Her genteel manners and femininity co-exist easily with her toughness. Micheaux depicted his protagonists as educated, prosperous, and genteel. In the seventies, Indian people aspired to be honourable and genteel. The Mortmain family is genteel, poor, and eccentric. Appuhamy gives a sinister overtone to much of the otherwise genteel story. It has far more oomph than hundreds of virginal, genteel muses, painted by American academics. Amelia lives in genteel poverty caring for their son. It was genteel in expressive impact without being genteel in social conformity. The 18th and 19th century arcades were designed to attract the genteel middle classes. Mario is an example of what life without the genteel tradition is like. The family lived in England in genteel poverty; Roger's mother died when he was nine. Max Heindel's infancy was thus lived in genteel poverty. Designed to attract the genteel middle class, retailers sold luxury goods at relatively high prices. So Amelia returns to live in genteel poverty with her parents. Audiences were tiring of older, more genteel forms of magic.