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1- Better than the parvenus now being created “royal”.

2- The bishops of Norman Sicily were as much parvenus as their Norman masters.

3- The word parvenu (newly-rich) automatically became a synonym of the lavish spender.

4- It was a newcomer, almost a parvenu , the creation of refugees and pirates.

5- Other interpretations have seen in the two protagonists caricatures of political corruption and ” parvenu ” morals.

6- Fortune may toss diamonds in the lap of parvenus , but Whim is a thing of birth and breeding.

7- Arden, born in Norwich in 1508, was a whizz-kid parvenu , who had made his pile as a wheeler-dealer specialising in property confiscated from the monasteries by Henry VIII.

8- This is indeed the oldest land in Europe, in the sense that the hills of Harris – and, of course, the hills of Sutherland too – have been so long above the sea as to make parvenus of the Alps.” – Compton Mackenzie cited in MacDiarmid, ibid., p. 129.

9- His manners showed him to have been bred in a vulgar station, and no glitter of authority could impress the beholder that he was aught but a parvenu and a pretender.

10- Rather is it that by not forgetting one’s origins, in maintaining one’s own identity and in adopting unhesitatingly before all Europe the position of parvenu – a glorious title when one has arrived there thanks to the votes of a great people.

11- The ‘Legitimist’ nobility, that is those who remained loyal to the elder Bourbon branch which had been deposed by the Revolution of 1830, kept itself aloof from the court of the ‘ parvenu ‘, just as it had shunned that of Louis-Philippe.

12- But even in our admonishment we were on his side; and as we distrustfully eyed these new arrivals, old Saturn himself seemed something of a parvenu .

13- Even a relatively liberal and progressive administrator like Saint-Germain was extremely unwilling to grant commissions to parvenus at the expense of poor but military-minded nobles.

14- Moorhead’s attacks on the usual suspects — the “supremacists” and parvenu “continentals,” buzz words for white statesiders — and their obvious connections to the hate crime on St. John were dismissed as annoying business-as-usual by all but the most fevered.

15- The Uradel also tend to look down on the Briefadel as parvenus , even when the Briefadel may have been noble for centuries.

16- Vlahuță was already outraged by Caragiale’s unsigned parodies in “Moftul”, calling them the work of “some stupid parvenu “.

17- The following year, the local parvenus and two former subordinates of Yuan Shu and Liu Fu, Chen Lan and Mei Cheng (梅成), rebelled in Lujiang (盧江) after the death of Liu Fu (whom they trusted), but the revolt was suppressed by Cao Cao’s generals Zhang Liao and Zang Ba.

18- A White House chief of staff wheels and deals in an attempt to extricate a billionaire parvenu political moneybags and sportsman from the horse fraud scheme while salvaging the environmental component of the president’s legislative program and reconciling with an estranged daughter.

19- The old nobility of landed or knightly origin, the “noblesse d’épée”, increasingly resented the influence and pretensions of this ” parvenu ” nobility.

20- But despite this mishap, Smith was rewarded when the horse won nine consecutive races, netting approximately $200,000 before parvenu was retired at age four due to a spinal injury.

21- However all bets had to be rescinded before the start of the race because there was a miscalculation of the horse handicapping weights, causing the odds on parvenu to drop to 10:1 in the new pool.

22- On August 29, 1892, parvenu was entered in a race at Sheepshead Bay and was given 30:1 initial odds by bookmakers, which would have won Smith close to $300,000.

23- parvenu (sired by Uncas, out of Necromancy) was purchased by Smith in 1891 as a two-year old and was initially considered to be a poor racing prospect by the general public due to his repeated losses early in the season.

24- By an “entrepreneur” they appear to mean a rich owner of a bank or a factory, while for Schumpeter and Knight it meant a newcomer, a parvenu who is an outsider.

25- These people, though, had their hands full with the ” parvenus “, supplying them with enough money, a burden that weighed on the poor’s backs.

26- Robert Christgau, writing for MSN Music, named it “dud of the month” with a “B” grade and wrote that 50 Cent, “a parvenu mastering pop music for money”, has “turned into a made man running on vanity”.

27- Like many parvenus of that era, the couple wanted a “petite maison”, which they had built at great expense to designs by Bellanger at pointe Bellevue, on the former Mesdames estate.

28- For Buchan, and many of his fellow nobles, Wallace was less of the great hero and more of the political parvenu , who by the normal order of things would have been a figure of little importance in a conservative feudal society.

29- The advantage to the British Crown of awarding life peerages is obvious–the great can be honored with a noble title without the need to distribute royal lands or wealth and without disturbing the peace of mind of the ancient hereditary nobility who may not welcome a parvenu .

30- Grace Kelley was considered a parvenu and somewhat vulgar because of her movie career, but she was never “vulgar,” and embodied her name of Grace very well indeed.), and Grace’s popularity soared.

31- The term ” parvenu ” was taken from Bernard Lazare and she regarded it as an alternative to Max Weber’s term “paria”, while she analyzed the exclusion of the Jewish population in Prussia – despite or through their assimilation.

32- While the humanists felt threatened by the industrial revolution, also because they simply feared to loose their privileges, it was no longer the ” parvenu ” (as Bernard Lazare would call the rich minority later) who needed to be “ameliorated”.

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