patrician

Example Sentences

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The Athenian patrician Thucydides began writing the history of his city’s conflict with Sparta even as the war was beginning.

From The Wall Street Journal

Both ski, for crying out loud, a pastime with patrician associations, like equestrian sports or loudly firing the help.

From Salon

He remembers a conversation he had with his dad, a patrician figure who, when he gave you eye contact, you knew he had something important to say.

From Los Angeles Times

She played beautifully: her touch patrician in a Beethoven sonata; dreamy in one by Shostakovich; suave in one by Frank Bridge; and alert without being anxious in one by Britten.

From New York Times

The outer shell of the New England working class — and the patrician class for that matter — is very tough and hard to penetrate.

From Salon