Sentence examples for school upbringing from inspiring English sources

In British English slang, Hooray Henry or Hoorah Henry (plural: Hoorah/Hooray Henrys/Henries) is a pejorative term, comparable to "toff", for an upper class British male who exudes loud-mouthed arrogance and an air of superiority, often flaunting his public school upbringing.

He spent two years in his 20s living with and photographing Indigenous communities in Arnhem Land, a world away from his comfortable private school upbringing on Sydney's north shore.

Davis is also a role model thanks to his state school upbringing, which he shares with Kruse and several other GB team-mates.

"Maybe there's something about being emotional and vulnerable where you want to say the thing that nobody wants to hear," she continued, again conjuring memories of her Catholic-school upbringing.

American men — or boys — trying to follow in Roddick's footsteps include Jordan Cox, whose home-school upbringing was the subject of an article on Monday.

For Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, it is a lesson that not even his Catholic-school upbringing could have taught: When you are the state's top elected official, even the most innocent scheduling conflict can assume a life of its own.

At first, she told her life story (sub-session one) in 10 minutes (upbringing, schooling, travels, higher education, family activities).

However, language preference, mode of communication, and identities/cultural affiliation (culturally Deaf, culturally hearing, bicultural) vary within the deaf population [ 15] due to factors such as experiences interacting with deaf and hearing individuals, amount of residual hearing, upbringing, and school setting [ 16], such that spoken English is some individuals' primary language.

His religious schooling and upbringing is reflected in his deeply spiritual writings and his resort to the Bible for some of his poems, which reflects the strong hold it had upon him.

Only a cynic, surely, would suggest that Nick Clegg's public school background and upper-middle-class upbringing chip away at his credentials to be the British Obama.

Going to school amplified the discord of my unconventional family upbringing.