Sentences with phrase «social climbers»

Better yet, pricing starts right around $ 50,000, which ought to ensure that thousands of social climbers the world over will sign on the lease contract's dotted line.

The (fictional) play, Maloja Snake, was Maria's launching pad two decades earlier, when she originated (first onstage, then onscreen) the role of Sigrid, a scheming, manipulative social climber who seduces, then discards, a middle - aged business exec named Helena.

[Gere] gives a strong performance as a desperate social climber in this fractured drama that works best as a flawed character study.

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Noah Cowan - Writer - director Whit Stillman brings a unique sense and sensibility to Love & Friendship, a laugh - out - loud comedy starring Kate Beckinsale as a sassy social climber.

The scheming social climber is obsessed with becoming a member of Cheesebridge's elite ruling club of White Hats.

Wealthy, successful men ages 38 and over can mingle with social climbers ages 35 and under at this speed - dating mixer.

Occupying the other spots at the table are Strutt's much younger third wife (Amy Landecker from Transparent), dressed in exactly the right shade of garish aqua and too much mascara, and Grant's junior colleague Alex (Jay Duplass, also from Transparent) and his elegant wife (Chloe Sevigny), the last two obsequious social climbers dressed in matching shades of beige that also match the mansion's walls.

After losing her marriage and all of her money, social climber Jasmine (Cate Blanchette) is forced to moving in with her sister (Sally Hawkins) and slum it in San Francisco.

The plot centers around Juliastarting an affair with a much younger man, a selfish social climber (played bythe bland Shaun Evans), who breaks her heart.

Seducing Charlie Barker (R for sexuality and pervasive profanity) Social satire of NYC's entertainment industry revolving around a married actor (Stephen Barker Turner) who suffers a fall from grace following a fling with a shallow social climber (Heather Gordon).

Give me Mia Sara's inexplicable accent over Molly Ringwald's money - grubbing social climbers any day.

But every actor who appears in the series is a delight, including Indira Varma as an American who is tired of David's tyranny, and Holliday Grainger as a young social climber who is amused by the Englishness of it all.

To date, the Company has released more than 80 titles including: Noel starring Susan Sarandon and Penelope Cruz; Loverboy starring Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick and Matt Dillon; One Last Dance starring Patrick Swayze; Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber starring Jennifer Love Hewitt; Strange Bedfellows starring Paul Hogan and Chilly Dogs starring Leslie Nielsen.

Sandra (Imelda Staunton) is a snobby social climber whose high - society husband is unfaithful, causing her to move in with her estranged sister (Celia Imrie) in a working - class apartment.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS The Best and the Brightest (Unrated) Social climber comedy about a desperate couple (Neil Patrick Harris and Bonnie Somerville), new to Manhattan, who enlist the assistance of an education consultant (Amy Sedaris) in order to get their 5 year - old daughter (Amelia Talbot) admitted to an exclusive private school.

But the other half is killer: two magnificent female turns, one from Tracey Ullman as a nouveau riche social climber, the other from Elaine May, raising pitch - perfect dumbness to high art.

Ten years later, I remain stunned that Reese Witherspoon was not nominated for her brilliant work in «Election» as a pathologically ambitious, grasping social climber student doing anything it takes to head up the student council in Alexander Payne's astute and black comedy.

It takes place in Paris, where social climber Anne (Toni Collette) and her American husband (Harvey Keitel) throw a dinner party at their mansion for high - society friends.

They allowed social climbers a clever way to blend in with the upper class.

The current Forte has option engines above base and Kia is the biggest social climber out there.

Jerene Jarvis Johnston and her husband Duke are exemplars of Charlotte, North Carolina's high society, a world where old Southern money and the secrets behind it meet the new wealth of bankers, real estate speculators, and carpetbagging social climbers.

Princess, Southern belle, and spoiled - rotten social climber Searcy Roberts swore on a stack of Bibles she'd never return home to Fairhope, Alabama.

Some of these people oh - so - modestly proclaiming their disinterest are naked social climbers who calculate very well what — and who — matters to them.

He is not a painter, architect, draftsman, performer, strategist, video or digital artist, political propagandist, slick social climber, or charming party animal.

Rather, they are often popular or semipopular social climbers.

In some of the early scenes of the film, we get a graphic picture of J. D. Salinger's personality as a highly self - confident, even cocky, social climber in his flirtations with Oona O'neil (Eugene's daughter, charmingly played by Zoey Deutch).

Kate Beckinsale - Writer - director Whit Stillman brings a unique sense and sensibility to Love & Friendship, a laugh - out - loud comedy starring Kate Beckinsale as a sassy social climber.

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The chapter titles and subheadings give away the agenda: «Augustine Unvarnished,» «Augustine the Self - Promoter,» «Augustine the Social Climber,» «Augustine the Troublemaker,» on and on.

The rapper who has been behind the scenes in the music industry for some time now has been accused by music lovers of being a social climber, seeking public attention because he needs to reintegrate into the entertainment circle.

According to research carried out by Robert Sommer at the University of California, Davis, in 1988, lemons are seen as dislikable, onions are stupid, and mushrooms are social climbers.

At his side is his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln (Sally Field, typically sturdy and spunky), who is sometimes seen as a social climber but here is focused as wife and mother.

All of the teenagers are depicted as sociopaths, social climbers, or disingenuous activists.

Patrick's wealthy American aunt is more of a social climber than her older sister Eleanor.

There have been numerous television and film adaptations of William Makepeace Thackeray's titular novel about a social climber in Victorian high society over the years, and 2018 sees ITV (in partnership with Amazon) bring another one to the screen.

He is a recognizable variation on a nineteenth - century type, the social climber as romantic hero, who wills himself to superimpose a larger meaning on his ordinary life by risking all, who overreaches and self - destructs.

Daisy (Roberts), a bit of a social climber, is having an affair with the owner of a throbbing red Porsche.

The one character who started out as the voice of reason in the background of a few chapters, Dominique, is actually a fraud herself; while she sneers at the lifestyle of these social climbers, she's all too happy to spend all of her vacations lapping up their beach house and the immaculately tended grounds.

In contrast, Katherina and her parents appear to be blessed with the support of the party and become successful, if anxious, social climbers.

A professor of English lit and history at the University of Arkansas, Sherman puts not just food but politics, trade policy, etiquette, social climbers (witness her titular heroine), rakes and rouÅ 1/2 s (the Earl of Sandwich and his famous gambling snack) and even the fragile male ego on the table.

Dogs tend to be natural leaders and the social climbers.

Others are natural born leaders and social climbers — always testing to see how high they can climb.

Not gossips, troublemakers, social climbers, users (people who take advantage other people), or drama queens.

Described by Tom Wolfe as «the folk heroes of every social climber who ever hit New York» — Robert was a high school drop - out from the Bronx — the Sculls shrewdly recognized that establishing themselves as influential art collectors offered access to the upper echelons of Manhattan society in a way that nouveau riche «taxi tycoon» did not.

That shitty best friend when you're trying to be a social climber.