Sentence examples for trappings of privilege from inspiring English sources

I'm someone who wears the trappings of privilege but doesn't come from a privileged background, so they can't make sense of it.

But Phillips sees only the trappings of privilege.

Books were part of the trappings of privilege, and the Duke continued to accumulate them.

You invert an hourglass when the sand runs out, and the fashion world inverts the social hierarchy when the trappings of privilege lose their glamour.

His generation, says Shah, fits the criteria of a new proletariat, which enjoys the trappings of privilege, but no longer the reality.

Although she was brought up in a middle-class family, the daughter of a Bulgarian entrepreneur, she enjoyed none of the trappings of privilege of the Neves household.

It seemed unbearably cruel that one should dwell in poverty while the other enjoyed the trappings of English privilege.

It was an extraordinary luxury, but it eliminated the trappings of high privilege and even in its rustic furnishings proclaimed an egalitarian spirit.

These are the trappings of his privilege, and also what he sees as his ticket to the next level of prestige.

The flipside of a record like this is that it is impossible not to get involved in long debates about the state of electronic music today, the trappings of ethnic privilege, and cultural appropriation means when an artist is predisposed to create global music.

During the past five years, Tsvangirai and many of his M.D.C. officials — once opposition underdogs, now part of Mugabe's government — have been seen by their countrymen to be enjoying the trappings of power and privilege.