refined manners

Beneath his refined manners and superficial elegance lay something treacherous.

For all his disreputable pursuits, he had elegant, refined manners and a searing honesty.

He is described as "a man of deep learning, sincere piety, refined manners, and great kindness of heart."

The dowager poured tea with the refined manners of another more proper age while her daughters cast each other searching looks.

But Carla doesn't like to play tennis, isn't interested in art and is probably incapable of cultivating her mother's refined manners.

Refined manners will reflect his noble breeding."

Highly cultured and refined manners, hospitality and geniality were the salient traits of his character.

A man of refined manners, he gained a reputation of always placing the needs of Venice above his own self-interest.

In the Induction, Sly is educated into the refined manners of the aristocracy although he hasn't expressed any desire to know them.

In those days how often did I hear of his attractions, his wide spread conquests, his wit, his refined manners.

Thomas Bscher, president of Bugatti Automobiles, is just as proud of the car's refined manners.

Gorbachev's neatly tailored suits, refined manners, beautiful wife and smooth touch with reporters have made him a star with the press and the diplomatic corps.

Although he has refined manners and is an accomplished violinist, Savarese is capable of ordering, albeit indirectly, a person's death.

Cameron is totally void of the refined manners and deliverance of speech that President Barack Obama has.

Sir Wasif Ali Mirza possessed charming and refined manners.

With his proper English accent, refined manners and carefully tailored suits, the transformation of Sherman Suchow was complete.

She was admired not only for her skill as a musician, in which she almost overshadowed her mother, but also for her learning and refined manners.

He is known as U Signurinu ("The Little Gentleman") for his relatively sophisticated education and refined manners.

He found a pleasure in declaring that a courtier with the refined manners of Blandois ought to rise to the greatest distinction in any polished country.

De la Salle was a man of refined manners, a cultured mind, and great practical ability, in whom personal prosperity was balanced with kindness and affability.

Disqualified for the first role by a lack of "refined manners and good grammar," she suggests, Mr. Sharpton has been obliged to cast himself in the second.

Rabbi Miller was a man of integrity, possessed of refined manners and firm resolve, whose lifetime of achievement was a testament to his Zionist beliefs.

"I expect these will be some more refined manners, not reforms," said Wolfgang Leonhard, a former East German who has written extensively on his former homeland.

Mr. Lance cuts a more polished figure than most New Jersey legislators, using precise diction and refined manners that reflect his upbringing in the horse country of Hunterdon County.