Sentences with phrase «class snobbery»

«A novel to cure your Downton Abbey withdrawal... a delightful story about nontraditional romantic relationships, class snobbery and the everybody - knows - everybody complications of living in a small community.»

Mr Bashaarat said that the qualifications remained the «victims of intellectual and class snobbery» with parents assuming the only career options for children would be in «plumbing or hairdressing».

In an article for the Telegraph, Bashaarat claimed that although vocational qualifications are «highly rated» by universities, many parents remain «in the dark» about the pathways the that BTECs open up for learners and added that the qualifications were «victims of intellectual and class snobbery».

Gillespie and Rogers are doing more than telling Harding's story; they are making pointed observations about athletic ambition and competition as well as the class snobbery that dominates this niche sport.

This is not a new idea, as Shakespeare was a commoner of humble schooling and the Brits retain their class snobbery.

It hasn't been clear sailing all the way, mind: popular historian Stephen Marche recently took to the NEW YORK TIMES to debunk such «prophets of truthiness» — Emmerich and Orloff are but a new, high - profile strain of Oxfordians, a group who name nobleman Edward de Vere as the true author of Shakespeare's texts, even the ones dated after his death — for advancing a lunatic conspiracy theory based on little more than class snobbery.

She comes an upper - middle class gift thanks to Marlo's wealthy douchebag brother Craig (played with perfect upper class snobbery by Mark Duplass) as a «night nanny.»

Overlaying Working Girl is a subtle, cynical atmosphere of class snobbery... The writers» assumption seems to be that their viewers share their elitist values and viewpoint.

The resignation brings to an end another bruising period for the Conservative party, which saw them associated with a class snobbery Cameron had spent much of his time as leader trying to dispel.

A variation and particular kind of middle class snobbery can be found in Dan Hall Highate Mums Overheard Wisdom from the Ladies Who Brunch (Atlantic Books).

the s on that came from (wan na hear class snobbery and what is that but bigotry?)

Not exact matches

The collectivist idea that someone's class ought to invalidate their views is as idiotic and unfair when done through inverse snobbery as it is in old - fashioned snootyness towards the poor.

When I joined the Labour party as a working class teenager in the 90s, I discovered that snobbery could be just as common on the left as on the right.

For a start you're not questioning why working class socialist labour voters went Ukip in the first place, it wasn't some guardian reading, snobbery that the working class are think, therefore are bigoted, so they must vote UKIP as they're nasty right wingers who dint like immigration, the decrease in wages among blue collar workers, due to immigration, is by the bosses seeking immigration to pay lower wages to make themselves more profits, Appeasing implies going along with something through fear of something worse, to agree with controlling immigration, because ex labour voters are going UKIP isn't appeasing it, why would us being afraid of losing is our votes to.

Acceptance, inclusion, snobbery, class structures: they're all apart of a social network and

Along the way, the film explores class - consciousness from several angles while poking fun at sexism and snobbery.

But in many ways Killing Ground feels more like Deliverance down under, sans the canoe trips down the river and the commentary about class divide and city slicker snobbery.

The five - part series «Patrick Melrose» follows an upper - class Englishman on a 40 - year journey of recovery from horrific childhood abuse, addiction and the soul - killing snobbery of his milieu.

But it is above all a tale of mystery and detection, of tragic mishaps and mistaken identities, of class, politics, snobbery, crime, and almost farcical accident.

There remains a considerable amount of snobbery about degrees and A-levels and the like (class, your postal code and your grades) and where they are obtained... I also think that some students (black and white) need to do a bit more research about their proposed university.

Ron motivates poor downtrodden professionals with his brand of class - based snobbery.