Sentences with phrase «into aristocracy»

She's dating her strapping classmate Massimiliano (Guglielmo Pinelli), who happens to be the son of Giovanni Bernaschi (Fabrizio Gifuni), a filthy rich fund manager who Dino sees as his ticket into the aristocracy.

An Untouchable had no chance of becoming a Brahmin, and a member of the lower feudal orders had few opportunities to make it into the aristocracy, but the poor in a class society have at least a reasonable chance of making it into the middle class and some middle - class individuals do make it into the ranks of the rich.

Both Catherine and her husband, Boris de Hueck, were born into aristocracy, and when the Russian Revolution exploded many of their family were killed.

Not exact matches

Looking over three centuries of Greek experience, Aristotle found a perpetual triangular sequence of democracy turning into oligarchy, whose members made themselves into a hereditary aristocracy — and then some families sought to take the demos into their own camp by sponsoring democracy, which in turn led to wealthy families replacing it with an oligarchy, and so on.

Beginning with Polybios in the 2nd century BC, many political philosophers concluded that the best constitution is one that incorporates elements of monarchy, aristocracy and democracy into a composite form.

Similarly, it might be that the Club has no better way to award entry into its little aristocracy - for - a-night than to make snap intuition - al judgments that inevitably, are heavily based on appearances.

France, in the throws of the revolution had huge issues with the church and clergy which owned most of the land and were trying to co-opt the revolution and create a theocracy by installing the church into the vacancy left by the aristocracy.

What's sad to witness is how America's constitutional republic continues to slowly morph into a political aristocracy where the names of a select few are touted in order to dissuade other candidates from being considered based on their respective merits.

Ibrahim describes how Stromer, born into German aristocracy in 1871, became a prolific writer, researcher and explorer.

Hurry Sundown (1967), based on a best - selling novel, stars Michael Caine and Jane Fonda as the children of privileged Southern aristocracy trying to parlay the only thing of value they have left — the family land of a former plantation — into a new fortune.

The protagonist is Aveline de Granpre, a French - African orphan who finds herself cast into the Louisiana aristocracy via her caring (and maddeningly underdeveloped) adoptive parents.

Based off of Edward St. Aubyn's award - winning series of novels, Patrick Melrose is a scathing examination of British decadent aristocracy, adapted into a five - part miniseries by Sky Atlantic and Showtime.

This looks like a no - brainer, but her uncle, Frank Adler (Chris Evans), who assumed custody of Mary (Mckenna Grace), believes that she should be able to fit into the regular world rather than in the bubble of the academic aristocracy.

The conventional yet entertaining Jane Austen elements soon come into play, with both Dido and Elizabeth now old enough to court potential suitors who will hopefully be able to provide not only financial stability, but also the desired social status of being married to a man of prestige within the British aristocracy.

Foreman's descriptions of Georgiana's uncontrollable gambling, all - night drinking, drug taking, and love affairs with the leading politicians of the day give us fascinating insight into the lives of the British aristocracy in the era of the madness of King George III, the American and French revolutions, and the defeat of Napoleon.

Few men on earth had less in common: Khrushchev was a short, pudgy, uneducated Russian peasant who'd climbed to power by tenacity and brutality; Lodge was a tall, thin, Harvard - educated Boston Brahmin who'd been born into America's aristocracy, scion of one of the families immortalized in an old New England toast: Here's to good old Boston, Home of the bean and the cod, Where the Lowells speak only to the Cabots And the Cabots speak only to God.

Because of the draconian trade restrictions imposed on its colonies by Spain, Tenerife remained one of the only ports open to Cuba for trade, and it would appear these little dogs, who soon found their way into the homes of the resident Spanish aristocracy, developed without much outside influence.

Most of the Baroque palazzi continued in private ownership throughout the 19th century, as the old aristocracy either married middle - class money or fell further into debt.

While the aristocracy has always provided the lion's share of the patronage and the audience for art — as, indeed, the aristocracy of wealth does even in our more democratic days — it has contributed little beyond amateurish efforts to the creation of art itself, despite the fact that aristocrats (like many women) have had more than their share of educational advantages, plenty of leisure and, indeed, like women, were often encouraged to dabble in the arts and even develop into respectable amateurs, like Napoleon III's cousin, the Princess Mathilde, who exhibited at the official Salons, or Queen Victoria, who, with Prince Albert, studied art with no less a figure than Landseer himself.

Wile the aristocracy has always provided the lion's share of the patronage and the audience for art — as, indeed, the aristocracy of wealth does even in our more democratic days — it has contributed little beyond amateurish efforts to the creation of art itself, despite the fact that aristocrats (like many women) have had more than their share of educational advantages, plenty of leisure and, indeed, like women, were often encouraged to dabble in the arts and even develop into respectable amateurs, like Napoleon III's cousin, the Princess Mathilde, who exhibited at the official Salons, or Queen Victoria, who, with Prince Albert, studied art with no less a figure than Landseer himself.

In LA Weekly, Doug Harvey tells the story of Mercedes Matter, who was born into the East Coast cultural aristocracy in 1913 to father Arthur B. Carles, a pioneer American abstract painter who studied with Matisse, showed at Alfred Stieglitz's 291 gallery and exhibited work in the legendary Armory Show.

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.

That all arrogant brainwashing is based on an idea of so called «intellectual aristocracy» put into zombi - live by Richard von Coudenhove - Kalergi — the father of European Union and globalism in general.

Not to mention the tendency to turn such centralized power into an inherited «aristocracy».

Debts were reduced, the currency was revalued, and the Athenian class system was restructured into four distinct groups in an effort to lessen the aristocracy's chokehold on land ownership.