Do you walk through the world with British poshness, or California confidence?
|
|
Six in 220 of the city's residents voted for Brexit — a useful inverse poshness indicator.
|
|
In an ever more casual era, there is a refreshing perversity to the posh — and a poshness to the perverse.
|
|
For years, Mr. Rees-Mogg, 48, has been one of British politics' favorite eccentrics, affecting a languid, antiquarian poshness that verges on performance art.
|
|
In their willful poshness, these names read as attempts to hand an insulating veneer of comfort to babies being born into a world shot through and sinking with discomfort and uncertainty.
|
|
They need to stop serving sausage and mash in wine glasses for the pure dead poshness, or the likes of "scheme poutine" ("scheme" is local lingo for a scabby council estate).
|
|
But there was Mr. Rees-Mogg, nicknamed "the honorable gentleman from the 18th century" for his old-world tics and antiquarian poshness, looking like a Degas model, with his willowy frame and long, angular face.
|
|
If ever there was a sanction that might have a real effect on Vladimir Putin's oligarch chums, it lies in cutting them off from scaling the social mountains that lead them to the giddy heights of poshness.
|
|
The Sujay Garden Commercial complex house many shops ranging from apparel to car part stores. Another popular landmark is the Brand Factory Mall. For medical aid, Ranka Hospital and other clinics and dispensaries can be found it. This area is also known for its poshness because the price of flats has risen up rapidly in this area.
|
|
BlackBook Magazines Guide to Chicago describes the Hotel as an embodiment of poshness which gives the visitor bragging rights upon his/her return home.Gil, p. 127. Forbes Travel Guide describes the hotel as having an understated upscale lobby, sophisticated lounge, gorgeous restaurant and lavish rooms with amazing views.Forbes Travel Guide: 2010 City Guide: Chicago, p. 9.
|
|
On the other hand, he was not so progressive that he felt himself in any way connected to those he called, in 1855, "red democrats" (that is to say socialists and other political radicals), whom he separated from "the decent-minded", with which he meant the progressive, liberal section of the settled middle class, to which he himself belonged. In 1827, Halbertsma became a member of the Provinciaal Friesch Genootschap ter Beoefening van Friesche Geschied-, Oudheid- en Taalkunde ("Provincial Frisian Society for the Study of Frisian History, Antiquities and Linguistics"), but in 1834, he cancelled his membership because he felt this club was full to the rafters with silly people.Van der Schaaf, p. 38 He could not stomach the affected poshness of the middle class gentlemen, and neither could he reconcile such graveness of bearing with the 'gluttony and wine-guzzling' which followed the gatherings.
|
|