Sentences with phrase «aristocracy throwing»

And I'm puzzled why Lord Balcairn's kamikaze final Mr. Chatterbox installment was altered from the book's vision of the English aristocracy throwing down its jewels in a born - again frenzy to a more humdrum orgy.

But the activities of the aristocracy throw a smokescreen in front of the true revolution: self - publishing and innovative small publishers outside of the traditional publishing houses.

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France, in the throws of the revolution had huge issues with the church and clergy which owned most of the land and were trying to co-opt the revolution and create a theocracy by installing the church into the vacancy left by the aristocracy.