Sentence examples for aristocratic principles from inspiring English sources

With one of the most famous opening sentences in history, A Tale of Two Cities ranks among the novelist's finest, anatomising the conflict between democratic and aristocratic principles during the French revolution.

Orated recently of conditions in this country: "Without the aristocratic principle no society can endure. . . .

But the aristocratic principle persisted in the United States in our fetish of comparative success. . . .

He rejected the claim to such authority, whether asserted on "the aristocratic principle" or on behalf of "the community".

The country's elites have repeatedly flirted with the aristocratic principle, whether among the brahmins of Boston or, more flagrantly, the rural ruling class in the South.

The truth is that a butter croissant can be any shape it chooses, on the general atavistic aristocratic principle that, butter being better, it creates its own realm of privilege.

Strikingly, his example of such a regime is Sparta: presented as a case of a characteristically democratic distribution of education (among citizens only, of course) coupled with the characteristically aristocratic principle (but also a practice widely used in Greek democracies for some offices) of election to offices rather than selection by lot (IV.9).

It wouldn't be far-fetched to argue that Robert Rubin personifies a lot of what's good about the U.S. A country born under decidedly non-aristocratic principles, America has always been dichotomical about its approach to classism.

It gives her a robustness and it explains why increasingly, as the century goes on, she doesn't feel she has to constantly align herself with aristocratic prejudices and principles.

The six mature novels effectively follow through the critical enterprise launched in Political Justice by their narrative histories of men who are brought to grief by the aristocratic and inegalitarian principles of their societies.

Aristocratic values and democratic principles, political abstractions and sexual freedom these disparate elements collide in a coolly elegant epistolary style reminiscent of Laclos's "Les liaisons dangereuses".