Sentences with phrase «aristocracy for»

The music critic and composer Virgil Thomson maintained social relations with the flower of New York's musical aristocracy for years, and reviewed their work regularly.

The old Moorish city of Sintra, which was recaptured in 1147 by the Portuguese King Alfons I, has been the summer residence of the Portuguese kings and the aristocracy for more than 600 years.

American girls basically propped up the English aristocracy for a generation.

In post-WWII England, amateur sports were ruled by an aristocracy for whom fairness was selectively enforced — and the fact that John Tarrant once received $ 20 for a boxing match meant a permanent ban from his true passion, distance running.

It's hard to claim a piece of the British vehicular aristocracy for less than $ 50,000, but the 2016 Range Rover Evoque compact crossover manages to accomplish that task.

Meissen Germany is famous for supplying Europe's aristocracy for hundreds of years with their hand painted porcelain China.

The opinion of the catholic proletariat has not been represented by catholic aristocracy for hundreds of years now.

Not exact matches

Similarly, it might be that the Club has no better way to award entry into its little aristocracy - for - a-night than to make snap intuition - al judgments that inevitably, are heavily based on appearances.

In the aristocratic view it is assumed that esthetic judgments are relevant only to certain kinds of activity and are reserved for the aristocracy only.

Rather complex sets of historical variables are summarized in the relations among state church, state, and aristocracy, and these relations then determine where a religious reform movement is likely to turn for support, which becomes a decisive factor in shaping the movement's views of the state.

No, my dream for America is for an aristocracy based on achievement, rather than an aristocracy based on the accident of birth, or the color of skin, or whether you are a Wasp or a southern European in ancestry.

Tocqueville is famous for presenting aristocratic criticisms of democracy and democratic criticisms of aristocracy.

George Orwell once notoriously criticized Shakespeare for his bourgeois «Tory predilection for hierarchy and aristocracy, holding that the views of the playwright came through only in the voice of kings or nobles.

And finally, we can whisper to Liberals the fact that democratic nations actually have a cultural need for disadvantaged poverty and advantaged aristocracy to still exist.

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.

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 Church attempted to forbid jousts and tournaments, a favorite pastime of the aristocracy, for they entailed the shedding of blood.

Henry was a younger son of Henry VII and, like many younger sons of the aristocracy, had been slated for a high ecclesiastical post.

Aristotle, for example, was sympathetic to the landed aristocracy — who appropriate for themselves the lion's share of nature's bounty — and hostile to merchants, who earn a living by exploiting the «unnatural» fecundity of money in the marketplace.

Nunneries were favorite places for providing homes for daughters of the aristocracy.

In an aristocracy, special disciplines are developed for the cultivation of taste.

They see their club as the pinnacle of the footballing aristocracy, and every other club as a being supported by a bunch of lower class loonies who live in such wholly unacceptable places as, well, for example, Manchester.

Since 1945, for the Thatcherites, the Conservative Party — and consequently British society — had committed a series of betrayals: the Unionist Party had surrendered the Union; the Imperial Party sacrificed the Empire; the Party of aristocracy hastened its political demise, and the Tories accepted — even pioneered — greater state intervention and welfare.

Palamite Zealotes massacred Thessalonian aristocracy in preparation for Cantacuzene usurpation via hesychast hyperventilatory hallucination.

No just as the Slave owners of our first Civil War, who needed African slaves on their Plantations, to make them economically viable for the Southern Aristocracy to maintain their affluence, the Anti Gov forces of today seek a totally deregulated American economy.

This comes across a number of problems in the post-1789 world, and can't functionally apply to a pre-1789 world (The Party and the Faction, for example); it pre-supposes a bourgeois triumph over the aristocracy in terms of the dominant mode of production and property form.

According to the Wikipedia entry, this type of democracy is essentially calling for a Democratic Republic, in direct opposition to a society ruled by a Monarch and the Aristocracy (i.e. Britain at the time, maybe also today).

Leopold grew up making glass eyes and costume jewelry, as well as glass orchids for the aristocracy.

At the same time, the opposite tack is being taken by services such as Captcha King, mentioned earlier in the Craigslist - spammer arms race, that advertise a series of aristocracy - themed payment plans (Royal, Imperial, and Emperor) for CAPTCHA solutions sold in batches of thousands.Their method, which integrates with spamming software like automated Craig - slist posting engines, Jiffy Gmail Creator, and MySpace bots, retrieves the CAPTCHA images «for manual entry.»

Once reserved for the Inca aristocracy and more recently for special occasions, alpaca is coveted worldwide for its warmth.

British aristocracy have been rocking these badboys on hunting trips for centuries.

Even though velvet for long has been a fabric of nobility and aristocracy, I'm pretty sure it's never gotten the attention of today (or this fall).

«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.

The English aristocracy could not wish for a better representative.

But their voices, each singularly delicate, precise, and calculated in unique ways, are especially fitting for the Merchant Ivory adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, where you can see the aristocracy that reigns in films like Gosford Park and The Rules of the Game — or, more fittingly, other Edwardian set period feasts of the Merchant Ivory vein — looks stale and seems to crumble.

Of course I fully agree with many of the more accepted goals of the liberal variants of critical pedagogy whose arch-categories include the following — to foment dialogue, to deepen our appreciation of public life, to create spaces of respect and appreciation for diversity, to encourage critical thinking, to build culturally sensitive curricula, to create a vibrant democratic public sphere, to try to change the hardened hearts and minds of our increasingly parasitic financial aristocracy, to build knowledge from the experiences and the histories of students themselves, to make knowledge relevant to the lives of students, and to encourage students to theorize and make sense of their experiences in order to break free from the systems of mediation that limit their understanding of the world and their capacity to transform it, to challenge racism, sexism, homophobia, ableism, to fight against white supremacy, etc..

For a brand on a mission to rejoin the automotive aristocracy, it's not enough to just compete effectively at the mainstream core of the luxury market.

Towles then uses this Trojan horse of a literary dreamboat, Count Rostov, to illuminate some 100 years of the ebbing of a lost Russian aristocracy, the subsequent tumult of Soviet revolution, and the failure of that revolution to transform society for the better, even as everything — or almost everything — of his former life is stripped from him.

Reading's lovely English accent and exuberance are a perfect fit for the wide range of characters, from young girls to male teachers to members of the aristocracy.

The slave owners constituted for the most part a feudal, landowning aristocracy that dominated both the economic and the political life of the South, and indeed to a considerable extent of the nation.

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 aristocracy valued them for being able to retrieve game as well.

They were bred as companions for the Cuban aristocracy and have developed skills in dog sports as well as in therapy.

As much as we love our pups today, believe it or not, up until the industrial revolution, keeping dogs purely for companionship was a luxury enjoyed mainly by the aristocracy.

Dogs have been man's best friend for centuries and for almost as long royalty and the aristocracy have been decorating their canine companions, of course in those days it wasn't tutu's and Star Wars costumes for dogs, but rather intricate collars made from precious metals and adorned with jewels.

The Japanese Chin was initially bred for the purpose of accompanying women in the Imperial Palace and as lap dogs for Chinese aristocracy.

Because of the draconian trade restrictions imposed on its colonies by Spain, Tenerife remained one of the only ports open to Cuba for trade, and it would appear these little dogs, who soon found their way into the homes of the resident Spanish aristocracy, developed without much outside influence.

Dalmatian puppies soon develop great stamina and guard - dog capabilities, which account for their popularity among the English aristocracy.