The Tory high command has started to look like a leisure class instead of an officer class.
Of course there's always Thorstein Veblen's explanation: "conspicuous consumption, " propounded in his 1899 classic, The Theory of the Leisure Class.
Early dandies, denizens of the leisure class, spent buckets on personal style, investing hours to achieve an effect of spotless nonchalance.
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Among the leisure class, the hearty sparkler assumed another name: black Champagne.
The foundation of this plan is a growing leisure class of retired people with ample savings and limitless time and means for travel.
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Economist and social critic Thorstein Veblen took a crack at it in The Theory of the Leisure Class, the 1899 classic that wryly posited the theory of "conspicuous consumption, " his phrase for keeping up with the Joneses.
The Parkers' own story began in 1883, as America was just beginning to develop a middle class with time for leisure pursuits.
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Yet his intuition about the leisure tastes of the budding Thai middle class was dead-on.
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Maccarinelli was certainly a class above American challenger LaMontagne at the Bridgend Leisure Centre.
In China, the disposable income of middle-class families is more likely to be spent on education than leisure or entertainment.
Miss Werner was a woman of leisure, well-spoken, and had been given a good education by her middle-class parents.
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