Sentences with phrase «about aristocracy»

Like all of the great works about the aristocracy, Gosford Park knows how fundamentally trite the system is and has fun at once mocking and observing it work, knowing change is long overdue.

There is a good case to be made about the aristocracy, and indeed Professor David Cannadine has done so.

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It was there that author F. Scott Fitzgerald spent some time with his friend Rumsey, learning about «the lifestyle of the moneyed aristocracy of Old Westport, Long Island, and their involvement in the movement of eugenics,» according to a 2015 article in the F. Scott Fitzgerald Review.

Starting from a common premise and a shared commitment to republicanism, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams arrived at widely divergent conclusions about the problem of aristocracy.

An abrupt resignation from the Clinton Foundation prompts both encouraging and discouraging thoughts about America's emerging hereditary aristocracy.

Ideas about the sanctity of conscience and the importance of godly edification were emphasized and subtly modified by clergy as they attempted to secure popular submission to the secular authorities, regain ecclesiastical control of the laity, forge alliances with the state, and secure patronage from the aristocracy.

Pietism in Wurttemberg took a politically passive turn because it was largely tolerated by the state church, which was somewhat independent of the king and capable through the involvement of the aristocracy of incorporating new ideas about the nature of the polity.

And, in any case, aristocracy is the strong sense — including the aristocratic features of the philosophy of the Greeks and Romans — was bound to fade away over time in the face of the truthful Christian insight about the unique irreplaceability of every human person.

Whitehead's reflection in his last years about the Anglican religion included the comment, «The Anglican service is a symbol of the aristocracy's responsibility for governing a nation.

The founding fathers were concerned enough about this to reject inherited titles and the other trappings of European aristocracy in favor of an egalitarian society, in which privilege was not heritable.

On the opposite page (Report, 12 May) you talk of «Labour's past failure to reform the Lords» in a report about some hypothetical plan of Clegg's, while Labour actually ended hundreds of years of rule by aristocracy.

«Usually what is documented by writers about a state administration are the historical moments, not the daily life of the aristocracy,» Prado de Mello says.

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«Among other things, Billions is a show about American aristocracy, of two men burnishing a legacy that will etch their families» names in the firmament for generations to come.»

For about a week every year in my childhood, I was a member of one of America's fading aristocracies.

Although there has been a lot of funding turmoil at PBS, it earned 43 nominations, including 11 nominations for its lavish «Masterpiece Theatre» miniseries about the British aristocracy, «Downton Abbey,» which was nominated for best miniseries and best lead actress in a movie or miniseries for Elizabeth McGovern.

Davis has everything that Lopez doesn't in Maid in Manhattan: modesty, natural beauty, charisma, a wry sense of humour — you could watch a whole movie about this persona, which is probably what Hughes had in mind, and her one sequence ends with a joke that also happens to be a far more accurate representation of the subtle fear that aristocracy puts in the minimum - wager than any of the Cinderella markers you'll find in Maid in Manhattan.

«Forty - eight years ago I stood on the set of The Leopard and watched Luchino Visconti bring to life his seminal motion picture about the dying world of the aristocracy, revolution against the old order, and the rise and new - gained riches of the mer...

Remember, we're not talking about eliminating a dividend, or even reducing it: even if a company pays the same dividend two years in a row, that's grounds for getting expelled from the aristocracy.

the «consensus» is a massive PR failure the zeppelin is on fire — soft landing doubtful like many in the aristocracy, Cook, Mann and cohorts assume ordinary folk are stupid and talk down to us, it's laughable as much chatter as goes on here about «the consensus,» it's already dead it was meaningless anyway

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