Only sex can cross the class distinctions manifest in Hofmannsthal's libretto, "with its ceremony, its social layers, its manner of speaking".
Set in the aftermath of the recent revolution and hinged on a woman of privilege, Reem (Menna Shalabi), who riskily crosses the class divide and tries to stir up revolutionary feeling in a destitute family, the movie is effectively a political argument come to dramatic life, with the characters embodying divergent views and degrees of commitment and despair.
If the right to consume can be perceived as such a fundamental freedom that people spend more on their cars then their houses (as a non-American, it really weirds me out to see Mercs parked outside Californian shacks), then surely political rights can also cross the class divide?
But child cruelty crosses the classes.
So the Supreme Court's rulings making it harder to cross the class-certification threshold have had profound consequences in the legal balance of power between businesses and people who say they have been harmed.
This gene has an aminoglycoside-modifying activity, and crossed the antimicrobial agents' class boundaries by its activity also against the fluoroquinolones.
The response can be discriminatory (crosses the 0.5 class threshold) or co-factorial (does not cross the 0.5 class threshold).
Many dramas play out on Hexam Place, most of them crossing the old class boundaries and not one of them predictable.
After her crisp instructions and demonstrations, the girls in her advanced pointe class crossed the studio in exemplary bourrées, ballet's signature form of female locomotion: a swift and invisible transfer of weight from pointe to pointe in fifth position.
The cabinet member, Sayeeda Warsi, told an audience at the University of Leicester: "It seems to me that Islamophobia has now crossed the threshold of middle-class respectability.
