Sentence examples for lower-class roots from inspiring English sources

In Celebration (performed 1969; filmed 1974), directed by Anderson, returned to a recurring Storey theme: the impossibility of making a clean break with one's lower-class roots and background.

O'Toole was brought up in wartime Leeds with an Irish bookie father ('I'm not working-class,' the self-described 'slum Mick' once said, 'I come from the criminal classes.'); but he was not on stage to flaunt his lower-class roots, and on film he lived up to the aristocracy of his breathtaking looks.

He tells Tracy Jordan Tracy Morgann) to return to his lower-class roots and Jenna Maroney Jane Krakowskii) to become more "country".

While Kazin never hid his lower-class roots, which he movingly explored in his 1951 memoir, "A Walker in the City," some deep, hard-to-define stirring drove him to burrow into the heart of the American sensibility and translate his private ecstasies into trenchant appreciations of America's literary traditions.

Kevin Spacey as Bobby Darin, who rises from his lower class roots to become one of the most popular rock and roll and big band performers of all time.

Despite having his lower-middle-class roots revealed, Zachary gets the girl with the hyphenated last name.

He worked his way from lower middle class roots in Kolkata to Harvard Business School and joined McKinsey in 1973.

His patriotism, which made him pro-war in the sixties, and his religious faith were both, though hardly alien to other writers, expressed in his work with a simplicity of feeling that connected him to his own lower-middle-class roots and to the common experience of the country.

He kicked off his first rally Saturday at New York's Brooklyn College highlighting his lower-middle-class roots in direct contrast to Donald Trump's charmed upbringing.

In 1999, at 17, I entered the United States Army from a small town in Ohio, needing to find both a way in life and a way to finance the college education I so desperately needed to rise above my lower-middle class roots.

For some, the roots of this problem between the police and the young, lower-class Muslim men who end up being the subject of bavures —are in the traumatic years of the Algerian War of Independence.