leisured class
Example Sentences
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"We're in the business of totally converting the proletariat to the leisured class," Cornfeld boasted.
From Time Magazine Archive
A great city also must have within its boundaries a large leisured class to pay for the culture and pleasure that are the outward signs of its preeminence.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dickens was too bracing, one may say too bouncing himself to understand the psychology of fatigue in a protected and leisured class.
From Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
This work is 'a satire dealing with the whims and pleasures of the leisured class.'
From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Braybrooke, Patrick
In one of his early essays Renan points out that the proper apology for the old French aristocracy is that it performed the proper function of a leisured class.
From Since Cézanne by Bell, Clive
