Sentences with phrase «old aristocracy»

At the time, tapestry was a dying, slow, and costly art form associated with old aristocracy and religious practice.

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.

The most violent project of creating an egalitarian society, the Communist one, managed to create a grossly inegalitarian society that curiously resembled feudalism, with the party elite playing the role of the old aristocracy.

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It was there that author F. Scott Fitzgerald spent some time with his friend Rumsey, learning about «the lifestyle of the moneyed aristocracy of Old Westport, Long Island, and their involvement in the movement of eugenics,» according to a 2015 article in the F. Scott Fitzgerald Review.

Town life was replacing the rural court; the bourgeoisie, the aristocracy; and the prostitute represented town life's oldest capitalist profession.

HOWEVER the Board, all being Old Etonian merchant banking types as well as members of the minor aristocracy clique, were solidly set against this idea — due to their (supposedly) traditional values of the club and the reluctance to sell out to «foreign investors».

The old German aristocracy, despite losing in some cases their families, their homes and their fortunes, have managed, in many cases to survive two World Wars.

It was like a mix of old European aristocracy with contemporary luxury, and I felt like a princess walking around.

«Forty - eight years ago I stood on the set of The Leopard and watched Luchino Visconti bring to life his seminal motion picture about the dying world of the aristocracy, revolution against the old order, and the rise and new - gained riches of the mer...

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.

> Design - One of the rather more limited talents of the old 159, the Giulia is perhaps not as pretty or well detailed as its predecessor, but the look is sleek and crucially different to the German aristocracy.

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.

Walk through the gothic quarter and discover the old patios of Palma's aristocracy palaces, until you get to the magnificent cathedral.

The old Moorish city of Sintra, which was recaptured in 1147 by the Portuguese King Alfons I, has been the summer residence of the Portuguese kings and the aristocracy for more than 600 years.

The 2018 menu is inspired by the «Grand Tour», i.e. the long journey across the Old Continent undertaken in the seventeenth century by the European aristocracy in a quest to expand their knowledge.

In 1931 the bar opened in an old rope warehouse facing the Grand Canal near Piazza San Marco and soon welcomed various European kings and queens, aristocracy and celebrities including Truman Capote, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Aristotle Onassis and Ernest Hemingway — who had his own table.