Sentence examples for in a conventional middle-class from inspiring English sources

Mackey was brought up in a conventional middle-class home in a suburb of Houston.

He had grown up in a conventional middle-class family in East Beirut, the son of a bank branch manager.

He was raised in northern Austria, in a conventional middle-class household where conventionality included at least a casual anti-Semitism.

In many ways, he and his wife, Carol, lead a conventional middle-class life.

Whatever his or her age, the fauxhemian is not one of those stick-in-the-mud, conventional, middle-class grown-ups.

The product of a relatively conventional middle-class Sinhalese upbringing, he pursues a career in information technology that progresses alongside marriage and family life with a crusading NGO worker.

In The Railway Children there is a constant tension between appearances and reality, particularly in Mother's conventional middle-class desire to keep up an outward show so that outsiders remain unaware of the true extent of the family's poverty.

Taking on a more Shakespearean tone, he blasts conventional middle-class types for wasting their lives in "blind acquisitive days".

They were not extraordinary – in fact, on the contrary, they were rather conventional, middle-class intellectual-types, of the kind you find in arguably too many books.

By conventional, middle-class standards, he was a failure.

Otherwise I'd just be a conventional, middle-aged, middle-class person, and that wouldn't do at all".