Visual references are stitched through the language - old women were called 'gauna,' literally 'hot milk-skin'; you spoke not of being good but of appearing good; the most precious possession in the city were the well-born, pulchritudinous young men, the kalos k'athagos - the 'noble in mind and appearance.' ❋ Post (2011)
The zeal for communism among well-born British intellectuals, from the Cambridge spies in the 1930s to young Trotskyites such as Christopher Hitchens in the 1960s, was driven in no small part by a wish to thwart America's sway over the Britons' own land as well as the globe. ❋ Richard B. Woodward (2011)
Since the 1960s, well-educated and often well-born men and women have followed Murdoch and made money in newspapers, the arts and television by debasing popular taste. ❋ Unknown (2011)
He looked and had the feel of a well-born Eastern moderate Republican. ❋ Peggy Noonan (2011)
Rather than continue on to England with Lord Francis and, in the manner of the well-born Englishwoman of the day, keep Captain Strong as a lover, May deserted her husband for her darling Bradlee (American women were much too sentimental and conventional to English eyes). ❋ Unknown (2010)
It is not a recent phenomenon that the cleverest Ivy Leaguers have headed off to Wall Street; simply, in recent years the process has gotten more meritocratic and stopped being just slots for the well-born and well-connected. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I secretly watch the well-born ladies of the court: how they sit and speak and move and eat. ❋ Priya Parmar (2011)
PBS' sprawling, Emmy-winning Masterpiece miniseries, with echoes of Jane Austen and Upstairs Downstairs in its wittily sudsy panache, is set on a grand but embattled English estate in the years before WWI, with romantic and financial intrigues distracting the well-born and servant class alike. ❋ Unknown (2011)
As the well-born Kate Hardcastle she is obliged, somewhat ironically in view of her role in Corrie, to pose as a barmaid, but even she gets legitimate laughs by her hip-twitching gait and air of sexual mischief. ❋ Unknown (2012)
The daughters of the well-born still made their debuts at court. ❋ Paul Levy (2011)
Did the well-born and even-tempered painter have a rugged nautical side, or nurture fantasies of roiled, Turneresque waters? ❋ Unknown (2009)
Out with us now on the deck were George's well-born, well-coutured wife and two spindly boys. ❋ Andrew Edwards (2011)
Tocqueville was just 25 when he began his journey in 1831, the year of Darwin's voyage, a capable but undistinguished student who had become a provincial administrator, a well-born bureaucrat who doubted the legitimacy of the "bourgeois monarch" he served. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Angela is a well-born rebel who witnesses the mass execution of workers from her family's estate by federal soldiers, and Grace is an English-born proprietor of the nicest hotel in Cuernavaca. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Two centuries on, the top hats and tails remain, but flat racing is no longer just a pastime for the well-heeled and well-born. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Ch teau Palmer is named after Charles Palmer, a well-born English general who fought under Wellington. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Teresa ( "Baby") Jungman was the very last of the original "Bright Young People," a clique of restless debutantes and well-born swells whose boisterous mischief proved a diversion for London society in the 1920s. ❋ Unknown (2010)
