Sentence examples for class origins from inspiring English sources

Ironically, portraiture of Jesus has hidden his true class origins to our detriment.

Yet on the mainland his class origins as the grandson of executed landlords were long black marks held against him.

I also had to discover very quickly that class origins cannot be erased, regardless of whether we climb up or down the sociocultural ladder.

Still, her class origins — she was the daughter of a Ukrainian land owner — were considered suspect, as was her knowledge of English and French.

Not that he tried to hide his class origins: on the contrary, he'd honed them into a weapon to use against his colleagues and friends.

Earlier this year, a team of economists showed that people born in 1970 were less likely to have escaped their class origins than those born 12 years earlier.

Though he became the Polish Communist party leader, Jaruzelski was unable to boast working-class origins.

Sher plays down the fatness to emphasise the knight's upper-class origins.

Despite his mountain-man pretensions, Thomas Grant Hadwin could never wholly conceal his middle-class origins.

Later, it turns out he is fashionably downgrading his Presbyterian middle-class origins in Glasgow.

Only by singing simply and directly, she says, can the working-class origins of folk music be preserved.