How To Use Upper-middle-class In A Sentence
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The more Tim drank the more tightly Margaret held on to the security of upper-middle-class values.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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Yeah, I'm not sure how high parental involvement is ever going to be outside of a certain subset of small upper-middle-class schools.
Intertribal: things about public education I've learned from this job
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In a roundabout way Hernández teaches upper-middle-class kids a lesson that refined mothers used to inculcate from the cradle onward: If you've got it, don't flaunt it.
Confessions of a Prep School College Counselor
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Yeah, I'm not sure how high parental involvement is ever going to be outside of a certain subset of small upper-middle-class schools.
Intertribal: things about public education I've learned from this job
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New York allows me to create and reflect this brand of East Coast upper-middle-class suburbanism.
The Angst and the Passion
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Just as the French New Wave broke with what it called the cinéma de papa, Five Easy Pieces is about the extended struggle of lead character Robert Eroica Dupea (Jack Nicholson) to flee the values of his upper-middle-class family: a mute father who has been felled by a stroke; an overweight, neurotic sister; a brother who sports a neck brace and seems to be impotent.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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All are from upper-middle-class backgrounds, since their parents are largely professionals, and they attended predominantly white high schools.
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An upper-middle-class woman of Cuban descent, slightly formal in her manner, Consuela wants an opening to culture, the touch of an experienced man.
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I grew up in Montreal and went to an upper-middle-class Jewish day school where kids had parents who maybe owned a carpet store or maybe were dentists.
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A number of upper-middle-class Christians are still undecided, Ahed Al Hendi, a Syrian political refugee currently working for CyberDissidents.org in Washington, DC, told NOW Lebanon.
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She works as a charlady for well-off, upper-middle-class women, and she lives a fairly austere, but comfortable, life with her husband, Stan, a mechanic in his brother's garage, and their grown-up children, Sid and Ethel.
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Independent-minded Bess Crawford's upbringing is far different from that of the usual upper-middle-class British gentlewoman.
A Duty to the Dead by Charles Todd: Book summary
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They get what middle-class and upper-middle-class kids get," Canada told the television newsmagazine 60 Minutes. "They get safety.
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The grand mediocrity of today--everyone being the same in survival and number of off-spring--means that natural selection has lost 80% of its power in upper-middle-class India compared to the tribe.
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The drinks are overpriced, and the post-work crowd is so upper-middle-class it hurts.
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To illustrate just how wide the gap has grown between the new upper class and the new lower class, let me start with the broader upper-middle and working classes from which they are drawn, using two fictional neighborhoods that I hereby label Belmont (after an archetypal upper-middle-class suburb near Boston) and Fishtown (after a neighborhood in Philadelphia that has been home to the white working class since the Revolution).
The New American Divide
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Looking to be good people and hoping in some vague way to fulfill themselves, its upper-middle-class couple adopts, not a child, but an elderly man and wife formerly ensconced in a nursing facility.
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Part investigation into the unsolved murder; part elegy for the lost Bliss and for Skyler's own lost childhood; and part corrosively funny exposé of the pretensions of upper-middle-class American suburbia, this captivating novel explores with unexpected sympathy and subtlety the intimate lives of those who dwell in Tabloid Hell.
My Sister, My Love by Joyce Carol Oates: Book summary
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Where before there existed a mostly upper-middle-class semisuburban enclave of well-kept houses and larger-than-average lawns (along with their two-car garages and well-landscaped flora), now it was, all of it, land reduced to a charred, smoking stubble, still burning so strong it made your eyes water; the only way anyone might have known houses had ever stood there was from the occasional semi-crumbled brick chimney (or, even eerier, set of stone steps, now leading nowhere).
Hollywood Savage
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The dressmaker's dummy and a blue wing chair that is used repeatedly are symbolic of the upper-middle-class venues of Mammy's travail.
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The grand mediocrity of today--everyone being the same in survival and number of off-spring--means that natural selection has lost 80% of its power in upper-middle-class India compared to the tribe.
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Was this the MSM, craven as ever, slavishly following the lead of the artistocracy - those who decide which frauds and daubs, which slabs of self-obsessed upper-middle-class logorrhea - constitute Art and Literature?
Tony Hendra: George Carlin: The Last Words You Can't Say on Television
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In other words, television paints wealthy and upper-middle-class lifestyles as the norm and heavy watchers believe that it is the norm.
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Wheeler says Earnhardt must walk a fine line in altering his image because his fan base is mostly slightly upper-middle-class between 18 and 35.
Refinement suits Dale Jr. as season of change nears
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A large share of total deposits in the havens come from upper-middle-class residents of Europe and North America who simply want to evade taxes.
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Looking to be good people and hoping in some vague way to fulfill themselves, its upper-middle-class couple adopts, not a child, but an elderly man and wife formerly ensconced in a nursing facility.
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Mrs. Dalloway is about another woman named Clarissa, an upper-middle-class woman, a perfect hostess, who is planning a party.
