Sentence examples for a whiff of class from inspiring English sources

There's a whiff of class warfare in the simmering hostility, too.

However true to life, the Little Miss Sunshine competition comes accompanied by a whiff of class snobbishness.

While Obama is willing to include a whiff of class when it comes to proposing new sources of revenue to reduce the deficit, he is still in thrall to financial elites who want to bet the farm on deficit reduction as a cure for the larger economic recession.

Most politicians avoid advancing any narratives carrying even a whiff of "class warfare," but Sanders isn't shy about his vision for an uprising of trade unionists, fast-food workers, indebted students, and traditionally Republican voting blocs like old people, white working-class voters, rural farmers mobilizing against the entrenched corporate interests keeping them down.

Rough-looking furniture that carries a whiff of shop class, handmade by guys who have their own power saws — and know how to use them — is design's new tack.

The building itself is beautiful, "1950's International Style, with a whiff of working-class romanticism," says Per, an industrial designer.

Leno's remarks, and his jokes, often have a whiff of the civics class about them.

From the Labour benches, you hear occasional attempts to make it an issue, but among ministers, an ingrained fear of the whiff of class war tends to even rule out the odd joke (in his increasingly dire encounters with Cameron, for example, Gordon Brown has not once even hinted at their very different experiences of secondary education).

Mr. Fussell brought an erudition, a gift for readable prose, a willingness to offend and, as many critics noted, a whiff of snobbery to subjects like class, clothing, the dumbing down of American culture and the literature of travel.

There are other reasons to dislike the term ma'am — for its whiff of class distinctions, for being dismissive, stiff and drab.

When rebels are needed for such confrontations, he alleges, Mr Quayle cannot always be relied on.A whiff of class resentment is in the air.