Sentences with phrase «aristocratic family into»

Choosing from tens of thousands of internet images of Jackson to pair with the few available images of Baudelaire, O'Grady represents the two men at roughly the same ages, tracing their trajectories: Baudelaire's descent from an aristocratic family into poverty and Jackson's rise to wealth and fame.

What turned an ambitious officer from an old aristocratic family into the mastermind of a coup détat?

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Diana was born in 1961, into the Spencer family, a British aristocratic family with royal ancestry.

But at least she gets this right: «Brideshead mattered so much to Evelyn because he put so much of himself into it: his distance from his father, his sentimental education of Oxford, his early love affairs, his initiation into the aristocratic world of the Lygons [model for the novel's Marchmain family], his conversion to Roman Catholicism, his abortive love affair with the Army....

In aristocratic societies the gentleman is defined as a person of high social position, one born into the «right» family.

He was born in 1878 into one of Germany's old aristocratic families with a tradition of service in both Church and nation.

Still owned by the Van Loon family (who occasionally hold dinner parties in the ornate dining hall), each room offers a unique glimpse into the history and style of aristocratic Dutch residents.

Production has already started on Warner Bros. and MGM's Tomb Raider reboot and the first photos from the set have debuted online from The Daily Mail, featuring Alicia Vikander in costume as Lara Croft, «the only daughter of an aristocratic family who ventures out into dangerous locations in search of ancient artifacts with supernatural powers.»

In an exquisitely detailed adventure set in the Austro - Hungarian empire, Ibbotson skillfully enfolds deliciously cruel villains, crumbling aristocratic families, stolen jewels, and a cast of lovable, intrepid characters into a 12 - year - old's search for her true family.

Nicolas de Staël was born into an aristocratic Russian family in 1914.

Edward Krasiński was born in 1925 in Lutsk (Volhynia) into a Polish aristocratic family.

M.S. Rau Antiques» latest exhibition, Aristocracy: Luxury and Leisure in Britain, delves into the aristocratic lifestyle of 19th - century England's most elite families.