cultured class
Example Sentences
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He comes back to his former word 'ignorance,' bitter pill as it was for the Athenian cultured class to swallow.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts by Maclaren, Alexander
The women of what are now France and England clothed themselves at that time in the same manner as the cultured class of Rome.
From Woman as Decoration by Burbank, Emily
America, unlike England, has no recognized cultured class, and has no aristocracy, so called, with which to keep mere rich men suitably miserable—at least a little humble and wistful.
From Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy by Lee, Gerald Stanley
All, both men and women, evidently belonged to the educated, or rather to the cultured class.
From The Angel of the Revolution A Tale of the Coming Terror by Griffith, George Chetwynd
Very few books that the cultured class has produced of late have been such good literature as the expression "painting the town red."
From Alarms and Discursions by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
