Sentence examples for rigid class from inspiring English sources

Mr. Fayed has tended to portray himself as an outsider, battling Britain's rigid class system.

In that elbows-rubbing environment, rigid class hierarchies enforced by military rulers loosened up.

At the business end of Hollywood -- on the set -- a rigid class system rules.

There is a rigid class system, status being based on age and wealth.

Andersen was born in a slum and had a difficult battle breaking through the rigid class structure of his time.

"People think there's a rigid class system here, but dukes have even been known to marry chorus girls.

Rigid, class-bound hierarchy can't possibly happen in America, because look, there it is in Britain.

Among other things, it provides enough headroom for a lord wearing a coronet to enter without bowing his head--an important point in England's rigid, class-bound society.

Like those earlier novels, "O-Zone" takes place sometime in the near future, a future in which some of our worst fears have been realized: society has been stratified into rigid classes, and while various forms of decadence flourish, real freedom is nonexistent.

Their love of costume dramas reflected "the values of the narrow elite" in which "strangulated English accents dominate dramas played out in rigid, class-structured settings".

The end of Britain's empire in the 1950s and 1960s, coupled with the gradual erosion of once-rigid class divides, have cast the country loose from the old anchors, and left many people in a restless search for new certainties, new sources of identity and pride.