(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.