Sentence examples for privileged yet from inspiring English sources

Her upbringing was privileged, yet strictly circumscribed by social norms.

On another socioeconomic level, casual sex thrives among young people who are materially privileged yet whom society has failed to endow with the real values of human sexuality, the knowledge that fulfillment involves contact with the other's personality, that the sexual act is not some mere bodily function like evacuation -- which is what some campaigners seem to reduce it to.

Born in 1878, Alma had a privileged yet troubled upbringing in hedonistic Vienna.

They can then sell the dollars for 6 times what they paid in what amounts to a multi-billion dollar annual subsidy for the privileged – yet it is they who are supplying the base and the troops of the rebellion.

She's such a fighter, like a strong female protagonist; she's not had the harshest of lives (to be fair she sounds pretty privileged) yet she's a pivotal example of labeling.

The unusual complexity of his background - privileged yet marginal, wealthy yet powerless - allowed him to empathise with dispossessed people, especially the victims of Zionism and its western supporters, while enjoying in the fullest measure the cultural riches of New York, a city that rang louder than any other with Jewish achievement and success.

Throughout the season, we've seen Sadie battle her own issues with weight and her privileged-yet-pressured home life.

They extended to Germany's representatives in every particular "the courtesy of privileged nationals" - yet the impression of adversaries was distinctly there.

So on one side I felt privileged and yet I also wanted to see if I could test my creative muscle and make it useful in other situations.

Were he alive, Lasch might eviscerate these two very different elites, beholden to different privileged interests yet nonetheless falling over themselves to champion the "common" person.

She's got a lot of self-absorption, and she's so clueless — her life is so incredible, she's so privileged — and yet it's just this hell.