Sentence examples for part of the upper class from inspiring English sources

The friends, too young to be abashed by their own presumption, take on the slave-trade interests — a good part of the upper class, which was making a fortune from it — as a kind of consecrated adventure.

Last night this part of the upper class shifted back toward their political home.

So in the usual manner, snobbery became a consciously exercised cruelty on the part of the upper classes, rather than an internalised, intuitive sense of barriers, and the sergeant major training Tull even opted for the Full Metal Jacket clichés about treating your rifle like a woman.

That was Nick van Nes, a former Navy man with bright blue eyes who hoped in 1972 that his new company, Bring Sailing Back Inc., could introduce sailing to city dwellers who were not part of the upper-class set usually associated with yachting.

With her thinly arched eyebrows, flowing mane of black hair and polished English, the journalist Tavleen Singh looks very much the part of the upper-class New Delhi socialite, a set into which she was born and in which she moves with ease.

This is notable in England, where standard English in the so-called Received Pronunciation (RP) can be heard from members of the upper class and upper middle class in all parts of the country.

Like the movie, it concerns the struggles of the upper class to stay upper.

Ideology is a luxury of the upper class.

Book ownership was widespread among Romans of the upper class.

Educational institutions for children of the upper class.

I think he's on to something.Mr Murray envisions a chap named Hank who builds a chain of auto-repair shops that make him very rich, but not particularly powerful:[Hank] is not just in the 1%; he's in the top fraction of the 1% but he's not part of the new upper class.