society

How To Use society In A Sentence

• Laura Wade's Posh, timed to open as the Tories edged into power in May 2010, reminded us just what we were in for: overprivileged hooligans in drinking-society blazers who trash a pub as thoughtlessly as they will trash the country. Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre
• Shanghai Baby is peopled with nimble-witted hedonists. From the point of view of traditional mainstream society, they are moral degenerates and self-serving rebels.
• So maybe BP isn't the best example yet, but clearly businesses that embrace principles of social entrepreneurship--discovering how to "unstick" society when it has gotten stuck, by changing the system--are having widespread impact in making the new buzzphrase "social value" the litmus test for success for not only social entrepreneurs but profit-oriented businesses, too. Marian Salzman: Reinvention, Part II
• As he rose in society, his romantic entanglements damaged his career and he returned to his former sweetheart in Ireland. Times, Sunday Times
• They propagated political doctrines which promised to tear apart the fabric of British society.
• This is due to the then nonexistent mobilization of what is called today the "civil society."
• Yet at the end of this period, as at the beginning, the influence of lordship in society was pervasive.
• A belief in it is not only not naïve; it is the essential precondition for civilized society, and our best defense against the arbitrary use of power.
• Class privilege has reached the point where the entire society is ruled by a plutocracy.
• Drinking among the upper classes of Persian society, for example, took place at secret parties reminiscent of Greek symposia with their strictly ritualized etiquette and emphasis on poetry and discussion.