Sentence examples for wealthy characters from inspiring English sources
With the exception of Henry James, most nineteenth-century novelists — be they Balzac, Dickens or Dostoyevsky — have disdained their wealthy characters, tending to burden them with equal parts animal cunning and moral laxity.
Its leading proponent was Mallet-Stevens, was was designing country houses for Poiret and the art collectors Charles and Marie-Laure de Noailles, when L'Herbier asked him to devise homes for a couple of wealthy characters in "L'Inhumaine".
The wealthy characters in the novel were "completely shallow," he said, precisely the sort of "ineffable lightweights" who would have been unable to resist the temptation to join a crowd rushing into a stockmarket, and would accordingly have paid the price in the 1929 crash.
(On MTV in late October, there was Paris Hilton on "My New BFF" directing a bevy of competitors to make the best commercial for one of her products — "Sex always sells!") The wealthy characters on the shows will probably be a little less wealthy, but they won't be moving in with their parents, and they might not even curb their spending.
One slice of his fortune--the Time Warner Center--was the subject of a New York Times investigation in 2015; the Times found that the skyscraper has become a home for some shady, if undeniably wealthy, characters.
Perched high on a hill on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, this 25,000-square-foot discotheque is the summer magnet for such celebrities as Denzel Washington and Mike Tyson, as well as for wealthy characters like media mogul Silvio Berlusconi and steel conglomerator Lakshmi Mittal.
But the playwright defeats the chance to score points against the rich, because the only wealthy character, Sostratos, Myrrhine's suitor, is a sweet and sensitive man.
A wealthy character implies that they're rich and successful solely through their own hard work, without the help of talented employees or nepotism (despite the fact that the railroad Dagny and James Taggart run has been in their family for generations, no doubt making their family fabulously wealthy).
Phileas Fogg, fictional character, a wealthy, eccentric Englishman who wagers that he can travel around the world in 80 days in Jules Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).
Loë, a Holocaust survivor and former patient of Sigmund Freud, and her grandson Jules, a wealthy, eccentric recluse, are pivotal characters.
He's Latrell Spencer, a wealthy, Sean character character who develops a crush on Marcus, the smaller of the two agents and slightly more credible in his miniskirts.
