Sentence examples for upbringing far from inspiring English sources

Mr. Hoenig's contrarian disposition partly reflects his Midwest upbringing, far from the Wall Street-Washington axis of influence.

The two men were ferociously ambitious strivers who escaped hardscrabble upbringings far from New York's bright lights and shared a common brio, a love for bridge and, crucially, a deep reluctance to break ties with the firm that had become such a part of their public identities.

Vashti's upbringing was far from conventional.

His upbringing was far from stable: his parents were both married five times.

Although he had come up from the streets in an upbringing as far removed from mine as anyone I knew, I soon came to trust and confide in him".

In the show's first act, much of which has the gosh-golly feel of a black-and-white matinee movie, we're given Feynman's upbringing in Far Rockaway and his studies at M.I.T.,, where he met his mentor, J. Robert Oppenheimer, who brought him to Princeton and subsequently to the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos.

Perhaps I relate to Bethenny because her upbringing was far from ideal.

Social and economic context is clearly relevant to political views but income, race, and upbringing are far from determinative.

But his universal-secular upbringing makes it far from simple".

Granted, their upbringing here is far afield from mine on an Oregon farm.

Her family, appearance, childhood and upbringing are so far not part of the story.