Sentences with phrase «from aristocrat»

From the aristocrat to the beggar, via the banker, the taxi driver and the Middle English housewife, everyone had an opinion.

Kingston upon Hull is 18 miles from Aristocrat Guest House, and Grimsby is 1.6 miles away.

Those he painted ran from aristocrats to war heroes to superstar actors.

Not exact matches

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.»

Benevolent English aristocrats willing to liquidate ancestral wealth to keep the green and pleasant land from going under?

Dividend Aristocrats are large cap, blue chip companies from many different industries, but they have all demonstrated a healthy balance between capital growth and dividend income.

After reading the excellent article on ETF taxation, I sought out the SPDR (State Street Global Investors, purveyors of the USDV Dividend Aristocrats ETF) guidance on taxation for their ETF and a copy of the relevant extract is: «The fund may be liable to withholding tax on the gains and income from investments held in jurisdictions which impose such withholding taxes.

For my ROTH I'm considering moving to a DGI strategy, reinvesting all dividends until retirement with 8 - 10 «core» stocks from different sectors - OR - 80 % in NOBL Div Aristocrat reinvesting all dividends and 20 % in GLD etf.

I pretty much follow the same strategy, except I switch up the order and use the CCC list from David Fish (never really looked at the Aristocrats since I found the CCC).

While scouring the Dividend Aristocrats list, it's important to find stocks that hail from various sectors and industries.

One only has to look over the past few years to see the removal of well - known names from the Dividend Aristocrat list (including General Electric and Pfizer) to understand that backward - looking analysis is only part of the story.

The genius, an aristocrat of the spirit, has had gifts lavished upon him by nature that distinguish him from his fellows.

The average worker has been so far released from wearing toil that the privileges of «aristocrats» and «ordinary people» have been exchanged.

(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.)

Thus the average worker has been so far released from wearing toil that the privileges of «aristocrats» and «ordinary people» have been exchanged.

That God, who rewards the wealthy landed aristocrats with riches and long lives and curses the poor, is the butt of a merciless lampoon that issues from the outraged sensitivities of a writer who has acutely observed how the oppressed and infirm suffer undeserved evil at the hands of the powerful and rich.

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 LaFrom 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 Lafrom the Roman Church except that they used English in the Mass instead of Latin.

The good stuff in question mostly concerns a mysterious aristocrat named Alexandra (Sigourney Weaver), who is consorting with a lot of the leftover villains from the other shows and is clearly up to something, though the show is mighty cagey about what.

But those benefiting from the lower Australian dollar were opportunity buys, including James Hardie, Aristocrat Leisure and Ansell.

I know that there are different varieties from dutch to natural to aristocrat to raw.

President of the Lawrence Warehouse Company of San Francisco and owner of Almadén, one of the more celebrated California vineyards, Benoist is a descendant of French aristocrats, from whom he presumably inherited his talent for the enjoyment of living.

From alcoholic names to poser cowboy names to poser aristocrat names, a list of baby names that I wish people would not give their children!

And by governance on a daily basis, mean from the how from kings, aristocrats, down through every layer of bureaucracy till you get to your local tax collector, what / why / how these people ran the government administration on a day to day basis, from dealing with a rival city who recently stole one of your citizens crops, to pirates interfering with trade on the Mediterranean, to drought, city administration, what to do with tax money, neighborly disputes, superstition, weather, crime, theft, laws and battles of ideology, to political rivalries and infighting, to a foreigner spreading strange religious ideas in the city (or dealing with somebody accused of a crime they claim they did not commit), I mean everything and everything these officials may have dealt with, daily, and how they changed over time.

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.

These ideals originated in explicit instructions that cultural arbiters gave to aristocrats and noblemen, allowing them to differentiate themselves from the villains and boors.

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.

From the mid-19th century to the 1920s and beyond it always sought to cater to the new wealthy class, not the old aristocrats.»

Rita and Roddy have a reverse Han Solo / Leia thing going, with Jackman playing the uptight aristocrat needing help from Winslet's roguish loner, who captains a floating bucket of bolts that is more seaworthy than it looks.

By focusing on the aristocrats and ministers on the sidelines, Wright divorces his characters from the war they're discussing by design, which sometimes leaves the film unsatisfying.

Even the films I like from this year I do nt have clear memories of (I saw Women in Love when I was way too young for it in the 1980s), don't truly love (big Altman fan but MASH, is more of a «like»), or I love them more for their historical value or genre personality than for actual quality (Boys in the Band, Aristocrats, Bloody Mama, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever).

For once, Allen doesn't shy away from social commentary and contrasts the Hewetts» complacent opulence with the despair of another wannabe aristocrat, Nola (Scarlett Johansson), a frustrated actress who finds in Chris» sceptical approach to life an explanation for her own misfortune, and provides him with the excitement his new lifestyle is lacking.

In a Frederick Wiseman - ish way, some of his subjects appear for only a single brief scene, while some recur throughout, and they're certainly a broad selection: an aristocrat who hires his family home out for film shoots, paramedics, an eel fishermen, some transsexual prostitutes, and a man trying to stop insects from destroying palm trees.

Taking place during the French Revolution, the Scarlet Pimpernel is an elusive Englishman that rescues French aristocrats from the guillotine.

It's set in Venice, Italy of the 16th Century, in a liberal city that still required Jews to barter no goods, wear red hats to distinguish them from the Christian aristocrats, and be locked in the lower class part of town at night, leaving them little to support themselves but for the practice of usury, or the loaning of money for sometimes exorbitant fees.

Leslie (whose parents are Scottish aristocrats, who live in a castle near Aberdeen that's been the family home for 500 years) graduated from prestigious drama school LAMDA (whose alumni include Benedict Cumberbatch, Dominic Cooper, Chiwetel Ejiofor and John Lithgow) in 2008, and swiftly booked a role in Annie Griffin «s acclaimed TV drama «New Town,» which won her a New Talent award at the Scottish BAFTAs.

Jacobi will play aristocrat Count Fernando D'Aillieres who helped Kelly go from actress to princess.

It's The Aristocrats, which partly comes from Penn Jillette (yes, of Penn and Teller fame).

Working from a screenplay co-written with Matthew Robbins, whom del Toro previously worked with in 1997 on Mimic, Crimson Peak is set at the turn of the last century where burgeoning writer Edith, formerly of Buffalo, New York, is uprooted to England, having found love and marriage in the arms of the ambitious aristocrat Sir Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston).

An urban, down low relationship forged in equal parts tenderness and violent self - hatred receives a contrastingly refined, classical chamber treatment from Nicholas Britell, who last dealt with race in the somberly effective «Free State of Jones,» Upon hearing the refined strains of «Moonlight,» you might mistakenly think you're listening to a costume drama, the kind of music that accompanies emotionally constricted aristocrat.

As lush and atmospheric a film as the American cinema has created in years, Crimson Peak stars Mia Wasikowska (whose wide eyes and open face evokes the gothic heroine incarnate) as a smart, passionate American heiress, the daughter of a self - made man (Jim Beaver as the model of paternal affection and American responsibility) and a writer with a romantic streak and an unsullied innocence, and Tom Hiddleston as the dashing suitor from overseas, a handsome aristocrat with a haunted soul whose mystery captures the American's heart.

Anna Karenina is a tragic story of a married aristocrat - socialite from Saint Petersburg and her affair with an affluent count, a cavalry officer, circa 1874.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (PG - 13 for action, violence and brief sensuality) Mash - up of the horror and romance genres yielding a parody of the Jane Austen classic in which a headstrong heroine (Lily James) finds herself being courted by an aristocrat (Sam Neill) raised from the dead during a zombie outbreak.

That doesn't stop Edith from falling in love with the penniless aristocrat, however, and after her father is tragically murdered (although it's covered up to look like an accident), Thomas whisks her away to England to live with him and his ice - cold sister, Lady Lucille Sharpe (Jessica Chastain), in their ancestral home of Allerdale Hall, a crumbling mansion that's literally sinking into the ground due to the red clay mines below it.

A five - part miniseries from Britain about an African American jazz band making its mark in pre-World War II Britain, performing for London aristocrats.

But he is depicted as far from the mellow aristocrat who made his fortune even after dropping out of the prestigious Reed College and traveling to India in 1974 to study Buddhism.

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).

Adapted from the British novel Fingersmith, The Handmaiden is a visually lush, thematically audacious and riotously camp thriller set almost entirely within the vast estate of an eccentric Japanese aristocrat.

From the beginning, there were doubts that a proud German aristocrat and a scrappy American commoner could find happiness together.

Kristin Dwyer, independent publicist: «Readers are getting tired of keeping everything straight,» Dwyer said about long series set in the same town or featuring the same set of aristocrats, so look out for standalone titles from your favorite authors.