leisure-class
Example Sentences
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Vincent’s day job as a senior reporter for the Verge plants him firmly in the present, and he brings the reader up to the current craze of the leisure class: the “quantified self” movement.
From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2022
Gillespie said the rule is "kind of a holdover from the leisure class."
From Fox News • Sep. 6, 2021
It has been derided by some critics, including many in France, as a lavish purchase of a European brand for the benefit of a global leisure class.
From New York Times • Jan. 9, 2020
The leisure class is so sheltered from inevitable changes going on in the rest of society that it will adapt its views, if at all, “tardily.”
From Salon • Apr. 19, 2019
A jungle yields no abundance to feed the multitudes, and supports no leisure class.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
