Sentences with phrase «upper middle class just»

Ive been pitched as more upper middle class just because of this flighty life I used to live.

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But as these middle and upper classes have a lot of expendable, disposable income, they are turning to golf just as a friendly pursuit,» Dreyer said.

The assumptions of cutthroat libertarianism were so embedded in the worldview of these lucky newcomers that they spoke as though the victims of tech - fueled displacement and gentrification had chosen to live in poverty and squalor, just as they themselves chose to learn to code, chose a management - track job at a major corporation, and chose to set themselves up for a comfortable upper - middle - class suburban life.

The Democrats are dominated by a power - hungry and vengeful upper - middle - class liberalism that is more intent on injuring (or even just seeking to injure) their cultural rivals than on winning elections.

You can count Ridgewood, Saddle River, Alpine and possible parts of Englewood and Tenafly as towns that require a considerable amount of wealth just to pay the real estate taxes but the rest of Bergen is upper middle to lower middle class.

There are a lot of upper middle class women who will ask indignantly, «Isn't this just for wealthy women?»

While many Democrats are just coming to the realization that they need to hammer the economy in this mid-term election season, the veteran Brooklyn lawmaker, who took a pass in 2006 on running for governor and instead rose to become third - highest ranked senator in the upper house, has been talking about the need for his party to talk about endangered middle class for some time now.

Whereas Chanel had no formal education but a great deal of experience of the ways of the world, Schiaparelli was from Italian upper middle - class academic stock, which gave her the assurance to make fashion not just amusing but outrageously so.

While the film is overlong at just under two hours, several episodes show great originality with a satiric bite reminiscent of the equally surreal films of Luis Buñuel, whose almost plotless «The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie» finds six upper - middle - class people regularly interrupted in their attempt to share a meal.

Varma's criminals are just ordinary people trying to make a living: in Satya they are the underclass, in Company they're middle - class merchants, and in Sarkar they're from the upper classes.

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.

Many elementary classes start each morning with a meeting that sets the stage for the learning that will occur during the day, but more and more middle schools are finding that this social experience is just, if not more, important in upper grades.

This will diversify the qualifying population and not just favor upper - middle - class kids.

But if the loudest and most active (read: white upper - middle - class suburban) parents think standardized tests are just an annual annoyance, if these parents and other activist voters choose to disbelieve the results in the fact - free era of modern political discourse, then accountability will be diluted down to the posting of test results and the annual finger wagging of the local news media.

To diversify their campuses, these colleges eagerly seek out well - prepared minority students (not just minority students from the middle and upper - middle class who went to suburban or private schools, but urban minority students truly in need of a boost) and are willing to take dramatic steps to ensure their success on their campuses.

«We just worry that if that complacency builds or expands, it's both going to hurt the pocketbooks of the upper middle - class and the wealthy, and it also impedes greater efforts to improve student preparation.»

The upper and middle class parents know their public schools are good — many of them graduated from schools just like them.

... this isn't just a novel of ideas; Berne's scrutiny of upper - middle - class suburbia is also grounded in specific scenes that offer rich fodder for satire: a town meeting, a dinner party, and a book group (particularly ironic since Berne's novel itself is more than likely to spark heated discussion at countless book groups).

However, this isn't just a novel of ideas; Berne's scrutiny of upper - middle - class suburbia is also grounded in specific scenes that offer rich fodder for satire: a town meeting, a dinner party, and a book group (particularly ironic since Berne's novel itself is more than likely to spark heated discussion at countless book groups).

When Sears shifted to «upper middle class,» it left itself wide - open to be undercut by discount retailers, who proceeded to do just that.

The first subdivisions were developed just after World War II and since then, the area has become a haven for upper - middle class families.

I was an upper middle - class pit bull owner just like you.

Just above this cheeky question — a revised quotation from Richard Hamilton — were three graphite - and - watercolor drawings, all dated 2011, depicting an upper - middle - class Indian housewife engaged in stereotypical activities.

She would stubbornly pursue her own quiet «tentativeness» (as the poet and art critic John Ashbery once put it), just as she would soon marry a businessman, move out of bohemia, build a house overlooking the ocean near the Hamptons, raise a child and pursue a more conventional upper middle class lifestyle.

They get both the wealthy people who don't care too much about price and just want the best, and the more mainstream (well, upper - middle class...) buyers who will sacrifice a few features and some driving range to still get their hands on a very attractive and convenient (this is not Roadster) electric sedan.

Yeah, so it's sort of like whether you choose the criminal courts or the civil courts, Americans from poor people all the way up to upper middle class people just can not afford very much in the way of legal services.

The automobile had been invented and entered mass production in the early 1900s, but just as the internal combustion engine started to prevail over electric cars at that time and mass production took hold with Ford's Model T bringing some cars and trucks into upper middle class households and into use by businesses and farms, the Great Depression and World War II dramatically reduced private personal consumption, so for the two decades from about 1929 until the several years after World War II that it took to convert factories from war production to civilian peacetime production, the automobile industry's private sector sales were greatly suppressed, domestic civilian road and bridge construction came to a near halt during World War II as government funds were diverted to the war effort, and domestic oil consumption was likewise suppressed.

There I was, a guy who owned a house back in 1990 in St. Louis, and Southwestern Bell had just moved its headquarters to Texas so there were a lot of people in the middle - to upper - class neighborhoods leaving the city.