They abhorred the claims of superiority that tended to be the hallmark of the aristocracy.
They have all married outside the aristocracy, making them more accessible and relevant to younger subjects.
Family fall-outs, parents nagging, clashes with the aristocracy and parties while mother's away are all detailed.
After all it was entrepreneurship, not celebrity or aristocracy that brought the pair together.
George Plimpton was born into what is regarded as aristocracy in the United States.
Rather as Romans aspired to Greek virtues, the new Barbarian aristocracy aspired to live like Romans.
Their acceptance as leading figures in rock aristocracy came in the late 1990s.
Montezemolo comes from old Piedmontese aristocracy and his family tree is heavy with generals, cardinals and surgeons.
Austen's stories are those of the middle class, the gentry, and not the upper class, the aristocracy.
The Tories, with long-standing connections to the aristocracy, have traditionally been less than enthusiastic about Lords reform.
Far from creating an aristocracy of communications, a good edit could hold us all to a higher standard.
On the whole, male members of the aristocracy gave gems, while their female counterparts gave elaborately decorated clothing.
If royalty and aristocracy would accept the new beliefs, and thus give a lead, so much the better.
Gone is the old aristocracy, which lived off the labor of slaves to support its life of comfort.
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His replacement of the traditional ruling class with a foreign aristocracy also caused much resentment among the English nobility.
After the Bolsheviks took power, Russian aristocracy and intelligentsia also headed to London.
The aristocracy might be selfish and sometimes cruel, but it's also witty, cultivated, mannerly and effortlessly elegant and self-assured.
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Rising in three generations from artisan to high middle class, the Bells were beginning to marry into the aristocracy.
It became fashionable among the British aristocracy to copy the French and eat a light meal in the evening.
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One commentator says that Republicans have "traded in country-club aristocracy for pitchfork populism".
The only ones losing wealth were the aristocracy, who depended on their titles to extract money from those who worked.
The settlers formed an aristocracy, but it was one which educated indigenous people could join, by talent or by marriage.
Ray Madoff of Boston College Law School fears they will help create a new aristocracy with access to tax-free, creditor-proof wealth.
At the time, production was limited and bottles were so expensive that they were mainly bought and consumed by the aristocracy.
They abolished the aristocracy and divested 11 families of imperial status, considerably shrinking the pool from which future emperors could be drawn.
Walk north to explore Samcheong-dong, the last refuge of hanok, wooden courtyard houses with tiled roofs built by the aristocracy before WWII.
There was no aristocracy and no legally-enforced class distinctions men (and much later women) could rise to the level of their talents.
Alienated from both the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie, the young men were left to perceive the world through the lens of their loneliness.
French revolutionaries used it first to distinguish the common man from the reviled aristocracy, then to enforce their reign of terror on both.
Davenport claims to be a lord but he is not listed in Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, which is a reference of the British aristocracy.
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