Sentence examples for smart privileged from inspiring English sources

But all of it sounds like what smart, privileged young people, flirting in a foreign country, might say to one another as they turned themselves inside out, dying to make an impression.

It told the story of Frances Babyy" Houseman, a smart, privileged but gauche 17-year-old, who is spending her summer holiday with her family at the mountain resort of Kellerman's.

We vaguely remember Woody Allen being sniffy (or was it snippy?) about smart, privileged Bennington girls in one of his films, so that should disabuse anyone of the idea that Molly, Alexandra and Amelia (there's a clue right there in those names) are hillbillies.

— welshmx, alaska I say good for her – I hope these smart, wealthy privileged women keep talking to themselves – and then when they are done talking – do something important – like run for President of the United States and win.

"He's a guy who's always had an interest in the extreme — in interesting, envelope-pushing opportunities," said Mr. Seelie's friend, Todd Patrick, a music promoter better known in Brooklyn circles as Todd P. "He's all about showing smart, sometimes privileged, people doing stuff they probably haven't done before.

And I saw some very smart and privileged people behaving irresponsibly". In his application to the Reagan justice department, Alito wrote that his interest in constitutional law was "motivated in large part by disagreement with Warren court decisions... particularly in the area... of reapportionment" - which established the principle of one person, one vote.

A Senior at Mission High School in San Francisco (which did not offer a computer science class), she thought she had to be smarter, more privileged, and be a male to be successful in computer science.

Our expectations are defined by the myth of the founder, and we like to buy into the idea that these be-Crocced geniuses have some all-knowing power, where in fact they were privileged, smart and got lucky.

For most of recent history, linguistic and mathematical ways of "being smart" have been privileged over all others.

Josiah Wedgwood wasn't smarter or more privileged or even luckier than the rest of us.

The effort to raise one or another up as a privileged class is smart politics on the part of those who want elections dominated purely by corporations, but it doesn't point toward any answers for either group.