Sentences with phrase «into upper class»

Noone invites me into upper class homes... good luck.

Through the years, what started as a bamboo bungalow has now been renovated into an upper class resort with all the modern amenities which we thoroughly enjoyed.

The 780 model ($ 37,790) pushes Volvo well into the upper class while offering such touches as fully independent suspension, anti-lock braking, leather upholstery and wood interior accents.

Riley's second - in - command, Cholo (John Leguizamo), is a lower - class thug with the hope that his duty will earn him a pass into the upper class sanctuary, Fiddler's Green.

In it, a fancy garden party turns into upper class prey when a colony of killer wasps mutates into seven foot tall predators.

SYNOPSIS: A fancy garden party turns into upper class prey when a colony of killer wasps mutates into seven foot tall predators.

Santiago, Chile, 1973: Pedro Machuca is a poor boy of tribal descent, brought into an upper class private school during Chile's brief socialist era.

On 12 April 1922, he spoke of: «the brood of vipers and adders which threatens the catastrophic collapse of civilisation», talking about how they had «wormed their way into the upper classes», «spreading like a pestilence».

Not exact matches

In an analysis of the changing shape of the American middle class, Pew Research Center divided the population into three groups: Lower - income Americans made less than 2/3 of the median household income, middle - income households had incomes between 2/3 and 200 % of the median, and upper - income households had income more than twice the median income.

Take that funding away and the market settles back into something more closely aligned with the underlying reality — the one of high unemployment / underemployment, high oil prices, stagnant middle - and lower - class incomes, unprecedented wealth concentration in the upper class, demolished savers, under - investment in capital, and an ongoing transition to a low - wage service economy hard - pressed to service debt.

In total, the new interior will feature 471 seats split into four cabins; six first - class suites and 78 business class seats on the upper deck along with 44 premium economy seats and 343 economy seats on the main deck.

They are much more tied into the liberal upper - middle class in academia, entertainment and their friends from college.

I point to the callous way in which upper - middle - class deconstructions of traditional morality have made marriage into a luxury good.

Never once taking into consideration that many of the upper - middle class white collar crowd sitting in your pews are some of the most despicable hypocrites you ever want to meet.

The plot fails, but not before we've had an insight into the huge power disparity between the upper and working - class characters.

Two other examples were Matteo Ricci (1552 - 1610), who adopted the opposite path to de Nobili by assimilating into upper - class Chinese society during the Ming dynasty, coming to China in 1580, eventually undergoing a profound cultural transformation as a Confucian scholar; and Charles de Foucauld, who served in the French army in the Algerian war where he witnessed moving scenes of Muslim personal piety, leading him to regain his own Christian faith, and becoming in everything a Tuareg Bedouin nomad.

But with their success they found themselves the «upper class» in an old city whose institutions and habits long antedated the coming of Israel into the land.

Yes, it is a shame when the denomination sells the property, pulls the money out of the neighborhood and often puts it into property in the newest upscale upper class neighborhood across town.

As Shi'as tell it, by 656, when Uthman died and Muslim rule extended into eastern Iran, Armenia, Syria and Egypt, upper - class Muslims had become obsessed with power and wealth.

We can choose now to retreat once again into those echo chambers or begin to listen more attentively to one another — to love our neighbors by learning about them and their needs and perspectives whether black, white, Asian, or Latino / a; whether Christian, Muslim, or none; whether upper, middle, or working class; whether voter or one of the nearly half of eligible voters that sat out this election.

Professor David Hardesty upper level classes were when it all turned into a new passion to pursue.

A similar fear of failure haunts both ends of the American educational spectrum — of not escaping the poverty trap or of not seamlessly slotting into place in the national upper class, although the former shadows students and the latter preoccupies parents.

People who were shut out of the upper middle class until then and became union leaders instead, were coopted into the establishment based upon their abilities and the content of their character.

Shah's journey into politics is a far cry from the PPE - at - Oxford template of the traditional upper - middle - class career politician.

What had been a reasonable state tax rate for working people and the upper class under George Pataki has become oppressive with inflation as even lower - income workers are now pushed into higher brackets.

Hawkins said the housing affordability crisis reaches well into the upper - middle - class in New York's cities.

Like much research into natural sciences, botany was the preserve of the upper classes who had the time and money: only gentleman titans of 18th and 19th - century science like Joseph Banks could push botany forward.

He is described as «a Victorian thinker fated to live in an unsympathetic modern age», part of an «ultimately disappointing effort to turn the cloth of «science» into a wardrobe of a philosophy of life and a programme for social progress», a liberal on race who was «a reflection of elitist English upper - class attitudes towards the others, be they the races of Empire, the lower classes in England, or Blacks in the American South».

Open to Singaporeans and Singapore Permanent Residents with a first or upper second class honors degree or a GPA of 3.8 and above in relevant disciplines, candidates should have gained or be in the process of gaining admission into a selected overseas university.

«The class starts with a slow meditative warm up, quickly moving into a powerful vinyasa flow that revs the heart rate and fatigues the muscles of the upper and lower body,» explains Niki.

Quick example: It is problematic for many people to hop into Downward facing dog too soon at the beginning of the class because of the common restrictions in the upper back and shoulders.

At the beginning, as you suggest, this higher - quality rice was at first limited to mostly the urban upper - class due to its high price, but as polishing technique improved into the Meiji period, eating white rice became more commonplace.

These are the first pictures taken from inside Halswell House which was transformed from a civilised upper class ball into a mass orgy within a matter of a The best free amateur porn & home made porn blog on the internet.

After her father's project reached completion, Nicole and her family returned to Australia.Raised in the upper - middle - class Sydney suburb of Longueville for the remainder of the 1970s and well into the eighties, Kidman grew up infused with a love of the arts, particularly dance and theatre.

Three years before getting caught, Bridget (Diane Keaton) lived a comfortable upper class life until her husband Don (Ted Danson) was fired from his position and sunk into debt.

The subject — a disastrous honeymoon on the Dorset coast in 1962 — can only be explained by digging into the backgrounds of Florence (Saoirse Ronan), a bright, rebellious violinist from upper - middle - class parents (Samuel West, Emily Watson), and Edward (Billy Howle), an earnest history graduate snootily regarded by his in - laws as a country bumpkin.

The decidedly erratic vibe persists until Cruise's character bluffs his way into a bizarre upper - class orgy, as this sequence, which is easily the movie's high point, possesses an absolutely enthralling feel that's heightened by Kubrick's flawless execution.

Set in Seoul, Korea, an upper - class girl rejects a pimp's advances, gets convicted for an accidental theft, and then sold into prostitution.

Though Christian and his lowlife companions are the film's ostensible criminals, that changes when Ruth runs into his boorish, upper - class parents.

As the sun streams into an upper - class English drawing room, Sylvia (Rebecca Hall)-- flame - haired, corseted, regal — stands up from her morning tea and hurls a plate at her husband, Christopher (Sherlock's Benedict Cumberbatch).

With Chloe, Atom Egoyan remains within the slightly claustrophobic confines of the Toronto upper - class; yet this remake of Anne Fontaine's Nathalie... (2003) also delves — with devilish intelligence and understated humour — into the filmmaker's familiar obsessions.

A madam's daughter, Charlotte followed her mother's footsteps into the business while managing to climb her way up to a socially acceptable upper - class courtesan.

-- Features several new monsters — Subtle improvements and embellishments — 1080 native — Rextextured rather than rebuilt in HD — Improved loading times — 50 % more content than Tri — Most of the new content comes from the upper levels of the game like the G class quests — New monster: Brachydios — Brachydios is like a cross between a poisonous rhino and an extraordinarily aggressive, volcanic T - Rex — Brachydios enjoys slobbering explosive neon - green saliva all over its stumpy arms and then pile - driving you into the ground with them, leaving a residue of slime wherever it treads — Brachydios will go into rage mode after you hit him a few times and the green nodes on his head start to glow read — Expanded monster stamina system in Ultimate — Can more easily see when a monster is weakened or hurt — Monsters tire out more visibly — AI companions Cha - Cha and Kayumba can be used in single - player — Cha - Cha and Kayumba sing stat - boosting songs and have the odd stab at a monster during battle — The two are mainly used to distract the monster's attention — GamePad shows map — Mess around with your inventory on the GamePad as well — Target button in both versions lets you actually lock on to monsters

You know the kind, where ordinary, upper middle class - ish suburbanites get thrown into some wacky underworld or genre situation.

Summary Capsule: The squandered potential of an upper class family of geniuses gets one last chance at redemption when the deadbeat dad, the architect of their woes, attempts to win his back into the fold.

That nuttiness - albeit safely couched in middle - age and upper - middle class comforts - is on display in Lawrence Kasdan's Darling Companion, a shambling and not exactly deep ensemble piece centered on a long - married couple (Diane Keaton, Kevin Kline) and the dog that comes into, and then out of, their lives.

In the film, «the heroine, Liz Bennett (James), is pressured by her family to marry into a wealthy upper - class home but chafes at the stiff social mores of Victorian England.

He forces Fermina to end her fling with Florentino before pressuring her into first entertaining the overtures of dashing Dr. Juvenal Urbino (Benjamin Bratt), a much - preferred suitor from the upper - class.

Thoroughbreds (Mar. 9th) Two alienated girls come into each other's lives at just the right time to tear a bloody swath through upper - middle - class suburbia: Lily (Anya Taylor - Joy) has finally had it with her abusive stepdad; and junior sociopath Amanda (Olivia Cooke) is just merciless enough to float the idea of killing him.

Based on the best - selling novel of the same name by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun stars Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) and Thandie Newton (The Pursuit of Happyness) as an upper class couple whose marriage is put to the test when Nigeria breaks into the crippling 1967 civil war that births the short - lived republic of Biafra.