Sentences with phrase «minor aristocrat»

One concern, though: there needs to be a bit more clearance above the gas pedal, lest some minor aristocrat with largish feet get his Wellies jammed.

Patrick is fabulously wealthy; his father, David (Hugo Weaving — brilliantly, fabulously awful), is a minor aristocrat, while his mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is an heiress.

Smibert was a portrait painter academically trained in London, where he painted portraits of merchants, professionals and minor aristocrats.

Rather than presenting them as her own artworks, she describes them as depicting members of the UmuEze Amara, one of the oldest noble clans in Nigeria, and the Obafemi, minor aristocrats, merchants and ambassadors.