houses amid the genteelly decaying courtyard homes that once belonged to nobility.