(1) I am something of a parvenu, but we should welcome the iconoclastic and the unconventional.
(2) "I am something of a parvenu, but we should welcome the iconoclastic and the unconventional.
(3) The parvenu Pirates party, whose platform is based on greater openness in government through technology, were celebrating their fourth successive entry into a regional parliament after polling 7.5%.
(4) We had more in common with a remote-places-of-the-Empire parvenue such as Doris Lessing: born in Iran in 1919, growing up on a bush farm in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe); then, after two failed marriages, running away to England with scant prospects, which was where we colonials with scant prospects ran away to then.
(5) St Pancras was seen as vulgar, even by such critical eyes as Summerson's; here was a Victorian parvenu, a mongrel of a design in which Scott's faux-medieval spires failed to meet Barlow and Ordish's Victorian "hi-tech" train shed with any degree of architectural conviction.
(6) The stereotype that grew up around this athletic young parvenu was a lusty one; albeit this was a parvenu who – like the cousin he was to marry – was great-great-grandoffspring of Queen Victoria.
Plutocrat
Definition:
(n.) One whose wealth gives him power or influence; one of the plutocracy.
Example Sentences:
(1) My rule of thumb is that if you see a commentator or politician praising a dictatorship, plutocrat or corporation, the best course is to assume that they have been got at unless they can prove otherwise.
(2) There is no need – as Sir James Goldsmith, John Aspinall, Lord Lucan and others did in the 1970s – to discuss the possibility of launching a military coup against the British government: the plutocrats have other means of turning it.
(3) The result is that we have states effectively captured by finance that threaten the very essence of democracy as they serve plutocratic goals.
(4) Because it permits plutocratic power to override democracy.
(5) Brazil, the host of this year's World Cup, has not only seen mass demonstrations in connection with the plutocratic festivities but has a history of killing both spectators and participants – last year, a referee was reportedly stoned, beheaded and quartered on the field after he stabbed a player to death.
(6) David Cameron's big promise was that in the almost unprecedented fiscal austerity that would define his time in office, plutocrats and politicians would not enjoy any favouritism.
(7) Presented with a Keynesian, interventionist, assertively progressive "never mind the plutocrats" Labor government in Canberra, the right in Australia has found a genuine rallying point.
(8) Since the pyramids, Xanadu is the costliest monument a man has built to himself.” So trumpets a voiceover in the opening scenes of Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane , the story of a plutocratic newspaper baron and empire-builder: “America’s Kubla Khan”.
(9) If there is a conspiracy to run Britain, or rather the media part of it, it is not to be found with the obscure former FT chairman Sir David Bell, but here in the nexus of relations between Black, Michael Howard's one-time spin doctor (who used to holiday with Rebekah Brooks); Dacre, Britain's most powerful tabloid editor; the Telegraph owners the Barclays, a secretive family of plutocrats who can happily text prime ministers advice; and the publicity-shy Mail proprietor, Viscount Rothermere, who politely dines with them.
(10) All of this is true, and all the parties share responsibility for failing to reform campaign finance in a way which could clip plutocratic wings.
(11) When this billionaire plutocrat charlatan – who poses as a man of the people as he enriches himself at their expense – implements a $5.5tn cut that shamelessly shovels money into the pockets of affluent and wealthy Americans, he should be resisted.
(12) That prospect has a good deal to do with privileged access to big money thwarting equality of opportunity, and the Clinton campaign’s reported ambitions to spend an extraordinary $2bn persuading the people to embrace their woman only underlines the plutocratic threat to the world’s proudest democracy.
(13) The band’s banjoist, Winston Marshall, claimed the big-name celebrities endorsing the service, and who took part in Tidal’s launch , were the “new-school fucking plutocrats”, while frontman Marcus Mumford suggested his group would never align themselves with any specific service.
(14) To see Obama backtracking on the commitments made by Bush the elder 20 years ago is to see the extent to which a tiny group of plutocrats has asserted its grip on policy.
(15) Within six years he was working on his own, managing the portfolios of an exclusive – and secret – club of plutocrats said to only include billionaires.
(16) It was a one-sided special relationship, with most of the benefit flowing in the direction of the plutocrats.
(17) Men who have made billions out of meltdown and financial crisis, such as Wilbur Ross, the “king of bankruptcy” who is now secretary of commerce, or the various crash-plutocrats recruited from Goldman Sachs and elsewhere.
(18) The people are then construed as a "middle" whose sovereignty has been abused by bureaucrats, tax-avoiding plutocrats, criminals, protesters and clamourous minorities alike.
(19) Within six years Epstein had risen through the ranks, working as a trader, before striking out on his own and convincing some of America’s wealthiest plutocrats to let him manage their portfolios.
(20) Robert Harris wrote his novel The Ghost before Tony Blair left office, yet his depiction of a perma-tanned, transatlantic former PM living in a twilight world of private jets and plutocrat hospitality has proved eerily prescient.