Sentence examples for upper-class taste from inspiring English sources

Phelim O'Neill In tonight's final instalment, the amiable artist moves among the posh to explore the flavour of upper-class taste with his brain-tongue.

The drawing room exuded a sort of Victorian upper-class taste — Persian rugs, carved chairs, a gilt-framed portrait of a fair-skinned woman in a flouncy dress, holding a chubby baby.

Is it fair to say that compared with someone like Ralph Lauren, who mainstreamed upper-class taste, you belong more to the Pottery Barn tradition of making clean design affordable?

Most notably, he compiled narrative songs for six p'ansori cycles, recasting them in a style that would suit upper-class tastes.

Even art that appealed primarily (in his opinion) to "upper class" tastes, such as the symphonies of Beethoven and the operas of Richard Wagner, were condemned as "false art".

There was nothing very remarkable about the oast houses – despite Restoration Man George Clarke trying to talk them up – nor about the conversion, which was done with minimal fuss and exquisite upper-class good taste.

Merton was an upper-class kid with a taste for mysticism who, in his 20's, decided that his literary métier would be autobiography.

I would imagine that Cameron is far too upper-class for Neil's taste but he gives a cleverly formulated answer when asked if Cameron is too posh to appeal to ordinary voters.

Taking its place in a long line of upper-class pranks in terrible taste, the Dreadnought hoax occurred on 7 February 1910, when a party of Abyssinian princes and their Foreign Office guides arrived, with little advance warning, for a tour of HMS Dreadnought, the most advanced battleship of its age.

A brief "liberalisation" period ended in 1980 after he married a domineering, upper-class woman with extravagant tastes.

A TOUCH OF CLASS Eichlers appealed to those with "upper-middle-class taste but lower-middle-class incomes," joked the developer's son, who lives in Marin and prefers less modern architecture.