Sentence examples similar to rejected middle from inspiring English sources

I'm compared to Kerouac, I suppose, because he traveled and rejected middle-class values, but the similarities end there.

I spoke to Rich Roll, author of Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself and host of "The Rich Roll Podcast", about the corporate wellness craze, how healthy eating habits allowed him to change career paths, the connection between health and productivity, how he stays motivated and his best career advice.

These "lifestyle as dissent" or "consumption as protest" constituencies are about freedom and rejecting middle-class mores, and "P.B.R. is seen as a symbol and fellow dissenter".

These "lifestyle as dissent" or "consumption as protest" constituencies are about freedom and rejecting middle-class mores, and "P.B.R. is seen as a symbol and fellow dissenter". Eventually all of this sounds like satire, but the punch line is that it isn't really that far off from P.B.R.'s strategy.

This is why, right across Europe, large sections of the public have rejected mainstream middle ground parties in favour of populists, of both right and left.

He believes Leveson offers a chance for British journalism to move away from its adherence to "a romantic notion of amateurism" in order to build professionalism… Proposals to "professionalise" journalism are often rejected as middle class elitism which resents or fails to understand the anarchic appeal of the pugnacious, mischievous tabloid press and seeks to impose its own standards on others.

That's a convenient story, but it is not a great basis for rejecting the middle ground proposed here.

But Allen Ginsberg, who regarded his friend as the greatest American poet of his time, declared that Mr. Kerouac had created "a spontaneous bop prosody".--Adapted from "Jack Kerouac, Novelist, Dead; Father of the Beat Generation; Author of 'On the Road' Was Hero to Youth-Rejected Middle-Class Values," by Joseph Lelyveld and originally published in the New York Times on Oct. 22, 1969.

Justice Breyer rejected a proposed middle ground that had been offered by the federal government.

Without the automobile, I'd never have had a ten-speed bike, which is how I got addicted to wind, which is why I became a bird as soon as I left home, a hawk who rejected gravity, steel, middle management, exactly as I was supposed to, one wing-flap at a time.

Although the Christus Victor theory is of historical importance and has exerted a great deal of literary influence, it has been widely rejected since the middle ages, in no small part because it is hard to take seriously the idea that God might be in competition with or have obligations toward another being (much less a being like the Devil) in the ways described above.