Sentences with phrase «of yuppie»

The rest of my childhood was spent in a neighborhood of yuppie McMansions where everyone decorated their front porches with tasteful Autumn leaf wreaths, pumpkins, and the occasional «Boo!»

After novels like Bright Lights, Big City and Less than Zero, Longo's dance of death took on a new meaning, as emblems of yuppie nightlife.

It had less of a yuppie feeling and the views are amazing, especially at sunset.

Director Mary Harron flattered Bret Easton Ellis's notorious novel by investing it with a deeper conception of yuppie evil (brilliantly conveyed by Christian Bale), and by filling the margins with humorous»80s details: a chic parade of designer Tribeca restaurants and neon - laden nightclubs.

Across the St. Johns River lie Riverside and Avondale, areas with a Bohemian feel mixed with a touch of yuppie.

In the week before polling the BBC even identified Wimbledon as the spiritual home of the Yuppie!

The implications of yuppie - dom glaring from the page.

the church appeared to be more of a yuppie see and be seen, dress fab, drive expensive cares social climbing organization.

The question for the future is not whether Hollywood will again support the status quo or support authority but whether its offerings will continue to reflect and advance the moral shallowness — indeed the emptiness — of yuppie liberalism.

This is the picture that lawyer - writer Louis Auchincloss presents in the novel Diary of a Yuppie (Houghton Mifflin, 1986).

Still, the luxury gym is acutely aware of its yuppie factor, which is why it opened the budget - friendly Blink Fitness in 2011, offering Americans monthly memberships as low as $ 15.

A sample: When Crossan was once trying to describe how Jesus and his disciples stood out during the rule of the Roman emperor Augustus, he said they were «hippies in an Augustan age of yuppies.»

The baby - boomers are themselves far more diverse than the caricatures of Yuppies (young, urban professionals), Grumpies (grim, ruthless, upwardly mobile professionals) and Dinks (dual - income, no - kids couples) would suggest.

Once the hub of the city's Polish immigrant community, the triangle sits roughly along the border of the Wicker Park, East Village and Noble Square neighborhoods, in a Hispanic area that's quickly being diluted by a growing population of yuppies.

Feeling helpless, and having survivor guilt, and so when they come back, adjusting into the world of yuppies, lattes, and la la land, surrounded by folks who just don't understand.

A recognisable tribe of yuppies that dressed in a manner that was well - bred, slightly above mainstream fashion, and a wee bit posh.

Raimi finally returned to the dark side with this sizzling tale of yuppies vs. the supernatural.

That's actually a bad sign — if he's always in golf pants, that makes him one of the yuppies or squares, and we all know that yuppies and squares are not to be borne in any kind of»80s movie.

What's more, the sisters are not too eager to leave the place spotless since they had expected to inherit the place only to find that it's being sold to a pair of yuppies.

Throughout the 1980s, BMW became the unofficial poster car of yuppies, as the brand ostensibly signified one's financial success as well as a passion for driving.

Not exact matches

Taking the advice and working closely with Gekko, Fox soon finds himself swept into a world of «yuppies», shady business deals, the «good life», fast money, and fast women; something which is at odds with his family including his estranged father and the blue - collared way Fox was brought up.

The topics were old standards: The pro-business, yuppie - ish, Clintonian Dems and the more economically lefty, antiwar types are in a fight for the party's soul; the Bush White House is manipulating the media; the «pageant - size fantasy» of certain starry - eyed Dems is of a last - minute Hillary run.

This particular YMCA included, «a great mix of high - end yuppie fitness facility, a wonderful community resource for families, and an old - school residence for disenfranchised men,» so Fey shares a host of funny stories about working the front desk.

or «Yuppies, Late Marriage, and the Sunday School Boom,» or even «The Suburban Captivity of the Church.»

Many of the NY church - planting successes used as models across the country are paradigms of young urban professionals (Yuppies) that worship together.

White supremacists and trendy yuppie conformists are often NOT people who have earnest ignorance, but often have * willful * ignorance, people who intentionally gloss over the LACK of foundation for the notions and lifestlye which they espouse.

Jesus is NOT in the supercillous and voyeuristic yuppies who find hearing about the lurid circumstances about the death of an innocent child like Kaley Anthony (in the media) entertaining.

We may put ourselves on a list to adopt children with disabilities in order to provide a backup for someone who is struggling with the decision, Churches tempted to aim for yuppie - friendly perfection in their church pageants and Sunday school instead may need to reconfigure the expectations of the parents they seek to attract.

We first meet them as Ryan decides to pull over a Lincoln Navigator in which yuppie film director Cameron (TerrenceHoward) and his wife Christine (Thandie Newton) are engaged in a bit of horseplay.

She is mayor of a new yuppie town (a little more than a decade old) and population less than 20,000.

«Jesus and his first followers... were hippies in a world of Augustan yuppies» — a remarkably succinct summary.

While dozens of tour buses wait, thousands of pilgrims of every description — the maimed, the blind, the infirm, the elderly, middle - aged American housewives, professionals, students and even a few yuppies in designer jogging suits — walk or crawl up the mountain.

«Food philosophy» is for yuppies: most of us eat to fuel ourselves against the daily grind... This book (and its ilk) are definitely not for me!

Living in a cute yuppie neighborhood where you can walk for most of your errands?

Speaking of overpriced, yuppie supermarkets, I continue to be shocked by the prices at the fairly new Whole Foods (WF) in Colonie, NY.

London mayor claims anti-gentrification movement bred of inverted snobbery by left - wing yuppies.

«They are themselves, bourgeois left - wing, nose - ringed yuppies who have gone into these areas and taken them over and who suddenly see other bourgeois types arriving and they can't stand that they are no longer pioneers [so] they adopt this ghastly ethic of Corbynista revolt and name - calling and damaging premises.»

But detractors are painting an image of Manhattan yuppies renting space in the boroughs to store skis and relief from their bulging closets.

With the benefit cap meaning that housing benefit will be capped at a point where for many who rely on it will have to move away, which means areas with relative affluence with sites of former counci estates, which are now being snapped up by yuppies or young professionals renting them will increase in an area — less likely to vote Labour than those who were on receipt of housing benefit.

Yuppie vegans at one end of the spectrum pay premium prices for health - destroying soy foods.

May your sales increase soon to avoid sending the yuppies of America into a downward spiral.

Just as the boomers have had an impact on society at every stage of their lives (the hippies of the «60s became the yuppies of the «80s), they continue to change the way older people see themselves.

Dating a country boy is such a breath of fresh air compared to trying to keep up with all the yuppies desperate to get ahead.

According to the founder of Farmers Only, there are two types of people in the world: yuppies and hicks.

Bars can also be defined by their level of prestige — for example, a dive bar is considered informal, low class, and disreputable, while a «fern» bar is considered upscale and pandering towards preppy or yuppie clientele.

More of a «Yippie» than a Hippie... that would be a Hippie at heart but one with a career, (Yuppie) LOL No Offense to my brethren here.

The first half concerns Brooklyn high - school student Chantel (Ariyan Johnson) as she deals with academic disagreements with her teachers (at one point getting into shouting match about the Holocaust), takes advantage of her boyfriend's wallet to go on a shopping spree, and confronts yuppies in the Upper West Side gourmet shop where she works.

The «bachelor party gone wrong» is a well - established comedy sub-genre and the prospect of yet another bunch of shit - faced yuppies getting into scrapes with hookers is hardly one to savour.

Though passed up for the lead in the former film, Leto made an impression in a supporting role as an arrogant yuppie doomed to be the first victim of vapid serial killer Patrick Bateman.

We know this because her best friend, her mum and her colleagues talk about * nothing * but the problems of attracting and holding onto those yuppie college boys in their bright uniforms, all with exciting careers ahead of them.