China and porcelain, like silver, have a particular sort of aristocratic (or wannabe-aristocratic) heirloom quality to them.
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Being presented was essentially a way for young women from aristocratic families to be introduced to upper-crust society – and, therefore, eligible bachelors from aristocratic backgrounds.
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Ludo falls in love with a visiting Polish aristocratic girl named Lila—also, improbably, spending the summer in this small town with her aristocratic brothers and her German cousin.
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Aristocratic women, like Jane Fleming, would flaunt their beauty and elegance with help from masters of the genre such as Joshua Reynolds, while aristocratic men would show off their personal or professional accomplishments.
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The WI also has history of royal and aristocratic members.
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Instead, she simply described him as being handsome and aristocratic.
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The Count and the Prince came from old aristocratic lines.
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He was raised largely by servants in an aristocratic household.
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Lafayette Avenue, the borough's main drag, recalls the aristocratic general.
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Power and wealth are concentrated in the hands of aristocratic boyars.
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He and his aristocratic family are closely tied to British royalty.
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She's got aristocratic blood and a killer contour – what a combo!
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I love you like the pawns in chess love aristocratic horses.
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In life, Weiss had liquidy blue eyes and an aristocratic air.
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At home, his policies and aristocratic image are putting people off.
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We left the aristocratic age first, and without any real trauma.
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Arguing about them is far more an aristocratic pastime than camp itself.
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His parrots display plumage, fashion, and intelligence, mixed with aristocratic unself-consciousness.
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The same logic held true for securing a trans-Atlantic aristocratic marriage.
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Then, as Britain became an increasingly industrialized nation, aristocratic families needed money.
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I'm little Sander Bijl from Alkmaar; he's aristocratic Jan Six from Amsterdam.
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It is unlikely Arya wants to begin aristocratic motherhood anytime soon, if ever.
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The dogs live pampered and healthy lives with one of Sicily's aristocratic families.
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She is a 21st century Californian going into a fusty old aristocratic family.
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Committee, and was the scion of an aristocratic family who had served in
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" In similar vein, CFA survey respondents called capital gains treatment "gimmicky" and "aristocratic.
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Rich and aristocratic men are made ridiculous in practically every le Carré work.
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All were rebels against academic conventions and aristocratic propriety, amid cascading social changes.
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He based his entire career on an outer-borough fantasy of aristocratic privilege.
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They opened the windows of English aristocratic life, culturally as well as literally.
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But he confessed to one definite difference between himself and his aristocratic character.
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Indolent aristocratic landowners can't compete with yeoman farmers without laws preventing land sales.
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Less whimsically, during the Renaissance, the aristocratic Borgias were rumored to poison them.
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As her aristocratic suitor, Mr. Snyder has a gleaming trumpet of a tenor.
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Born into an aristocratic family, he had three sisters, two of them older.
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For role models, she turns to Lorena and the aristocratic Eleanor (Elise Santora).
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Mr. Giscard d'Estaing was an aristocratic intellectual, Mr. Chirac a hard-driving politician.
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Carmen and Cristobal hide secret love notes for each other in their aristocratic home.
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The vampires live an aristocratic, privileged life, while the Lycans serve as their slaves.
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In the outfitting of the bride and groom, aristocratic luxury mixed with Hollywood glamour.
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The aristocratic world of the "ancien regime" may seem impossibly distant to modern minds.
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The 72-year-old Mr Tibi was born into an aristocratic family in Damascus.
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Douthat's column echoes a familiar conservative lament: the displacement of aristocratic legitimacy by modernity.
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In one of his stories, "Displacement," about a formerly aristocratic Chinese woman named Mrs.
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The imposition on aristocratic families could be even more significant than in the film.
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"Drying-up cloth" is the preferred term, said one of Mr. Haslam's aristocratic friends.
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On this day in 1874, Winston Churchill was born into an aristocratic British family.
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But that's because it is playing like Shakespeare without the aristocratic characters — and the poetry.
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Not least because of her own lineage, which was way more aristocratic than the Windsors.
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But Americans were also drawn to the glamour and cachet of aristocratic British hunting culture.
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Albrecht Freiherr von Boeselager, the Grand Chancellor of the aristocratic order, was reinstated last Saturday.
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My droll, aristocratic Russian-history professor granted me an extension on the final term paper.
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Shortly afterward, he married June Osborn, the aristocratic widow of the concert pianist Franz Osborn.
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The portraits are just to add a whimsical element; my family is not that aristocratic.
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As Albrecht, he's terribly gracious about being aristocratic, and in Act 2 he's desperately martyred.
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Below all the aristocratic glamour and excess, remember that the story has a dark underbelly.
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She has a poised, aristocratic manner, yet she is alert to paradox, irony, and absurdity.
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"My conservatism is aristocratic in spirit, anti-populist and rooted in the Northeast," he said.
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Jacqueline's host mother, the aristocratic Comtesse Guyot de Renty, had suffered greatly during the war.
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Tocqueville considered America a historical oddity, a democratic country without an aristocratic or feudal past.
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At a time of flux and malaise, the lurid tale of aristocratic impunity astonished the country.
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The Russian-born Balanchine, heterosexual and subtly aristocratic, embodied — and extended — the classical orthodoxy of ballet.
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Characters and aristocratic titles proliferate, to such a degree that readers may struggle to keep up.
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Whether an idol can help save them from their aristocratic new overlords remains to be seen.
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Like Palmer-Tomkinson, Ferguson hails from an aristocratic family in Dummer, a village in southeast England.
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It follows poor apprentice Vincent's friendship with aristocratic glass-lover Alliz through war and political conflict.
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" Apel wrote gothic ghost stories about "aristocratic families enduring melodramatic plot twists in isolated, haunted castles.
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That diagnosis of aristocratic disdain must have been a gift to a precocious 12-year-old.
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With this idea that hay fever was an aristocratic disease, British scientists were on to something.
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Until the Victorian era, separate sleeping quarters were a luxury available only to the aristocratic classes.
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Héloïse's character is much more restrained, even though she is an aristocratic woman, than Marianne's character.
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Haenel, radiantly blonde with an enigmatic, neo-Classical face, fuses movie-star charisma with aristocratic poise.
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Wealthy young Iranians act like a new aristocratic class unaware of the sources of their wealth.
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As "the female Indiana Jones," Lara was aristocratic, filthy rich, highly educated, adventurous, and a technological wunderkind.
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Nor does "the Queen's English," since the Royal Family has an extreme aristocratic accent all their own.
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"Countess is a work title," Langer, 43, tells PEOPLE in this week's issue of her aristocratic title.
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The Estate is owned by the Spencer family, one of England's oldest and most illustrious aristocratic families.
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It's a particular dog, too, an aristocratic Shih Tzu named Ned with a disdain for synthetic fibers.
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But it was in England that his portraits became a cultural mainstay, indelibly linked to aristocratic life.
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He explains that this area "used to be very posh and aristocratic" — a hotspot for upscale vacations.
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Isn't it a bit hypocritical that institutions so associated with liberalism should embrace a hereditary aristocratic structure?
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This tournament, thus far, has belonged not to soccer's great aristocratic houses, but to its petite bourgeoisie.
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She was 28 and had been hired as a governess to the aristocratic family of Lord Kingsborough.
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In Jenn Thompson's production, Jessie Shelton is a standout as an aristocratic miss torn between two candidates.
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Jefferson felt that delivering an address before Congress was too aristocratic and similar to practices in monarchies.
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In the late 18th century, de Sade, an avowed sociopath, wrote pornographic novels set in aristocratic France.
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And he cooks well, rustic yet aristocratic fare like terrines, fish soups, veal stews and roasted chickens.
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So if you do a genetic testing, you will see that you may have some aristocratic blood.
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As a member of the reigning royal family Simon couldn't be related to some fallen aristocratic clan.
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What is the root of the haughty aristocratic conservatism the Times chooses to foist on its liberal
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Aristocratic households preferred to display their wealth by bringing out their best tapestries, jewels, and gold platters.
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They have also carried the aristocratic families of Europe on their backs and in carriages for generations.
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Having passed through extreme tailoring into athleisure and then aristocratic street wear, men's clothing is in tatters.
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Industrialisation meant that new sources of power emerged to challenge the old aristocratic elites—industrialists and factory workers.
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He encouraged Kater to drop Murchison-Hume's aristocratic brand identity in order to better connect with the masses.
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In the 19th century educated liberals regarded nationalism as an expression of popular sovereignty against transnational aristocratic elites.
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The aristocratic part of the population is betaking itself either abroad or to its estates in the country.
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"It's about an aristocratic Englishman who meets a young woman," the author, 55, told NBC's Today on Thursday.
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A lot of it are the bureaucratic, aristocratic elite who are trying to import cheap labor for themselves.
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The sparkler belongs to the Spencer family, which can trace their aristocratic lineage back to the Tudor period.
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Disillusioned with the rigid aristocratic norms of the elite cavalry, he left to pursue a degree in architecture.
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The large, locally made brooches were intricate and valuable, with silver designs, probably the ornamentation for aristocratic women.
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This gregarious libertine, who in 1901 would become King Edward VII, introduced the pleasure principle to aristocratic life.
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Most are six-story brick rectangles with incongruously aristocratic sounding names — Saxony Hall, Westminster Apartments, Green Park Essex.
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Amy was Midwestern, blond, aristocratic and gracious, an accomplished equestrian and mezzo-soprano 17 years older than John.
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Later, he describes a porcelain slave's head that sits on the coffee table of his wife's aristocratic grandmother.
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The family was from aristocratic Javanese stock, but neighbors said Mr. Oepriarto never bragged about his blue blood.
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Golf, after all, tends toward the aristocratic end of the sports landscape, with a C-suite fan base.
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The rule of thumb for the monarchy -- and aristocratic families -- was to produce an heir and a spare.
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Her look was at once aristocratic and mystical: she had delicate features and huge, haunted pale-blue eyes.
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By the time we got to the Star Wars shooting script, though, all aristocratic traces had been purged.
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Suave, aristocratic and still in her prime, Ms. Mutter returns to Stern Auditorium with her pianist, Lambert Orkis.
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In The Marchioness, a female figure sits in fur surrounded by portraits that allude to generational aristocratic wealth.
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Cedric is aristocratic, sartorial perfection, yet while he claims to love her, his attitude is increasingly condescending and critical.
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Compared to the aristocratic amateurs who helped direct photography's early evolution in Europe, the Americans were a motley bunch.
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Hey, this genre of aristocratic athleisure footwear could have a pretty commercial outcome, given Rihanna's track record at Puma.
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Before that, it was likely home to one of the area's aristocratic families, who spent summers in the area.
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William Faulkner won a Nobel Prize in 1949 for his textured examination of aristocratic decay in small-town Mississippi.
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She was an aristocratic nun renowned for her intelligence and the elite salons she held in her grandiloquent apartments.
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People like Elon Musk or Ben Horowitz were the guys that fit our imagined profile, not the aristocratic elites.
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This type of mosaic was popular in the late Roman period, both within aristocratic villas and within ecclesiastical architecture.
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Her early paintings, which include portraits of wealthy aristocratic women, reflect a sense of constriction and self-conscious modesty.
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The train and its aristocratic passengers chug along happily until knocked off their tracks by a snowdrift in Yugoslavia.
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For over 200 years, Seton Castle was owned by the aristocratic Wemyss family, who acquired it after MacKenzie died.
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But the American reader, less enamored of a fated aristocratic order, may find aspects of Widmerpool's character curiously sympathetic.
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He supported super-taxes on the rich and pensions for the old to the infuriation of his aristocratic peers.
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In the back alcove, I found a compromise: a tweed Golden Bear varsity jacket ($595) that had aristocratic zest.
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Housed in an early 20th-century aristocratic mansion, its collection features modern and contemporary works predominantly by Lebanese artists.
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But the investigation was impeded, according to the Independent, by Lucan's aristocratic pals doing their best not to help.
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And a long-running Star Wars battle, between its democratic and aristocratic tendencies, was finally won by the latter.
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If you're feeling aristocratic (or want to try on those tweeds today), this recipe for Welsh rarebit is perfection.
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The residents, an extended clan of sharecroppers, grow tobacco, lentils and chickpeas on land belonging to an aristocratic family.
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Pushed into hyper-sincerity by Rønnenfelt's aristocratic moan, it's a monument to post-adolescent, drunk on life, vigor, and sweat.
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They saw it as an element of aristocratic and monarchical rule, which confused public functions (officeholders) with private personages (nobility).
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If you have an aristocratic disdain of being talked about, you will not create buzz (former Florida Governor Jeb Bush).
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He was almost aristocratic in nature, the mixture of talent and insight from the moment you met him was omnipresent.
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It was Lake Como in 113, and his aristocratic friends were sketching merrily with the aid of a camera obscura.
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"Wet, Hot, Aristocratic Summer" examines America's enduring obsession with the British royals that transcends traditional political division in the states.
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De Castries, whose full name is de la Croix de Castries, is the descendant of an ancient aristocratic French family.
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I consider myself fairly accomplished at getting some satisfying real-world supercar performance out of these four-wheeled aristocratic savages.
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They settled on making a series of portraits of a fictional aristocratic family using a generative adversarial network, or GAN.
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In Europe, Qatari royals have a reputation as high rollers with a yen for ostentatious real-estate and aristocratic prestige.
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The tournament so far has "belonged not to soccer's great aristocratic houses, but to its petite bourgeoisie," our columnist writes.
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Lined with outsize Georgian buildings, Henrietta Street has been, over the years, home to both tenement squalor and aristocratic grandeur.
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Set in a Baroque aristocratic summerhouse from the 1720s, Portheimka is a branch of Prague's modern art gallery, Kampa Museum.
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Charles chose an aristocratic ingénue as his bride because duty demanded it and he'd been trained to submit to that.
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But Mr. Carsen fills it with rowdy activity, an attempt, it would seem, to reveal the absurdities of aristocratic pretense.
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There was Washington, out front, the leader of the band — noble, aristocratic and smooth, his mouth a grim stone line.
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But the dandy — an impeccably dressed, vaguely aristocratic man obsessed with his own appearance — emerged more than 60 years before.
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The aristocratic Massimo family would place the "Lancellotti Discobolus" in its own room in their Roman Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne.
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The fortunes of five aristocratic families rise and fall during Napoleon's invasion of Russia in this adaptation of the Tolstoy novel.
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Though American politicians continues to say we are a democracy, we are sliding ever more dangerously into a veiled aristocratic system.
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The child of a mestiza mother and an absent aristocratic father, Mariátegui was an autodidact who became a journalist and writer.
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That insight had to wait for John Dalton, a man who was the polar opposite of the aristocratic bon vivant Lavoisier.
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The period drama follows the trials and tribulations of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants on the Downton Abbey estate.
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Though the new season began with a decidedly traditional event (fox hunting in 1925), even that aristocratic pastime was in flux.
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Along with Talbot and Daguerre, there were numerous other aristocratic amateurs and entrepreneurs experimenting with similar processes at the same time.
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Mathieu's cell includes a teenage girl who acts as a courier on her bicycle and two aristocratic women, Chantal and Annemarie.
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In the early 1900s American philanthropists vied for Renaissance tapestries, seeking to add touches of aristocratic taste to new museum galleries.
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Valerie understood that, like the diamonds in Marise's hair, this wasn't really decaying aristocratic grandeur but an arty imitation of it.
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Defying his mother's disapproval, the aristocratic Fortuny, born in Granada, lived with and later married Henriette Negrin, a beautiful French divorcée.
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For many of her aristocratic contemporaries in the 1920s and 1930s, the Edwardian country house was the heart of that world.
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"In a sense, the Harbin Jews were more wealthy and aristocratic than the other Jews in China," Mr. Ben-Canaan said.
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Despite this, the pair stuck together, through the deaths of most of their respective families and the difficulties of aristocratic society.
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Characterized by cascades of diamonds on an intricate platinum armature, the style came to define aristocratic jewelry in the Edwardian era.
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Two revolutions — the Industrial and the French — made an idle, indulgent, aristocratic life considerably less desirable than it had formerly seemed.
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Penelope's three suitors looked like stuffy, aristocratic gentleman who could have attended the premiere of this opera in 17th-century Venice.
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Her first-movement cadenza was a dance that had one foot in an aristocratic court and the other in the country.
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It was common practice among the royal family to regularly pay visits to the country estates of aristocratic families, reports Time.
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His early girlfriends, at least the ones anyone knew about, were mostly young aristocratic women roughly from his own social circle.
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"The girls would go to London and pick up new wardrobes, but they were very much aristocratic country people," Oldham says.
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Mathilde is a woman born to the "employee" class who is convinced, nonetheless, that she deserves only ornamentation and aristocratic spoils.
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Ultimately, the system within our democracy was not meant to limit presidential candidates to the vetted members of an aristocratic class.
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He is, we think, a philosopher, and somehow accounted the father of modern liberalism, though he was aristocratic in self-presentation.
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Cecily's days, written in prose, are filled with the pleasures of a rotely feminine aristocratic life: romance, balls, and new dresses.
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And tennis, with its intersecting lines and angles, its aristocratic air and money green surface, will make you a bad person.
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He indulged in the youthful aristocratic pleasure of not being liked and his wit was purposefully caustic, his tongue often blistering.
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In fact, between the 1870s until 1914 there was a wave of transatlantic marriages between rich American women and aristocratic gentlemen.
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The parts of Mr. Talley's story told through archival footage are fascinating — a staggeringly tall gay black man from the American South inventing himself as a bon vivant ("You can be aristocratic without having been born into an aristocratic family") and making himself welcome, and essential, at the pinnacle of the Paris and New York fashion world.
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It was exactly this kind of aristocratic lifestyle that Chávez promised to do away with when he swept into power in 1999.
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The Department for International Development (DfID), which was created only in 1997, has grown into a monster that overshadows its aristocratic stepbrother.
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It was a remark that hinted at the commitment to aristocratic amateurism that many feel the bank has displayed for three centuries.
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Of course, in England, aristocratic women were only encouraged to engage in activities befitting their social position, such as hunting and riding.
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Her luxurious, cerebral portraits of members of two fictional Nigerian aristocratic clans are rendered in uncanny palettes of charcoal, pastel, and pencil.
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Francesco Melzi, however, was in every other way Salaì's opposite: aristocratic, educated, serious, a devoted amanuensis, and ultimately something of a son.
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Sleekly dressed with somber distinction, Corey Tazmania portrays the aristocratic Joanna as one very cool customer until she is challenged by Tracy.
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Minnie Hutton, an aristocratic Southern belle once characterized by her daughter as a lethal beauty, "was deeply, downwardly mobile," Ms. Hutton lamented.
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They also presented hunting as an activity that mixed the "earthy charms" of rustic life with the "manly bonhomie" of aristocratic recreation.
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Both sports hired ringers and were a bit too close to gamblers, but college sports had an aristocratic halo it couldn't shake.
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That case caused outrage among Thais on social media over how a girl with an aristocratic family surname managed to escape jail.
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Aristocratic and born to rule, Aragorn is inherently noble, and brings stability and unity to his realm mainly by possessing heroic qualities.
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TOYIN OJIH ODUTOLA In her first solo New York museum show, the young Nigerian artist presents fictional portraits of two aristocratic families.
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She said he had learned about the piece from a friend, who told him the aristocratic family was looking for a buyer.
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The Baron had lived an aristocratic life through the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, two World Wars and the Russian Revolution.
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The scion of an aristocratic family from western Sumatra, Tan Malaka had spent World War I as a student in the Netherlands.
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At the northern edge of the site, an aristocratic home that collapsed in the district's devastating fire has been remarkably well preserved.
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The exhibition is the final installment of a project she began in 2016 that imagines two aristocratic Nigerian families joined by marriage.
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A model and daughter of an aristocratic family, she was photographed by Jean-Pierre Rey waving the Vietcong flag during a demonstration.
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In 1917, the men are simply stuck in the shit together, competing only for the best imitation of their aristocratic officer's accent.
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One of the women at last week's Viennese Ball has an aristocratic title that has been in her family since the 1800s.
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America's self-image is of a middle-class nation, unburdened by either a lumpen proletariat working class or an aristocratic upper class.
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When the aristocratic hunting party arrives in Act I, most of its members discreetly take up neat positions behind Giselle's village friends.
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What tilted Star Wars back to the aristocratic was Lucas' sudden decision, in the second draft, to make Darth Vader Luke's father.
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In the film and the opera, an aristocratic couple invite a group of friends to their mansion for a post-opera dinner.
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Mr. Zambrano, who was peppery but aristocratic, agreed to lead a reform effort that grew into a takeover of local police forces.
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The popular tradition of eating crayfish began in the mid-1800s, but crayfish had been around in aristocratic circles since the 16th century.
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In the 1730s the Shakespeare Ladies' Club, a group of aristocratic women, petitioned theatre owners to stage his plays rather than foreign operas.
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Tocqueville thought that was nonsense—and pitied his fellow blue-bloods who wasted their lives in a doomed attempt to restore aristocratic privilege.
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Years before her death, Neilson, who comes from an aristocratic family (her mother Elizabeth is a marquesa), opened up about her troubled past.
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Add to that the fact that the audience is dressed not unlike the aristocratic socialites whom Barnum rubs elbows with in the movie.
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The prince was the designated successor of the German aristocratic Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, which is the oldest branch of the House of Wettin
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The Gentileschi oil painting has been in an "aristocratic collection" since the 19th century — why have its owners chosen to sell it now?
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Immersing himself in the history surrounding the aristocratic elite of 1920s London, Bas identifies a certain emerging permissibility of homosexuality within the period.
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A man named Stephen Blackwood, a philosopher, defender of the private sphere, and potentially an aristocratic werewolf came out to introduce the pair.
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Henry and Francis, while the epitome of aristocratic upbringing and epicurean style, also embraced the more 'country' pursuits of falconing, hunting, and wrestling.
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The aristocratic Frenchwomen Claire finds herself surrounded by overload their dresses with prints, embroidery, ruffles and other details, usually at the same time.
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Mr. Weaver made his Broadway debut in 21988 in "The Chalk Garden," Enid Bagnold's play about the woes of an aristocratic British family.
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"They have aristocratic mannerisms," said Beijing native Qian Hao, who takes his four long-haired imported Pekingese on daily walks in a stroller.
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Like other aspects of his quicksilver character, his politics were ambiguous: leftist in general but what might be termed pop-aristocratic in effect.
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Go is an ancient, aristocratic Chinese board game that's reputed to have as many possible moves as there are atoms in the universe.
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So he put him on the ballot, not letting the messy business of democracy get in the way of the Lipinski aristocratic ideal.
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What happened at the lavish 40th-birthday party of his aristocratic best friend, Ben Fitzmaurice, to make Martin squirm under the detectives' glare?
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This in turn seems to have morphed into a vaguely aristocratic honorific, and before long the delightful young orderly had become the Munshi.
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For a fancier occasion this formula would become a pilaf with saffron, nuts and dried fruit, elevating the plain rice to aristocratic heights.
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It was founded after World War II by Franciscan friars, in concert with several local aristocratic families, to teach orphans a practical trade.
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Through a series of improbable events, Axminster Carpets is now closely linked with a corporation that, image-wise, is the opposite of aristocratic.
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She could also be eligible for an aristocratic title and, at least theoretically, a place in the line of succession to the throne.
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Three former staffers interviewed by Reuters use the word "gentleman" to describe him, a reference to both his aristocratic lineage and his temperament.
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Lady Bernadine Corbet, an aristocratic young woman, is bewitched by "Le Roman de La Rose", a courtly poem, and fleeing a controlling father.
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"You have to decide if you're trying to start an aristocratic dynasty so that all the money stays in your family," he says.
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For much of mirrors' long history, they were luxury items, fragile and expensive to produce, owned mainly by the aristocratic and the wealthy.
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Born Caroline Luel-Brockdorff, the first female heir to Valdemars Slot, a castle in Denmark, she grew up feeling stifled by aristocratic mores.
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But instead of a genteel world of aristocratic amusements, he found himself plunged into one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific campaign.
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Take her breakout role in The Group, where she portrayed an aristocratic, art student lesbian (this was the '60s, mind you) alongside Steve McQueen.
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The owner of a cleaning product line is putting her business at risk with aristocratic marketing, high prices, and an unwillingness to face reality.
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To channel Prince George, you'll need a navy sweater, a pair of twill shorts, and knee-high socks to emulate his aristocratic schoolboy style.
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Slytherins have a naturally aristocratic bearing and would be a perfect fit in any castle, but Dalmoak in Scotland has a particularly regal vibe.
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She was raised by what she described in her autobiography as an aristocratic yet financially struggling family, which included her mother, grandmother, and uncle.
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The two men arose from aristocratic backgrounds — Burr the grandson of legendary theologian Jonathan Edwards and Trump the son of a real estate tycoon.
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Douthat longs for "the old establishment's more pious and aristocratic spirit," which is an idea that's naive at best and blatantly racist at worst.
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Runciman was not aristocratic by birth—his grandfather, a shipping magnate, had established the family fortune—but he was immensely grand and well connected.
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But on a recent Friday, Lady Elizabeth — the orchestrator of some of Britain's most aristocratic parties — was in her white-azalea-filled sitting room.
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Diski riskily interrogates the ingratitude lurking beneath her feelings toward Lessing — the aristocratic savior (of the Communist-Sufi-literary variety) to her Dickensian waif.
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Starting with Bram Stoker's Dracula and culminating in the "Twilight" franchise, vampires have been depicted as aristocratic and wealthy -- immortality is expensive, after all.
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He ended the monopoly wielded by aristocratic and expensive eating clubs, the dining and social halls where upperclassmen have their meals, by approving alternatives.
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The aristocratic support of the sport hit an apex in 1723, when King George I ordered the construction of a ring in Hyde Park.
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Sam liked to give the impression that he'd have made a magnificent aristocratic layabout, like a character created by Jane Austen or Oscar Wilde.
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The French elite is made up of well-spoken front-row kids like Emmanuel Macron, products of exclusive schools, and often from aristocratic families.
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To read a single Wodehouse sentence is to enter an alternate universe: a zero-gravity caperscape of aristocratic bumbling that seems to transcend time.
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They viewed equal (male) suffrage as a menace not only to their own electoral prospects but also to the survival of the aristocratic order.
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Formerly inhabited by a single aristocratic family, Halard's early 18th-century hôtel particulier has become a living record of his own tastes and obsessions.
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After graduation, even as Florent rushes off to work for Monsanto, Aymeric returns to his aristocratic estate in Normandy to attempt organic dairy farming.
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He left the aristocratic corps after a year—the minimum requirement—worn down by the expense of keeping himself and his horse looking spiffy.
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With a Gallic blend of charm, elegance, aristocratic lineage and impeccable academic credentials, he became a national figure through his writings and television appearances.
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One of Goya's main themes was social injustice, with satirical scenes of aristocratic decadence contrasting with drawings of famine and hardship in the countryside.
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After growing up in an aristocratic family in Beijing, with 12 siblings and a matching number of servants, my grandmother's idyllic childhood ended abruptly.
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He becomes the headwaiter at the hotel's premier restaurant, putting all his aristocratic knowledge of fine wine, fine food, and etiquette to good use.
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It originally took in aristocratic people with psychiatric issues, and now it's a cutting-edge facility treating everything from eating disorders to the criminally insane.
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Although she and Charles had met two years prior and fallen in love, she was not deemed "sufficiently aristocratic" to be the future king's wife.
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Per Deadline, Maxim Trevelyan is a "privileged and aristocratic young Englishman," while Alessia Demachi is described as a "talented and beautiful" recent arrival in London.
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One subplot sees Yahia's aristocratic gay uncle fall passionately in love with a British GI whom he at first schemes to kidnap and to kill.
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Throwing a boyar (an aristocratic official) off the porch to a restive crowd was a standard means of placating discontent until Peter the Great's time.
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Some of the artists selected as their subjects aristocratic opera houses and theaters, while others look to more democratic spaces of popular entertainment, like cinemas.
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Walter Clopton Wingfield was hoping to reverse the falling fortunes of his aristocratic family with a simple game that could be played on any lawn.
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When only a few aristocratic families could afford to patronize the top design houses, ordering hundred-thousand-dollar dresses for each ball or state dinner.
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"Andrew Jackson was the first regular guy president and he was a kind of response to the more aristocratic, elitist founding fathers," he tells me.
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One, from the Deutsche Grammophon label, is decorated with Jacques-Émile Blanche's portrait of the composer, in which he assumes an aristocratic, lapel-grasping pose.
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It demands that its duplicitous characters — and especially the aristocratic manipulators in chief at its center — be as exquisitely arch and artificial as their environment.
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Mr. Pätzold and Mr. Manthei carry much of the production, whether they're blowing rings of smoke in aristocratic dress or racing around the stage naked.
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May's gravest challenge on Thursday came from Jacob Rees-Mogg, a bespectacled Tory who styles himself after aristocratic gentlemen in the novels of P.G. Wodehouse.
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The show moves, among other places, from aristocratic old-world Kingston to a modern medical facility in the United States to a battlefield in Crimea.
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And who but an aristocratic British bloke would decorate the space with chandeliers, armchairs, Oriental rugs, lacquered chests, flickering candles and other drawing-room accouterments?
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Westwood runway staples deconstructing formal aristocratic attire — pinstriped suiting, paper crowns, slogan patterned prints and genderless corseted gowns — remained a rallying cry against the establishment.
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"It's a little bit like aristocratic families," Laudomia Pucci, who runs her family's archive (another part is housed at her country estate, outside Florence), says.
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His aristocratic style, cool-tempered elegance and political savvy helped guide his ascent to become its seventh secretary-general, and the first hired from within.
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Rewind A man snuffs out his aristocratic relatives one by one in the 1949 British film "Kind Hearts and Coronets," now showing at Film Forum.
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While carrying a folded fan might be an eccentric affectation today, for centuries they were the aristocratic accessory for subtle flirting and pre-air-conditioning cooling.
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One of Princess Diana's most famous toppers – the Spencer Tiara – actually belongs to her family, who can trace their aristocratic lineage back to the Tudor period.
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A Chinese opera company created "Coriolanus and Du Liniang", in which Shakespeare's Roman general encounters an aristocratic lady from Tang's best-known play, "The Peony Pavilion".
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Janna's teacher, with whom she is obsessed, is the cold, aristocratic Egon von Bötticher, a much older man who has a mysterious connection to her father.
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This idea of Russia as a "united states" was first voiced by the Decembrists, a group of aristocratic revolutionaries who led an unsuccessful uprising in 1825.
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Their star-crossed love seems like it can't have a happy ending, but in the end, both generational trauma and aristocratic tradition can't stop true love.
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"With the Beast's coat, we thought that it wouldn't be embroidered like an aristocratic prince's coat, because how would the castle have done that?" she explains.
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The question for him was not whether the Constitution was too aristocratic—it was—but whether that was a price worth paying to save the union.
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For one thing, the Spanish series takes place in the early 20th century aristocratic hotel during the reign of King Alfonso XIII, not modern-day Miami.
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Are selfies different from the aristocratic portraits, which, as you point out, citing the work of John Berger, were ways of demonstrating social class and property?
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Before her engagement to Prince William, Kate Middleton and her family were always too middle-class, rather than aristocratic, for those "courtiers" who briefed the newspapers.
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However, when the big day came, Diana instead chose to wear the Spencer Tiara, an 18th-century family heirloom from her great aristocratic family, the Spencers.
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Even Murtagh who seems like a brute to the aristocratic circles of French society that he's moving through is a man of surprising depth and loyalty.
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In the 1780s, Robert chronicled the breakdown of aristocratic society in images of the destruction of royalist monuments, and he was imprisoned during the French Revolution.
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While Verdura was a gregarious charmer born into an aristocratic Sicilian family, Belperron was always intensely private and had humble beginnings in Besançon, in eastern France.
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Her rich and vibrant circular tableaus bring new meaning to a realm of artistry that recalls parlor needlepoint done by aristocratic daughters and wives of yesteryear.
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Now he lets this influence ripen with a new version of Chekhov's comic drama about an aristocratic family undergoing a crisis of love and real estate.
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Instead, after meeting some influential Americans and recognized their interest in Mexican colonial art, taking advantage of his aristocratic panache, he sold art, textiles, and artifacts.
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The Duchess of Cambridge, formerly the wealthy but not aristocratic Kate Middleton, was nicknamed Waity Katie while she was waiting for Prince William to propose marriage.
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Hawk: He used to —— Unidentified Speakers: [Arabic] Callimachi: So we walk in, and first of all, it had all of the trappings of this aristocratic house.
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Two suitors are especially drawn to her: John Carrington, an aristocratic young Virginian, and the practical and ambitious Senator Silas Ratcliffe, a rising man from Illinois.
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The document that emerged, our Constitution, is often thought of as part of an aristocratic counterrevolution that stands in contrast to the democratic revolution of 1776.
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The opera was loosely based on the first in a trilogy of audacious plays by Beaumarchais that stoked anti-aristocratic sentiment in late 18th-century Paris.
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Next door, the jewelers of Chaumet were pondering the tension within a bow, a traditional gift in French aristocratic courts symbolizing both filial and romantic affection.
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Formerly a common sailor, he was not one of the so-called gentleman saints like William Wilberforce, an aristocratic leader of the abolition movement in Britain.
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It was, he said, an aristocratic holdover from pre-democratic times that favored the wealthy and corrupt and too often defied the will of the electorate.
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Ancient Chinese texts drew a class distinction between the junzi, the aristocratic gentlemen, and the xiaoren, the common men — poor, unskilled and, supposedly, stupid and immoral.
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But we're no longer in the aristocratic age, the age of great structural inequalities that persisted over centuries and are based in the fabric of life.
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As described in the book, these young women weren't aristocratic like Diana, but they had an upper middle class background and upheld those values among everything else.
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Starring alongside Rachel Weisz as Lady Marlborough, Emma Stone played the critically acclaimed role of Abigail Masham, a servant who longs to return to her aristocratic roots.
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The revolution completed the job, abolishing local autonomy along with aristocratic power and reducing individual citizens to equal servitude beneath the "immense tutelary power" of the state.
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Starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Belle told the story of a half-black, half-white girl who is raised in an aristocratic society in England in the 1700s.
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The energy might have tipped a bit more toward the demonic in the finale, but there was something to be said for these two players' aristocratic reserve.
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We learned how ethnic Malay communities in kampungs continued to labor in the fields and fisheries while the British cannily placed aristocratic Malay elites in administrative positions.
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It is possible that having grown up in this kind of glitzy, aristocratic bubble, Nick takes it, and the conventions that go along with it, for granted.
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In recent decades, that aristocratic conservatism has sometimes been obscured by a populist mask, but under the pressure of Trumpism, National Review is showing its true face.
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Gorgeous George was, in short, the very negation of the American male athlete; the persona he originated was equal parts drag queen, aristocratic prig, and lowdown cheat.
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He and his 15-year-old sister Carys had some fun dressing up in aristocratic garb for a photo, which he shared on Instagram earlier this week.
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She was the youngest of three daughters of the future Earl Spencer, scion of an aristocratic British family that had been prominent since the early 16th century.
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No, because there are lots of other ways you can produce an image of yourself that communicate exclusivity and privilege in the ways those aristocratic portraits did.
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At Buckley's own magazine there were prominent voices who, echoing the aristocratic libertinism of the eighteenth century, argued that male sexual license was perfectly compatible with traditionalism.
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Like many popular and longstanding American phenomena—from football to racing cars—hunting and its roots are simultaneously aristocratic yet plebian, aspirational and visceral all at once.
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We are witnessing the extent to which the aristocratic politician class will go, including eating their own, to preserve the status quo in the halls of politics.
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Those works offered an aristocratic version of life during the Dutch Golden Age, celebrating the wealth and abundance that was gained through the country's global trading networks.
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An old aristocratic order, at once morally flexible and rigidly traditional, is giving way to something new, and the change is bittersweet, containing both progress and tragedy.
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A handful of aristocratic families enjoyed a monopoly on land, due to primogeniture and entail, which barred the breakup and sale of any part of large estates.
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She was 28, a brunet ingénue from English stock, raised in what she has wryly called "the most aristocratic village in the prune belt" of Northern California.
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Born a count in Vienna in 1901 to an aristocratic family of French descent, d'Harnoncourt had an upbringing and early education with all the expected attendant privileges.
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Wrightsman shows a rail-thin woman of aristocratic bearing in a palatial salon, with a Louis XVI secretary of exquisite marquetry and chairs made for Marie Antoinette.
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Its sprawling grounds and cavernous rooms evoke ancient aristocratic privilege, but by the late 1940s, when "The Little Stranger" takes place, that grandeur has begun to fade.
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The Pour POMEROL, France — The word Bordeaux connotes magnificent chateaus, aristocratic (or at least wealthy or corporate) landowners and wines that occasionally live up to their pretensions.
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Our prime minister was David Cameron, a smooth, aristocratic former P.R. man, who was a conservative, but who revered Mr. Obama, as did most of the country.
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As a budding young journalist in New York, he was known to take potshots at the etiquette and artifice of what he saw as an aristocratic pastime.
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She was born in Gombak, a district in the state of Selangor, Malaysia, and left behind her aristocratic roots when she moved to Australia in her 20s.
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An almost suffocating elegance suffuses it, every orthogonal street a sheer face of mute, balconied 18th-century facades, each wonderfully preserved in a kind of aristocratic amber.
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That had always been the hope of the arts in Turin: its uneasy and never stable amalgam of aristocratic connoisseurship, bourgeois finance and working-class know-how.
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Mr. Wiley, 42, is best known for his aristocratic portraits of African-American men, including the one of President Obama that hangs in the National Portrait Gallery.
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Scarlatti's Baroque serenata is a short entertainment for two voices and small musical ensemble meant to be performed in the home or garden of an aristocratic family.
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Read more: The Beauty of Subtly Mismatched Earrings Inspired by aristocratic jewelry from the Edwardian era, this Paul Morelli collar necklace is meant to mimic a garland.
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Born in 1599 to a wealthy Antwerp family, Anthony van Dyck's talent was fortified from the outset by a familiarity with aristocratic manners and lots of money.
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"While we no longer use the Season to parade debutantes to eligible aristocratic bachelors, it is still very much the highlight of the British social calendar," Meier explains.
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But Britain's diplomatic and military establishment is a bit like an aristocratic family that has inherited a crumbling pile in the country and insists on keeping up appearances.
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But we were told it would end as a song of ice and fire, more elemental and universal in its thematic scope than the squabbles of aristocratic families.
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"Although many of Lhasa's historical aristocratic residences have been destroyed since the mid-20th century, the Tibet Heritage Fund has carefully documented many of the buildings," she says.
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Thus, it was a tremendous shock when, in the late 2nd century C.E., Roman Emperor Commodus greatly embarrassed aristocratic Romans by appearing as a gladiator in public events.
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Sick at heart from a life of aristocratic excess, Jaufré develops an idealized love for Clémence, the beautiful countess of Tripoli, whom he learns of from a pilgrim.
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Oh, how we'd love to know what Alexis de Tocqueville, the aristocratic Frenchman born in Paris on this day in 1805, would make of the last two weeks.
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We were working class, so we ordered the most aristocratic-sounding drinks possible: White Russian, Midori and lemonade, Tequila Sunrise and my own favorite, the Blue Bols Spritzer.
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Born into an aristocratic British family, Ms. Neilson embarked on a modeling career after recovering from drug addiction and was introduced to Mr. McQueen when she was 22.
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Mozart subtly questioned aristocratic hierarchies; Beethoven's sole opera is about the rescue of a political prisoner; Verdi stoked nationalistic fervor and explored the machinations of church and state.
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In the hallway is a striking frame-within-a-frame installation surrounding a small, 19th-century Julio Romero de Torres painting of an aristocratic woman baring a breast.
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The pleasures of Glenconner's tales must be winkled out of her sturdy if occasionally clichéd prose: revelations of the strange juxtapositions of an unexpectedly upstairs-downstairs aristocratic life.
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The pleasures of Glenconner's tales must be winkled out of her sturdy if occasionally clichéd prose: revelations of the strange juxtapositions of an unexpectedly upstairs-downstairs aristocratic life.
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Avid fans of fine art are aware that art is no laughing matter—though even the most aristocratic and prized work has an element of comedy to it.
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Typically when you bought a logoed handbag or piece of luggage, you were buying a connection to a European, aristocratic past, or at least the semblance of it.
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The "lower-upper-middle-class" Orwell and the aristocratic Churchill were both children of the Empire, yet they shared a certain contempt for the snobbery of British society.
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With its small membership and fixed terms, they thought it was too aristocratic; with its mix of legislative, executive and judicial powers, they thought it was too powerful.
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The colonel is a little lazy and suspiciously aristocratic, he squanders time over insignificant things, likes sweets a little too much and takes naps a little too often.
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Eventfulness is indeed what fuels this comedy of aristocratic manners, set in a bygone era when Britain is in a state of collective shell shock and relative deprivation.
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He has said he would order the first executions in the country in two decades and crack down on "aristocratic unionists" whom he accuses of slowing the economy.
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While aristocratic in his bearing, with a large gray beard, Mongiardino was rather ascetic in his habits: He lived alone, rarely received visitors and never ate at home.
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From "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" and its film version, "Dangerous Liaisons," in which Ms. Thurman was deflowered by John Malkovich, he has drawn the atmosphere of aristocratic end-times.
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They typically painted in a rough, expressive style, using ink sparsely to reflect their aristocratic manners and to dissociate themselves from the paid professionals of the imperial court.
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"Cluny Brown," her sparkling 1944 upstairs-downstairs social comedy of changing midcentury mores, set in the aristocratic Devon country house of Friars Carmel, became a classic Ernst Lubitsch comedy.
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The music hailed mostly from the 16th century, when the lute loomed large in aristocratic circles, wielded by both professionals (extremely well recompensed, according to Mr. O'Dette) and amateurs.
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His English upbringing endowed him with a Cambridge degree and a call to the bar, but the aristocratic "von" had been added when he and Sunny married, in 1966.
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In the years before the French Revolution, for example, the adherents of the ancien régime did not understand how radically the old aristocratic order was about to be challenged.
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Although he hid his sexuality from his family, at school he cultivated a gregarious, pretentious, preppy, and extremely effeminate persona inspired by the aristocratic, queer Brideshead character Sebastian Flyte.
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"If you look back at old paintings of children from aristocratic families, you see little boys aged two and under dressed as girls, wearing gowns and dresses," Hanson continued.
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For every aristocratic youth excited to emulate the new fashions radiating from London, there was another whose first reaction was to stuff a mouse into a macaroni's wig bag.
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In 1941, Mr. Stirling, an aristocratic dilettante who found his calling as a soldier, was recuperating in a Cairo hospital from injuries sustained during an ill-judged parachute jump.
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Enduring all manner of humiliations, bouncing back from every setback, tacking right and left with the times, he embodies the triumph of raw ambition over aristocratic rules of order.
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For decay in arts, Guerilla Science enlisted scenic artist James Fluhr to create an atmosphere that gave the space a sense of aristocratic decadence, but also one of decay.
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Aristocratic show-dog Amaz, said to be the last Russian wolfhound raised by the Romanovs, was buried here, as was Prince Charles, a dog owned by songwriter Irving Berlin.
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Over a squirrelly, squelchy beat by the Americanos — the production outfit behind the severely underrated "In My Foreign" — D.R.A.M. is wobbly and cheekily aristocratic, and Kyle is sweetly seductive.
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Mr. Herheim takes complex operas and renders them more so; "Pelléas," the enigmatic tale of a love triangle among members of an obscurely melancholy, aristocratic family, is no exception.
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Back in 2009, many Americans among the hoi polloi were willing to be drafted into Santelli's aristocratic revolution, dressing up in Founding Fathers drag for their contemporary Tea Party.
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Wanas Konst was founded in 20013 by Marika Wachtmeister, an art-loving lawyer who married into the aristocratic family that's presided over the remote Wanas estate for eight generations.
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It is strange, in an age of female sound and fury, this enduring fixation on a near-silent woman who put forth the decorous veneer of an aristocratic hostess.
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One of that group's founders was the aristocratic publisher and television host William F. Buckley Jr., who reveled in poking fun at and holes in liberalism in higher education.
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The pieces were, it now seems, far more often dictated on the run than written in that tower, dictation being the era's more aristocratic, less artisanal method of composition.
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"Giselle," the story of a peasant girl betrayed by her aristocratic lover and transformed into a spirit called a Wili, was a huge success, produced all over the world.
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Her father, Daniel Ammen de Menocal, descended from an aristocratic Cuban family; her mother, Beatrice (Crosby) de Menocal, was a New York society beauty with a Washington Square address.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg, a comically aristocratic Conservative MP from the hard Brexit faction, submitted a letter of no confidence in May's leadership — which could in theory topple her premiership.
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Tocqueville observed that Americans are fortunate to not have an aristocratic past annihilated by a democratic revolution like Europe experienced, which caused a great deal of pain and anxiety.
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The American style was open, tolerant, optimistic—the opposite, in fact, of the simple certainty offered by aristocratic Europeans in their draughty drawing rooms that things used to be better.
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We know there were women working in those times, and aristocratic women in those roles, but I am always amazed to see how women carved out roles for themselves then.
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Lord Fellowes of West Stafford, the series follows the ups, downs, and waydowns of the aristocratic Crawley family—inhabitants of the titular estate—and their (mostly) loyal team of servants.
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And one of said traditions is not allowing female members of the family to remain official members if they marry someone who does not have an aristocratic or royal background.
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This approach, more than any particular issue, is a fundamental challenge to an expansive court, presidency and even, perhaps, to the aristocratic position that de Tocqueville discerned in the law.
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Although an integral part of the samurai armory, the naginata was more generally accepted as a weapon used by aristocratic women and often formed part of a samurai daughter's dowry.
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The stately Victorian apartment the actress, 39, shares with her aristocratic fashion executive boyfriend Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo has belonged to a host of big names over the years.
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More than 2,500 years ago Confucius defended the view that exemplary persons (junzi) have superior ability and virtue (as opposed to the earlier view that junzi have aristocratic family backgrounds).
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"Downton Abbey", a recent television drama series about the aristocratic Crawley family, in which questions of inheritance loom large, was a runaway hit; a film adaptation is due in September.
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These decisions were much like the ones being made by many other aristocratic families at the time, but it was reportedly another cause of tension between Raine and her stepchildren.
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That question I want to pose is what function a queen or the act of coronation, or even the notion of an aristocratic social echelon, might serve in this moment.
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The aristocratic family became owners of the lavish Villa Tiepolo Passi estate where the couple will get married in the 1800s, though it has been around since the 17th century.
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In past writing on Balthus, I've insisted on his hebephilia, countering the long and enabling piety of art people who have endorsed his pretensions to aristocratic nobility and spiritual mysticism.
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To create his version of Cao Xueqin's sprawling 18th-century classic about the decline of an aristocratic family in imperial China, Mr. Sheng reduced the book to its bare bones.
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As chronicled in the 1971 book The Ladies of Llangollen: A Study in Romantic Friendship, Eleanor was the daughter of one of the most affluent aristocratic Catholic families in Ireland.
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If Michiganders feel like breaking this aristocratic fever, State Senator Steve Bieda and former State Representative Ellen Lipton are both viable alternatives who have non-hereditary claims to elected office.
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But while they displayed the values and ambitions of the modernizing English middle class — mediating between the rulers and the ruled — many of them came from aristocratic and landed backgrounds.
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De' Medici, the scion of an aristocratic line, is charismatic and decisive, a figure of legend among his contemporaries even before his death, at just 28, from a battlefield wound.
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Morgan tracks three generations of Kentucky's aristocratic Forge clan, horse breeders whose self-aggrandizing mythology is shadowed at every step by a black Ohioan family descended from their founder's slaves.
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As the sheer brutishness of Mr. Modi's populism becomes clear, the memory of the aristocratic Nehru becomes more sacred, especially among politicians and commentators from India's English-speaking upper castes.
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If the Italian's tie shows an aristocratic disdain for the trappings of masculine potency, Mr. Trump's symmetrical but overlong tie stands out like a rehearsed macho boast, crass and overcompensating.
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He was born Thomas Quincey, in Manchester in 1785; the prefix was added when he was around eleven, in one of his mother's many attempts to suggest an aristocratic lineage.
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The staging's centerpiece is a rotating set that suggests the bare wood framing of a rundown aristocratic mansion that has become a shared dwelling for the residents of Catfish Row.
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For those of us who've watched him grow up in Britain, he has always been the exemplar of aristocratic male excess -- specifically, in approach to race and to the environment.
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The party of the commoners had just gained power from the aristocratic party in parliament, and they wanted to expose the bribes the aristocrats had received from Russia and France.
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The androgynous collections drew inspiration from Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel "Orlando," a tale of a gender-shifting aristocratic poet, and from British interior designer Nancy Lancaster's English country house designs.
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At two months old, the newest member of the royal family, Archie, has more than just an aristocratic bloodline going for him — he has developed a worldwide social media presence.
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At two months old, the newest member of the royal family, Archie, has more than just an aristocratic bloodline going for him — he has developed a worldwide social media presence.
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At the time, the South was desperate for cheer, and Sewanee's success was seen as a response to the aristocratic Northerners of the day, who thought they owned the game.
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The designer said that she was inspired by the wave of aristocratic British models in the '90s and how they wore high fashion with a sense of ease and insouciance.
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His aristocratic assassins, recruited by Yusupov, believed Russia, misruled to the point of collapse, could be saved only if the royal family could be freed of the faith-healer's malign influence.
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Yet the 2000 presidential election may mark something of a revolt against a semi-aristocratic disdain for the public whose tax euros have long been plundered for private or party use.
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In the years before the Revolution, Lequeu seems to have had on-and-off employment for aristocratic clients, whether as an architect in his own right or merely as a draftsman.
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In Moscow, dancers at the Bolshoi came to embody an expressive, nationalistic idiom of dance, one that was opposed to the aristocratic refinement of their counterparts in French-influenced Saint Petersburg.
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ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (Reuters) - Along Fouad Street, a Costa coffee shop near old buildings with Italian and French architecture reminds Egyptians that commercial ventures threaten to erase traces of Alexandria's aristocratic past.
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Etiquette expert William Hanson told Mashable that George's propensity for wearing shorts actually stems from an age-old aristocratic tradition, one that the royal family has been sticking to for generations.
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Because of a lack of aristocratic culture of patronage, a system of tax breaks and tax-deductible donations has sustained a nonprofit system profoundly intertwined with third-party sources of cash.
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"In a confederacy founded on republican principles, and composed of republican members, the superintending government ought clearly to possess authority to defend the system against aristocratic or [monarchical] innovations," he wrote.
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Set in the waning years of Britain's imperial century, this frothy biography follows the lives of Mary, Madeline, and Pamela Wyndham, aristocratic English sisters renowned for their beauty and social prowess.
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Meyer; her Hamburg-born husband, Carl; and their two children — had just bought Shortgrove, a country estate in Essex that completed the Meyers' real-estate portfolio and complemented their aristocratic aspirations.
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At the same time, new leaders in higher education opened up their institutions' aristocratic gates, shedding a portion of academically mediocre bluebloods in favor of scrappier kids with impressive test scores.
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She rebelled instinctively against her wealthy, aristocratic family, was determined to paint and write and found her inner Surrealist when she visited "The First International Surrealist Exhibition" in London in 1936.
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Rather it's to look forward, and to suggest that our current elite might someday be reformed — or simply replaced — through the imitation of the old establishment's more pious and aristocratic spirit.
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A Conservative Party bastion, Northamptonshire is leafy and affluent, littered with aristocratic estates — yet in February its local authority became the first in two decades to effectively run out of money.
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Mirren also has deep familial ties to Russia — in a sense she is more Russian than Catherine herself, who was born into an aristocratic German family as Sophia of Anhalt-Zerbst.
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He was an operatic stylist and an aristocratic Marxist then best known in the United States for his neorealist and costume spectacles "Rocco and His Brothers" (1961) and "The Leopard" (1963).
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Here, Jury confers with his aristocratic friend, Melrose Plant, who keeps a most unusual menagerie that includes a goat named Aghast, a dog named Aggro and a horse named Aggrieved. Aha!
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Aristocratic Rolex served fine Bordeaux and goat cheese at the Reithalle Wenkenhof, the 18th-century estate where the tennis champion Roger Federer, a Basel native, happened to get married in 2009.
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The burden turns out to be his name, which is actually Jan Six XI. Dating back four centuries, his aristocratic family has named a firstborn son Jan in nearly every generation.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads On April 25, 1777, an aristocratic Mexican woman known as Doña Josefa Peres Maldonado underwent an operation to remove six cancerous tumors from her breast.
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Or at least that's the case until a new servant named Abigail (Emma Stone) — who comes from aristocratic roots but had her station ruined by a dissipated father — arrives at the palace.
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This large but understated painting, done in the canonized style of European aristocratic portraiture but with a Mexican subject, was a necessary palate cleanser before taking in the rest of the fair.
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When Jorge Ruiz del Vizo bought the 6,700 acre Monte Sacro estate from Nelson Rockefeller — yes, from that family — he kept up the aristocratic ways: polo horses, white-gloved servers, the works.
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Aside from lounging at Balmoral castle and drinking an excessive amount of tea, Daisy hangs out with Prince Alex's social circle, comprised of aristocratic and dashing boys — so at least there's that.
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These are works which push at the boundaries of gender, in similar ways to Woolf's novel, yet are also, unlike the aristocratic Orlando, portraits of the under-represented, the marginalised, the oppressed.
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While not about royalty exactly, Downton Abbey follows the trials and the tribulations of the aristocratic Crawley family against the backdrop of the early 20th century, World War I and the 1920s.
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Morale may have been grim and determined at the front, but at home Germans were short on food, sick of the war, and angry at the stagnation in the aristocratic class system.
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MILAN (Reuters) - Etro mixed aristocratic with underground vibes at Milan Fashion Week on Friday, with the Italian designer label looking to models of different ages to present its Autumn/Winter 2019 line.
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Jon is walking around Winterfell sporting his most somber man bun and waxing poetic to Melisandre (Carice van Houten) about his #FirstWorldProblem of sitting below the Stark family at their aristocratic feasts.
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To his swaggering, aristocratic father, this is a mortifying blow, and he is more than happy to let Henri loose in Paris, while his protective mother insists on moving there with him.
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As Europe devolved into barbarism in the early years of the First World War, Debussy adopted a decorous, formally controlled style that looked back to the aristocratic poise of the French Baroque.
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Julius, a refined, aristocratic bully, randomly selects a succession of individuals to be interrogated in front of the gathering, as two friends watch, terrified that one of them might be called next.
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Weaver boasts sound basic equipment; a natural ease on the stage, aristocratic good looks and a resonant baritone, which he attributes to a family line that boasts a number of opera singers.
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LOOKING back on the years before war broke out across Europe in 1914, Vita Sackville-West, an aristocratic English novelist, remembered an upper-class world of "warmth and security, leisure and continuity".
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Though the Carlton now allows women as full members, there are still several clubs in Mayfair that allow only men, and there are still many aristocratic gentlemen in the Houses of Parliament.
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Islamic parties were uncomfortable with the Communists' insistence that independence from Dutch colonial rule also upend aristocratic privileges and bring about the establishment of Socialist forms of ownership over land and industry.
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The only limitation in this is that Ojih Odutola has constructed a narrative around aristocratic families; thus she proposes that personal wealth is the essential foundation for social esteem and self-possession.
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Raised in quasi-aristocratic affluence, Ms. Hogg had been working as a fashion editor and a photographer's agent when she answered an ad in 1981 seeking someone to edit a decorating magazine.
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An unschooled tailor who worked his way up the political ladder to become a Tennessee senator, Johnson harbored a deep resentment of the aristocratic Southern planters, who viewed themselves as his betters.
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Instead, it was a fireplace: a 16th-century stone behemoth, large enough to spit-roast a wild boar, that had been reimagined as an aristocratic-chic headboard for my plush double bed.
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The novel serves as a satire of future British society, which has turned itself into an aristocratic republic (there's still a king, he just happens to be called the Earl of Windsor).
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The Lucía of 1895 (played by the stage diva Raquel Revuelta) is a woman from an aristocratic Havana family who, losing her youth, embarks on a passionate affair with a handsome Spaniard.
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Based on a novel by Guy de Maupassant, it traces the fluctuating fortunes of Jeanne Le Perthuis des Vauds (Judith Chemla), an aristocratic landowner in 19th-century France, through marriage and motherhood.
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A wealthy prince in Aquitaine, Jaufré is tired of his dissolute aristocratic life and, spurred by a pilgrim's tale, falls in love with someone he's never met: Clémence, the Countess of Tripoli.
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The group, now with a wealthy and aristocratic membership of elite Catholics who parade in ornate raiment, has more recently specialized in aiding refugees and the poor in more than 100 countries.
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According to Japan's imperial law, female members of the royal family forfeit their titles, status and allowance if they choose to marry someone who does not have royal or aristocratic family ties.
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Koreans have been practicing traditional forms of tea ceremony since the year 661 — but it wasn't until the Joseon dynasty that the ceremonies began to flourish, becoming daily rituals in aristocratic households.
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The vast aristocratic country estate, generally open to the public, is made up of areas dedicated to both leisure and industry, which at one time engaged in profitable and experimental agricultural activity.
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Can you talk about the macho culture that dominated life in the South where fisticuffs, dueling, and gunplay were the norm, long after the quasi-aristocratic violence was denounced in the North?
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Royal and aristocratic houses all over Europe were linked to the Romanovs by a dense matrix of blood ties; they shared both the grief for the tsar and the inchoate urge to help.
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The aristocratic wing of the Tory Party also boasted deep Scottish connections: Alec Douglas-Home had an estate up there and even David Cameron could boast a Scottish name and Scottish shooting buddies.
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These earlier foes of Project Enlightenment found themselves between the mute masses on one hand, and aristocratic elites ordering the world for their own ends (even as they preached freedom) on the other.
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She loves him, he may or may not love her, and the tension between them is exquisite, sad, full of regret and, ironically, rather aristocratic in its determination to stiffen the upper lip.
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The prince was the designated successor of the German aristocratic House of Saxe Weimar Eisenach, which is the oldest branch of the House of Wettin, according to Deutsche Welle , a German media company.
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Soames, a Conservative member of Parliament, exemplified aristocratic mores: the grandson of Winston Churchill, he later told an interviewer that he'd be ashamed should any member of his own family seek psychiatric help.
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But Mr. Temperley's most prominent work in England came in the popular band led by Humphrey Lyttelton, a trumpeter from an aristocratic family who later enjoyed a long career as a radio broadcaster.
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Illustrations of the Ramayana and other holy texts, portraits of rajahs with horses and elephants, and love scenes both spiritual and erotic plot the development of Indian aristocratic taste over three tumultuous centuries.
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In the funniest scene, Célestine witnesses a train inspection during which a prim aristocratic matron is forced to open a jewel case in the presence of other passengers, revealing an anatomically correct dildo.
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Both she and her sister have regularly been referred to in aristocratic circles as the "wisteria sisters" — "highly decorative, terribly fragrant and with a ferocious ability to climb," according to The Daily Mail.
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In Jim Larranaga's fifth season in Miami, they had seemingly settled comfortably into the middle of the pack in an ACC conference defined by aristocratic programs like Duke, North Carolina, Syracuse, and Louisville.
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Mr. Annan was born in Kumasi in southern Ghana in 1938 to an aristocratic family, before studying economics in Ghana and continuing his education in Geneva and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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The orchid, once an aristocratic rarity, now a ubiquity — you can buy them at Home Depot — is still the most unnatural-looking flower of the natural world, dizzying in its opulent, adamant oddity.
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"The Mister" tells the story of Maxim Trevelyan, a privileged and aristocratic Englishman, and Alessia Demachi, a mysterious young woman with musical gifts and a dangerous past who has recently arrived in London.
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Mr. Lucic (stepping in for Bryn Terfel) is better at conveying the suavely aristocratic ways that Scarpia manipulates those he tries to control than he is at tapping into the character's warped malevolence.
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There is an account of an aristocratic Southern abolitionist and brawler named Cassius Marcellus Clay: Attacked by a mob and shot in the chest, he carved up the shooter with a Bowie knife.
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He encourages citizens to get involved in great civic projects that will give their lives meaning and allow everybody to partake in the heroic action that was once reserved for the aristocratic few.
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Two wealthy presidents came from New York — aristocratic cousins named Roosevelt — and both pushed for what was sometimes considered "revolutionary" redistribution of wealth in the United States, as my father periodically reminded me.
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Read her obituary here Peter Serkin was born to musical royalty, but as a young man in the 1960s he rebelled against his aristocratic past and many of the conventions of classical music.
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Born to an extremely wealthy and powerful family in mid-16th-century Italy — Aloysius is the Latinized version of his given name, Luigi — Gonzaga felt a calling different from his family's aristocratic leanings.
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"L'Amour au Théâtre" (2009), set to excerpts from Rameau's "Hippolyte et Aricie," matches the aristocratic decorum of the music with its own democratic cooperation, the dancers calmly inverting one another, assembling cantilevered tableaus.
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For many Americans this might come as something of a surprise, but the bare-knuckle game, or "pugilism" if you're feeling aristocratic, has been making a comeback in the United Kingdom for a while.
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Yet the avuncular leader with an aristocratic pedigree was still expecting to cruise to another election victory in polls due by mid-2018, maintaining his coalition's record of unbroken rule since independence in 1957.
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The company was founded by two scions of aristocratic families: di Cassano, whose lineage includes an Italian prince beheaded in 1799, and Boris Blatnik, whose sister married into the deposed royal family of Greece.
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He broadened the liberal tradition by subjecting the bland pieties of the Anglo-American middle class to a certain aristocratic disdain; and he deepened it by pointing to the growing dangers of bureaucratic centralisation.
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The centre will dominate an area featuring some of Sweden's most emblematic and historic buildings like the National Museum, an area with an aristocratic air of traditional restaurants, harbour-side bars and shining yachts.
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MILAN, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Etro mixed aristocratic with underground vibes at Milan Fashion Week on Friday, with the Italian designer label looking to models of different ages to present its Autumn/Winter 2019 line.
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It opens with a frantic Sandra Oh running through a perfectly manicured garden, costumed as an aristocratic lady (lady of what, where, or when is not specified, but we assume...someplace in historic England?).
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"A Handful of Dust," Evelyn Waugh This novel shows all of Waugh's gifts for satire and farce, but unlike his earlier novels, it has a three-dimensional, tragic protagonist in aristocratic cuckold Tony Last.
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In his masterpiece "Pilgrimage to the Isle Cythera" (17153), aristocratic lovers attended to by fluttering cupids prepare to set off in a golden boat for the fabled island of love, the birthplace of Aphrodite.
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Born in 21978 to an aristocratic Polish family in Lithuania, which was part of the Russian Empire at the time, Milosz was swept up in the maelstrom of the twentieth century from the beginning.
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Initially, my real interest in the club was anthropological; it was the most pretentious club imaginable, and I thought I might catch a glimpse of a dying breed of aristocratic youths in their element.
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Artists felt better taking a stipend against future sales than accepting aristocratic largess; an offer of yearly shows before a gallery's public was more appealing than an offer to deck out a patron's walls.
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" Reviewing it as a new release in 1969, he deemed the drama — about an aristocratic family of German industrialists in the early years of Hitler's rule — "mind-blinding as a spectacle of fabulous corruption.
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Meanwhile, in a parallel story, a beautiful courtesan named Angelica Neal, penniless after the death of her aristocratic patron, has decided to abandon the protection of the madam whose top attraction she once was.
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Including the presence of women in historical aristocratic patronage, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the contemporary art world in both emerging and established centres, the sessions will investigate a diverse range of topics.
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While Mr. Gove professed himself "disappointed," Jacob Rees-Mogg, a strongly pro-Brexit lawmaker who cultivates a cartoonish aristocratic image, greeted protesters who vented their anger on Wednesday by flinging fish into the Thames.
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At the same time, the Japanese emperors were becoming largely ceremonial, if not decadent; in reality, Japan was ruled by a succession of aristocratic clans, headed by a shogun, starting with the Fujiwara family.
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The baritone Quinn Kelsey, an aristocratic but fierce Count di Luna, has a distinctive tone: rich but smoky — even, excitingly, a little hollow, as if you're always hearing him in an empty, echoey church.
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Eventually, other schools emerged, each with their own masters and aesthetics, and ikebana went from a religious ritual to a trapping of aristocratic palace life, eventually becoming a genteel pastime for 19th-century ladies.
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He comes from an aristocratic family but began his political career in extreme-left groups before turning to journalism, running an environmentalist newspaper and then becoming the spokesman for Rome's mayor in the 1990s.
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At the beginning of the gameplay demo, after a few minutes of prodding around, the chosen character, an aristocratic vampire named Astarion, came across a dark cleric named Shadowheart banging against a chapel door.
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When Catherine Elizabeth Middleton married Prince William at Westminster Abbey on April 226, 20053, she was the first non-aristocratic woman to marry a British heir to the throne in more than 22005 years.
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The owners, Li Boru and Xue Wei, moved from China to New York to go to graduate school and wanted to open a restaurant that would evoke the aristocratic cooking of China's dynastic era.
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The last time she played such a role was in 1963 and -- as depicted recently in the Netflix series "The Crown" -- her youthful decision to appoint the aristocratic Alec Douglas-Home was a disaster.
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We see home movies of her as a child, the youngest daughter of the venerable aristocratic Spencer family, and photographs of a pretty, shy teenager, as friends from her early years recount their memories.
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The journal of one Philip Vickers Fithian, a tutor from New Jersey working for an aristocratic family in Virginia, wrote, in horror, in his journals in 1774 of a forthcoming battle between four young men.
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Cameron, however, resisted the attempt at humanization and never quite took to the cat, however, referring to it, in classic British aristocratic fashion, as "it" and marveling at others' affection for it—specifically Barack Obama's.
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For 11 ignominious months Lord Pearson, a languidly aristocratic former Tory, trashed his party's prospects: in a television interview shortly before the 2010 election he appeared not even to have read its 14-page manifesto.
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The Meadows Museum in Dallas has acquired a long-forgotten portrait of a Spanish aristocratic girl from the 1760s dressed in blue ruffles, carrying a pug and clutching a doughnut-shaped pastry called a rosquilla.
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A disproportionate number of these aristocratic boys, including the prime minister's son, died in the fighting for the nihilistic, vaguely classical ethos that death in battle would be the most noble end to their lives.
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Framed for the murder of an aristocratic lover (Tilda Swinton) who bequeathed him a valuable painting, he conspires with his lobby boy (Tony Revolori) to prove his innocence in exchange for naming him his heir.
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Hidden away in three large rooms in one of the aristocratic family's many Roman properties, the collection of over 600 marble, bronze and alabaster statues and reliefs has not been seen by outsiders for decades.
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The boy who became Mann's muse was later identified as Wladyslaw Moes, the 10-year-old son of an aristocratic Polish family, in the 2001 book "The Real Tadzio," by the Scottish journalist Gilbert Adair.
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"Cherif often told us that the rigorous Jesuit regime came as a shock to an aristocratic kid like him, but it introduced him to the disciplined and scholarly lifestyle he never lost," Ms. Capitanini said.
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After touring Britain as one of Nine Human Wonders ("the most lowly and unfortunate beings in God's universe"), Sarah is taken up — and effectively bought — by an aristocratic doctor (a very good John Ellison Conlee).
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For all Porter's aristocratic mien, his tastes were rather plain, as those of the American upper classes usually are—high taste is typically simple taste, as anyone who has eaten at a Wasp club knows.
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These books were the prized possession of aristocratic Jewish, Muslim and Christian families who used them as a way to show off their wealth and power at the same time as their piety and devotion.
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The locals derisively refer to the newcomers as "Okies," and, due to rising concerns of a labor uprising, the aristocratic landowners mistreat their migrant workers and promote exploitative policies to keep them subservient and dependent.
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Socrates called it "a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder …" But his disciple, Plato, was less admiring of democracy's "variety;" he preferred Kallipolis, an aristocratic order governed by "philosopher kings" (the wise men).
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ROME — Several of this city's finest museums bear the names of the aristocratic families who once built majestic palazzi and stuffed them full of priceless art: the Borghese, the Barberini, the Doria Pamphilj, and more still.
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" Tolstoy's "War and Peace," with its tale of aristocratic Russian families during the Napoleonic invasion in the early 1800s, would seem a natural for the small screen in the age of "Downton Abbey" and "Mad Men.
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The tall, aristocratic von Bulow was charged with putting his wife, Martha "Sunny" von Bulow, into an irreversible coma to gain her fortune so he could live with his mistress, a raven-haired soap opera actress.
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In 2007, Mr. Rivette returned to his beloved Balzac for "The Duchess of Langeais," a historical drama in which an army officer (Guillaume Depardieu) traces his lost aristocratic love (Jeanne Balibar) to a convent in Spain.
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A fortuitously placed wart on the penis of the "mad monk" Rasputin, whose scandalous behaviour and bad advice helped bring about the dynasty's downfall, is cited as a possible reason for his success with aristocratic women.
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She raised the couple's two sons, William and Harry, as much as possible herself, eschewing the traditional aristocratic childhood of starched shirts and quiet manners, opting instead for noisy football matches and splashy family bath-times.
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Much as other, more adult, prompts have asked users to create and forward along their "porn star" name, this one helps you craft an aristocratic title from seemingly innocuous items from your family and your past.
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Dubbed by other members of Parliament as "Honourable Member for the 18th century," Mogg is a cartoonish figure who plays up his aristocratic background and, like Johnson himself, inspires a loyal following among many Conservative activists.
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Even if you haven't read "À la Recherche du Temps Perdu," you shouldn't be afraid to read "Proust's Duchess," Caroline Weber's beguiling group biography of three aristocratic salonnières of Parisian high society in the Belle Époque.
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In vote after vote, this holdover from Britain's aristocratic history has acted as a brake on the government's Brexit plans, sending them back to the House of Commons where they could face uncertain, knife-edge votes.
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But the particular kind of aristocratic performance art that Mr. Rees-Mogg perfected on his way to power may not prove as effective in the throes of a bruising fight over Brexit and the British constitution.
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The painting, completed in the 1960s, is of a long-necked satyr-like woman, with spiral breasts and an aristocratic arm draped elegantly on a ledge, her fingers long and slim, like those of Carrington herself.
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Wine is anti-democratic in the sense that, all other things being equal, aristocratic terroirs will win out, even if, like the wayward child of a billionaire, bad farming and winemaking squander this built-in advantage.
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Its inmates included unfortunate people who had been consigned there without trial by the infamous lettres de cachet, sealed orders from the king that were sometimes used by aristocratic families to get rid of inconvenient relatives.
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She came from a family prominent in both business and politics — her father, Luis A. Ferré, was governor of the island, a United States commonwealth, from 1969 to 1973 — and often wrote about the island's aristocratic class.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Voluminous side-swept bangs, an aristocratic demeanor complemented by a cold stare, and impeccable outfits are standard features of bishounen, the "beautiful boys" that populate Japanese comics (manga) and cartoons (anime).
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He is particularly adept at telegraphing Ms. Streisand's unspoken thoughts with a superior glance or an aristocratic toss of the head, brushing back an unruly (if invisible) lock of hair with a single finger at the temple.
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He follows Max Weber, one of the founders of sociology, in seeing democracy as a price elites pay for the co-operation of the non-aristocratic classes in mass warfare, during which it legitimises deep economic levelling.
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" Durran adds: "One of the things I really liked about the Beast's costumes is that he goes from being completely like an animal, all the way through to being an aristocratic gentleman, while he's still a beast.
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All the latent nobility of the instrument was on display there: its ancient lineage, from Laotian and Chinese metal-reed pipes, and its aristocratic birth in the early 19th century, as an instrument for fashionable drawing rooms.
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Such outsize influence, enjoyed by dozens of aristocratic families in rural parts of Punjab province thanks to centuries of rigid social, tribal or religious tradition, is key to Khan's strategy for winning Pakistan's July 25 general election.
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Shah Mehmood Qureshi, deputy-chairman of PTI and an aristocratic Sufi elder, said the party has become "pragmatic" after the 2013 poll, in which it fielded ideological candidates who did not know the "art of contesting elections".
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During the 17th century, the great British universities made their first efforts to incorporate local, non-aristocratic children, and a larger proportion of the general population entered higher education than at any time except the twentieth century.
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The comments, appearing to lay some blame for the 72 deaths on the people trapped in the flames, angered other lawmakers and shocked even critics who have grown used to Mr. Rees-Mogg's flashes of aristocratic obliviousness.
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He was canny, too, making sure of his place as an academician at the RA, both to enhance his social position (he needed aristocratic endorsement to succeed), and to provide an acceptable floor price for his work.
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But as the portrayal has come down over the past few years, with Louisa Muller now listed as stage director, it seems merely hyperactive and sleazy — hardly the thing, you would think, to make aristocratic ladies swoon.
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Two years ago, the T contributing editor Marella Caracciolo Chia sent us pictures of a compound of ancient buildings above Florence into which an aristocratic woman and her family were in the very early stages of moving.
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When William H.H. Murray, a Boston preacher turned Adirondack wilderness guru, published his 1869 best seller "Adventures in the Wilderness," he was assailed by aristocratic hunters for bringing "a bunch of carpetbaggers" into the woods, White writes.
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Built around 29092 as the private home of the aristocratic de Tourrel d'Almeran family, this imposing sandstone palace was restored by its current co-owner, the German architect Margot Stängle, and is now a seven-room hotel.
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Her alma mater had received support from UNESCO and had served as a model school for foreign visitors, its cluster of marble-white buildings poised like an aristocratic swan among gray alleyways and sprawling, run-down quadrangles.
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Excerpts from Martha Rosler's iconic series Bringing the War Home, print collages that seamlessly integrate brutal images of the distant conflict into aristocratic images of luxury house interiors, both sourced from the same editions of Life magazine.
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His aristocratic rank was respected and his work was so admired that most of the pieces made in his shop were sent immediately to adorn palaces and cathedrals in Spain, Germany, Flanders, and the duchy of Milan.
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And it might be culturally impossible, given the sway of the meritocratic idea, for elite schools to lean into their aristocratic profile rather than insisting (in whatever defiance of reality) that they are offering opportunity to all.
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"She had this inborn ambition," according to Dutton, and this is clear in Cavendish's work, because unlike many aristocratic men who had their books bound and then shared them among peers, she didn't distribute her books herself.
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Asked whether Ms. Boël could claim a succession to the Belgian throne, Mr. Hiernaux said that "if she's proven to be his biological daughter, she could hypothetically take his aristocratic name," which is Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
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LONDON — After 11 male statues — mostly of white, middle-aged men of aristocratic pedigree — and nearly 200 years, the first female figure was unveiled on Tuesday in London's historic Parliament Square, the locus of the British establishment.
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Her restrained yet exciting performance was matched by that of the conductor Vasily Petrenko, also making his Met debut and leading a refined, properly aristocratic performance of an opera that can be exaggerated almost into Grand Guignol.
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His mother, disowned by her aristocratic family for marrying an Italian opera singer, was denied burial in the ancestral crypt, thus inspiring her son to avenge her by eliminating all those in the way of his succession.
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Born in Prague in 1896 to an aristocratic family, Czapski, who was fluent in Polish, Russian, German and French, fought for Poland against the Bolsheviks, eventually moving to Paris to pursue a bohemian career as a painter.
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The root of "gentrification" — "gentry" — can refer either to those of not-quite-aristocratic birth or to those who profit from land ownership; either to the well-off in general or to the rentier class in particular.
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This was where Marston's mother grew up with her obscenely aristocratic family—one of them signed the Magna Carta—and it was only after she deigned to marry beneath her station that little William came into the world.
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Mr. Oakes was able to leverage his aristocratic background, attracting a list of prominent people, like Jonathan Marland, a member of the British House of Lords and former treasurer of the Conservative Party, as shareholders in his venture.
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In all honesty I've never believed in the good purposes of a conceptual mechanism called state, but I was angry at the thought I had to choose between a condition of extreme, endless poverty and lunar aristocratic shit.
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But many school administrators disliked this arrangement, as did the aristocratic parents of university students, and universities began to erect gates and walls to separate their sacred grounds from the profane communities in which they had been embedded.
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The series is, at its heart, a classic upstairs/downstairs story about the people living in and running the Riviera Grand Hotel in Miami Beach — which today's TV audiences will recognize most immediately from the British aristocratic drama.
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Robin's second edition ties Burke's conviction that the market, and the "monied men" who control it, should determine value to Nietzsche's passionate attachment to the idea of an aristocratic, cultural taste-making class and both, eventually, to Trump.
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Howe's reflections on the Cambridge and Boston of her childhood stand with Robert Lowell's "91 Revere Street" and the first few chapters of "The Education of Henry Adams" as essential evocations of an aristocratic milieu on life support.
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A 2002 self-portrait of the outspoken Swedish artist Ann-Sofi Siden, it's called "Fideicommissum," which is the name of an obsolete, centuries-old Swedish aristocratic law by which property could be handed down only to male heirs.
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In "To Wander Determined" at the Whitney Museum's lobby gallery, her first museum show in New York, Toyin Ojih Odutola works in the same genre — portraiture — except her subjects are two fictional aristocratic families in her native Nigeria.
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"Lady Chatterley's Lover," by D.H. Lawrence, with its racy depictions of sex between an aristocratic woman and her gamekeeper, was the subject of a trial in 1960 that would test the country's newly relaxed rules against obscene publications.
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President Franklin Roosevelt and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt found the King and Queen to be warm and down-to-earth — certainly not too aristocratic to enjoy a few hot dogs at Roosevelt's home in Hyde Park, New York.
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Brits who struggle to pay the rent will have laughed outright to see them talk about working toward "financial independence," given the significant inheritance he received from his aristocratic mother, Princess Diana, and great-grandmother the Queen Mother.
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Brits who struggle to pay the rent will have laughed outright to see them talk about working toward 'financial independence,' given the significant inheritance he received from his aristocratic mother, Princess Diana, and great-grandmother the Queen Mother.
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He would be joined by his aristocratic contemporary Lord Byron, poet, wit, pinup and philanderer, the creator of "Don Juan," who would embroider on his travels and his romances and tell us why Greece should still be free.
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At age 6, she spied a "magical ring" on the finger of her grandmother, the aristocratic Silvia Rodríguez de Rivas, which turned out to be a black opal surrounded by diamonds — a gift from the heiress Barbara Hutton.
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