Sentence examples similar to measure of upper class from inspiring English sources

Hefner, whose great realization, as my colleague Adam Gopnik has pointed out, was that virtually anything, even pornography, can be mainstreamed in America if it is paired with a measure of upper-class aspiration, contained contradictions similar to Weinstein's, though they were a great deal more transparent.

She was a product of upper class culture.

Mr Wilson scorned "the grouse moor conception of national leadership," ability measured by upper class accents, and "smoothness" when it was "ruggedness" that we really needed.

A doyenne of upper-class respectability?

He took stentorian note of upper-class self-indulgence.

Forman was the scion of upper-class Scottish presbyterian stock.

A picture of upper-class contentment?

What he underestimated was the total unabashed complicity of the upper class of American capitalism.

Using objective measures of socioeconomic status to define class, we find no evidence of a general tendency for upper class to be less ethical, although we do replicate previous findings that higher status leads to less condemnation of infidelity.

The work of the upper class, according to Veblen, is "exploit," while the work of the lower class is "drudgery".

Ideology is a luxury of the upper class.