While women's insatiability remained a central feature of comic cards, this insatiability also reflected on the virility of aristocratic men. |
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Alberto is single, while Ernesto is committed to his pretty, aristocratic girlfriend. |
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It's instructive to see her as the aristocratic adventuress in the 18 th-century potboiler The Affair of the Necklace. |
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Dunne, a silver-voiced soprano with aristocratic pretensions equal to any White Russian, had a great time in the role. |
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With these aristocratic reactionaries, Tocqueville shared a painful sense of dislocation and loss. |
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This poetic flowering came to an end with the decline, after the Albigensian crusade, of the aristocratic society which had produced it. |
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Counts, knights, barons and marquesses gathered in the guilded ballroom of the hotel to mark the focal event of the aristocratic social calendar. |
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The book reveals the author's encyclopaedic knowledge of the hundreds of aristocratic families and their houses all over Ireland. |
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Middle-class models of domesticity gradually spread into both the working classes and aristocratic elites. |
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Boethius was brought up in the house of the aristocratic family of Quintus Aurelius Memmius Symmachus. |
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Rousseau's return to nature, he affirms, reeks of reactivity, self-loathing and ressentiment against the aristocratic culture. |
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To my mind, golf can be categorized as an aristocratic game reserved exclusively for the leisured classes, big shots and whimsical big spenders. |
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Sumter rang down the curtain on the aristocratic republic the founders had created. |
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Dad felt that my aristocratic heritage and working-class lineage would make me an ideal political candidate. |
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The image does look as if these texts describe a harmless aristocratic sexual romp. |
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Much of this had been granted in the form of hereditary manorial estates to aristocratic families or important monasteries. |
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Initially, its goal was to represent the interests of middle-class folks who resented the aristocratic inclinations of the Federalists. |
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Under Othman, the third Caliph who belonged to the aristocratic Ummayid branch of Mohammed's tribe Quraysh, the conquests ceased briefly. |
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If the only choice in practice was between aristocratic oligarchy and democracy, then he favoured democracy. |
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As elsewhere in Europe, great bishops or abbots often belonged to royal or aristocratic families. |
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Excavations revealed single cremated burials in each, perhaps the members of a local, wealthy aristocratic Roman family. |
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This is a legacy from the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, when social position was determined by aristocratic or civil service hierarchy. |
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She was really one of the old aristocratic school who everybody looked up to. |
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Thus far in Australia, we have decided not to throw in our lot with an aristocratic judiciary. |
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His knowledge came from assimilation and practical application, allegedly made easier by his aristocratic heritage. |
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Despite her aristocratic background, her fortune was slender and her marriage a love match. |
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Could she be an aristocratic siren dressed in luxurious trench coats and Manolos who spoke in a posh British accent? |
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There was no simple retreat from austere aristocratic classicism to bourgeois romanticism. |
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It has often been termed a socialistic empire, for it was an aristocratic and autocratic socialism, not a democratic one. |
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My father was not a man to underrate the bearing of Latin satirists or Greek dramatists on the attainment of an aristocratic position. |
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The tower was originally a summer banqueting house and allowed aristocratic ladies to watch their men hunting. |
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A fiery, tempestuous reading of the Allegro non troppo had just the right contrasting hues of aristocratic grace. |
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Intended to serve as a dynastic mausoleum, it houses one of England's most dazzling collections of aristocratic tombs. |
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In contrast to the Gracchus brothers, Marius was a self-made man with no aristocratic background. |
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His section is the most aristocratic of the parties at present, and I doubt if it would serve my turn to follow his example. |
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Forty-five aristocratic Merovingian tombs have been discovered over the past few weeks in the Haut-Rhin. |
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It's often perceived as an aristocratic indulgence, a sport for toffs and the idle rich. |
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As an aristocratic Florentine order, the Servites naturally appealed to the wealthy patrons of the city. |
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A man with delicate good looks and haunting eyes, staring out at us from portraits, beribboned and aristocratic. |
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As Dickens perceived it, the root cause of the French Revolution lay in an abuse of monarchic and aristocratic power in the eighteenth century. |
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The reciprocal obligations of aristocratic gift exchange neutralized the monopolistic imperatives of the closed shop. |
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This is no romantic and idealistic battle for higher principles, fought by a moral and ethical aristocratic elite according to chivalric rules. |
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Ireland's political circumstances may have channelled aristocratic leisure into fighting rather than blood sports. |
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Its aristocratic tendencies sit badly with the meritocratic facts of Scottish life. |
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She came from an aristocratic family, yet had an unerring sense of fashion. |
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Queen Elizabeth I loved bonbons, and aristocratic Tudor households would pride themselves on presenting elaborate sugar artifices. |
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Salonnieres continued doing what they did best, integrating worthy men into the elite, and perpetuating aristocratic manners and bon ton. |
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From the 15th to the 17th centuries Muscovite boyars formed a closed aristocratic class drawn from about 200 families. |
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All this helped to establish French as the polite language of aristocratic society across most of Europe. |
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But many of the leading figures in this aristocratic society were even more wealthy. |
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Redmayne's costume gave him an aristocratic deportment which he emphasised with graceful movements and slow, sonorous speech. |
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With her calm and assured on-camera demeanor, she seems the most aristocratic of newswomen. |
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The glamour of each of these plays has to do with what in them is aristocratic, removed, a high pastime played out within sound of the sea. |
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The five-course guitar supplanted the aristocratic vihuela in the 17th century and came to be regarded as the typical Spanish instrument. |
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After decades of Marxist-Leninist education, Hungarians of all classes are showing an obsessive interest in their aristocratic forebears. |
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One of these was that religious dissension or aristocratic ambition could plunge a modern state into civil war. |
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She comes from aristocratic blood and old money, yet fled to Africa to live the exciting life of a single missionary. |
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Where the middling strata were thin on the ground, as in Spain or Hungary, liberalism could take on a strong aristocratic tinge. |
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Once the symbol of a rich legacy, they used to grace the opulent confines of sprawling traditional houses belonging to the aristocratic class. |
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In the east, the seventh-century crisis similarly undermined aristocratic hegemony. |
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His movement was long dominated organisationally by aristocratic Europeans and rich Americans. |
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Diamond earrings and studs are the most versatile and wonderful accessory that can give an aristocratic look. |
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She smiled, in a subtle, subdued manner, her elfin features bore a look that was regal, majestic, aristocratic. |
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Fielding, aristocratic and classically educated, was worldly, tolerant, self-assured, and witty. |
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The scenes are bucolic pastorals of peasant and aristocratic life during the period. |
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The Rig Veda is a collection of hymns praising the gods and glorifying the conquests and the heroics of the aristocratic Aryan cult. |
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Coriolanus charts the destructive contest between a vain aristocratic soldier and the self-seeking patricians who claim to represent the masses. |
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His straight, patrician nose simply added to the resolute, aristocratic aura surrounding him. |
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No emulation of aristocratic practices is more obvious than the commissioning of portraits by the urban patriciate in Bruges. |
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In elite society, aristocratic funerary sculpture quickly replaced religious imagery with heraldic and symbolic devices. |
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Traditional aristocratic fare included such fancy foods, many of which are popular among the newly wealthy classes today. |
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The following day she had the opportunity to test her incipient beliefs when she dined with an aristocratic English woman. |
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Early modern patronage came as before from courts, churches, aristocratic, and merchant families, from religious orders and confraternities. |
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They don't fire the imagination or arouse the passions like the aristocratic love of honor. |
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His aristocratic and clerical connections ensured his rapid preferment, but he was only a minor pluralist. |
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They will be traveling by iron horse, sending a message to the many tribes that they are not stuffy, wealthy, and aristocratic New Englanders. |
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The prep schools and the Ivies are a key part of the Northeast's identity, its sense of academic excellence and its aristocratic subculture. |
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A Cockney costermonger is revealed as the new Earl of Hareford to the consternation of his aristocratic relations. |
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There was a large group of people, all dressed in what looked like sixteenth-century, aristocratic period costumes and wigs. |
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He stepped up to the cradle where the baby girl lay, and picked her up in his aristocratic hands, smiling sadly, yet gently. |
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He has caught a glimpse of a new, golden world of wealth and ease, at the center of which stands a lovely and aristocratic woman. |
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His critique of landlord powerlessness rests on the belief that aristocratic rule and estate ownership are ends in themselves. |
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Her features became blank in the aristocratic air she had perfected over the years of political power play. |
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Courtenay's aristocratic connections carried him rapidly up the ladder of preferment. |
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The movie concentrates on Rochester's lascivious and debauched adventures in London, gallivanting about with other aristocratic hedonists. |
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The aim, rather, was to represent one's aristocratic identity as declaratively as possible through cosmetic artifice. |
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It opens with a series of dedicatory poems addressed to aristocratic women, representing them as a mutually supportive female community. |
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The discovery of goshawk and sparrowhawk bones suggest that some vicars enjoyed the aristocratic sport of hawking in their spare time. |
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German fox-hunters tended to be aristocratic, in his view effete and probably Anglophile. |
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Certainly the cast are up to the haughty elocution and aristocratic manner demanded by their roles. |
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Etruscan art reveals an aristocratic society in which women enjoyed an emancipated style of life. |
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He ends his life as a bankrupt and a dependant of Flashman's aristocratic father-in-law. |
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In his concerts abroad he held his aristocratic, cultivated audiences enrapt as he wove his piano improvisations. |
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She had an aristocratic double-barrelled name for a start, and who but posh folk were called Camilla anyway? |
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I stripped away my aristocratic clothing, my tight fitting hose, my pointed leather shoes, my doublet and sheer tunic. |
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Most of the owners of Egyptian material appear to have been inquisitive antiquaries rather than aristocratic virtuosi seeking works of art for their country houses. |
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But true love was never all excuse for an unapproved marriage, and elopements frequently caused heartache and family break-up, particularly in aristocratic circles. |
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Through a graphological analysis of the poems, the writer has been identified as a prominent aristocratic monk who was renowned for his skillful calligraphy. |
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The peasantry prospered by clearing land until the mid-ninth century, when it began to lose ground to its aristocratic neighbours, as land sales show. |
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He was lionized by aristocratic and literary London, survived a hectic love affair with Lady Caroline Lamb, and became the constant companion of Augusta. |
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He was the first Tory leader to be elected as party head, rather than emerge from a mysterious process of selection by the circle of aristocratic grandees. |
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As late as the fifth century, powerful aristocratic women took charge of the commemoration of the dead in Rome. |
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And yet the picture represents the horse precisely as an English acquisition, as a sign of his aristocratic English owner's good taste and imperial acquisitiveness. |
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His face was chiselled and aquiline, with an aristocratic bearing. |
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Love poems between aristocratic women were not uncommon at the time, as long as they stayed safely on the side of friendship. |
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Especially in the 1840s, the Piedmontese left, for its part, distrusted and despised Cavour whom they viewed as an arrogant and abrasive aristocratic conservative. |
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All are ordinary working men, except for Kenneth Pyper, an aristocratic artist turned existential nihilist who, unlike the others, seems genuinely prepared for death. |
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And it retains aristocratic liveries, a ceremonial jargon derived from Norman French and a strict code of manners that can be traced to the laws of chivalry. |
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From an aristocratic British family, she is the founder and owner of luxury site Gift-Library. |
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While agate could likely be acquired much more cheaply, aristocratic Romans were serious about their agate. |
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The state ostensibly dominated the society, but it was in fact the landed aristocratic families that kept the state at bay and perpetuated local power for centuries. |
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They also received male visitors to their family palaces, and furthered familial alliances through an exchange of visits with female members of other aristocratic families. |
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Sinclair was born in 1878 to a family with Southern aristocratic ties. |
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Now running a servants employment office, Rose becomes the housekeeper to the new aristocratic family living at 165 Eaton Place. |
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Far from worrying about musty family skeletons in aristocratic cupboards, noble pedigrees are advertised and the smallest cup-full of blue blood proudly proclaimed. |
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Nations with timorous taste buds limit their knowledge and appetite, so that to the Anglo-American lay mind the aristocratic boletes are, at best, reformed toadstools. |
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By the 15th century there are ample records of a thriving and developing musical life in Poland, not only in monasteries and bishoprics but also in the aristocratic courts. |
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Other critics, North and South, blamed slavery for encouraging an aristocratic love of luxurious leisure and a despotic temperament among the slaveholders. |
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No one would have mistaken him for anything other than a stable-boy or hostler, and these aristocratic brats always made it a point never to look twice at a servant. |
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I laughed outright because his voice was so gracious and aristocratic. |
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The legal body is the only aristocratic element which can unforcedly mingle with elements natural to democracy and combine with them on comfortable and lasting terms. |
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He contended that every page of Mitford's History had falsehoods, all stemming from his anti-democratic passion and his excessive regard for monarchal and aristocratic power. |
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Much evidence indicates that these changes in the lives of aristocratic women arose from a combination of moral suasion, public pressure, and political strategizing. |
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Whenever anyone says he's aristocratic he's always quick to repeat it in his diaries, which strikes me as an incredibly middle-class aspirational trait. |
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After its aristocratic owners moved on in the late 1930s, the house served in turns as a farming school, a centre for displaced people, a boys' private school and a borstal. |
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With only 30 bedrooms, each stylishly decorated and furnished, this aristocratic hideaway is the perfect retreat for those who hanker after the Spanish grandee lifestyle. |
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He ruled in an increasingly arbitrary and absolutist fashion, brutalizing the aristocratic boyars in a decade-long period of terror known as the oprichnina. |
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She wore heavy silver jewelry and had an aristocratic sneer. |
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Changes in war, government, and economy made the chivalrous, aristocratic knight obsolete and the Renaissance made classical literature more popular. |
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Opposition to academies was accentuated by the widening breach between creative artists and the bourgeois public after aristocratic patronage declined. |
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Raiding nomadic herders forced the populations to live in walled cities for defense and to entrust their protection to an aristocratic class of leaders. |
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But some of the traditional families are still in residence, aristocratic hosts who graciously receive paying guests and sit them down to dinner amongst the family silver. |
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Resplendent as a political grandee, he was representative of a high point of aristocratic parliamentarianism before later developments undermined it. |
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In an age where photography did not exist, unlike artists abroad who soften aristocratic features in oils, Indian painters preferred stylised versions in miniatures. |
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We heard over and over about Peck's impeccable gentlemanliness and old-school liberal decency, Hepburn's aristocratic east coast classiness, and Bob Hope's patriotism. |
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Vain, superficial and selfish, she was also a brilliant conversationalist and a loyal friend who had no difficulty dominating British aristocratic society. |
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It was a regression, the triumph of a latent aristocratic gene that resides in the heart of humanity when democracies get lazy. |
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Chaucer, who came of London merchant stock, grew up in aristocratic and royal circles, and he was one of the most lionized and richly rewarded poets of any age. |
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Their agitation for a more powerful Dublin parliament was framed not as a progressive reform, but as the restoration of aristocratic prerogatives that had been taken away. |
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One of the few Russian words to have entered the vocabulary of other languages, dacha originally meant a parcel of land given by the tsar to his aristocratic servitors. |
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Suffice to say that the vineyard has been sustained by a rising demand from Europe's aristocratic families, Arab princelings and dotcom millionaires. |
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Despite his much vaunted lack of emotional attachment to the trappings of title, the marquis has been cited as conducting his business with a distinctly aristocratic hauteur. |
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Indeed gothic novels, while depicting evil aristocrats flouting law and convention, also betrayed a nostalgia for the feudal order and aristocratic values. |
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He was a nineteenth-century male immigrant to Australia who was financially supported by regular remittance of funds from his wealthy or aristocratic family back home. |
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The music is rhythmically urgent yet laced with aristocratic lyricism. |
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Several aristocratic thiyya families such as 'Kallingal madom' were settled in and around the city. |
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Con had a character all his own, an aristocratic looking dog in appearance, white almost in colour like Samoyeds. |
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The auletris, or flute-player, provided musical accompaniment at the Greek symposium, a drinking party enjoyed by aristocratic males. |
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It was posh and aristocratic but at the same time, it was modernised by the breathiness of her that made it feel like she was normal. |
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Don Pablo do la Guerra, with his handsome aristocratic features, was the floor manager, and gallantly discharged his office. |
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There was no strong bourgeosie class in Norway to demand a breakdown of this aristocratic control of the economy. |
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Armed conflict was avoided because York lacked aristocratic support and was forced to swear allegiance to Henry. |
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It threatened but did not reach the aristocratic district of Westminster, Charles II's Palace of Whitehall, and most of the suburban slums. |
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They destroyed aristocratic society from top to bottom, along with its structure of dependencies and privileges. |
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The bulk of the nobles argued for an aristocratic upper house elected by the nobles. |
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The House of Lords was previously a largely hereditary aristocratic chamber, although including life peers, and Lords Spiritual. |
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Changes also took place among laymen, as aristocratic culture focused on great feasts held in halls rather than on literary pursuits. |
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Onto this turbulent scene emerged Gaius Julius Caesar, from an aristocratic family of limited wealth. |
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The status of ecclesiastics was regulated by secular law, and many leading ecclesiastics came from aristocratic Irish families. |
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They were usually built as centre pieces in aristocratic planned landscapes. |
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The plight of rural slaves was generally worse than their counterparts working in urban aristocratic households. |
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At that time they had both been working for an aristocratic patron, probably Ferdinando Stanley, Lord Strange. |
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Bentham became convinced that his plans for the Panopticon had been thwarted by the King and an aristocratic elite acting in their own interests. |
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He was born in Monmouthshire into one of the most prominent aristocratic families in the United Kingdom. |
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Of course, aristocratic patronage of orchestras continued during the Classical era, but this went on alongside public concerts. |
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The British Institution, founded in 1805 by a group of aristocratic connoisseurs, attempted to address this situation. |
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However, despite the crisis in aristocratic fortunes, the following decade was one of several great bequests from private collectors. |
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Its themes were the value of benevolent aristocratic government, a loathing of political dogma, and the modernisation of Tory policies. |
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Traditional, aristocratic, premodern society battled an emerging capitalist, bourgeois, modernising society. |
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The family traces its lineage across eight centuries to Norman times and was closely connected to many aristocratic families of Great Britain. |
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Historians portray Lord Salisbury as a talented leader who was an icon of traditional, aristocratic conservatism. |
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As a young man, he acquired many fashionable and aristocratic friends, and developed a taste for country house society. |
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All of this was very unlike Europe, where aristocratic families and the established church were in control. |
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Voltaire's wit made him popular among some of the aristocratic families with whom he mixed. |
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The flag was created to replace the traditional ermine plain standard, considered too aristocratic and royalist. |
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This was not initially exported, but used for gifts to other aristocratic families. |
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Hare coursing with greyhounds was once an aristocratic pursuit, forbidden to lower social classes. |
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However, by the Archaic period and the first historical consciousness, most had already become aristocratic oligarchies. |
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Although he was a patrician by birth, his family, though aristocratic, had long been impoverished and was unimportant. |
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The bestowal of noble and aristocratic titles was widespread across the empire even after its fall by independent monarchs. |
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Nationalism during the 19th century threatened the old aristocratic regimes. |
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His histories have an aristocratic ethos and reveal his opinions on honor, wealth and war. |
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Maurice had to do everything by himself with his small band of aristocratic managers in the States General. |
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Exotic furs such as fox, marten, grey squirrel and ermine were reserved for aristocratic elites. |
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Justification for such a slave society developed into a conceptual framework of white superiority and aristocratic privilege. |
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It was not a mass party but was designed to protect the interests of the aristocratic Muslims. |
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In a few countries, bicameralism involves the juxtaposition of democratic and aristocratic elements. |
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Members of the House of Lords all have an aristocratic title, or are from the Clergy. |
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Finally, the name is borne by the aristocratic House of Franckenstein from Franconia. |
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Under the duke were three aristocratic families, whose heads bore the title of viscount and held hereditary positions in the Lu bureaucracy. |
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Aquiline nose, face long and aristocratic, voice deep and vibrant. |
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With his Whiggism went an admiration for the Whig aristocratic ideal, with whose embodiments he now became closely engaged. |
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It also seems that at this time it becomes easier for aristocratic families to gain enormous power and wealth through the system of clientship. |
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It is not known if Lescarbot was aware of Montaigne's stigmatization of the aristocratic pastime of hunting, though some authors believe he was familiar with Montaigne. |
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Jousting and hunting were popular sports in the Western Europe of the Middle Ages, and the aristocratic classes of Europe developed passions for leisure activities. |
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This branch of the family received aristocratic rankin Joseon era Korea. |
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Under the ensuing economic recovery, many aristocratic Genoese families, such as the Balbi, Doria, Grimaldi, Pallavicini, and Serra, amassed tremendous fortunes. |
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He was awarded an aristocratic title and land by the Portuguese crown. |
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During the Ayutthaya period, Khon, or a dramatized version of Ramakien, was classified as lakhon nai or a theatrical performance reserved only for aristocratic audience. |
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These differences allowed for a wide variety of peasant societies, some dominated by aristocratic landholders and others having a great deal of autonomy. |
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Women took part in aristocratic society mainly in their roles as wives and mothers of men, with the role of mother of a ruler being especially prominent in Merovingian Gaul. |
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These ties led to the prevalence of the feud in aristocratic society, examples of which included those related by Gregory of Tours that took place in Merovingian Gaul. |
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By the end of the century aristocratic, or French, values were spreading among the burghers, and depictions were allowed more freedom and display. |
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Society emphasized the role of mothers in child rearing, especially the patriotic goal of raising republican children rather than those locked into aristocratic value systems. |
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Monarchies, including the Capetian dynasty in France, were overthrown, and other reforms that allegedly broke with Europe's feudal, aristocratic past were instituted. |
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The Liberal Party grew out of the Whigs, who had their origins in an aristocratic faction in the reign of Charles II, and the early 19th century Radicals. |
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The Jacobins expanded the size of the army, and Carnot replaced many aristocratic officers with soldiers who had demonstrated their patriotism, if not their ability. |
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The House of Lords is a vestige of the aristocratic system that once predominated in British politics, while the other house, the House of Commons, is entirely elected. |
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The aristocratic stately home continued the tradition of the first large gracious unfortified mansions such as the Elizabethan Montacute House and Hatfield House. |
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Much of the nobility was killed on the battlefield or executed for participation in the war, and many aristocratic estates were lost to the Crown. |
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You are not such a foolish woman as to like to be seen with Fred Mostyn, that little monocular snob, after the aristocratic, handsome Basil Stanhope. |
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However, the reform campaign was not well organised, and the traditional aristocratic leadership of the Army pulled itself together, and blocked all serious reforms. |
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By its end, feudal armies had been largely replaced by professional troops, and aristocratic dominance had yielded to a democratisation of the manpower and weapons of armies. |
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Another example of aristocratic bicameralism was the Japanese House of Peers, abolished after World War II and replaced with the present House of Councillors. |
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Romance or chivalric romance is a type of narrative in prose or verse popular in the aristocratic circles of High Medieval and Early Modern Europe. |
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Some of those old aristocratic families haven't got a razoo any more. |
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Romance or chivalric romance is a type of prose and verse narrative that was popular in the aristocratic circles of High Medieval and Early Modern Europe. |
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Although aristocratic values permeated traditional elite society, a strong tendency towards plutocracy is indicated by the wealth requirements for census rank. |
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Wedgwood hoped to monopolize the aristocratic market, and thus win for his wares a special distinction, a social cachet which would filter to all classes of society. |
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Both before and after 1066 aristocratic women could own land, and some women continued to have the ability to dispose of their property as they wished. |
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As a generality, most nobles, whether titled or not, have coats of arms, hence the widely held perception of heraldry as an aristocratic trapping. |
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Military expediency trumped aristocratic privilege when it came to securing the Empire and a series of professional military emperors followed as a result. |
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This branch of the family received aristocratic rank in Joseon era Korea. |
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However, it was also a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment, as well a reaction against the scientific rationalisation of nature. |
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Rather than aristocratic fiefs, Qin territory came under the direct control of the Qin rulers, directly appointing officials on the basis of their qualifications. |
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He was evidently very charming to his patrons, and, like Rubens, well able to mix in aristocratic and court circles, which added to his ability to obtain commissions. |
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Consuls were elected by the Comitia Centuriata, which had an aristocratic bias in its voting structure which only increased over the years from its foundation. |
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The finest period of the style was brought to an end by the disruption to monastic centres and aristocratic life of the Viking raids which began in the late 8th century. |
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Instead the play focuses on Don Juan as an aristocratic anachronism, a vestige of a dead age who has nothing left to do but play games and exercise his droit de seigneur. |
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All the same, maintaining an adequate gradation of mollifiers helped aristocratic statesmen defend the integrity of the existing status hierarchy. |
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Some retained a role in local administration and became law courts, while others are still handed down in aristocratic families as hereditary seats. |
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