Yet her clothes make clear, said Valerie Steele, director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, the queen's understanding of her ongoing lifelong "performance," and it doesn't take a semiotician to read in her presentation a clear portrayal of upper-class distaste for novelty and gimmick, a resistance to foreign ideas, a reassuring matronly solidity.
These hardliners still rely on the traditional clergy for a patina of Islamic legitimacy, and the clerical class' near universal distaste for Mashaei's version of Islam contributes to the hardline animosity to Ahmadinejad.
Then, in November, she posted on YouTube a video about doodling in math class, which married a distaste for the way math is taught in school with an exuberant exploration of math as art.
The mania that Wilkie Collins called "detective fever" suddenly shifted to "distaste for the working-class fellow who had meddled in middle-class affairs" and the fear that such troublemakers might eventually breach the sanctity of one's own home and mess all over the drawing-room carpet, as W. H. Auden put it in his classic essay "The Guilty Vicarage".
Ingrao went to university in Rome, where in 1936 he joined a fascist student organisation, Gruppo Universitario Fascista, attracted by its veneer of modernisation and its distaste for the liberal class.
Reports from the election front line suggest that MPs' expenses is still a big issue for many voters, a stinky symbol of their distaste for the political class as a whole – and surely a major reason why the Tories are not streets ahead in the opinion polls.
The patrician Sir Hugh repeatedly refused to see the lower middle-class midlander, and developed such a distaste for her that he once bought an oil painting showing her with five breasts.
The letters and diaries of working-class people and ex-servicemen generally demonstrate support for the King, while those from the middle and upper classes tend to express indignation and distaste.
It was through this symbolic act, which horrified many in the Cuban financial sector, that Guevara signaled his distaste for money and the class distinctions it brought about.
Individuals willing to adapt themselves to the rules of this new society could sometimes ascend into its upper echelons from modest backgrounds, much to the distaste of the established wealthy class.
