Sentence examples for classes of speaking from inspiring English sources

This rift between classes grew as the practices among the upper classes of speaking mainly French and conducting their daily lives by European conventions became increasingly ingrained.

Nearly 50 years ago, the aristocratic English writer Nancy Mitford popularized the terms "U" and "non-U," which delineated upper-class and non-upper-class ways of speaking (not to mention thinking and acting).

Dressed nattily in a well-cut suit and with an upper-class manner of speaking, George is mistaken by Nora for another respondent to her ad.

And it fails to recognize how White upper middle class versions of speaking and/or communicating with children are somehow inherently better than other families'.

There he met Ms. Ascaride, a fellow student, when she came to one of his classes to speak on behalf of the student union.

Instead, she chose to celebrate the mores of her class, even, in a manner of speaking, to become them.

"Just the idea of speaking in class was making me sweaty and confused and all red with terror.

He was terrified of speaking in class and only learned to speak properly by facing his fear.

Jeff Kern, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a former prosecutor in Brooklyn, counseled the woman, who was a student in one of his classes, to speak with the authorities.

The hysterical-leg paralysis that afflicted thousands of middle-class women in the late 19th century not only gives us a visceral understanding of the restrictions set on women's social roles at the time but can also be seen from this distance as a social role itself — the troubled unconscious minds of a certain class of women speaking the idiom of distress of their time.

The problem with trade-and-aid engagement is that North Korea has no middle class to speak of and Kim Jong Il has no reason to allow one to emerge; genuine economic reforms are not in his interest.