Sentences with phrase «too upper crust»

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Almost imperceptibly, the talented young politician whom most had labelled as just a bit too upper - crust ever to get to the very top, seemed to be changing.

On the hot young Earth, the outer layer was too weak and soft for plate tectonics to operate until the upper mantle cooled enough to allow sections of crust to slip under each other, or subduct, at collision zones some 3.2 to 2.5 billion years ago.

The only moments of emotion occur in isolation — the suggestion being that the white upper - crust is far too refined to allow sloppy human feeling to impose on polite company.