Sentences with phrase «through middle class lives»

As people become less poor and become a little more wealthy — moving through middle class lives toward upper income lives — we develop appetites.

Not exact matches

I got divorced about 5.5 years ago with a negative net worth, and through a combination of reasonable spending (middle class standard of living), investment returns (thank you great bull market!)

In its new zombie formulation, however, the idea would be that anyone who acts old in their personal life is Old for political purposes — which leads us back to the need for follow - through in our thinking on the Aristotelian middle class.

Through movies, magazines and advertising the upper middle class has become «our reference point for what the American good life is supposed to look like and contain.»

Imagine life for Wenger without entitled players who all think they can play through the middle at a world class level!

I am old enough to remember when hard working Americans could raise a family and put kids through college still living as part of the middle class.

With Man Down, following the jarring, harshly lit opening sequence, Montiel plays with three time periods, the first being the picaresque, Apple - pie glow afforded white, suburban middle class folks who follow each other through familiar life trajectories.

Through the lives of several different characters, the film exhibits the loneliness of these middle - class Austrian citizens, often in a deranged sexual manner.

«The Wonder Years» debuted in 1988 following ABC's broadcast of Super Bowl XXII, and, for six memorable seasons, the series affectionately captured the angst of growing up in suburban middle - class America in the late»60s, as seen through the life and times of Kevin Arnold (Fred Savage).

Thoroughbreds (Mar. 9th) Two alienated girls come into each other's lives at just the right time to tear a bloody swath through upper - middle - class suburbia: Lily (Anya Taylor - Joy) has finally had it with her abusive stepdad; and junior sociopath Amanda (Olivia Cooke) is just merciless enough to float the idea of killing him.

The paternalistic presumption implicit in the schools is that the poor lack the family and community support, cultural capital, and personal follow - through to live according to the middle - class values that they, too, espouse.

For middle - class and affluent children, this kind of constant monitoring, advising, and problem - solving tends to be baked into their lives, whether through aggressive helicopter parenting or simply having friends and family members who've been to college and are neither awed by the process nor intimidated by pitfalls.

Whereas middle - class children have opportunities to develop their skills and talents through private lessons and participation in community - based activities in their elementary years, kids who live in poverty generally do not.

Why would the two middle class American men at the center of the story — both well - educated and neither from a particularly religious family — become so fixated on achieving «enlightenment» through Tibetan Buddhism that their quests take over virtually every aspect of their lives?

Shriver examines the aftermath through the eyes of three generations of the Mandible family, who are leading comfortable upper - middle - class lives up until the day everything changes.

Witty, compassionate, and wry, it captures the social, political, and spiritual upheavals of those decades through the experiences of a middle - class couple, their four children, and the changing worlds in which they live.

For artists like Maurice Brianchon and Marguerite Louppe this dichotomy is rendered subtly through the recording of domestic interiors, the tranquility of the surrounding landscape, the pleasures of middle class life.

American Impressionism began to come into its own in the late 19th century, at a time when American collectors began to value the style of French Impressionists, and appreciate their depictions of every - day middle class life, through the use of natural light and flickering brushstrokes.

★ Metropolitan Museum of Art: «Garry Winogrand» (through Sept. 21) Mr. Winogrand, who died at 56 in 1984, was the photographer laureate of urban and suburban middle - class life in the United States from the late 1950s through the»70s and beyond.