Sentence examples for respectable classes from inspiring English sources
Medieval society's respectable classes, on the other hand, were forbidden to flaunt so much as a banker's pinstripe.
Only in 1913 was the necessary amendment ratified.Mr Weisman rescues the reputations of William Jennings Bryan and his populist supporters, whom the respectable classes denounced as extremists.
That much-relished character actor Maurice Denham, who has died aged 92, was virtually a one-man chronicle of the decay of the respectable classes.
Like Hearst, Murdoch flouts the rules decreeing strict separation of journalism and politics and of news and entertainment, is hated by the respectable classes, lives lavishly, and sits atop a great pile of media holdings — much greater, thanks to globalization and the advent of new technologies, than Hearst's ever was.
In an era obsessed with social stratification, they ensured that the respectable classes didn't have to suffer the sight of lowly bar staff when they ordered their drinks – or vice-versa should, say, the landlord come into contact with a member of the Great Unwashed.
The image of Sand as aristocratic has its truth - her paternal greatgrandfather was the illustrious Maréchal de Saxe - but the blue blood in her veins was mixed with that of a far less respectable class.
Slums such as the "decaying warren of narrow streets, alleys and courts" that was St Giles, south of the British Museum in Bloomsbury, were swept away, in the hope that the new area would bring "a more respectable class of occupants".
As a classic Mittelstand success story he was a forerunner of the Celtic Tiger; while he believed (like so many leftists of the Glasgow City State) that lives lived collectively were the richer lives of Wolfe Tone's "great and respectable class, the men of no property".
James assures us that it can contribute to the truth of a theological proposition that it has 'a value for concrete life' (1907: 40); and this can occur because the idea of God possesses a majesty which can 'yield religious comfort to a most respectable class of minds' (1907: 40).
However, when he moved to Universal-International Pictures after World War II, he found a more-respectable class of assignments awaiting him.
Damian's family weren't like my family – respectable working-class.
