Sentences with phrase «as aristocrat»

The American Kennel Club sums up the breed: «Referred to as an aristocrat, the Afghan Hound's appearance is one of dignity and aloofness.

The illegitimate child of a black slave and a Royal Navy captain (Matthew Goode), Dido Belle Lindsay was sent to live with her great - uncle, the Lord of Mansfield and Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, in the safe and protected environment of Kenwood House in Hampstead, spared from an underprivileged and poverty - stricken upbringing, and raised as an aristocrat along with the other girl in the painting, her cousin Elizabeth (Sarah Gadon).

Here, she talks about her new film, Belle, a fact - based, historical drama starring Gugu Mbatha - Raw about the daughter of an African slave and a British ship captain who was raised in England as an aristocrat.

But when her father finds a stash of gold in the same bamboo shoot she was discovered in, he takes it as a sign that his daughter should not be living a basic country life and should instead be be raised as an aristocrat, befitting her circumstance and beauty.

Mbatha - Raw, 31, is also up for most promising newcomer for her turn as a Caribbean slave's daughter who was raised as an aristocrat in 18th Century England.

Living as the aristocrat's trophy wife, Effi endures her provincial existence unhappily.

The remaining percentage largely hail from Britain, many from London and surrounds, as well as aristocrats and international visitors from countries like Austria, Switzerland and Russia.»

Unlike Robert, his sons - in - law were not raised as aristocrats and Robert can't imagine Tom or Matthew handling his responsibilities.

And not having been raised (as aristocrats once were) for their privileged lives, they....

There are several mainstream and numerous fringe varieties of psychotherapy, ranging from classical psychoanalysis (whose practitioners regard themselves as the aristocrats of the trade) to behaviour therapy.

Morton's old - school - tie personality and men's - club looks served him well in securing numerous film roles as aristocrats or snobbish business executives.

There are higher end dividends, referred to as aristocrats, which have been known to gradually increase their payouts, even during tough economic times.

Not exact matches

Winter and Brown tore down the mansions within days of buying them and transformed this stretch of Fifth Avenue into one of the most exclusive shopping districts in the world, or «the aristocrat of shopping thoroughfares» as the WPA Guide to New York City called it.

Another Electronic Entertainment Expo is upon us, which means the nerd news cycle of the next week will be dominated by a steady stream of video game information and hype, not to mention a decent share of child - like squealing as the latest alien - shooting, terrorist - killing, football - throwing, aristocrat - stabbing and Italian plumbering titles are announced.

Metrics such as P / E ratio (price - earnings ratio), dividend yield, payout ratio and dogmas like the believe in dividend aristocrats are omnipresent.

As you can see, there is a clear dominance of 3 sectors (consumer defensive, industrials and healthcare) covering 60 % of the aristocrats group.

He suggests buying stocks that are likely to grow earnings faster and improve their balance sheets — such as CSL, Aristocrat Leisure and Ramsay Health Care — and short those likely to disappoint on the earnings front that will weaken their balance sheets, pointing to Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, Downer EDI and Ausnet.

FYI for all... I had a detailed look at the current top 10 yielders on the «Canadian Dividend Aristocrat» list this morning as shown on another blog.

Companies that have a strong track record of continually growing their dividends are known as Dividend Aristocrats.

As seen below, the S&P Dividend Aristocrats Index has nicely outpaced the S&P 500 over the past decade.

As you can see, dividend aristocrats fell about 22 % in 2008 but significantly preserved shareholders» capital when compared to the S&P 500's 37 % plunge.

One thing I want to add — I would encourage you to look at the list of dividend champions, as opposed to the aristocrats.

By then, even the aristocrats will be afraid, as all the economic slave labor upon which they depend will have perished.

In his account, aristocrats emerge as the champions of liberty, and democratic popular sovereignty is analyzed as an instrument that dangerously advances Power's monopoly of social authority.

Churchill, an aristocrat and not embarrassed about it, was as likely to drink brown ale, smoke cheap cigarettes, and eat fish and chips in the street as he was to travel on the London Underground.

A true aristocrat, he bitterly opposed state absolutism, without necessarily embracing liberal democracy as the alternative.

To see Plato through fourth - century Athenian eyes as just another young aristocrat, his dialogues a way to attract a following by which to further his own political agenda or feather his nest financially, is to strip away the later accretions of canonicity and to see him for what he was rather than for what the Western world has made of him.

In film after film the proud aristocrat in his fine clothes and suave sophistication was revealed as being something of a bum underneath.

Kierkegaard knew himself as only a genius, only an aristocrat of the spirit.

The Sadducees, aristocrats who wished to stand in with the Roman authorities, were probably in most cases well - to - do as well as influential, for they controlled the temple worship and hence the temple riches.

(My former dog Bel, as indomitable a «natural aristocrat» as there ever was, to use Jefferson's terminology, lacked papers or pedigree and was excluded from many a competition that she was destined to win.)

But he's inherited the means to live like an aristocrat (which he sort of does — not needing to work and taking off as he pleases) but without taking responsibility for who he is.

The new aristocrats might come to think of themselves as radically better because they are.

As Alexis de Tocqueville points out in Democracy in America, however, we modern democratic persons refuse to defer to the privileged claims of aristocrats even or especially when they're deserved.

The aristocrats of old thought of themselves as different kinds of beings from most human beings, but they deluded themselves.

From the vestments (which are really nothing more than the Fourth Century CE court clothing of the Eastern Roman Empire), the canonized saints (which are essentially «Christian» demigods that replaced the pagan pantheon), the numerous feast days and holy days (which replaced pagan holidays), the statues and painted icons (which replaced pagan idols), and the episcopal structure (in which «third sons» of landed aristocrats who had no hope of inheriting their fathers» titles and lands could become «princes of the church» with as much worldly comfort as the «first sons» and almost as much wealth and power), the Anglican Church was practically indistinguishable from the Roman Church except that they used English in the Mass instead of Latin.

The Aristocrat received recognition as Las Vegas Review Journal's, «Best of Las Vegas» Gourmet Restaurant» in their inaugural awards in 1982.

He was born and raised in the restaurant industry and started his 20 + year career in the industry as a bus boy at his family's restaurant, The Aristocrat.

Aristocrats are condemned en masse as «avaricious», «insatiable», «struttingly prided» and «phenomenally self - serving».

Pierre de Coubertin, a young French aristocrat, now known as «le Rénovateur», revived the modern Olympic Games in 1894.

Written as a follow - on from Stindberg's 1888 play Miss Julie, which describes the sexual liaison between a lowly footman and an aristocrat, the play is a contemporary take on the reality of a relationship blighted by outlooks moulded by class.

An «election» could, however, include a situation like that surrounding the adoption of the Magna Carta or the assembly of representatives of the various estates that was convened by the monarch shortly before the French Revolution in which the franchise is quite limited (e.g. limited only to aristocrats, or to elders, or to clergy, or to members of a political party, or to members of a particular tribe or caste, or to a council of leaders of tribes or castes) who are not all members of the incumbent's extended family and whose appointment was not primarily within the control of the incumbent as a practical matter.

It will abolish the absurd «byelections» among hereditary peers — under which as one blueblood dies his fellow aristocrats get to choose which hereditary takes his place — so that this most exclusive of franchises will no longer be able to renew itself in perpetuity.

It acquired so fashionable an aura among 18th - century British aristocrats that it became known as The English Malady.

Many of her fellow aristocrats saw the queen in such an inexpensive textile as a breakdown of the barriers between the classes.

Hangings and beheadings are depicted as public affairs attended by aristocrats and common folk alike.

She isn't the most complex of baddies, but she looks fabulous in her range of black catsuits and her chandelier - shaped headgear, and Blanchett relishes playing her as a bored, drawling, English aristocrat.

WHAT: After leaving the jungles of Africa to assume his rightful position as British aristocrat John Clayton III alongside his wife Jane (Margot Robbie), the man formerly known as Tarzan (Alexander Skarsgård) is lured back to the Congo under false pretenses.

Tall, dark and handsome Thomas has the single ladies and their mothers in awe of him and with his pedigree as a European aristocrat.

Set in 1890, the film begins several years after the man formerly known as Tarzan (Alexander Skarsgård) left the jungles of Africa to assume his rightful position as British aristocrat John Clayton III alongside his wife Jane (Margot Robbie).