The Sadducees were the party of high priests, aristocratic families, and merchants the wealthier elements of the population.
Born into a high-ranking aristocratic family, Ko in 1908 became the first Korean student to go to Japan to learn the new Western art of oil painting.
The story of the six high-spirited, aristocratic, amusing and amusable sisters who did as they pleased, mostly, and captured the imagination of Britain for about half the 20th century; the author takes no sides and, what is truly remarkable, keeps track of all six lives at once.
His 6ft 7in height is complemented by an imposing set of muscles and natural athleticism, and he bowls with an aristocratic high action at speeds close to 90mph.
His thoughtful face, turned a bit to the right with shadows accentuating the high brow and aristocratic nose, is softened with a wisp of a smile, a Ramage trick.
It appears that thanks to one of those clerical errors that angels are prone to in postwar fiction, the heavenly conductor who was to scoop Carter up and lead him to the higher place — an aristocratic victim of the French Revolution, played in full foppery by Marius Goring — missed him in the British fog and allowed him to live.
High style derives from aristocratic, which is to say military, ideals of pride, stoicism, hardness, swagger, and snobbery — of trial by ordeal and tournament chic.
Between them, the 19th-century French novelists traced the fate of the individualistic sensibilities born of aristocratic and high bourgeois culture as they engaged with the collectivizing forms of a nation moving toward mass culture and the threshold of democracy.
Kept by powerful, aristocratic or high-ranking "protectors" as a sign of wealth and virility, these demi-mondaines were a subject of fascination for the upper class who looked down on them but also observed them as a reference for fashion and taste.
