"I realize a lot of you young people grew up in some pretty privileged circumstances.
In democratic societies, people from wealthy, highly connected, and privileged circumstances have relatively easy routes to personal success and prosperity.
After thirteen years in New York, Cai still uses a Chinese interpreter, and he is disconcertingly serene when discussing the Cultural Revolution, which he experienced in privileged circumstances.
I am lucky enough to be living in financially stable, relatively privileged circumstances, and to have had the education that allows me to do so.
This season Staci, a teenager who lives in far less privileged circumstances in the flats below Baldwin Hills, dealt with pregnancy and miscarriage.
So ends the life of the woman whose 1986 uprising inspired eruptions of street democracy around the world – heady years that were a far cry from the privileged circumstances in which she was born.
She is, rather, almost ruthless in her attention to the petty vanities and hypocrisies of her characters, and the ways their relatively privileged circumstances lead them to weave webs of guilt, complacency and stifled aggression.
She cited a case in the city of Queimadas, where six men from relatively privileged circumstances were swiftly arrested, tried and convicted last year in the gang rape of five women, two of whom were killed after recognizing their assailants.
Behn, a trailblazer in her own right as the first woman in to write professionally in English, made, according to her account, a round trip under more privileged circumstances, living for a time in slaveholding Surinam in the 1660s.
But, if he was a product of his time and privileged circumstances, he was also a man of basic morality: he fretted, fumed, and agonized over doing the right thing, in instances large and small.
