Sentences with phrase «american upper class»

Throughout the 1900s the Yorkshire Terrier remained a popular companion pet for English nobility and the American upper class.

Throughout the»90s, Whit Stillman could be counted on for his wry depictions of the American upper class, inspiring the likes of Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach.

His alter ego then chimes in: «You have been writing about the decline not of the West but of the Anglo - American upper class.»

Aside from the stunning views, it's a fascinating glimpse into how the early American upper classes took on European ways yet simultaneously differentiated themselves from European society, and also into the psyche of one of America's most formidable leaders.

Not exact matches

In an analysis of the changing shape of the American middle class, Pew Research Center divided the population into three groups: Lower - income Americans made less than 2/3 of the median household income, middle - income households had incomes between 2/3 and 200 % of the median, and upper - income households had income more than twice the median income.

But 4.8 percent of Americans would see taxes go up, with hikes concentrated in the upper middle class and among the very rich.

It is not uncommon for middle - and upper - class Americans to seek out diverse neighborhoods and to worry aloud that their children are not encountering enough people from other races.

The disorder also seems to afflict white middle and upper - middle class boys more than other ethnic groups, such as Asian - Americans.

There is this tendency within certain sectors of Christianity to assume that if our theology «works» for relatively privileged (often for white, upper - middle - class American men), then it should work well enough for everyone else, and everyone else should conform to it.

This paradox makes sense in light of the patterns of middle - and upper - class American life.

The 1960s ushered in many changes, one of which was the end of the broad social consensus, call it bourgeois morality, that held sway among white Americans of all classes, upper, lower, and middle.

Certain aspects of the timeline differ between the American and British experience of them, which become even larger if we compare these to the French, German, and upper - class Continental Europe experience of them, but broad parallels remain.

Then there's something commonly known as the «Proclamation on the Family,» which is often framed and displayed in homes — though rarely in upper - class households, said Joanna Brooks, author of «The Book of Mormon Girl: Stories from an American Faith.»

Unlike the Europeans, who held that good manners were the property of the upper classes, Americans nourished the conceit that anybody could learn etiquette.

Through movies, magazines and advertising the upper middle class has become «our reference point for what the American good life is supposed to look like and contain.»

I believe that when people espouse the values of a mother or wife exclusively being a homemaker, they are longing for a perceived simpler and easier time as opposed to truth, elevating a nostalgic look at motherhood from the standpoint of the post-war American dream of the white, upper - middle - class rather than Scripture.

Such awareness will include a prophetic criticism of American feminism when it is too narrow in scope, when it demands that the power of determining and directing social goals and structures be shared with middle - and upper - class American women while other women and groups are still excluded from that realization.

In most instances he was identified with the middle or upper classes in American society.

Creighton, like nearly all American Catholic institutions, is run by upper - middle - class Americans.

Middle or upper class Americans who feel depressed can be doubly assaulted, first by their emotional condition and second by their knowledge that, compared to those in the developing world, they still have so much to be thankful for even if they can find no thanks to give.

Many of Medjugorje's American visitors come from the affluent upper - middle class.

And while the Science authors found instruction to be basic and repetitive even in American schools with a mostly middle - class or upper - middle - class student population, they found that the situation was considerably worse in schools that enrolled a lot of low - income children.

Hmmm... I think by «American parenting», they might mean American upper - middle - class - and - probably - white - and urban - as - well, parenting.

First, while it was once the case that working - class and poor Americans held more conservative views of divorce than their middle - and upper - class peers, this is no longer so.

A similar fear of failure haunts both ends of the American educational spectrum — of not escaping the poverty trap or of not seamlessly slotting into place in the national upper class, although the former shadows students and the latter preoccupies parents.

Pregnancy was considered something to be ashamed of in upper class North American society and expecting women disappeared from the social scene.

(Oh... wait... I forgot... Liberals only believe in abortion for African - Americans and poor people, not upper - middle class married white folks.

He is described as «a Victorian thinker fated to live in an unsympathetic modern age», part of an «ultimately disappointing effort to turn the cloth of «science» into a wardrobe of a philosophy of life and a programme for social progress», a liberal on race who was «a reflection of elitist English upper - class attitudes towards the others, be they the races of Empire, the lower classes in England, or Blacks in the American South».

While socioeconomic status is a major contributor to the greater burden of heart disease and stroke in African Americans, the statement notes that among the growing middle - and upper - class African American community, health outcomes are still poorer in African Americans, even when their socioeconomic status is comparable to white Americans.

The polo shirt was quickly picked up by golf players and became a staple in the upper class, All - American preppy look.

There exists a new upper class that's completely disconnected from the average white American and American culture at large July 2013 One of the most common types of advice we give at Y Combinator is to do things that don't scale.

There exists a new upper class that's completely disconnected from the average white American and American culture at large The old «round pound» has ceased to be legal tender - here's what to do if you have any left

There exists a new upper class that's completely disconnected from the average white American and American culture at large

The Jeffrey Wigand we see here is an ordinary upper - middle - class American who makes an extraordinary decision for reasons he doesn't quite understand and whose consequences he can't imagine.

Social commentary of a slightly different kind, Mike Binder's The Upside of Anger is the sort of upper class dysfunction opera that's fallen on hard times (The Safety of Objects, Fallen Angels, A Home At The End of the World, Imaginary Heroes) since the glory days of American Beauty and The Ice Storm, finding itself rejuvenated after a fashion in the smart, warm performances of Joan Allen and Kevin Costner.

And Yorgos Lanthimos» horror - inflected «The Killing of a Sacred Deer» finds a perfectly coiffed American suburban couple (Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman) stricken with a terrible plight because of an act of negligence — an act that stands in as a symbol for their general upper - class complacency.

Where the Kingsman emulate their upper - class betters through bespoke suits and manners, the Statesman take their cues from American Westerns (cowboys to be more precise), skimming the proceeds from their highly lucrative whiskey distillery to fund their secret agent adventures.

For that matter, marital discord and separation are topics unlikely for average upper middle class Americans to wrestle with in thoughtful and serious manner.

The banality continues with the secondary love interest between Phillip Carlyle (Zac Efron), Barnum's upper - class producer, and Anne Wheeler (Zendaya), an African - American trapeze artist.

A second plot line follows the disintegration of an upper - class American family led by Mary Steenburgen and James Olson; their complacency is disturbed by black

Cast: Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner, Adam Driver Program: Special Presentations Headline: Annie Ha Noel's Take: Someday when cultural historians look back at this era of cinema and television, they'll wonder why we so obsessively documented the lives of upper - middle - class city - dwelling Americans between the ages of 22 and 28.

In this odd couple tale set in the American west, Cohen Holloway (Until Proven Innocent, Boy) plays an outlaw who abducts an upper class Brit.

Gone is the happy, small - town family in Santa Rosa, California, replaced by a shattered clan in a chilly, upper - class American anywhere.

Among the upper class: Ms. Smith, Charles Dance, Michael Gambon, Jeremy Northam, Kristin Scott Thomas, and an American, Ryan Phillippe.

Charming film that follows the lives and loves of three young Portuguese - American women (two sisters and their best friend) who work at the best pizza parlour in Mystic, Connecticut, and mix not only with tourists but with rich upper - class neighbours (look out for a young Matt Damon in a small role in a dinner table scene).

Women are insatiable nymphomaniacs, Americans vulgar materialists, Brits upper - class dimwits, and so on.

At a Swiss spa, upper - class expatriate American Frederick Winterbourne (Barry Brown) meets pretty, nouveau riche flirt Daisy Miller (Cybill Shepherd); her bratty, xenophobic little brother Randolph (James McMurtry); and her tremulous, nattering mother (Cloris Leachman).

He loses his place in American upper middle class corporate hierarchy - you know the nice car, the nice house — and a sense of himself as somebody important.

Resident upper - and middle - class Chinese Americans, she says, could provide supportive networks to new Chinese immigrants that the other two groups can not access as readily.

The notion of trying to discover what one is good at or for, and shaping a career to realize these potentialities, would appear very upper middle class to many Americans, even today, when most aspire to college.