Sentences with phrase «when aristocracy»

The film recreates, with nostalgia, drama, and opulence, the tumultuous years of Italy's Risorgimento — when the aristocracy lost its grip and the middle classes rose and formed a unified, democratic Italy.

When aristocracy gives way to some other stable social form, aristocratic manners are replaced by a system of symbolic acts that express the character of the new society.

Not exact matches

Both Catherine and her husband, Boris de Hueck, were born into aristocracy, and when the Russian Revolution exploded many of their family were killed.

How can we claim the aristocracy of authenticity when so many others have done and are doing the same?

M.M. Thomas in one of his early essays, when he was responding to the challenge of Gandhian spirituality speaks of the need for a «spiritual aristocracy» that accepts prophetic vocation as their communal style.

At a time when leading historians of the family were concentrating on the English and French aristocracy, Lasch focused on marriage and family life among ordinary Americans.

The Spanish royal family and the aristocracy wore his designs, but when the Spanish Civil War forced him to close his stores, Balenciaga moved to Paris.

This is the stuff we expect of Dickens — themes of family loyalty, critique of the aristocracy, hidden truths, unrequited love, romantic ideals — and when the material is handled this well, it's a joy to watch.

The story takes place at a time when Scots - Catholic Jacobites lived in uneasy proximity with the Protestant English land - owning aristocracy.

An undisputed member of the peerage of the automotive aristocracy, Aston Martin boasts a history going all the way back to 1913, when its parent company was founded by Robert Bamford and Lionel Martin as Bamford & Martin Ltd..

What does Ellis mean when he says that the public figures on which he focuses in this book were «America's first and, in many respects, its only natural aristocracy» [p. 13]?

First popular in France with the aristocracy, they quickly became the hound of choice after the French Revolution when the French wanted a game hound they could follow on foot and not on horseback.

When the hotel was first built, the aristocracy preferred to stay in the lower floors since the elevator had not yet been invented.

vukcevic December 11, 2012 at 7:28 pm Reply Science is at its best when the world's science aristocracy is perplexed by the impromptu deeds of plebs.

Science is at its best when the world's science aristocracy is perplexed by the impromptu deeds of plebs.

Your political punditry on this one is expected (you keep favouring the right even when they are so wrong)-- you are re living the 1970s with right heroes living in your head (and 30 years later the aristocracies are riding high and everyone else is sinking but you cant face it),

This is a holdover from the time when judges were members of the aristocracy, and it was considered fashionable for important people to show off their social status by wearing long flowing wigs.