Jourdain, a wealthy couple into whose existence the young Molière — not yet a famous author, merely the actor-manager of a bankrupt theatrical troupe — is plunged, in 1644.
Whipped meringue-like from Elizabeth Gilbert's onanistic bestseller, Ryan Murphy's cinematic colonic irrigation sends Roberts/Gilbert running away from the horrendous misery of her healthy, wealthy, middle-class American existence to spend a year looking for herself in Italy, India and Bali.
When your pops is a onetime president, a meaningless existence, however wealthy, just doesn't cut it.
Karl's father, as a child known as Herschel, was the first in the line to receive a secular education; he became a lawyer and lived a relatively wealthy and middle-class existence, with his family owning a number of Moselle vineyards.
Despite being a wealthy man, he led a frugal existence and coupled his vegetarianism with being teetotal.
Museums like the Whitney and the Guggenheim, as well as the Modern, came into existence because of wealthy people with a passion for new art and a commitment to living artists.
Such hoards would necessitate a wealthy owner, and their supposed existence ignores the command structure of a pirate vessel, in which the crew often served by free suffrage.
The hundreds of villae found in Switzerland, some very luxurious, attest to the existence of a wealthy and cultured upper class of landowners.
More people in wealthy countries could lead comfortable existences, the Skidelskys contend, if we did not all lift our arms in praise of one lonely virtue: economic gain.
