Sentences with phrase «of high society»

By owning such birds, members of high society appeared to be above the law, and the birds became a status symbol.

The film touches on the issues of high society of the day, even if some attitudes feel too evolved for the era.

Over time, these dogs became very popular as companion dogs, especially for ladies of high society.

It allows you to become part of high society at least for the duration of your relationship.

Make sure you attend a lot of high society parties or frequent a night club and bar.

Add a bit of high society with a statement necklace, a purse with a shiny chain strap and an accent color hat.

This means CEOs, celebrities, lawyers, doctors, and other persons of the high society.

But I would bet that is for the protection of high society's white men from it's white women.

The family enjoyed the wealth and comforts of high society.

Why should we continue to suffer so that insiders enjoy the trappings of high society life on our dime?

Several of Noguchi's public artwork proposals were rejected; voluntarily (and then less so), he was interred in a Japanese work camp in Arizona; the FBI investigated him for espionage; he had romantic affairs with the likes of Frida Kahlo; and on and off, Noguchi turned to bust portraits of high society New Yorkers and Hollywood celebrities to make ends meet.

The biography of Bridget Bate Tichenor reads like a who is who of the high society of the first half of the 20th Century, but only in recent years, her oeuvre as surrealist painter received attention after exhibitions at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey in Mexico in 2008, and LACMA in Los Angeles in 2012.

Also some elements of high society sports are in the mix, such as fencing and horseback ridings.

Set in the 1930s, Woody Allen's romance Café Society follows Bronx - born Bobby Dorfman (Jesse Eisenberg) to Hollywood, where he falls in love, and back to New York with his colorful Bronx family, where he is swept up in the vibrant world of high society nightclub life.

Summary: When aspiring author Nick Carraway becomes captivated by the extravagant lifestyle of his new neighbour, playboy millionaire Jay Gatsby and his circle of high society friends, his experiences inspire him to write his own story of; power, greed, betrayal, hypocrisy, sacrifice and social hierarchy wrapped in the great American dream.

About Jessica Craig - Martin: Jessica Craig - Martin (b. 1963, lives and works in New York) employs photography to subvert the usually prim and glamorous representations of higher society.

The daughter of an actress (Elaine Inescort) and a British journalist, Frieda Inescort learned the intricacies of High Society on a first - hand basis as the personal secretary of Lady Astor.

A decade later, the breed became a coveted fashion statement for the ladies of high society as they toted the dogs around in large purses or under their arms.

The Frenchman James Tissot, who fled to London after the fall of the Paris Commune, divided his time between scenes of high society social events and a huge series of Biblical illustrations, made in watercolour for reproductive publication.

Founded by the English merchant Samuel Lord in 1826, Lord & Taylor's department store was once a favored retailer of high society.

Eyeing but one party and leaving alone all those rich elders and their sons of high society going to third world nations / countries seeking acts of sensualistic desires with enslaved «children» seems to have slipped thru your reason abilities...

My daughter Frances Osborne's, The Bolter, as it is one of the best written accounts of high society life and tragedy in the 1920s and 30s.

Once the province of high society, orchids have found their way into households worldwide, but so has a plant - killing batch of viruses plaguing nurseries

A few years ago I went to see a stage performance of High Society.

I was actually an unwitting part of the social revolution: a skinny little Philadelphia girl who was one of the first black students to attend a famous girls» private school in Bryn Mawr, a bastion of high society where, in the past, the only black faces had been in the kitchen.»

Because Chicago is such a large and popular city, there's lots of high society clubs and bars where you can find cougars or even younger man to date when you're a cougar.

When Mandie Shaw is thrust into Miss Heathwood's School for Girls, she struggles to grasp the school's new rules and the finer points of high society.

Success follows, but Barnum is still confined to the fringes of high society.

It's done with admirable intelligence and doesn't shy away from going into the ins and outs of the wranglings of High Society and Parliament.

Edith's lively tale of high society descends into the malevolent mysteries of Crimson Peak, playing well to del Toro's whimsy, love of the macabre, and awe - striking visual storytelling.

From her attempts to learn how to work a computer, to purring in her natural environment of high society functions, to babysitting her bewildered nephews, Jasmine is a fully realised and enticing character that is at times funny, desperate, beautiful, and sad.

Swept up into the glamorous whirl of high society, it's all Miss Pettigrew can do to keep...

WHAT: For decades, journalist Jep Gambardella (Toni Servillo) has served as Rome's self - described king of high society, gallivanting through an endless series of lavish nightclubs and parties with his equally pretentious friends.

Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) may sound like a one - joke contrivance — a rich, generous, arts - loving heiress in 1940s New York City gives private recitals to a select group of high society insiders who never let on to the oblivious woman that she is quite possibly the worst singer to ever trod a stage — but it is both a true story and an unexpectedly tender, touching movie.

«Rockin» Rising Stars» (6:21)(HD) is a throwaway featurette for anyone who isn't already a fan of High Society, one of the real - life music acts that joins the Chipmunks in this movie.

Costume designer Ruth Myers faithfully recreated the fashions of the»50s, from the elegant tuxedos and ball gowns of high society to the sportcoats of the L.A.P.D. detectives.

Booker pieced together an unusual but winning coalition of high society — Hollywood director Steven Spielberg, publisher David Bradley, and the Heinz family among them — and reform - minded Newarkers like those who turned out at the Mediterranean Manor with their $ 50 and, after listening to a brief stump speech, rushed to the dance floor to do the electric slide.

In the eyes of high society, Cornish noblewoman Tamsyn Pearce is a pretty, if a bit unpolished, new addition to the marriage mart.

But when her best friend marries a very powerful nobleman, Marie - Anne finds herself back in the tentative embrace of high society.

Set in New York during the Gilded Age, McKinney's vivid descriptions of high society and the wealth of the era were eye - opening.

When she takes up a position with the Benchley family, dismissed by the city's elite as «new money», Jane realizes that while she may not have financial privilege, she has a power they do not - she understands the rules of high society.

Through stories like The Age of Innocence, House of Mirth and The Duchesses, I fell in love with the idea of high society trying to hang on to its prominence in a time when the world was changing so drastically around them.

From newsrooms to the drawing rooms of high society, the investigation leads Frankie and Primrose to a murderous villain with a plot more deadly than anyone could have imagined.

Yorkshire terriers were very popular lapdogs of high society ladies as well as high - ranking political figures, with one particular dog having lived in the White House together with the Nixons.

In the late 1800s and early 1900s the French bulldog was considered a dog of high society; the breed still attracts people who appreciate the finer things in life.

He's not the product of high society, he's a half Mohawk - half British assassin.

The Opera House is the hub of high society in Eastville and everyone who's anyone is a regular visitor.

This exhibition of Slim Aarons» photography transport us back to the dreamy, serene Californian summers the artist spent in the company of high society following the Second World War.

Madahar also referenced the work of early - twentieth - century photographer of high society Madame Yevonde (1893 --- 1975), adding another layer of art historical context.