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only our consideration but our reconsideration' – even those from the leisured class. Who will save Rostov from the intrusions of the state if not the...

excluded from political influence and came to personify the fashionable, leisured elite. He married Princess Alexandra of Denmark in 1863, and the couple...

Drawing room comedy typically features wit and verbal banter among wealthy, leisured, genteel, upper class characters. Drawing room comedy is also sometimes...

album Franz Ferdinand B-side "Truck Stop" "All for You, Sophia" "Words So Leisured" Released 12 January 2004 (2004-01-12) Studio Gula (Malmö, Sweden) Genre...

equivalent of continental nobles, with their hereditary estates, their leisured lifestyle, their social pre-eminence, and their armorial bearings". British...

322 (who had to "work for a living", and would not have belonged to a "leisured middle class") could have been motivated by his own "idle curiosity" in...

is plentiful and wholesome enough to feed, without toil or trouble, a leisured folk. Moreover, an air that is salubrious, owing to the climate and the...

hunters and collectors of wild food, like the Shoshone, are among the most leisured people on earth. Society at a Glance 2009: OE. OECD Organisation for Economic...

been available to those who could afford it, particularly women of the leisured classes. There is material evidence for cloth-of-gold (lamé) as early as...

years is Heartbreak House (1917), which in his words depicts "cultured, leisured Europe before the war" drifting towards disaster. Shaw named Shakespeare...

reference to its constant shifting of allegiances, not only between the leisured and working classes but also among themselves. Bildungsbürgertum Creative...

side of them are individuals who are either unemployed or represent the leisured classes. Behind the workers are two wealthy figures on horseback, whose...

the Summer of the Year 1770, a practical book which instructed England's leisured travellers to examine "the face of a country by the rules of picturesque...

rank of private or at best sergeant. A social gulf divides the literate, leisured Frodo from his former gardener, now responsible for wake-up calls, cooking...

self-renunciation and his pride in being able to provide a secure and leisured existence for his family. When he finds himself in a situation where he...

Milan, from 1493. In Venice, lace making was originally the province of leisured noblewomen, using it as a pastime. Some of the wives of doges also supported...

often drew between the lyre and aulos: freedom vs. servility and tyranny, leisured amateurs vs. professionals, moderation (sophrosyne) vs. excess, etc. Some...

in a practice known as takay. The datu, however, were far from being a leisured aristocracy. They were often skilled craftsmen, hunters, blacksmiths, fishermen...

"almost without a break," and looking back wistfully at his relatively leisured and orderly life at the Hotel X. Boris works even longer: "eighteen hours...

November 1920. According to A. C. Ward, the work argues that "cultured, leisured Europe" was drifting toward destruction, and that "Those in a position...