How To Use Patrician In A Sentence

Between 500 and 300 B.C., there developed within the body of the citizenry, a division between two social groups or classes: patricians and plebeians.
Until the 2nd century BC, the curule aedileships rotated on a yearly basis between patricians and plebeians.
Then he turned back to the rich young patricians who were all laughing at her expense.
It has been long known as a patrician, white-shoe firm with an air so understated and secretive that at least one former exec likened it to working at the CIA.
She is fearsome and patrician, with steely grey hair and rock-solid ideals. Times, Sunday Times

He was at once a Queens pol and yet the most patrician figure in American politics.
Another very common form of interaction between socially disproportionate individuals was that between Roman patricians and their freedmen.
In ancient Roman society it was represented by the patricians.
However, where Horowitz gives you mainly patrician elegance, Moravec seems to give you the lagniappe of something deeply felt as well, without wallowing in it.
In the second of these interregna a contest arose because two patrician consuls were elected. The History of Rome, Vol. II
All this may look democratic, but in 300 he opposed the admission of plebeians to the two main priestly colleges (pontifices and augures) and on two occasions attempted to secure the election of an all-patrician college.
The commonalty differs from the people as a species from its genus; for 'the people' includes the whole aggregate of citizens, among them patricians and senators, while the term 'commonalty' embraces only such citizens as are not patricians or senators. The Institutes of Justinian
But we do not have to go to such extremes - in either cost or category - to prove that patricians love posing as plebeians.
The bourgeois or patrician oligarchies found it easier to defend their privileges.
Municipal reform might well replace a patrician oligarchy of local gentry and merchants, weakening collective action and undermining the corporate, civic culture.
Sometime during the regal period a group of gentes, called patricians, secured for themselves certain political and religious privileges to the exclusion of other plebeian gentes. C. Economy, Society, and Culture
As a patrician of Dordrecht and a patriot, he paid homage to Holland as a trim and handsome place where even the windmills rotated their sails with a Sunday sobriety; much as his contemporary Teniers depicted Flanders.
This temporary supreme magistrate called the interrex held office for five days only as custodian of Rome; he had to be patrician, the leader of his decury of senators, and in the case of the first interrex, the senior patrician in the House. Fortune's Favorites
A Roman patrician's pride and joy was his vegetables.
However, he is a patrician Cornelius, rather than what the Romans call a New Man, a nobody. The Grass Crown
In The New York Times, fashion journalist Ruth La Ferla described Beckham's designs as exuding a breeziness that feels "patrician. Victoria Beckham: I'm Not 'One Of These People Who Goes Out Without Any Knickers On'
Was last night as close as the upstart governor will ever get to beating the patrician Senator?
In his rich, patrician voice he would spin soaring, painfully funny metaphysical yarns from the apparent chaos of his life. Times, Sunday Times
In ancient Rome clients were plebeians who were bound in a subservient relationship with their patrician patron.
Six-foot-five, wickedly charming and patricianly handsome, he had been the consummate "extra man," a skilled practitioner of "the night shift," as he called his after-hours life on the benefit, dinner party and opera circuit, which he pursued full-throttle, as his employers encouraged him to do, for the connections he made there brought the auction house some of its best sales. NYT > Home Page
The Splendido, a former monastery and later a patrician villa, soon became what it is today: one of Europe's most exclusive, and expensive, hotels.
He came from a wealthy patrician family. Times, Sunday Times
The magistracy continued to be controlled by patricians until 351 BC, when Gaius Marcius Rutilus was appointed the first plebeian censor.
We should have _known_ the characters as they were known to the patrician and the populace of two thousand years ago; we should have seen them as they threw out all their stately and muscular strength; we should have been able to recover them from the tomb, make them move before us "in their armour, as they lived," and gather from their lips the language of times and things, now past away from man. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847
Make time for Rome's patrician galleries - private collections of the great princes, in many cases still right in the family palace where they were first hung.
On the sixth day he was succeeded as interrex by the second most senior patrician in the House also leader of his decury; the second interrex was empowered to hold the elections. Fortune's Favorites
Its patrician dignity was a picturesque sham.
In The Wolf Man, Rains is the perfect lord of the manor with his patrician bearing and smooth manner with the town's officials.
He did not have independent means and yet there was a patrician air about him. Times, Sunday Times
She became the idol of patrician society of Rome.
What are her obligations as the last of the patricians?
The manor house where Orwell, a declared socialist, was forced to recuperate during one of his lung hemorrhages is among the island's most patrician -- bone-white, with many fluted chimneys, its own boat dock and a tamed lawn as sweeping as the playing fields of Eton, Eric Blair's alma mater. Literary Pilgrimages: George Orwell
They were? patricians? from the Latin word? pater,? meaning? father.? Alliance
a patrician nose
Starting as a legman for the patrician, ruthless Pearson and then on his own, Anderson drew first blood on most of the scandals that tainted Nixon almost from the start. The Best of Enemies
The patrician was executed on the ready accusation of treason, and the wife of Alexander driven with ignominy from the palace, and banished into Africa. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Unlike many Virginia patricians of his time, he was able both to live elegantly and to preserve his property.
The senators are to be chosen by the patricians of each city; that is, the patricians of one city are to elect in their own council a fixed number of senators from their colleagues of their own city, which number is to be to that of the patricians of that city as one to twelve A Political Treatise
With his patrician ancestry, going back to the Puritans on his mother's side, he acts as though he is born to rule.
‘You know,’ came a patrician, abbatial voice from the back of the room, ‘I rather think we've got his head’.
The major department stores, while one might be a bit trendier and another a bit more patrician, all sell pretty much the same stuff.
Archelaus was also sent, a man of patrician standing who had already been pretorian prefect both in Byzantium and in Illyricum, but he then held the position of prefect of the army; for thus the officer charged with the maintenance of the army is designated. History of the Wars, Books III and IV (of 8) The Vandalic War
This business is all about looks and this is the face I have got and it looks rather patrician. Times, Sunday Times
New Englanders despised New Yorkers who reciprocated the sentiment, and neither felt much affinity for the patrician Virginians or the farmers of the Carolinas and Georgia.
Indeed, the celebrated ancient chronicler Plinius wrote: In Istra, the Roman patricians feel like gods!
Von Otter, a patrician blonde with a voice of arctic whiteness, gamely sight-read a tribal incantation and a refrain about rowing out to the reef to fish, both written in some outlandish language.
He was a Roman patrician and priest, and is mentioned with distinction in Latin martyrologies. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
Hypocrisy is at its worst; for we not only persecute bigotedly but sincerely in the name of the cure-mongering witchcraft we do believe in, but callously and hypocritically in the name of the Evangelical creed that our rulers privately smile at as the Italian patricians of the fifth century smiled at Jupiter and Venus. The Revolutionist’s Handbook
The churches, convents, and all the dwellings of the former patricians were in ruins.
But the bulk of it was sold off to the rich patricians who had made fortunes from war and provincial administration.
Is it Coriolanus, or instead those who surround him, the plebeians, the patricians?
It's a simple kind of day: I'm sitting in the Patrician Grill, eating the simplest of sandwiches - peameal on a kaiser, just the way the god of pork intended it.
With his patrician ancestry, going back to the Puritans on his mother's side, he acts as though he is born to rule.
The presence of gardens and especially of a peristyle make one think of a domus, or patrician residence.
Villa owners, that is, former Roman patricians, were forced to settle their slaves on their own estates.
Indeed, the milder manners of the patrician body were ill suited to resist this ermined demagogue, whose motto through life was _audacity, again audacity, and always audacity_. A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete
Fast Black is as far from his patrician image as it's possible to get. Times, Sunday Times
The possessors and a considerable part of the patricians complaining that a person at the head of the state was recommending himself by his tribunitial proceedings, and that he was making himself popular by giving away other persons 'property, had transferred the odium of the entire affair from the tribunes to the consul. The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08
The patrician elite who financed and directed the institution saw its mission as the eradication of class conflict.
If I had to draw a parallel I would say they are like the patrician families of the reconstruction American South, trying to maintain their historic dominance after the end of slavery.
A Roman woman of patrician dress and bearing stood in the doorway, accompanied by two soldiers draped in civilian clothes.
At the beginning of the week there's a more patrician air to the place. Times, Sunday Times
During the year 1770 Charles Burney was travelling in Italy and when he was in Venice he wrote on 12 August that he attended a concert in the house of the patrician, Signor Grimani.
To the 21st-century ear his voice sounds too patrician. Times, Sunday Times
The latter was of patrician birth and a political hostess.
Black portrays Roosevelt as a patrician country squire who harbored a strong social conscience and a prejudice against the new industrial rich.
Sharp divisions are established by law between patricians and plebeians.
Like so many other young British patricians, he was saved from becoming a complete emotional cripple by a tenderhearted nanny.
In his rich, patrician voice he would spin soaring, painfully funny metaphysical yarns from the apparent chaos of his life. Times, Sunday Times
Promotion to the aedileship was automatic for patricians, but Vespasian wasn't a patrician.
Or that the patricians (like you) still think the plebeians didn't understand the treaty.
An old upright Yankee patrician, a very gentle man in the office of secretary of war, one Henry Stimson, told the president of his good fortune in having for the job a soldier of such towering eminence.
It's Patrician's first season in the U - 16 section and midfield stroller Jason is already scenting a Championship triumph at the first attempt.
I am plebeian enough to be fond of milk and crackers as a luncheon; but I have just a dash of the patrician in my make-up and prefer the milk unskimmed. Reveries of a Schoolmaster
With a patricianly beautiful wife whose scholarship matched his own and whose frigidity allowed him to indulge a perilous penchant for undergraduate girls, he couldn’t lose. TOO MANY MURDERS
To become consul, Coriolanus has to gain the support of both the patrician senate and the Roman people.
Ph. D, author, and a man of great note in his own mind, he patricianly attempts to lectures us all about his vainglorious sense of political civility, use of common day technology (e.g., GraniteGrok
-- The overthrow of the decemvirate was followed by a long struggle between the nobles and the commons, which was an effort on the part of the latter to gain admission to the consulship; for up to this time only a patrician could hold that office. General History for Colleges and High Schools
He gives the impression of an eccentric school master with, yes, a slightly abstracted air; a patrician whose sentences end with a heavy emphasis.
Hahn's musical personality unites two contrary impulses: youthful ardor and a patrician elegance.
My mother came from the old, patrician, landed magnificoes in Australia.
Above the rostra was the Senate-house, said to have been first erected by Tullus Hostilius; and near the Comitium, or place of meeting for the patrician Curiæ. [ Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome $b to which is prefixed an introduction to the study of Roman history, and a great variety of valuable information added throughout the work, on the manners, institutions, and antiquiti
On this occasion, he spoke of the function and importance of art in Hamburg's public realm to an audience of patrician elite.
As industrial employment declined, the luxury of patrician landowners living from landed income maintained the demand for urban services.
It is added that Constantine declared all the canons of Rome consuls and patricians — “patricios et consules effici” — that he himself held the bridle of the mare on which the new bishop was mounted — “tenentes frenum equi illius.” A Philosophical Dictionary
This was the era of patrician history, when scholars followed the great classical historians in holding up to posterity examples of errors, failings, and laudable deeds.
A typical patrician noble, he saw his world in terms of personal ambition, Roman patriotism, family loyalty, and patron-client relationships.
His straight, patrician nose simply added to the resolute, aristocratic aura surrounding him.
Both patricians and guildmen sought to defend their position and, like the nobles, they tried to do so both by self-regulation and by privileges.
In ancient Rome clients were plebeians who were bound in a subservient relationship with their patrician patron.
It's the kind of place where you'd expect to find a silver-haired patrician gliding across the floor in deck shoes dictating a letter to the Moroccan ambassador.
The Romans also gave us the expression ‘plebs’, since Roman citizens were categorised either as patricians or plebeians.
Was last night as close as the upstart governor will ever get to beating the patrician Senator?
She was a woman with the eyes of an angel, disdainful of men, the mouth of insatiety, the hair and skin of a Lorelei, and a patrician profile. The Conqueror
What does the term 'patrician' signify?
In 1981, he became the country's fourth prime minister, but the first commoner after a trio of blue-blooded patricians.
Venetian patrician society not only tolerated but flaunted courtesans, who star in some of the best Venetian paintings.
In the late nineteenth century, patrician historians produced hundreds of books, prints, lectures, classes, and tours about an imagined colonial city known as Old New York.
Long after the autumn of 1880, far more plebeians than patricians experienced the pain of this communal punishment.
It was on that fatal spot that he conferred on his son the honor of knighthood: and the ceremony was accomplished by a slight blow from each of the horsemen of the guard, and by a ridiculous and inhuman ablution from a pool of water, which was yet polluted with patrician blood. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Her patrician bearing and light, unstudied style of vocal delivery make her the perfect embodiment of natural sophistication, but there's a warmth to her that makes us believe she's a nice kid underneath.
Well-to-do patricians were the usual patrons on the exclusive courses in England and America, partly because equipment was so expensive, but also due to the rigid caste system.
These are studies of sunlight on the shimmering white summer dresses worn by patrician women and children around the turn of the twentieth century.
Its members ranged from patricians to populists, from Main Street Republicans to prairie socialists.
Fast Black is as far from his patrician image as it's possible to get. Times, Sunday Times
This explains the litany of septuncial lettertrumpets honorific, highpitched, erudite, neoclassical, which he so loved as patricianly to manuscribe after his name. Finnegans Wake
Over Roman armour, he wears, strangely, the robe of a quattrocento patrician, frequently used in depictions of Florentine poets and men of letters.
In 1561 Francesco expanded on this concept by noting that young Venetian patricians were destined to mature into grave senators.
They tended to be quite popular with the plebeians, though the patricians were known to get very jealous.
Dressed in a well-cut navy blazer, cashmere turtleneck and charcoal trousers, he cuts a patrician figure as he orders a pot of tea in the Merrion hotel.
He did the donkey work and the dirty work, and sat back dismissively as his country, or rather its patrician rulers, disowned him.
Nicky is not quite a chip off the old patrician Oppenheimer block.
We see he's not a god or an angel, but an ordinary man - a handsome, patrician Englishman to be sure, but mortal.
After middle period of Qing Dynasty, the proprietorship of soil was changed from patrician to fresh landholder , and management method was changed from slavery to tenancy.
She had discovered that his greatness was at best a kind of lap-dog or tame cat distinction; that he was better known as the caressed and petted adviser of patrician dowagers and effeminate old gentlemen, of fashionable beauties and hysterical matrons, than as one of the lights of his profession. The Golden Calf
This tone of slight snobbishness, a patrician aversion to vulgar middle-class prejudice, is typical of the book.
Rome were called patricians or nobles, while the rest were plebeians or common people. Introductory American History
In ancient Rome clients were plebeians who were bound in a subservient relationship with their patrician patron.
The children in Chardin's paintings are not little patricians but youngsters from his personal circle of craftsmen and small traders.
To the 21st-century ear his voice sounds too patrician. Times, Sunday Times
Coriolanus charts the destructive contest between a vain aristocratic soldier and the self-seeking patricians who claim to represent the masses.
As the gentes were subdivisions of the three ancient tribes, the _populus_ alone had _gentes_, so that to be a patrician and to have a gens were synonymous. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.
The Comitia Centuriata (Centuriate Committee) included both patricians and plebeians organized into five economic Classes (knights and senators being the First Class) and distributed among internal divisions called Centuries.
He brushed some imaginary lint off of his sleeve, and assumed the pose of a bored patrician.
He presented himself as a supremely patrician figure, so different from the vulgar parvenues of the Thatcher cabinet.
The intention was to recreate the environment of the patricians of ancient Rome and to celebrate agrarian, pastoral, Christian, and cultured life.
It reeks of a patrician class handing down doctrines of obedience to the subservient masses. Times, Sunday Times
In The Wolf Man, Rains is the perfect lord of the manor with his patrician bearing and smooth manner with the town's officials.
True, he had the Mournes ' long thin nose, rather patrician and arrogant, but his mouth was narrow and, in old age, set in peevish lines. DOUBLE DECEIT
A patrician could serve as tribune, though this was not common.
Between 486 and 511, Clovis conquered a few provinces still ruled by Roman patricians.
They are the patricians of the pavement - those few among the large group of urchins, alms-seekers and mendicants who have become part of the city's lifescape.
Considered over a lifetime, written by a dying old man in the remnants of his ducal palace in Palermo, it is a threnody to a fallen patrician class.
Power, he fastidiously believed, ought simply to be handed to patricians like himself.
A patrician named Michel Steno, having behaved indecently to some of the women assembled at the great civic banquet given by the doge, was kicked out of the house by order of the doge, and in revenge wrote some scurrilous lines against the dogaressa. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
But we do not have to go to such extremes - in either cost or category - to prove that patricians love posing as plebeians.
Venice retained the essential positions of her colonial empire in the Levant, Negrepont and Crete, and the strong citadels of Modon and Coron; her patrician families kept most of their signories in the Archipelago, as did the other Latin states in Greece which were products of the Crusade.
Oligarchies are established through these alliances and society is divided between patrician rulers and plebeian slaves.
True, he had the Mournes ' long thin nose, rather patrician and arrogant, but his mouth was narrow and, in old age, set in peevish lines. DOUBLE DECEIT
The nobles were called patricians, [19] and the common people were known as plebeians. Early European History
We have a fairly patrician government that in the past handed out largesse that kept us going.
Ideology justifies the rule of each ruling class, whether as chieftains, patricians, landowners, or those with capital, the bourgeoisie.
Oppressed, as they thought, by the patricians, the plebeians in a body walked out of Rome and set themselves up on a neighbouring hill.
He looked as stricken as I felt, remorse and guilt printed subtly on his patrician face.
The two interreges, Caius Sulpicius and Marcus Fabius, succeeded in that which the dictator had in vain attempted, scil. in having both the consuls elected from the patricians, the people being rather more appeased in consequence of the service done them in lightening their debts. The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08
All of them were what may fairly be called patricians, men of birth and breeding; they were the possessors of a certain culture and refinement, were descended from well-known families, and there seemed every reason to believe that the administration of the country would be continued in the hands of such men. American Men of Action
The plebeians were eager to gain equal rights with the patricians, and the patricians were anxious not to let the government of the Republic slip from their grasp since they could foresee from the first victories Rome's great destiny. Ernesto Teodoro Moneta - Nobel Lecture
This was established early in the conflict between patricians and plebeians.
Their strident moralism jarred with both the measured middle-class radicalism of the repealers and the dominant patrician language of high politics.
Montague has learned from Beckett; in both there is the iron resignation and sadness of a Roman patrician, a Cicero, or, better perhaps, a Seneca.
There has been considerable disquiet and unease since the news broke in September that the Patrician Brothers were closing the school.
The patricians were the descendants of the original founders of the city. Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D.
True, he had the Mournes ' long thin nose, rather patrician and arrogant, but his mouth was narrow and, in old age, set in peevish lines. DOUBLE DECEIT
patrician tastes
Considered over a lifetime, written by a dying old man in the remnants of his ducal palace in Palermo, it is a threnody to a fallen patrician class.
These highly domesticated blossoms carry overtones of the convivial rituals of patrician social life.
And her patrician demeanour bespeaks her standing in the sport over which she has reigned supreme for a period spanning three Olympics.
She checked her sobs, wiped her eyes with a morsel of lace she called a handkerchief, and, sweeping in a stately manner to the door, said, with the extreme of patrician hauteur: Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden
“Petite, blond, elegant in a nubby suit, a vaguely patrician accent hinting at her Harvard Law School and Smith College education, Jane Harman has a polished, camera-ready exterior, but an inner core of grit, discipline, and unquenched ambition,” a profiler once wrote in Mother Jones. Jane Harman’s resignation is CIA’s loss
In 1981, he became the country's fourth prime minister, but the first commoner after a trio of blue-blooded patricians.
He was a lean, patrician gent in his early sixties.
However, he is a patrician Cornelius, rather than what the Romans call a New Man, a nobody. The Grass Crown
Long after the autumn of 1880, far more plebeians than patricians experienced the pain of this communal punishment.
Oppressed, as they thought, by the patricians, the plebeians in a body walked out of Rome and set themselves up on a neighbouring hill.
Whistletrigger turns up his patrician nose at all "pessimists" and broadly intimates that the man who hasn't a new silk cady, seventeen pair o 'tailor-made "pants," a silken nightshirt and sufficient provender in his pantry to run a Methodist camp-meeting for a month, would starve to death in a Paradise whose springs run Pomery Sec, and whose trees grew pumpkin pies, hot weinerwurst and pate de foie gras. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
Perhaps it was from this socially secure family that Reynold received his patrician ease, his apparent freedom from self-doubt, and his refined aesthetic sense.
The officers were drawn from citizens who were enrolled as patricians of senatorial rank or equestrians, also known as knights.
CORIOLANUS, a Roman patrician, who, being driven from the city, took refuge with Aufidius, the leader of the Volsci. Redgauntlet
Born in 100 BC of a leading patrician family, Caesar rose to be consul in 59 BC.
In the 1860s a few patrician merchants' wives subscribed independently on guarantee lists of the German opera.
Arthur Camden cherishes his hereditary membership in the Hanover Street Fly Casters, a fictitious fly-fishing group founded in 1878 by his great-grandfather and 11 other patrician businessmen. 2009 January 18 « One-Minute Book Reviews
Rising dowries also impinged on patrician men, forcing almost half of them to remain unmarried during the fifteenth century.
It reeks of a patrician class handing down doctrines of obedience to the subservient masses. Times, Sunday Times
Caesar had called Catiline to account for his doings at the time of the proscription, and knew his nature too well to expect benefit to the people from a revolution conducted under the auspices of bankrupt patrician adventurers. Caesar: a Sketch
No one thinks right now that a patrician son of the Mississippi Delta is the party's best hope to run against Obama. The Anti-Obama
This family had the honour of seven consulships [548], one triumph [549], and two censorships [550]; and being admitted into the patrician order, they continued the use of the same cognomen, with no other praenomina [551] than those of Cneius and Lucius. De vita Caesarum
For more than a millennium, until its fall in 1797, the Republic of Venice was governed by an oligarchy, comprising a limited number of patrician families.
This seems less clear when two or more orders enter into the constitution, as patricians and plebeians did at Rome; for quarrels between these two orders often disturbed the comitia, even in the best days of the Republic. The Social Contract
He's a wealthy patrician, but he does have an impressive record of military service.
In the years to follow his attempts at mitching involved forging letters from his mother to the Patrician brother excusing his presence at school.
People envied her for her blue-blooded, patrician beauty and her ability to keep her cool under the toughest of situations.
These lady nuns must be of patrician lineage and of fortune enough to defray their expense in the convent, which is of the courtliest origin, for it was founded eight hundred years ago by Alfonso VIII. “to expiate his sins and to gratify his queen,” who probably knew of them. Familiar Spanish Travels
He did not have independent means and yet there was a patrician air about him. Times, Sunday Times
Access to furniture was more widespread among the ancient Greeks, whose patrician classes demanded a refined type of chair called the klismos.
He who exposed the gallantries of a Lady of Quality, or the faults and foibles of a Patrician, was, forsooth, deemed to bear hostile purposes against the Commonwealth: for this is the construction of Treason by the Lawyers.
All this may look democratic, but in 300 he opposed the admission of plebeians to the two main priestly colleges (pontifices and augures) and on two occasions attempted to secure the election of an all-patrician college.
The eastern emperor Zeno apparently recognized Odovacar as patrician (patricius had become the title of honor for barbarian commanders). E. The Later Fifth Century
Originally, ancestor-worship and its attendant family structure were confined to the patrician class.
This temporary supreme magistrate called the interrex held office for five days only as custodian of Rome; he had to be patrician, the leader of his decury of senators, and in the case of the first interrex, the senior patrician in the House. Fortune's Favorites
Now there, he thought, was the face and bearing of a true patrician.
Which last, though blue beyond all shadow of doubt, yet manifested itself in divers quite ordinary ways as, -- in complexions of cream and roses; in skins sallow and wrinkled; in noses haughtily Roman or patricianly Greek, in noses mottled and unclassically uplifted; in black hair, white hair, yellow, brown, and red hair; -- such combinations as he had seen many and many The Amateur Gentleman
Head and shoulders above the other players stood Julius Caesar, a patrician who regarded glory as his birthright.
Bush also spent his term pursuing a pragmatic domestic agenda, choosing what he perceived as responsible and prudent decision-making over ideology – the “town father” model that you might expect from a Greenwich patrician. President McCain and the Soul of the Republican Party
At the beginning of the week there's a more patrician air to the place. Times, Sunday Times
The patricians entrusted with Yale University's future knew it was time to swing into action.

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