Sentence examples for aristocratic boy from inspiring English sources

A magisterially written war bildungsroman, it narrated the coming-of-age of an aristocratic boy in occupied Veneto after the 1917 Battle of Caporetto.

Fritz Lang's silent classic Metropolis - which had already bankrupted the huge Ufa studio before its premiere in Berlin on January 10 1927 - was a dystopian vision of the 21st century: an enslaved underclass, forced to maintain the scientific luxury of the ruling elite, revolt and bring the city to its knees, until a pauper girl and an aristocratic boy's love for each other saves the day.

In the years after it started, the contest was the province of the well heeled and finely bred, a "semi-aristocratic boys club" much like the schools themselves, Ms. Segal said.

Isaiah Berlin did the latter in a witty and concise weekly brief; he, Daiches and a few coopted British journalists had to fight to get anything done in the atmosphere of aristocratic, old-boy red tape.

In Namwon Province, Mongryong (Cho Seung Woo), the governor's son — an aristocratic fifteen-year-old boy who has a man's voice and a man's determination — falls in love with, pursues, and secretly marries Chunhyang (Lee Hyo Jung), the beautiful daughter of a courtesan.

The aristocratic British School for Boys was Eton.

Most of the characters run to type: dissolute quasi-aristocratic friends, interchangeable boys, sycophants in steadily increasing numbers.

They simply reacted to whatever situation – boy scouts' camp, aristocratic shooting lodge, Brazilian embassy – the producers put them into.

Drawing on his experiences as a jockey and his intimate knowledge of the racetrack crowd — from aristocratic owners to Cockney stable boys — the novel contained all the elements that readers would come to relish from a Dick Francis thriller.

Nevertheless, newspaper coverage reinforced negative attitudes about male homosexuality as an aristocratic vice, presenting the telegraph boys as corrupted and exploited by members of the upper class.

Dispatched from London to take over a murder investigation, Lynley is paired with Sgt. Barbara Havers Sharon Smalll), a working-class detective who isn't thrilled to be working with "a fast-track Oxford golden boy and an arrogant aristocratic ponce".