Sentences with phrase «upper class homes»

Noone invites me into upper class homes... good luck.

Her installation in the music room suggests an elegant surrounding where music is an integral part of the genteel atmosphere of an educated, upper class home.

Not exact matches

In the past, Brahmins, the so - called upper class, painted their homes in the royal hue of blue to differentiate their properties from those of the lower class.

At the other extreme, «there are several pockets in which only the upper - middle class and above can afford to own even the average home, most notably across the West and in the Northeast,» How Much notes.

Yes, it comes from the game you might remember from Kindergarten where kids bring in an item from home and show it to the class, and yes it works with people in upper management.

Saving for retirement, saving for children and their education, owning your own home: these things sound upper class to me.

The home in which they live would suggest that they are among the upper - class members of West Bank society.

Here is a story about a young man in my area who came from a upper middle class home, mother and father married, never divorced.

Then there's something commonly known as the «Proclamation on the Family,» which is often framed and displayed in homes — though rarely in upper - class households, said Joanna Brooks, author of «The Book of Mormon Girl: Stories from an American Faith.»

Almost everybody felt themselves at home in the «middle,» as the euphemism for the well - off, «upper middle class,» indicates.

I'm calling this a BS so some upper class stay at home mom can have shit to blog about because she's bored at home.

Unfortunately (I guess), i am from a upper / middle class, so I did lost couple friends over «home birth» and «churchy» issues.

From 1983 to 1992, I collected data on the pregnancy and childbirth experiences of 100 middle and upper - middle class mainstream pregnant women and mothers, and on the health professionals (physicians, nurses, midwives, childbirth educators) who care for them, through observation and interviews in hospitals, offices, and homes.

Having received a «holy call», Harry Sarfo left the comfort of his home in the upper class city of Bremen in 2015 to join the Islamic State in Syria.

Studies at Rice and Columbia Universities reported eye - opening findings about how many more words children who grow up in middle and upper - class homes hear on a daily basis as compared to lower - income children.

For those daters who set high standards and want someone on their level, we've highlighted two elite matchmaking sites where upper class singles feel at home.

The upper - class communities of cities worldwide are home to the rich.

These are the first pictures taken from inside Halswell House which was transformed from a civilised upper class ball into a mass orgy within a matter of a The best free amateur porn & home made porn blog on the internet.

In stage plays like «Fan» and «The Importance of Being Earnest,» Wilde used wickedly sharp dialogue and glittering farce as scalpels, laying open the hypocrisies of an Edwardian upper - class audience that only felt the sting on the hansom - cab ride home.

Bridget Cardigan is shocked to learn that she is on the verge of losing her home and comfortable upper middle class lifestyle when her husband Don is downsized from his job.

The chatter of this strange assortment of upper - middle class Brits might work better in the theater, since the action takes place in real time set wholly in an extensively furnished London home (actually filmed in a West London studio), with the women doing most of the talk and much of the witty liftings.

Social commentary of a slightly different kind, Mike Binder's The Upside of Anger is the sort of upper class dysfunction opera that's fallen on hard times (The Safety of Objects, Fallen Angels, A Home At The End of the World, Imaginary Heroes) since the glory days of American Beauty and The Ice Storm, finding itself rejuvenated after a fashion in the smart, warm performances of Joan Allen and Kevin Costner.

Though that news doesn't turn everything right - side - up again, Judd goes home to his suburban upper - class roots to join his brothers, sister, and mother (Jane Fonda) in mourning.

The film's prologue touts the British village home to average middle class families, but it's quite clear the Miniver family are part of the modern upper class; with a substantial disposable income, a housemaid, and a cook, they also maintain British reserve to sometimes irrational, and rather precious degrees.

The tight - knit but tense atmosphere around the upper - middle - class Jacobs clan, however — parents Pat (Edie Falco) and Alan (John Turturro), adult daughter Dana (Slate) and still - at - home high schooler Ali (Abby Quinn)-- is emotionally timeless.

In the film, «the heroine, Liz Bennett (James), is pressured by her family to marry into a wealthy upper - class home but chafes at the stiff social mores of Victorian England.

Vera cleans the houses of several upper - middle - class families; at home, too, she's the cook and cleaner - upper.

The film opens as the interracial couple are getting ready to travel up to her family home in a lily - white, upper - middle - class enclave.

Nicholson plays the now iconic cad Bobby Dupea, a shiftless thirtysomething oil rigger and former piano prodigy immune to any sense of responsibility, who returns to his upper - middle - class childhood home, blue - collar girlfriend (Karen Black, in an Oscar - nominated role) in tow, to see his estranged, ailing father.

Very sharp portrayal of the «upstairs / downstairs» culture within upper class family homes.

In the film, Liz is pressured by her family to marry into a wealthy, upper - class home but instead wants to fight a horrifying zombie plague.

Taylor's latest collaboration with Allen, «Blue Jasmine,» opens July 26 and stars Cate Blanchett as an upper - class Manhattan housewife who, in the middle of a personal crisis, heads to the San Francisco home of her working - class sister Ginger.

Sitcom follows the going - on in the home of a dysfunctional upper middle - class French family who no longer know how to communicate with one another.

While recuperating, Olsen bucks against the upper - class trappings of Paulson's lakeside home, and begins to fret that Hawkes is coming back for her.

When Ted and his consultants huddle in Joe's living room, you can feel the sterile, museum - like quality a certain kind of upper - class home has.

Here the race issue is brought to the forefront: two upper - class white liberals find their own progressive values challenged when their daughter returns home from a ten - day Hawaiian vacation with a black fiancé in tow.

Surrounded by the upper class, Chris has trouble feeling at home, especially when he learns that young black men have gone missing from the area for several years, and two of the parents» employees might be connected to these disappearances.

Forced to work as a burglar for a criminal syndicate, Lake breaks into an upper - class home — only to encounter a strange, ethereal woman with whom he falls in love.

«People see that I'm upper middle class, that I'm a woman who stays at home, who is kept by her husband, and instantly there's no clout.

The teachers in predominantly poor, minority schools, who are reportedly mostly black and have adopted the more teacher - centered, authoritarian style of instruction that they view as appropriate for their students, are turning off white, upper - middle - class parents who want school climates similar to their own progressive homes, where problems are discussed.

The cultural differences between the newcomers and the old - timers in gentrifying neighborhoods can be easily, though inadequately, summarized: white, upper - middle - class families prefer a progressive and discursive style of interaction with their children, both at home and in school, and lower - income, nonwhite families prefer a traditional or authoritarian style of interaction with their children in these same venues.

Such may be the case for children from middle - and upper - class homes, but for those whose families can't afford camp or other activities, summer is often a time of emptiness and tedium.

If the number of books in the family home accurately measures a person's social class, both you, dear reader, and I, myself, could now enjoy the pleasure of membership within the highest ranks of the upper, upper one percent of the social class distribution.

· 2 % of parents admitted to buying a second home and using that address so that their children could gain access to a specific school, including 5 % of the upper middle classes

Teachers KNOW that a child from a middle and upper middle class home has an extreme advantage over a child from a poor home.

Owning homes in upper - middle class black neighborhoods puts families in a unique situation where they can begin to accumulate wealth, but where the racial composition of the neighborhood puts them at a disadvantage compared to black families in majority white neighborhoods.

Although Brookline is best known as the home of wealthy and upper - middle - class residents, it also has a long association with working - class Irish families and, more recently, with Asian families and with other immigrant groups drawn to the town for the high quality of its public schools.

While buying ready prepared food outside the home has been an intrinsic part of urban culture in Europe from the earliest of days (as can be seen by the many thermopoliums in Pompeii), in the modern era, in general the upper classes, especially the women, would not have chosen to eat a meal outside of a private home - except in the direst circumstances, such as extended travel.

By the late 1800s, the breed had caught the attention of the upper class and had moved into some of the finer homes in France.

One stroll, for instance, could take in Downtown where attractions include the Museum of Fine Arts, the prestigious McGill University (founded from a bequest by a Glasgow - born fur trader), Sainte - Catherine Street for the major department stores (at Ogilvy's a bagpiper still plays every day at noon) and the Golden Square Mile with its fine Victorian homes which were once home to the country's Anglophone, predominantly Scottish, upper class.