Sentence examples for upper-class origins from inspiring English sources

Sher plays down the fatness to emphasise the knight's upper-class origins.

Spurning his upper-class origins, he gravitated toward the margins of society and played regularly in nightclubs; his use of ragtime, jazz and popular dance styles was remarkably idiomatic, more so than in any music of the time except Milhaud's.

Kahn believed that the SDS students were "elitist", being overly critical of labor unions and liberals, and attributed upper-class origins and Ivy-league schooling to them, according to Port-Huron activist Todd Gitlin, who observes that Kahn was the son of a "manual laborer".

Our finding for mothers living in colonias may not be the case for middle- and upper-class Mexican-origin and Latina women.

By the time 20-year-old Roiphe ran into Richardson again, in 1956, he was studying philosophy at Columbia and developing into an alcoholic, and he had acquired an upper-class British accent that concealed his humble origins in Queens.

As far as most people knew, it might have been true; the avant-garde was full of bourgeois and upper-class exiles, and Man Ray was not exactly forthcoming about his origins.

Distinctly upper-class, Mr Abhisit hails from a wealthy family of Thai-Chinese origin.

Mr. Lauren, in essence, made an upper-class aura accessible to everyone, from Hollywood starlets and hip-hop artists to countless people of humble origins and means.

I watch upper-class reality!

The first is his upper-class background.

He had an upper-class Connecticut upbringing.