Sentence examples for bankrupt middle from inspiring English sources

Moorcock thinks Tolkien's vast catalogue of names, places, magic rings, and dwarven kings is, as he told Hari Kunzru in a 2011 piece for The Guardian, "a pernicious confirmation of the values of a morally bankrupt middle class".

Tolkien's work, he writes, is nothing more than "a pernicious confirmation of the values of a morally bankrupt middle class", something not so far from the fascism he had agitated against as a young activist.

Local nurse Ann Perkins Rashida Joness) complains about a giant pit near her house, which was dug out by a condominium developer that went bankrupt in the middle of the construction project.

He talked about corporate greed, the bankrupting of the middle class, and the outrageous political influence of big business.

The film depicts the personal dramas and cultural conflicts at a lavish wedding that nearly bankrupts the upper-middle-class businessman (Naseeruddin Shah) whose daughter is getting married.

"It's sad to hear it may go bankrupt," he said in the middle of a break from skiing.

Losses on the trailer loans, along with problems at Conseco's insurance business, will bankrupt the company by the middle of next year, the short-sellers say.

They left us with a far more dangerous world, while bankrupting the country and destroying middle class wealth at the same time.

Deserted by the middle class, New York was near-bankrupt but its danger and squalor suited the mobs of noctambulists who clamoured to gain entry to Studio 54.

Medicaid keeps millions of middle-class families from going bankrupt from the high cost of nursing-home and in-home care.

According to Colbert, Iceland is "a frigid rock in the middle of nowhere that has gone bankrupt and gone gay".