Sentence examples for rich sitting from inspiring English sources

The people on Wall Street in particular — they got greedy and they got rich, sitting in their Park Avenue penthouses, gazing down unbenignly on the benighted.

The series is as transparent as its inspiration – a Tumblr blog called Rich Kids of Instagram, featuring photos of the offspring of the rich sitting in private jets and whatever else constitutes their daily business.

And soon people, grown men and women I'm telling you, people were crying at the beauty.... Then she finished, Callas finished, just the first aria, and there was a pause like a single cumulative breath, a pulse, and then the audience -- three thousand men and women, the rich sitting, the middle-class standing, the poor at home listening on their radios -- the audience couldn't contain itself...

Remember, he didn't get rich by sitting around watching TV.

THE rich are sitting firmly in the public cross hairs, especially as the economy continues to stumble.

Thanks to his policies, shareholders and corporate executives become stupendously rich by sitting in the current with their mouths open.

And nobody ever got seriously rich by sitting on their bottoms, awaiting their pay cheques and feeling wise after the event.

"I've come all this way to watch rich idiots sitting there in luxury," said Patrick Steu, who made the trip from Austria specially for the party.

And here is Alec Guinness, a British robber in rich retirement, sitting at a table, grinning a complacent grin and declaring his attachment to the Latin high life in that thin, high, gurgling voice.

Rothko's project for the Four Seasons was to create an anti-architecture that scorned the rational order of Mies van der Rohe's building, that tormented the "rich bastards" sitting down to a civilised lunch.

Two rich Arabs sitting in a coffee house in Riyadh counting their money from oil wealth can have an impact on the price of gold.