Winton's own background was characterised by a working class sensibility and evangelical religion.
It's telling that Pranna, the "belligerent brunch party hole" that's now been put on probation by its New York City community board, bills its "$40++" meal-turned-party as The People's Brunch, an homage to a working class sensibility where class consciousness was real and led to labour organizing and social change.
It consists of many layers, each corresponding to a specific class sensibility, some oddly invisible to the others.
To this picnic he has also brought a magnum of Champagne — or, to salve Golding's class sensibilities, let's say a box of very cold ale.
Although the broadside ballad represents the adaptation of the folk ballad to the urban scene and middle class sensibilities, the general style more closely resembles minstrelsy, only with a generous admixture of vulgarized traits borrowed from book poetry.
He also praises Sublime Frequencies for their "raw, lo-fi discoveries," Stones Throw's "mining [of] some great unheralded Zamrock," Honest Jon's "high class" sensibilities, and Glitterbeat's "fresh, progressive approach".
The car I drove was even painted in a hue that evoked a clenched-jaw, upper-class sensibility: "Hardly Green".
You have a blue-collar, middle-class sensibility right next to one of the greatest cities in the world, which can make for some interesting creative impulses".
Moreover, for all its pride in its edgy art galleries (Fact, Open Eye, Bluecoat), the city has retained its working-class sensibility.
The movie offers a gently satirical portrait of a particular English upper-middle-class sensibility: liberal, but sometimes effortfully so; emotionally restrained, but not lacking in feeling, for all that restraint.
The semantic and structural disruption, starting with the novel's unfinished title, reflects its anarchic intent – to disrupt the comfortably smug, middle-class sensibility personified by Genevieve and her dinner party set, with their stultifying prejudice and snobbery.
