The phrase "a sort of privilege" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a type of privilege that may not be absolute or clearly defined, often implying a nuanced or partial advantage.
Example: "Having access to exclusive events is a sort of privilege that not everyone enjoys."
Alternatives: "a kind of privilege" or "a type of privilege".
Early on, when Denny says, "Perhaps at this point both the house and Nancy ought to be described," she begins with the house -- a sort of privileging that's both funny and right.
His family subsisted in a sort of ruined privilege.
We ask, "Is this work being ironic?" Or we might seek to historicize the work's author: "Is this author writing from a position of presumed knowledge -- a sort of contextualized privilege -- or out of a fey naivety?" The key here is that the metamodern artwork itself (as phenomenological object) often has no interest in these polar spectra.
Roughly speaking, there can be a F.O.I.A. exemption for a sort of attorney-client privilege within the government — but only at certain stages, when officials are figuring out what is legal.
He gave the boardroom ultras of the Institute of Directors just what they wanted this week – a new offensive against employee rights, together with a plea that they get behind the government in a sort of United Front for Privilege in the forthcoming debate over the plans.
Do the political parties get treated as spammers when they use email as a sort of global franking privilege.
Brodsky added that he was "controlling the flow of information on an extremely tight need to know basis with all sorts of privilege issues attached" as word of a criminal investigation could devastate the bank's reputation and its business.
But, the same way novelists create art out of all sorts of privilege, from lawyers to aristocrats to snobby prep schoolers, Miller not only gets the reader to care about the anxieties and secret desires of investment bankers of all stripes, she also spins an exciting piece of intrigue from the concept, and one so dully dependent on jargon and paperwork to boot.
