Bred-in-the-bone

They had the kind of bred-in-the-bone manners that were unobtrusively the same for one and all.

But few could match the bred-in-the-bone exceptionalism rooted deep in America's self-image.

Her navy had barely broken off its pursuit of the fleeing Spaniards, in fact, when Elizabeth exposed her bred-in-the-bone selfishness, her cold indifference to the well-being of the subjects whose supposed love for her she and the royal propagandists endlessly celebrated as one of the wonders of the age.

Antrim, bred-in-the-bone Republican conservative, has a proud patriotic tradition.

Critics see an unreasonable craving for authority in Newman's anti-liberalism. He was also a bred-in-the-bone Tory, and as the youthful leader of the Oxford Movement that sought a bulwark against Parliamentary manipulation of Anglicanism in its ancient Catholic roots, he could be savagely polemical.

The point of this political genealogy is not only that Lawrence Cannon was a bred-in-the-bone Liberal, […]