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"aristocrat" Definitions
  1. a member of the aristocracy

376 Sentences With "aristocrat"

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Later there were pirates, runaways, smugglers and the occasional aristocrat.
"She overdid the bit of playing princess," sniffs one English aristocrat.
According to one user, the fonts used are 'Manzanita' and 'Aristocrat'.
Jackson's campaign countered that Adams was an aristocrat, kingly and pompous.
I thought that the best thing is to be an aristocrat.
The race began after a local aristocrat banned bullfighting in 1590.
How many times have I been a peasant or an aristocrat?
A tiny drunken alien aristocrat, complete with monocle. BB-8. R2-D2.
First, it is the aristocrat among churches, and a church for aristocrats.
It had previously been owned by German aristocrat Prinz Wilhelm von Thurn.
Although he wasn't an aristocrat, he felt he deserved to be one.
They acquired all of Aristocrat that year and renamed the company Chess.
The 1962 Aristocrat trailer features brightly painted cabinets and colorful wall hangings ...
The first and most outlandish was an English aristocrat named Moreton Frewen.
But his honorable performance was ill-matched to Mr. Grigolo's hotheaded aristocrat.
De la Fayette was a French aristocrat who aided Americans during the war.
As the Belgian aristocrat at Maastricht observed, where homosexuals led, metrosexuals are following.
The title was bestowed when she married Polish aristocrat, Prince Stanislaw Albrecht Radziwill.
Gottfried was a Saxon aristocrat, the third son of Burchard Baron von Cramm.
"The aristocrat of soft fruit," the British food writer Jane Grigson once wrote.
But this air of being a cartoonish aristocrat is in large part schtick.
Franklin Roosevelt, the most successful populist of the past century, was an aristocrat.
And I thought to be an artist is like to be an aristocrat.
Marries English aristocrat Justin Portman, and gives birth to their son Lucas Portman.
The newly elected son is a "young, entitled aristocrat", says one FA leader.
Poly's mom Joanne was white and her dad was a dispossessed Somali aristocrat.
Throughout Annabelle Neilson's life, the reality star and British aristocrat faced hardship and turmoil.
The enigmatic aristocrat disappeared in 1974 after his children's nanny was murdered in London.
Istvan Palffy, a 23-year-old aristocrat, was freed from prison by the revolution.
Carmen Cusack will feature as the muse of a former Russian aristocrat turned painter. .
By any yardstick, Mr. Bush was an aristocrat, a product of moneyed Greenwich, Conn.
Grint plays a member of a once-financially successful British aristocrat family, Charlie Cavendish-Scott.
Aristocrat also offers a grilled, non-breaded (sacrilegious) version for (slightly) more health-conscious customers.
Two other options were the Aristocrat and the Blue Ribbon Burger, but both were nixed.
They include a Connecticut slave, a Seneca warrior, a British aristocrat and an Albany shoemaker.
The aristocrat, Richard John Bingham, the seventh Earl of Lucan, was declared the killer in 1975.
On his beautifully cut dark suit, a Belgian aristocrat had pinned a Cartier art-deco brooch.
Originally, it was named The Aristocrat, presumably because of its deluxe status on the McDonald's menu.
Before the islands' official independence, British aristocrat Colin Tennant bought Mustique for £45,000 (around $1,254,000 today).
Pleasants was certainly not an aristocrat, and was in fact the son of a Norfolk gamekeeper.
He looked down on her pious mother, Varvara Stepanovna Perovskaya, as being a mere provincial aristocrat.
Aristocrat Leisure expects the acquisition to be earnings accretive in the first full year of ownership.
Look, everyone on these ghost-hunting shows wants to bang the spirit of 19th century aristocrat.
This started to change when an aristocrat named Publius Claudius Pulcher was elected tribune in 58 BCE.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN, the French aristocrat who founded the modern Olympics, was seduced by the world's fair.
The Marquis de Sade was a French aristocrat, revolutionary, and writer of incredibly pornographic and sadistic literature.
Héloïse is an aristocrat whose mother is trying to marry her off to a stranger in Milan.
Ever the gentleman, this enlightened aristocrat sincerely wishes he could pin the killing on some outraged husband.
The other was the Italian aristocrat who owned the Renaissance villa where the film is being made.
I visited another aristocrat then, he was head of Sotheby's, and he invited me to his castle.
And had any been born an aristocrat, it wouldn't have trafficked in such painstaking visions of glamour.
Green was a silver-spoon aristocrat, but his ear for common speech was as keen as Dickens's.
This one, at first glance, couldn't be more different, since its protagonist is a 19th-century aristocrat.
Maximilien, a French aristocrat, looked dapper in a dark suit with a camel-colored vest and blue tie.
The first novel focuses on the charismatic French aristocrat vampire Lestat, who turns into a man named Louis.
Consumer discretionary stocks also accumulated profits, with Aristocrat Leisure Ltd surging 4.3 percent to its highest ever level.
And since "The Aristocrat" is slightly outside my budget, I'd say it's about time we brought them together.
Aristocrat had begun recording some of the black blues singers who had moved to Chicago from the South.
He just celebrated the birth of his first child with his wife, a British aristocrat and accomplished lawyer.
In fact, Con Ed is the only utility to have made it to the coveted Dividend Aristocrat list.
Ayaka also notes that a Heian-era aristocrat reportedly died from diabetes, caused by eating too much so.
Here, under the baton of Valery Gergiev, he is effortlessly intense, a wounded aristocrat in presence and sound.
" Read the cover story: "Rembrandt in the Blood: An Obsessive Aristocrat, Rediscovered Paintings and an Art-World Feud.
Over the next decade, he traveled America and impersonated an aristocrat fallen on hard times after the war.
Li Guofu's great grandmother was a Russian aristocrat who married a Han Chinese man who worked in her village.
Maxim Trevelyan is a handsome English aristocrat who's never had to work hard for anything, including women and money.
Lockwood reads "string quartet" and makes a cat's cradle, "penniless" and thinks of copper, "aristocrat" and sees a cravat.
Casa Relvas takes its name from Carlos Relvas, a wealthy Portuguese aristocrat born in November of 1838 in Golegã.
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo's portrait of aristocrat Diego Ortiz de Zúñiga (ca 1655) went on display at the Frick Collection.
An aristocrat, an upstanding military man, debased to cheating on a chintzy gameshow by the weight of the world.
Nestle traces modern attempts to understand food and energy back to a French aristocrat and chemist named Antoine Lavoisier.
An aristocrat La Rochefoucauld certainly was, and looked the way a member of the French nobility ought to look.
Jenny Marx is a rebellious Prussian aristocrat; Engels's wife, Mary Burns (Hannah Steele), is a rebellious Irish factory worker.
Ryan's ex has discovered some kind of wormhole (I know, I know) and accidentally imported an aristocrat from 1876.
She may play an aristocrat on screen, but not even Michelle Dockery was immune to Kate Middleton's royal charm!
In 2017, a British aristocrat was sent to prison for 12 weeks, for racially aggravated threats towards the businesswoman.
Aristocrat will fund the acquisition of Big Fish Games via existing cash and an incremental $890 million loan facility.
Taking the stage in an ensemble fit for an 18th-century aristocrat, Cabello paid homage to multiple iconic women.
He still holds anti-aristocrat ideals and was last spotted becoming friendly with one of Lady Edith's editor friends.
Prince Georgi Lvov, a middle-aged aristocrat, became the prime minister, but he was generally seen as a figurehead.
After his father died, his mother, whose family discouraged her from becoming an opera singer, remarried a wealthy British aristocrat.
"Short sellers don't think SKT will remain an aristocrat for long with 40% of its float held short," Geisdorf said.
De Lesseps married her first husband, European aristocrat Count Alexandre de Lesseps, in 251 after only two weeks of dating.
Still, her portrayal of the Marschallin, the pensive Austrian aristocrat at the heart of "Der Rosenkavalier," had a valedictory air.
Recalling how she felt like an "aristocrat," Morrison believed she was smarter and took it for granted she was wiser.
He dressed well, rode a motorcycle, and cared about style and high culture—"an apprentice aristocrat," as Katz described him.
THE SABOTEUR The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando By Paul Kix 304 pp. Harper/HarperCollins. $27.99.
"It's literally the Garden of Eden," Mr. Teyssou said, referring to the garden's onetime owner, the English aristocrat Frederic Eden.
It is believed to have been commissioned around 1570 by a British aristocrat expecting occasional visits from Queen Elizabeth I.
So tilt back a glass of eggnog this season, and channel the posh holiday spirit of a wealthy British aristocrat.
Urban legends would have us believe that the first restaurant was opened post-Revolution by the former chef of an aristocrat.
The sculpture was completed in Rome, then exhibited in Dublin and purchased by an English aristocrat for his home in Gloucestershire.
But it was the figure of Holmes, the old soldier and enlightened aristocrat, who gave the movement its legitimacy and inspiration.
With his belly curving out of his white waistcoat, he looks like a well-fed, brainless aristocrat from the 19th century.
Toll road operator Transurban Group and consumer stock Aristocrat Leisure were among other drags, down 1.7 percent and 2.7 percent, respectively.
Gains in the consumer sector were driven by a 73 percent rise in the shares of gaming machine maker Aristocrat Leisure .
At the monthly meetings, he sits at the same table as the aristocrat Beatrix von Storch and Alice Weidel, a professor.
But then came Mr. Xi, a high-carat Red Aristocrat whose father was a senior leader during the republic's early years.
"But there is something yet to be said of propriety and impropriety of writing," Socrates says to the titular Athenian aristocrat.
A career soldier and son of a disgraced aristocrat, Fawcett is anxious to change his fortunes and increase his social standing.
Mr. Patinkin, 64, will inherit Mr. Groban's role of Pierre, a hard-drinking, bitter aristocrat who plays piano and accordion onstage.
King Louis XV ordered several accomplished aristocrat hunters to go to the region, lead hunting parties, and kill the alleged beast.
In the United States, one of the most significant figures in the new movement was the Prussian aristocrat Baron Hans von Berlepsch.
In this show, Charles's father is an arrogant, one-dimensional aristocrat who can hardly wait to return to a life of luxury.
Consumer discetionary and energy stocks were the biggest drags on the benchmark index, with gambling machine maker Aristocrat Leisure shedding 1.1 percent.
The aristocrat started her morning with French pastries in bed at her hotel – just a stone's throw from Paris's famed Champs-Elysses.
Consumer discretionary stocks dropped 2.563 percent, with gaming machine maker Aristocrat Leisure fell 4.4 percent to its lowest close since Jan. 12.
The hallway leads directly to a long bar area and a large white-tiled kitchen with a 1950s O'Keefe & Merritt Aristocrat stove.
Ms. Hargrave loves the game Castles of Burgundy, but pretending to be an aristocrat in high medieval France isn't exactly her thing.
In January, for example, the chronically financially strapped museum invited a wealthy German aristocrat to be honored at its 50th anniversary gala.
The aristocrat (a still-new Hugh Jackman) is living in the ex's apartment, trying to figure out how to work the toaster.
The countertenor Iestyn Davies has made his career as a Handelian, but in "The Exterminating Angel" he plays an arrogant, idle aristocrat.
Synopsis: An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.
Emmanuel de Merode, the Belgian aristocrat who runs the park, closed it to tourists for eight months while he beefed up security.
Could he now act well enough to play Pierre, the unhappy Russian aristocrat who would be onstage for most of the show?
Part of the joke, of course, is that a rock-and-roll aristocrat like Simon would be among the werewolf's first victims.
In place of a provincial toughie known as "The Demolition Man", Italy has acquired an affable Roman aristocrat with a preference for compromise.
Her nemesis: Alexander Gauland, a traditionalist with the grand air of a British aristocrat, who had helped her defenestrate the moderate Mr Lucke.
British aristocrat Sir Benjamin Slade is looking to welcome a new woman into Maunsel House, his famous 13th-century manor in Somerset, England.
"The sector has been beaten up but it's a dividend aristocrat," Ablin, who did not specifically discuss Dimon, told "Power Lunch" on Thursday.
The wife of a devoted elderly aristocrat, trapped among "provincial, dreary, unrefined people," seeks diversion in the arms of an abusive local policeman.
In this sly story, an aristocrat spends 30 years under house arrest in a Moscow hotel while the Soviet empire rises around him.
Kick's namesake is President John F. Kennedy's sister Kick, who died in a plane crash when she was engaged to a British aristocrat.
Mary, whose engagement to the French aristocrat has been broken off following her attack, gives Claire a letter clearing Alex of all charges.
The book, "Adolf Hitler: His Life and His Speeches," was credited to Baron Adolf Victor von Koerber, a German aristocrat and war hero.
The costume designer Jenny Tiramani did meticulous research to create the silk velvet gown that an Elizabethan aristocrat in mourning would have worn.
Like Towles's prose, his central character, an aristocrat, is refined, radiantly witty and all the more compelling for being utterly out of place.
Aristocrat Leisure Ltd reversed from a record high to fall 5.2 percent and was one of the biggest percentage losers on the index.
Aristocrat recently acquired social gaming company Plarium Global Ltd for $500 million in cash in a bid to expand its social casino business.
The other restored work is the Hispanic Society's portrait of Camillo Astalli-Pamphili, a Roman aristocrat whose connections got him into the church.
" She wrote in her book "Mon Secret" about the experience, when "my father, this banker, this aristocrat put his sex in my mouth.
That's right—the homecoming of Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou, the Spanish aristocrat who claims he should be the next king of France.
There were various rumors circulated in the colonies that this or that European aristocrat might be plotting to gain power in the United States.
What started in 1923 as a race for small European manufacturers and aristocrat drivers evolved into a proving ground for the world's biggest carmakers.
Thomas Middleditch, the actor who plays Hendricks, is thirty-seven and gangly, with downturned Windows-blue eyes and the moguly nose of an aristocrat.
The epithet derives from a short story of the early 20th century in which an aristocrat called Zhao humiliates a sort of Chinese Everyman.
A hundred and fifty years before Robert was even born, an aristocrat called Corwen Baratheon married a woman named Leyne and had six kids.
Following her divorce from Canfield, Lee married the Polish aristocrat Prince Stanislaw Albrecht Radziwill, with whom she had two children: Anna Christina and Anthony.
This preening young aristocrat is so blatantly shallow, selfish and manipulative that he doesn't seem to warrant a tumble much less a mortal sacrifice.
He is an aristocrat, and he was bred by his father in all the fine arts of modern statecraft like clasping claws with thugs.
In the 120 years since Baron Pierre de Coubertin, a French aristocrat, revived the Greek games in 1896, there have been bans and boycotts.
In the original ballet, a young peasant girl, Giselle, is seduced by an aristocrat, Count Albrecht, who is pretending to be a humble countryman.
George H.W. Bush was both a Maine aristocrat and a Texas oilman, his eldest son George a Sunbelt capitalist and a born-again Christian.
He added that star soprano Anna Netrebko, who played young aristocrat Maddalena di Coigny - a role once played by diva Maria Callas - was "superlative".
The apparent snub came after a series of scandals about Juan Carlos' private life, including his relationship with German aristocrat Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein.
CAIRO Girault was an aristocrat from a conservative stretch of northeast France, and he relied on a tidy inheritance to pay for his travels.
In the early 1990s, after marrying a Turinese aristocrat with whom she now has two sons, Ms. Sandretto Re Rebaudengo started collecting contemporary art.
At 19, the young aristocrat met the 11th Prince of Thurn und Taxis, the 53-year-old Johannes, before a Supertramp concert in Munich.
The result is what Malik calls a "musical tragedy," which follows a group of revolutionaries planning the murder of a Russian aristocrat in 1905.
As it turns out, Hooten is a cynical American adventurer, and the Lady is an idealistic British aristocrat who works for the British Museum.
"I just loved the idea of a rebellious gun-toting aristocrat ditching a life of luxury for a life of high-octane adventure," she said.
Unlike Brahe, who was a wealthy aristocrat, Kepler was always hard up, and he avoided working with his hands, an unlikely combination for an alchemist.
Ostensibly more serious fare: "Me Before You" is the story of a romance between a paralyzed aristocrat and the woman hired to keep him company.
Kostin also highlighted two exchange-traded funds that track high-dividend payers: the iShares Select Dividend ETF and the ProShares S&P Dividend Aristocrat ETF.
As an aristocrat without money, and a Pole whose homeland was Lithuania, Milosz could not wholeheartedly embrace any of the political identities swirling around him.
Jefferson was a Virginia aristocrat whose first election to the colonial legislature at age 26 was an easy trot to home plate from third base.
But there's also a more conservative version in which Robin is the rightful Earl of Locksley, an aristocrat who's been wrongly driven from his estates.
In the real world, a young woman is far more likely to debate a friendly mansplainer than win over an aloof-but-secretly-decent aristocrat.
The 2012 French dramedy "The Intouchables," about an unlikely friendship between an uptight aristocrat with paraplegia and an employee, was a box-office sensation overseas.
The revival of what was banned as a pagan festival in the fourth century is largely attributed to Baron Pierre de Coubertin, a French aristocrat.
F.D.R. was an aristocrat before he contracted polio, I told another over drinks, reluctantly sliding over a well-worn volume about how suffering transformed him.
Using the resources he had as a Danish aristocrat, he was able to build the biggest pre-telescopic devices of his time and made careful observations.
He very easily could have been a stable boy or a random shop owner or the aristocrat who lives next door to Carmen's slave-having hacienda.
Geisdorf called Tanger the "outlet mall aristocrat" since it's part of a group companies — SDY components — that has raised its dividend for at least 20 years.
De Lesseps, often referred to as "the Countess," married her first husband, European aristocrat Count Alexandre de Lesseps, in 1993 after only two weeks of dating.
One of its founders, and its most influential member, was Alain de Benoist, a hermetic aristocrat and scholar who has written more than a hundred books.
It's a promising title given that Sigmund Freud treated a patient whom he called the Wolf Man, a constipated Russian aristocrat who dreamed of white wolves.
The Polish aristocrat was nearly 20 years her senior and they had two children, Prince Anthony Radziwill (who died in 1999) and Princess Anna Christina Radziwill.
As a boy, Eisenheim forms a deep bond with Sophie, the daughter of an aristocrat, but is torn away from her when their friendship is discovered.
Aristocrat shares have outperformed major peers like Ainsworth Game Technology and Crown Resorts in 2018 on great expectations from its foray into the mobile gaming space.
L'Inconnue has been imagined in literature as a victim: an orphan who drowns herself in the Seine after an English aristocrat seduces and then abandons her.
The Sixes are part of Dutch nobility, but as a teenager he "tried not to be an aristocrat," his close friend David van Ede told me.
French schoolchildren, for instance, are all taught the famed Revolutionary cartoons depicting the oppressed peasant crushed under the combined weight of the priest and the aristocrat.
When British aristocrat Charles Rogers died in August 2018, it was believed there was no heir to inherit his sprawling $183 million country estate in Cornwall, England.
Power is unequally distributed: Pamela is a woman with no family of standing to protect her, Mr B is a wealthy aristocrat and justice of the peace.
What really ended the passionate—and illicit—love affair between Marie-Antoinette of France and the handsome Swedish aristocrat who may have fathered two of her children?
The young aristocrat was on his way to class at London's Regent's University, where he was studying for a BA in International Business, when he was killed.
It was not until 264 B.C.E. that the first documented gladiator contest took place in Rome at the funeral games held in honor of aristocrat Brutus Pera.
Carlos Falcó, a Spanish aristocrat whose family runs the Marqués de Griñón wine estate, recently began lobbying politicians to help shift this region away from bulk wine.
Whether you believe that the Olympics represent the best of humanity or a travesty of doping and commercialization, you can credit a French aristocrat with their existence.
As they had done during the First Continental Congress a year earlier, the delegates selected Virginia's esteemed aristocrat Peyton Randolph to preside over the proceedings as president.
Edie Sedgwick, the tragic Warhol superstar and aristocrat who was the subject of her book, "touched so many worlds," Ms. Stein said in a 1982 radio interview.
It blends the romance between the son of an oyster farmer and the daughter of an aristocrat with a criminal investigation into the disappearance of several tourists.
When Saint Phalle entered the asylum, in the early nineteen-fifties, she was a twenty-two-year-old wife, mother, erstwhile fashion model, and lapsed French aristocrat.
Below, their selfies and ancient doppelgängers — from more unknown women and men to the Syrian aristocrat Ahata — speak to the farcical failures of this facial recognition experiment.
When he revived the modern Olympic Games in 1113, the French aristocrat Baron Pierre de Coubertin looked forward to a future of harmony and understanding between nations.
Unlike most slots cheats, he didn't appear to tinker with any of the machines he targeted, all of which were older models manufactured by Aristocrat Leisure of Australia.
In addition to his good looks and nobility, the young aristocrat was a scholar at the University of Edinburgh and is often seen attending society events in London.
But now, according to some newly discovered documents from von Koerber's estate, Hitler did more than coerce the aristocrat into penning a bio—he did it for him.
But there's more to Louis than his royal relations and handsome looks — the British aristocrat has reportedly studied at the University of Edinburgh, according to the Daily Mail.
Lady Ottoline Morrell, a British aristocrat and a frequent hostess of the Bloomsbury group of writers, had a silver medieval ring she thought might have belonged to Joan.
Happy as Lazzaro: NETFLIX FILM Ordinary teen Lazzaro is content with life as a sharecropper in rural Italy, but a visit from the aristocrat landowner's son changes everything.
Pinchot Meyer, daughter of Amos Pinchot, a wealthy Progressive lawyer, and Ruth Pickering Pinchot, a writer and activist, "was a true American aristocrat, the beautiful daughter," says Burleigh.
In the crucial passage a naive young aristocrat, Charles Egremont, observes that Britain, then at the height of her imperial grandeur, is the "greatest nation that ever existed".
We all want to come here and meet some amazing French guy, make love in some chambre de bonne and then fall in love with some European aristocrat.
To cap it off, the THCheese crew treats us to a curated paring where Abdullah learns how to pair wine, weed, and fancy edibles like a true aristocrat.
Mr. Mitchell said he viewed himself as an African-American man with the formation of a Russian aristocrat because of his connection to the Russian-born George Balanchine.
Six feet six inches tall, with a shock of sand-colored hair, chivalrous to a fault, athletic and handsome, Mr. Givenchy was the epitome of a French aristocrat.
Pierre de Coubertin, the French aristocrat who revived the modern Olympics in the 1890s, referred to "the noble spirit of chivalry" as the foundation for sport and society.
The play opens in a nursery once inhabited by Lyubov Andreevna, an aristocrat who's returning to her family's country estate, which is on the brink of being sold.
Her roles have included a orderly in a sanitarium in Quills, a World War II-era love interest in Engima, and of course, the swashbuckling Edwardian aristocrat in Titanic.
The Jacksonians assailed Adams as a fraud and an aristocrat; the Adams side attacked Jackson as a closet Caesar and his wife, Rachel, as a slut and a bigamist.
Lady Lucan — whose aristocrat husband vanished after he attacked her and killed their nanny 40 years ago — died of natural causes in her upscale London home on Wednesday, Sept.
It was true that he had the manners and polish of a Habsburg literary aristocrat: he was fluent in four languages and could read for pleasure in another three.
The then-259-year-old Scotch was believed to be from the estate of 2500th-century aristocrat and sugarbeet magnate William Bayard Cutting; it sold for a cool $453,245.
Note two pianists appearing later in the week, too: an aristocrat of the keys, Nelson Freire, on Wednesday; and a firebrand, Daniil Trifonov, on Thursday (both at 8 p.m.).
If you're a century-old Russian aristocrat or the restless ghost of Tsar Nicolas II, then this is probably some long-overdue good news: Your booze is finally here!
The U.S. Department of Agriculture expects yields to reach a record-high for this crop, which is known as "the aristocrat of wheat" because of its high protein content.
Was the casting of the glossy pop star Josh Groban in the role of Pierre, a gloomy and none-too-dashing aristocrat, merely a cynical move to sell tickets?
Its first wealthy owner was a Parisian aristocrat who would leave bundles of money hanging on a wall and trust stamp sellers to take the amount they were owed.
Her elder daughter Charlotte (Downton Abbey's Jessica Brown Findlay) is reluctantly parlaying her lifelong expertise into a permanent mistress position for a sniveling aristocrat (Fleabag's Hugh Skinner, perfectly cast).
Winston Churchill, the son of a British aristocrat and an American heiress, coined the phrase "special relationship" to describe the ties of blood and language that bind Britain to America.
John Gavin was born Juan Vincent Apablasa on April 21987, 21957 in Los Angeles, the child of a fourth-generation Angeleno descended from Spanish landowners and a Mexican-born aristocrat.
Bertie Wooster, the buffoonish aristocrat whose japes he charted, seems forever to be pinching policemen's helmets, then being rapped across the knuckles by a beak for the cheek of it.
They focus on the works that are their familiar neighbors: the flirty 19th-century aristocrat in pale, green satin and pearls, or the Virgin Mary swooning below a crucified Christ.
According to family lore, he crashed a plane while trying to do a trick for his wife, a minor European aristocrat named Irène Williams, who was watching from the ground.
The 6.7-square-mile town, which was settled in 1701 by English aristocrat Caleb Heathcote, has no shortage of road names that evoke his homeland, including Whig, Tory and Paddington.
Above all, fans of Guadagnino's previous work, "I Am Love" (2009), in which Swinton played an aristocrat who had an affair with a chef, will find much to savor here.
Chatfield is currently a non-executive director of Aristocrat and also serves as the non-executive chairman of Costa Group Ltd, and a non-executive director of Transurban Group Ltd.
He got to see America from the bottom up and the top down, and he got to see it through the eyes of an aristocrat that knew aristocracy was finished.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads BEIRUT — The Sursock Museum is housed in a striking white mansion, built in the early 20th century as the residence of an art-minded aristocrat.
She falls for a super-handsome fellow academic in New York, Nick Young, without knowing that he is a Singaporean aristocrat, heir to its oldest and wealthiest ethnic-Chinese business dynasty.
It tells the story of an artist hired to paint the wedding portrait of a young aristocrat who is reluctant to be married off to a man she has never met.
A day after PEOPLE confirmed that Neilson had passed away at the age of 49, those who knew the former model, reality TV star and British aristocrat are remembering her life.
Here, Von is drawn as a cruel member of the middle aristocracy, because, even though it isn't, I think "Von" very well COULD have been an honorific for a European aristocrat.
In this way, Soares the clerk turns out to be the ultimate aristocrat, who has no need of things like accomplishment and status, because he considers himself infinitely superior to them.
It's always interesting culturally, isn't it, what happens in particular sections of society — like Missy was allowed to wear men's clothing because she was unbelievably rich, and she was an aristocrat.
In the late 19th century, Pierre de Coubertin, a French aristocrat and dropout from the priesthood, found his life's goal: to create a sporting culture that existed separate from political concerns.
But after discussions with Mr. Carroll, it was decided that Olivia, the dignified aristocrat in mourning who falls in love with the cross-dressed Viola, would be a more appropriate choice.
MODERNISM ON THE GANGES: RAGHUBIR SINGH PHOTOGRAPHS Color photography of Calcutta, Bombay and more from the '33s to the '21s from the Rajasthani aristocrat and self-taught photographer. Oct. 10–Jan.
Locke's mother, Mary, provided a tenuously middle-class life for Alain with her salary as a teacher, and raised her son to play the aristocrat from the time he was young.
Mr. Hollein may at first seem a figure of continuity in the mold of his two European predecessors, the British-born Thomas P. Campbell and the French aristocrat Philippe de Montebello.
THE CONVERTBy Stefan Hertmans Vigdis Adelaïs Gudbrandr was born in Rouen in 1070, the daughter of a wealthy Christian family, her mother a Norman aristocrat and her father descended from Vikings.
The bestselling novel by Amor Towles stars Count Alexander Rostov, an aristocrat who is placed on house arrest in a hotel that sits just across from the Kremlin in 1920s Russia.
In fact, the contemporary line that French designer and aristocrat Charlotte Dauphin de la Rochefoucauld founded in 2015 continues to stimulate and surprise with its technical ingenuity and refined architectural aesthetic.
Rating Amor Towles's new novel concerns Count Alexander Rostov, a suave and elegant Russian aristocrat who, in 1922, is sentenced by a Bolshevik tribunal to house arrest in a luxury hotel.
"He had fallen in love with Mallorca, so different in every way to the formality of the royal court Vienna," Douglas says of the Austrian aristocrat, who created the 200-acre property.
An aristocrat of the Allada kingdom (not quite the son of a king as had been legend, Girard concludes) he was captured and sold for 300 pounds of cowrie shells around 1740.
Bruce's argument is that an aristocrat who fled France wouldn't have been wearing a Napoleon-bestowed medal in Russia, especially considering Russian troops were joining Austria in the fight against the general.
There are no directly-comparable listed peers, with companies such as Aristocrat, IGT and Scientific Games specialising in gambling equipment and others such as William Hill and 888 focused on handling bets.
In one case that drew media attention, the 28-year-old son of a British aristocrat was found dead in his cell in 2012 after he was detained during a night out.
A minor aristocrat from Burgundy, the chevalier was sent to Russia as a spy, fought in the Seven Years' War and helped negotiate the treaty that ended war between Britain and France.
But Mr. Najib, a genteel, British-educated aristocrat who became prime minister in 2009, faces no realistic challenge to his authority and is confidently looking ahead to winning re-election in 2018.
Figures like Jacob Rees-Mogg, the detached aristocrat and top Conservative backbencher known for his double-breasted suits and intransigence on a hard Brexit, did not make May's consensus-seeking any easier.
"What an awful thing it will be if I don't come off," wrote a 24-year-old aristocrat, journalist and soldier named Winston Churchill to his mother at the beginning of 1899.
He said we have two classes in the South, but it's not rich and poor, it's white and black, and everybody who's white is an aristocrat, and everybody who's not is not.
"Wish fulfillment," Hollinghurst replied, not altogether persuasively, when I asked him what resources he drew on to create the character of Will, a handsome aristocrat who lives a life consecrated to pleasure.
"Karl liked the recognition," Amanda Harlech, a British aristocrat who was the designer's creative helpmate for decades, said on Thursday before a memorial sponsored by Chanel, Fendi and Karl Lagerfeld, the brand.
"This is a young Trofimovsk with his first wife," a narrator says, as a photo of Eberhardt's father, an anarchist who ran off with Eberhardt mother, a married Russian aristocrat, is shown.
In other notable October transactions, Alexander von Furstenberg, the son of the fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg and the Swiss-born aristocrat Egon von Furstenberg, bought an apartment at 432 Park Avenue.
It is also the county's oldest town, dating to 173, when an English aristocrat, Thomas Pell, bought 9,160 acres from the Siwanoy tribe and named his manor for his tutor, Pelham Burton.
Knowlton's deft narrative, structured around three outsize characters — an English aristocrat, a French nobleman and a future president of the United States — is filled with sharp observations about cowboys and fortune hunters.
According to Café Pushkin's website, the mansion was built by a Saint Petersburg nobleman in the 1780s and later passed to a German aristocrat before becoming a pharmacy and finally, a café.
Though an adoring husband to Delia (Mercedes Morán), an Argentinean aristocrat, he remains a committed orgiast, and slips a hand down the blouse of a typist while Delia is in the room.
The title character is an innocent young Japanese woman who falls into the clutches of men bearing the names Osaka and Kyoto—one a lecherous aristocrat, the other a cynical brothel-keeper.
"Downton Abbey" fans might remember her as Mabel Lane Fox, the drolly acerbic heiress who vied with Lady Mary for the attentions of the less-sexy-than-Matthew-Crawley aristocrat Lord Gillingham.
On "Soap," ABC's prime-time parody of daytime soap operas, which ran from 22008 to 1981, Ms. Helmond played Jessica Tate, a lovable aristocrat who was one of the show's main characters.
His character the Sheik, based on an Edith Maude Hull fantasy, was marketed as "the greatest lover that ever lived" — an exotic dandy with the passion to ravish even a white aristocrat.
Canning was invented by the French aristocrat Phillippe de Girard, who sold his patent to a pair of Brits, and by 1813, the Royal Navy was giving canned foods to its sailors.
And it was an exciting few days for the aristocrat: She marked her 25th birthday, toasted to 2016 and danced all night at the wedding of her friends Lily Kuiper and Paal Stokkelien.
He's Not an Aristocrat but He Has a Pricey Pedigree Brooksbank's parents George, an accountant and company director, and Nicola sent him to the $13,000-a-semester Stowe private school in Buckinghamshire, England.
The man largely responsible for those forecasts was Robert FitzRoy, an aristocrat and scientist who, 30 years earlier, had captained Darwin's ship on the journey that would produce The Voyage of the Beagle.
In contrast, Will Traynor (Sam Claflin), is imperious and sarcastic, both because he is an aristocrat (in an actual castle) and because an accident has left him mostly paralyzed from the neck down.
The actor joined the cast of "M*A*S*H" in 1977, playing an arrogant aristocrat and talented surgeon who filled the void left by the departure of the show's Frank Burns character.
But the book's few photos leave you craving a better look as the narrative spirals into a tiresome list of seemingly every socialite and aristocrat who ever attended a ball in prewar Europe.
Sophia Perovskaya, an aristocrat, was executed for a political crime after leading the 1881 assassination of Czar Alexander II. Since 1851, obituaries in The New York Times have been dominated by white men.
For much of the new season the axis of conflict runs between Voiello and John Paul III (John Malkovich), a weary, vacillating British aristocrat and aesthete who's a compromise choice as Pius's successor.
For much of the new season the axis of conflict runs between Voiello and John Paul III (John Malkovich), a weary, vacillating British aristocrat and aesthete who's a compromise choice as Pius's successor.
When commissioned to create a painting for Redditor MakesEthanol's dog, artist David Carr took one look at the dog and began creating the wealthy aristocrat he saw hidden inside the little pup's fuzzy frame.
A prelude set in Paris's revolutionary days depicts the execution of a treasonous aristocrat, dividing Iosseliani's bemused affection between the bawdy, gawking throng and the condemned man, who refuses to part with his pipe.
Gaming solutions developer Aristocrat Leisure jumped 18.853 percent to A$16.28, its highest in nine years, after Reuters reported that the Australian firm reached a cross-licensing agreement with U.S.-based International Game Technology.
By the end of the 17th century, when Armenian power had flourished along new trade routes, an Italian aristocrat living in Constantinople received a gift: a panoramic map of the world of Armenian influence.
"Likeness" encompasses such sublimities as Donatello's painted terra-cotta bust of an Italian aristocrat, which shines with aloof sensitivity, and Rodin's breathtaking translucent "Mask of Hanako II Type E," which seems the soul incarnate.
And if they do express it, a non-aristocrat will probably not understand what they are saying, since they speak in drawling half-syllables that are the product of centuries of being listened to.
If anything, Mr. Kwiecien (as the dashing, aloof aristocrat Onegin) and Ms. Netrebko (as the bookish, impressionable Tatiana, who falls for him at first sight) were dramatically sharper and vocally bolder than in 2013.
Even in Shakespeare's play, Duke is the boring, square-jawed aristocrat stuck between two far more interesting women who both fall in love with him because ... I don't know, probably the square jaw thing.
As Jay's letter suggests, the overriding reason for the clause was a concern that some European aristocrat would come over, use his massive wealth to get elected, and then sabotage the country from within.
Princess Diana wasn't only beautiful, white, and blonde but also a titled aristocrat from a family older than the Windsors, and a virgin whose purity was endlessly discussed before her wedding to Prince Charles.
Back when McGuire started playing Tomb Raider on Playstation, Lara was a British aristocrat who, after surviving a plane crash in the Himalayas, decides to abandon her stuffy life in favor of something more thrilling.
In the 18th century Antoine Lavoisier, a French aristocrat, worked out that burning a candle required a gas from the air—which he named oxygen—to fuel the flame and release heat and other gases.
Details like why an aristocrat would wear a battered Barbour jacket or why the sign on the wall of a psychiatric clinic wouldn't say ''Insane Asylum'' all had to be explained, sometimes at top volume.
With his pretentious vocabulary, drawling accent, frequent yachting, and frequent ski trips in Switzerland, Buckley was a pseudo-aristocrat who led a movement of those who thought they were better than the rest of America.
Their ranks include a sexually aggressive demon aristocrat, an emotionally withholding celestial deity, and a man with a fedora and a goatee who is unsettlingly referred to as my uncle (he is my least favorite).
Daredevil himself is played by Charlie Cox, a little-known British actor whose previous roles included an aristocrat in the "Downton Abbey" pilot and a romantic rival to Stephen Hawking in "The Theory of Everything".
"Lord Altrincham has been struck," her private secretary informs her and her mother at one moment from Season 2, referring to an aristocrat who has lately made headlines by criticizing the monarch's rigid public manner.
A South American aristocrat who became socially ambitious in America, Felicia was an accomplished actress with an elevated elocutionary style that was losing favor to so-called naturalistic modes; she was good at narrating oratorios.
The story of a peasant girl who falls in star-crossed love with an aristocrat, Island interwove themes of postcolonial culture clashes, class tensions, and skin-tone prejudice, all into a fun and colorful package.
Enterprising men saw a future for themselves in the ring as prizefighters, which would provide them with an opportunity to not only make money, but to potentially gain patronage and protection from a wealthy aristocrat.
"(The government) should not pour taxpayers' money into something without holding GM headquarters accountable for its opaque management and securing a promise from the constantly hard-line aristocrat union to share the pain," Ham said.
The others are Cornplanter, a Seneca warrior, Lord George Germain, a British aristocrat, Abraham Yates, a shoemaker turned politician, and Margaret Moncrieffe Coghlan, the teenage daughter of a British officer (and Aaron Burr's love interest).
It was Sophia L. Perovskaya, 27, an aristocrat herself and a descendant of Peter the Great, who had plotted and orchestrated the assault on March 13, 1881, signaling the czar's route with a white handkerchief.
In her videos, Grimes has been a sword-wielding warrior, a comic book superheroine, an angel, a schoolgirl, a blood-drenched 18th-century aristocrat and an assortment of spiky-outfitted, talon-fingered sci-fi fashionistas.
In 1805, the Baroness Hyde de Neuville (1771-1849) chased Napoleon Bonaparte's army across Europe in order to obtain a pardon for her husband, an aristocrat accused of conspiring to assassinate the arriviste French emperor.
Aristocrat also announced a 41 percent rise in full-year reported net profit to A$495.1 million ($374.7 million), beating analysts' average estimate of A$385.8 million, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
This fast, precise, and giddily dialectical costume romp stars Kate Beckinsale as a hedonistic British widow in competition with her teen-age daughter (Morfydd Clark) for the hand of a dashing young aristocrat (Xavier Samuel).
The soprano Sally Matthews brings a radiant voice and natural allure to Silvia de Ávila, a young widowed aristocrat who has a strangely close relationship with her prissy brother, Francesco (the vibrant countertenor Iestyn Davies).
A constable and his son are dispatched by a local aristocrat to hunt down an enslaved Gypsy who has run away, and their search illuminates the cruelty and sensuality of this corner of 163th-century Europe.
Both The Upside and Les Intouchables are loosely based on the real friendship between French aristocrat Philippe Pozzo di Borgo and his carer, Algerian immigrant Abdel Sellou, immortalized in Borgo's best-selling memoir, A Second Wind.
How did her father go from being a barely mentioned British aristocrat named Henshingly Croft in the original 1996 Tomb Raider game, to a visionary architect named Richard Croft who guides the course of Lara's life?
A constable and his son are dispatched by a local aristocrat to hunt down an enslaved Gypsy who has run away, and their search illuminates the cruelty and sensuality of this corner of 78453th-century Europe.
Along the way he is robbed of nearly everything (except his slave), is offered charity by a selfless congregation of Puritans, is nearly assassinated by some Hessian mercenaries, and is taken in by a gracious aristocrat.
By contrast, when the British aristocrat Damian Aspinall released 11 of his captive-bred lowland gorillas into the wilds of Gabon in 2014, five were soon violently dispatched, probably by a resident gorilla, while others disappeared.
He wanted to record some of the acts, mainly jazz groups, that played there, and in 1947 he bought a share of Aristocrat Records, which a local married couple, Evelyn and Charles Aron, had recently started.
Selima, as the unfortunate feline was called, was the companion of art historian and author Horace Walpole, and like any eccentric aristocrat worth his earldom, he asked friend and poet Thomas Gray to pen a tribute.
Commissioned by the Swiss aristocrat, banker and diplomat Count James-Alexandre de Pourtalès, the building that bears his name was designed by Félix Duban, who gave the building a quattrocento-style facade inspired by Florentine palazzos.
Princess Gloria — once christened "Princess TNT" for her explosive years as a hard partying, art-collecting, punk-haired aristocrat — has grown into the sun queen around which many traditionalist Roman Catholics opposed to Pope Francis orbit.
Her latest work is a tame (by comparison) love story set mostly in contemporary London and Cornwall, featuring a wealthy British aristocrat who falls for his house cleaner, a beautiful, mysterious young woman who fled Albania.
In the 12 photographs (11 in black and white and one in color), the artist enacts various scenes from Wilde's novel, functioning both as the protagonist, a fictional aristocrat, and, alternatively, the dandified author, Wilde himself.
To say that Héloïse is hesitant to sit for her portrait is an understatement; the reclusive aristocrat, engaged to be wed to a nobleman, has refused previous artists' attempts at capturing her essence on a canvas.
As Albrecht, Artemy Belyakov (wonderful) played a man madly in love rather than a haughty aristocrat, throwing himself desperately at Giselle's lifeless body at the end of Act 1 and wracked with remorse in Act 2.
By 2009, when he began selling meat from a white-and-aqua-blue 1971 Aristocrat Lo-Liner trailer he'd bought for $300, he had moved far upscale from the cheap supermarket brisket of his first experiments.
Patrick, played by Benedict Cumberbatch in the TV adaptation, is a tortured toff — abuse victim, drug addict, fading aristocrat — but also an arch observer of his circle, which happens to be the Diana-era Tatler set.
Based on: "Rebecca" by Daphne Du MaurierRelease date: TBASynopsis: In the 1930s, the new wife (Lily James) of a British aristocrat (Armie Hammer) finds their new home haunted by the presence of his deceased previous wife, Rebecca.
In 21878 B.C., when the aristocrat Nicias was leading an expedition to capture Syracuse on the coast of Sicily, a lunar eclipse occurred just as the Athenians realized that they could not win and had to retreat.
This slender but dense imagining of the life of Margaret Cavendish, a pioneering 17th-century writer and wife of the aristocrat William Cavendish, could be classified as a more elliptical cousin of Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell novels.
An eccentric young Scottish aristocrat named David Stirling, then a lieutenant in the Scots Guards, perceived that Italian and German forces along the Mediterranean coast would be vulnerable to raids from the vast desert to the south.
But at the same time we also seem to have avoided heated debate about whether our democracy should have a British aristocrat as head of state — the kind of discussion that's swept mainstream politics elsewhere, particularly Australia.
"Big Fish's digital-first social casino content and industry-leading meta-game capability and applications are highly complementary to Aristocrat's existing and industry-leading land based digital content business," said Trevor Croker, chief executive officer of Aristocrat.
Exactly a year earlier, in June 1884, Joris-Karl Huysmans had published his sixth novel, A Rebours—translated as Against the Grain or Against Nature—featuring a twenty-nine-year-old aristocrat, Duc Jean Floressas des Esseintes.
The story begins with an artist named Marianne (Noémie Merlant) being thrown around a tiny boat on her way to an island off the Brittany coast, where she's been hired to paint an aristocrat, Héloïse (Adèle Haenel).
A quick recap of the Oxfordian theory, which was proposed in 1920, by a schoolteacher named J. Thomas Looney: Shakespeare was the front man for de Vere, an aristocrat who could not publish under his own name.
He tells us that L'Ouverture's father, Hippolyte, was an aristocrat of the Allada kingdom of West Africa, who was captured with his family by the hostile Dahomey Empire circa 1740 and sold into slavery to the Europeans.
Adolf Hitler: His Life and His Speeches , which came out in 1923, months before Hitler was arrested for his failed Beer Hall Putsch coup, was published under the byline of a German aristocrat, Baron Adolf Victor von Koerber.
Alejandro Cao de Benós, a Spanish aristocrat and colorful character who has long been a mouthpiece of the world's most secretive dictatorship, was arrested in Tarragona, on the Mediterranean coast near Barcelona, according to reports in Spanish media.
This lush tragic romance from Italian director Luchino Visconti, first released in 276, is the tale of an aristocrat with a demanding mistress who becomes interested in his wife again when she begins an affair with a novelist.
Her father, Bertrand Jochaud du Plessix, was a down-at-heels aristocrat in the French diplomatic service who, flying from Casablanca to France to join the Free French forces, died when his airplane was shot down over Gibraltar.
On the strength of that performance, she appealed for help from Huda el-Shaarawi, an aristocrat who had organized elite women to form the Egyptian Feminist Union, which sought social freedoms for women and supported independence from Britain.
The young Hugh Grant is surprisingly intense as a drawling young lord, but the movie is stolen by a neighboring aristocrat, played by Amanda Donohoe (known then mainly as an associate of the New Wave singer Adam Ant).
Mary Thorp was calm and kindly — and sufficiently poised to hold mutually enjoyable discussions with the cosmopolitan diplomats and politicians who visited her prosperous employers, a sugar-beet magnate named Paul Wittouck and his Russian aristocrat wife, Catherine.
His insistent portrayal of Aymeric as an aristocrat idealist—he has a lineage going back to the Viking conquest of Normandy in 911 C.E.—makes the farmer a feudal element well past his expiration date, courageous but quixotic.
"Some people accused us of trying to become another 'aristocrat' union, because we were also with a chaebol company," said Ra Doo-shik, who leads a union representing more than 1,000 temporary repair workers at Samsung Electronics Service.
Sporting pearls and a fashionable hat, Lady Dunstan, an elderly aristocrat, drove an ice-cream van during the Blitz, packed with blood-filled milk bottles—a cog in the wheels of one of the world's first national blood banks.
"Watching @bbc #warandpeace French-hating Russian aristo wearing Napoleon's Legion d'Honeur #baffling @MuseeLegiondh," Bruce wrote, including a close-up shot of the offending medal on Vicomte de Mortemart, a French aristocrat who escaped his home country during the revolution.
Lord Lucan – or Richard John Bingham – a British aristocrat and military officer disappeared shortly after November 7, 1974 – just after his children's nanny, Sandra Rivett, was found dead, her body battered, in the basement of his family's London home.
This is the first of what will undoubtedly be many rifts between Maggie and Gregory, who is fashioned as such a weak-willed aristocrat that it's hard to not feel his comic book origins bleed through the TV screen.
The set — slightly steampunk, with corrugated metal walls and industrial-style platforms — coexists with fantastical evocations of the pharaoh's world; an Egyptian aristocrat is dressed like a 19th-century gentleman, but with a skull embedded in his top hat.
It concerns the death of Alexander Monson, a 28-year-old son of a British aristocrat, who was found dead in his cell in 2012 after he was detained during a night out in the coastal town of Diani.
Color lithography was a fresh new process, and the walls of Montmartre were plastered with graphic advertisements for music-hall dancers, many of them designed by a louche aristocrat and prolific artist named Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1003-2100).
Even in the years before she started her company, one that relied on the image of an accessible aristocrat, she seemed to place little importance in distancing herself from the broader universe, in hiding from photographers and cultivating mystique.
"He would have been a great president," Mellon told author Meryl Gordon before her death in 2014, according to Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend, which hits bookstores Tuesday and delves into Mellon's quietly stylish, American aristocrat lifestyle.
And we see, in a single room, the drawings he gave as gifts to Tommaso de' Cavalieri, the young aristocrat who became the love of his life, upon which he lavished the sensuality he could not express with his body.
Now a mom to two boys (5-year-old Alexander and 2-year-old Leo) and the founder of 8G, a supplement tablet featuring 8 essential greens, she has picked up a few tips for life as an American-turned-aristocrat.
As an aristocrat, tall in his double-breasted suits, he could do stiffly jut-jawed one moment, warm and charming the next: a study in inscrutability, or a witty ornament to the highest social tier of Newport or New York.
As Klein phrases it: Part recluse, part extrovert; part Italian Jew, part French cosmopolitan; part sculptor, part painter; part bohemian, part aristocrat; part middle-class respectability, part tainted by family bankruptcy: Modigliani's identity was more complex than is popularly thought.
To call his bid quixotic is something of an understatement; his political persona is almost literally that of a modern-day Don Quixote, an aristocrat pursuing hopeless quests throughout the land in service of ideals that few besides him share.
The S&P dividend aristocrat index, made up of S&P 303 companies that have raised their dividends every year for the last 25 consecutive years, has been outperforming the S&P 500 handily as investors buy up component company shares.
His great-grandfather, Hugh Cholmondeley, the third Baron Delamere, was a British aristocrat who came to Kenya more than a century ago on a lion-hunting safari, fell in love with the country and became one of its most powerful settlers.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's High Court acquitted a British aristocrat on Thursday of smuggling cocaine in a shipment of sugar, ending a high-profile case that captured public interest in how the justice system would treat the scion of a prominent family.
Tracing the entwined destinies of two men born on the same day at the dawn of the 20th century — one a peasant, the other an aristocrat — the film follows its characters through several decades of Italian political and social upheavals.
James had Isabel turn down the same two suitors (an aristocrat and a social activist) in order to marry a dilettante, but Eliot kills off the dilettante so that Dorothea can remarry, while James keeps Isabel stuck in her bad decision.
Prince Troubetzkoy, the half-Russian aristocrat who married Amélie Rives of Castle Hill, was in the habit of foraging on the lawn for edible greens, then turning up at dinner in white tie and tails for his personally harvested salad.
The other members of the Doorn household include his second wife, Princess Hermine, a woman of lively temperament almost 30 years younger than her husband, and his secretary, von Islemann, an aristocrat and, like his master, something of a snob.
It's true that the Marquis de Lafayette, a French aristocrat Washington met during the Revolution, spent the rest of his life proposing various ways Washington could free his slaves during his lifetime, setting a powerful example for the infant nation.
They laughed every time, but when at one point in the course of the conversation he declared that the subject of an anecdote was "a high petit-bourgeois aristocrat," it was silent for a few seconds before laughter broke out again.
Photo: Ng Han Guan (AP)North Korea is developing its own cryptocurrency—at least according to Alejandro Cao de Benos, a Spanish aristocrat and IT consultant who serves as a sort of international liaison for the country's totalitarian, militaristic government.
Huysmans's "Against Nature" (1884), widely considered a masterpiece of the decadent movement, tells the story of a dissolute aristocrat who devotes his life to aesthetic pursuits, such as eating all-black meals and hanging around with a giant jewel-encrusted tortoise.
Bequeathed to the late Queen Mother in 1942 by aristocrat Dame Margaret Greville — who was a patron of Boucheron and Cartier — the collection is believed to have included necklaces previously owned by Marie Antoinette and the Empress Josephine of France.
None is a large-format plate either, unless you count the veal sirloin chop that arrives on a silver platter in slices that are as pink and delicately shaded as the cheek on any blushing young aristocrat Fragonard ever painted.
She speculated that rather than flee Britain, he — a rakishly debonair and reputedly self-indulgent aristocrat — had killed himself immediately after realizing that he had murdered the wrong woman in what she saw as an attempt to terminate their abusive marriage.
A pair of crimson red Dmitriy & Co. Colonia chairs set the tone in the sitting room, along with an antique portrait of a French aristocrat that the couple found in Paris and now display between two dome-shaped polished nickel sconces.
The stiff-haired aristocrat with tiny hands has a mouth stuffed with a gilded apple, mimicking the apples placed in the mouths of roasted pigs, and is watched over by a cat and a dog that wears a pink pussy hat.
The model turned aristocrat, who is married to Lord James Russell, says one of her favorite recipes that her "friends love" is as simple as putting an airtight container filled with salmon in the washer and letting the heat do the cooking.
The 1990 musical with a Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty&aposs calypso-infused score unfolds as a group of storytellers — caught in the midst of an unrelenting storm — recount the tale of a Caribbean island country girl in love with an aristocrat.
The merger happened formally this week and Safran is poised to ditch the brand of Zodiac, founded by an airship pilot and an aristocrat more than a century ago to make air balloons and now one of the biggest manufacturers of aircraft seats.
Giancarlo Giannini plays a heartless aristocrat whose own dalliances (Jennifer O'Neill plays his mistress) are complicated when his wife (Laura Antonelli) becomes pregnant with another man's child — a situation that rekindles his love for her, or at least his sense of possessiveness.
Finally, Romney's comments reinforced the Obama campaign's narrative about him in 2012 (that he was an unfeeling aristocrat who fired your dad), while Clinton's don't really play into the Trump campaign's narrative about her (that she's an untrustworthy crook who should be jailed).
Müller was hardly alone, and European thinking about inherent inequality and Nordic superiority was already maturing in the fevered minds of thinkers like the French aristocrat Joseph Arthur de Gobineau, whose writings influenced the famous composer and German nationalist icon Richard Wagner.
One account, supported by Mr. Castro himself, was that his father had agreed to take the place of a Spanish aristocrat who had been drafted into the Spanish Army in the late 19th century to fight against Cuban independence and American hegemony.
From identical twins to a real-life aristocrat, season six promises to live up to the show's legacy of pure, unadulterated chaos, and it would be an understatement to say that I'm absolutely chuffed to meet each and every one of them.
MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - Four Kenyan policemen went on trial in Mombasa on Tuesday accused of killing the son of a British aristocrat in police custody in 2012, a high-profile case that has become a litmus test of accountability for Kenya's security services.
Written in the epistolary style of Dracula, it tells the tale of an aristocrat unearthing hidden secrets about his family and their connection to the ruined Puritan settlement of Jerusalem's Lot — a macabre site that turns out to be teeming with vampires.
The first major auction of an AI artwork, for example, was a GAN-generated portrait of a fictional aristocrat, Edmond de Belamy, which was selected by human curators, printed out, and stuck in a gold frame to mimic the settings of its training data.
If you think there's any chance that UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor and retired uber-pugilist Floyd Mayweather, Jr., are going to box each other in Las Vegas, I have an email from an aristocrat in East Africa that I'd like you to read.
This time, it's expanding the action to an around-the-world adventure involving a British aristocrat (Hugh Jackman) who travels to America on a cryptid-hunt and ends up promising to escort a Sasquatch (Zach Galifianakis) on a global hunt for his elusive yeti kin.
So maybe appealing to 18th-century beauty ideals isn't the wisest idea overall — but there's nothing wrong with feeling like a moneyed aristocrat of yesteryear every time you spray this voluptuous rose scent, which also contains camellia oil to infuse hair with healthy shine.
In between, Claus, a dashing, philandering, finely-tailored Danish aristocrat, engaged in a high-stakes defense that fueled two sensational trials and a 290 feature film, Reversal of Fortune, that depicted the couple's thorny marriage and the attempted murder case that was brought against him.

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