the privileged

In the case of the freewheeling “Anora,” written and directed by Sean Baker, who with movies like “The Florida Project” and “Tangerine” has shown an acute understanding of what it means to be down and out, our Cinderella happens to be a stripper living in Brooklyn and her Prince Charming is the privileged son of a Russian oligarch, a young man possessing wealth and expert knowledge as to where to score the best ketamine in Las Vegas.

“These ideas ultimately cause kids to accept inequality as fair,” said Wenner Moyer, “especially when they’re on the privileged end of it.”

These ghosts who, not coincidentally, want the privileged white man to resort to violence to achieve a sense of purpose again, even if it is against the most vulnerable people in his life, like his emotionally battered wife and young child.

The censors of Emperor Joseph II, an enlightened despot, approved the libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte only after he and Mozart removed all explicit political references that came from the play, including a climactic speech inveighing against the privileged nobility.

The property scandal raised questions about the privileged positions that ministers have in Singapore at a time of rising living costs.