Sentences with word «arriviste»

Jan 04,2016... There was something almost allegorical about arrivistes from the Sun Belt (the Tampa Bay Lightning)...

Louisville, the defending national champ, and Kentucky, a final - eight team last year, have each tumbled out of the Top 20 and now occupy places in the computer ratings among arrivistes like New Orleans, San Diego and Southwest Missouri State.

Many of today's web - based software arrivistes enable lawyers to handle more of their business online than

And while the $ 25,000 initiation fee discourages arrivistes, you must have at least five current members vouch for you.

They range from the tenaciously warm - and - cuddly Marilu Henner through the newly repentant Winfrey all the way to the no - holds - barred arrivistes like Jones, Williams, Ricki Lake and Jerry Springer.

Some of these African arrivistes evolved to resemble unrelated indigenous species.

A naïve but sly arriviste from Alabama, Jessie — 16, but looking 14 — is the flavour of the month in the Los Angeles fashion industry.

We feared that the dot - com arriviste and the bastion of traditional Japanese publishing would do little more than exchange platitudes.

In one of the show's more astute juxtapositions, Malevich's drifting, implicitly spiritual geometries confront three relatively crowded, boisterous German Officer paintings by the American Marsden Hartley, a canonical arriviste; their face - off is refereed by the earthy severity of an early, nearly seven - foot - tall version of Constantin Brancusi's «Endless Column.»

Artistica too, the realm of conceptualism and fine art, is currently under threat from the Artcontemporanea arrivistes — artists who use photography having once looked down on it as an inferior form.

This is not a cookie - cutter collection assembled overnight by socially ambitious arrivistes who use an expensive art collection as their best chance of breaching society's walls; it is one that reflects a personal sensibility actively engaged with the art and ideas of our time.

The idea of the dispassionate political legionnaire has been a trope familiar enough to Hollywood at least since 1986, when Sidney Lumet's Power introduced its protagonist (played by Richard Gere) as a consultant who finds himself an unlikely arriviste in a Latin American political scrum.

Many of these arriviste writers of that period clearly saw themselves explicitly as Catholics, especially the Irish Americans who defined themselves, for both political and cultural reasons, in ways somewhat outside the British tradition.

Furthermore, at the risk, in my arriviste enthusiasm and naïveté, of sounding a little gauche... I seem to recall from my catechumenal days that Jesus himself had something to say on the matter.

Yet many around the league still wonder whether the Suns, who had won 61 games through Sunday after going 29 — 53 last season, are too much the arrivistes, with their full - throttle offense — «blitzkrieg basketball,» Minnesota Timberwolves general manager and coach Kevin McHale calls it — destined to fizzle in the playoffs.

Alan Clark was a complex personality with something of Toad of Toad Hall about him: conformist and rebel; aristo and arriviste; family man and philanderer; man of action and would - be philosopher, backbench rebel and minister.

Keith Simpson talks to Ion Trewin about his biography of the man who was conformist and rebel, aristo and arriviste, family man and philanderer, and author of the famous diaries

The researchers aren't certain why the Dutch chimps changed their apple grunts, but they suspect that social forces were at play — either the arrivistes wanted to sound more like their new companions or to be better understood.