-
excluded from
political influence and came to
personify the fashionable,
leisured elite. He
married Princess Alexandra of
Denmark in 1863, and the couple...
-
reference to its
constant shifting of allegiances, not only
between the
leisured and
working classes but also
among themselves. Bildungsbürgertum Creative...
- the
Summer of the Year 1770, a
practical book
which instructed England's
leisured travellers to
examine "the face of a
country by the
rules of picturesque...
- self-renunciation and his
pride in
being able to
provide a
secure and
leisured existence for his family. When he
finds himself in a
situation where he...
- only our
consideration but our reconsideration' – even
those from the
leisured class. Who will save
Rostov from the
intrusions of the
state if not the...
- been
available to
those who
could afford it,
particularly women of the
leisured classes.
There is
material evidence for cloth-of-gold (lamé) as
early as...
- is
plentiful and
wholesome enough to feed,
without toil or trouble, a
leisured folk. Moreover, an air that is salubrious,
owing to the
climate and the...
-
Drawing room
comedy typically features wit and
verbal banter among wealthy,
leisured, genteel,
upper class characters.
Drawing room
comedy is also sometimes...
-
equivalent of
continental nobles, with
their hereditary estates,
their leisured lifestyle,
their social pre-eminence, and
their armorial bearings". British...
- the 20th century. The
phrase is used to
invoke a
stereotype of shallow,
leisured, upper-class
toffs (tennis was,
particularly before the
widespread advent...
