How To Use Arriviste In A Sentence
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They've been replaced in the Commons by the suburban arrivistes who now dominate the Tory benches; they've lost their feudal right to sit in the Lords.
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Believe me, the work of a line cook in a restaurant catering to the tastes of arriviste Texans is even more boring than it is cracked up to be.
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It might also be said that with the structure he's erected, Lauren is something of an arriviste, but if that were uttered, it would require adding that many of the mansions introduced on those soigné avenues were constructed as well by new money confidently joining the old -- like the Rhinelander mansion that's been Lauren's home-base haberdashery for men and women these last few decades.
David Finkle: Saturday Shoppers View Ralph Lauren's New Madison Avenue Mansion
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The ranks of modern royalty are crowded with arrivistes.
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As the Van Doren family play their favourite parlour game - trading Shakespearian quotes across the dinner table - an arriviste young lawyer watches, open-mouthed and clearly intimidated.
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Distinguishing between a painted lady of ancient noble lineage and a lady with arriviste social ambitions who availed herself of face paint with equal liberality is no longer a matter of reading fixed signs on the surface of the body.
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The ‘image’ of a city like Tokyo or New York might well come from star-struck arrivistes rather than locals.
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Many, such as Fielding's cousin Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, would go on laughing at Richardson, the anxious arriviste, for his ‘low’ pretensions to gentility.
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He is an outsider, an arriviste, and a rags-to-riches political scrapper.
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The supreme need of the arriviste is to be able to disown and forget those who have helped him so far.
Cruel and Unusual
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What's more at the end of the day, Conrad Black was still Conrad Black: egotist, aspirant and arriviste.
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In Thackeray's next full-length novel, the Newcomes are so called because they are both a nouveau riche and an arriviste family.
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One strand of poetry, even today, represents the resentment of the old middle class at finding its assets devalued by a flood of competition; its hauteur towards the arriviste working class graduates.
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Full of arrivistes and the new rich for whom desperate consumption was a proof of being, its secret world (secret, that is, to all not admitted to the charmed circles of the West End) revolved around sex and gambling.
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Like a lot of new-money arrivistes, Target can make grand gestures, but it gets the details wrong.
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It might also be said that with the structure he's erected, Lauren is something of an arriviste, but if that were uttered, it would require adding that many of the mansions introduced on those soigné avenues were constructed as well by new money confidently joining the old -- like the Rhinelander mansion that's been Lauren's home-base haberdashery for men and women these last few decades.
David Finkle: Saturday Shoppers View Ralph Lauren's New Madison Avenue Mansion
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They merely confirmed that, for the second time in two decades, the BBC had lost one of its treasured institutions to the arrivistes of commercial television.
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Finally at half-past three I went upstairs to dress as a grammar-school arriviste.
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Many more felt a sentimental attachment to Jacobitism, or at least alienation from the arriviste courts of William III and the Georges.
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Michael Armstrong spoofs the pretensions of bourgeois arrivistes, while describing the horrors of child labor and documenting its heroine's mounting inquisitiveness and willingness to intervene.
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There are many Irish arrivistes keen to be seen in these places regardless of whether they get clotted cream, proper cucumber sandwiches or a bit of crumpet.
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He is a wholly conscious arriviste, half proud and half ashamed of both his middle-class background and his upward mobility.
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If he was the quintessential Parisian (in his autobiography, he describes himself as “a Parisian from the heart of Paris”), she was the fiercely ambitious arriviste.
The King Is Dead
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A local in Westchester County uses the word "arriviste" in a sentence explaining how Richard Gere cut down 200 trees in the neighbourhood without permission.
Edmonton Sun
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It might also be said that with the structure he's erected, Lauren is something of an arriviste, but if that were uttered, it would require adding that many of the mansions introduced on those soigné avenues were constructed as well by new money confidently joining the old -- like the Rhinelander mansion that's been Lauren's home-base haberdashery for men and women these last few decades.
David Finkle: Saturday Shoppers View Ralph Lauren's New Madison Avenue Mansion
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It must have seemed like a good idea at one time, back in the days when we didn't want any actors, divorced bounders or the kind of arriviste who had to buy his own furniture.
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There's even a poem about the "arriviste" pronunciation GRIM-iss.
Go west, young man, WEST!
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Jean Chretien (though now wealthy) is an outsider, an arriviste, and a rags-to-riches political scrapper.
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They are tough, but decent, clearly not posh Labour party arrivistes, and they clearly have the Labour party in their veins.
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Given the Marxian reduction of everything to class interests, it is obvious that a petit bourgeois arriviste such as Ms. Rodham-Clinton can neither command the allegiance of the proletariat nor enjoy the trust of the capitalists.
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He stands out among the arriviste engineers who dominate the tech industry, combining aristocratic reserve with a merchant's frugality and the obsessive drive of an entrepreneur.
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In many ways, he is the classical 'arriviste' in the good sense of the word.
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Even the arrivistes in California understood the sophistication required for a vigneron, commissioning fine architects to enhance their vineyards with beautiful buildings.
