Sentence examples for the upper orders from inspiring English sources

Coming disproportionately from the upper orders, the leaders gave the movement respectability.

It was the upper orders in society rather than the industrial bourgeoisie or the lower classes that first shook off archaic beliefs and took up Enlightenment ideas.

"Oh, don't go, darling, it's so noisy") and observes that all the regional characters and even the working classes seem to speak in the Received Pronunciation of the upper orders.

In "White Chocolate" (directed by David Schweizer, at the Century Center for the Performing Arts), William Hamilton, whose cartoons on these pages have been exposing the folly of the upper orders for decades, turns his appetite for caprice on Brandon and Deborah Beale, two Park Avenue social climbers.

In "Dress to Kill," for instance, he goes into a tiff about the stiffness of British movies between the thirties and the fifties ("Darling, I'm off to the war". "Oh, don't go, darling, it's so noisy") and observes that all the regional characters and even the working classes seem to speak in the Received Pronunciation of the upper orders.

The expense of dyes such as kermes and cochineal – brighter and less muddy than the prehistoric shades – meant it was economically restricted to the upper orders, before sumptuary laws enforced that practice and red became part of formal dress for the aristocracy.

So the upper order had hardly purred along.

There is a straw-house feel to the upper order, with the lower ranks contributing a higher percentagethan is healthy.

Despite the travails of the upper order Buttler was still able to score at a strike rate of 117.

Against England, Johnson terrorised the tail brilliantly; against South Africa the upper order has been nonplussed as well.

He has dictated that he should bat at No4 – even when the upper order has been disrupted by injuries.