Sentence examples for privileged boy from inspiring English sources

But hardly predictable, even for a middle-class, privileged boy, who plays cricket in Harold Pinter's cricket team, The Gaieties.

Greene had co-written the screenplay for Carol Reed's recent successful thriller "The Fallen Idol," based on his own short story, which was about a privileged boy who almost dooms the beloved butler who is his only friend — a perfect example of Greene's view of the danger of innocence — as well as the screenplay for "The Third Man," which had been an enormous hit.

Maybe it is the threat of war that has caused designers to embrace the ultra-innocence of a privileged boy's life, as Dries Van Noten did in a fine show at a sports club.

He is called a "hippie" - a quaint, now historical term that suggests a stylish, faux rebellion by a privileged boy against his family's fortune.

The gymnasiums appeared in ducal courts; they were created for the liberal education of privileged boys and as the first stage of the studia humanitatis.

But for less overwhelmingly privileged boys, says theex-pupil, Eton can be life-changing: "It's just expected that you will drink from the cup of opportunity.

I mention all this because my acquaintance with Dickens was more or less typical of what literary-minded, privileged boys and girls of a certain era enjoyed.

Not "for the sake of it", but because it's time for dance to shed its institutionalised sexism, to rid itself of the whiff of privileged boys' clubs and backstairs deals and join the artistic mainstream.

The crux of the song a story involving a plum tree, black boys, a privileged white boy, and the n-word, which Michael did not sing was delivered with a sharp blast of piano.

If you were to ask McEnroe or the coaching legend Nick Bollettieri about this, they'd say that tennis is not reaching the right American cohort, the less-privileged boys who opt to play football or baseball or basketball instead.

Even if the school's motives are sincere, rather than cynical – Eton's headmaster, Tony Little, is himself a bursary boy, whose father was a Heathrow security guard – giving a chance to a handful of non-privileged boys each year can hardly do much to reverse the trends in social mobility.