Sentences with phrase «swilling middle»

Detractors and admirers alike will probably label Leigh's latest a return to normal service for the prickly Brit: a leisurely character study, sober - sided but flecked with streaks of broad humor, dwelling on the personal insecurities of London's tea - swilling middle classes.

The director will, inevitably, take some flak for making a third consecutive film about the alienating side effects of celebrity and privilege — but as with Woody Allen and Upper East Side intelligentsia, or Mike Leigh and Britain's Tetley - swilling middle classes, this is the world she knows and feels, and if she feels a responsibility to keep circling back to it in her work, then she should do so.

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I tried killing the germs with a cheap champagne tasting session (important not to serve swill to guests), but woke in the middle of the night feeling worse.