| 单词 | aristocratic |
| 例句 | “Do you know what I like about military barbers? You guys are such high class people. I mean it. Sincerely, I do. The absolute cream of military personnel. Handsome, aristocratic, urbane, without being affected.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Corcorans have delusions of grandeur. The problem is, they lack the money to back them up. No doubt they think it very aristocratic and grand, farming their sons off on other people.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He was delighted when the lowly U.S. customs officers on the Manhattan dock failed to cringe at his aristocratic bearing and pedigree. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “I’ll leave you in peace if you’ll only let your hair grow. I’m not aristocratic, but I do object to being seen with a person who looks like a young prize fighter,” observed Jo severely. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The rise of a middle class - and a growing, wage-earning working class, as London’s industry expanded - was to have a greater effect on changing musical tastes in Britain than the whims of aristocratic patrons. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Remembering the painted boots, she surveyed her white satin slippers with girlish satisfaction, and chasseed down the room, admiring her aristocratic feet all by herself. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The portrait, in the style of Gainsborough, showed an aristocratic family—parents, two teenage girls and an infant, all thin-lipped, and pale as ghouls—posed before a vaguely Tuscan landscape. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Second, Jefferson suggested that Adams’s description of aristocratic power was appropriate for Europe, where feudal privileges, family titles, and more limited economic opportunities created conditions that sustained class distinctions. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Under the influence of that old, aristocratic, nineteenth- century summer resort, Julie and I were acting old-fashioned, too. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z There is to their pose an aristocratic formality, an elegant Latin hauteur. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I am here to see the king,” Lady Meng said with the aristocratic dignity of an empress. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z In the twilight the memory of him was very sharp, the soft pink skin aging on his fine cheekbones, the thin aristocratic nose, the eyes, so shrewd and yet so loving. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z He kept telling her she had aristocratic hands. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z “And she is of so aristocratic a disposition—” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z There already existed a sort of council of elders, called the Areopagus,* which consisted of senior ex-politicians and functioned as an aristocratic court of appeal. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z In 1795 a selection of bones made their way to Paris, where they were examined by the rising star of paleontology, the youthful and aristocratic Georges Cuvier. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z They knew every character and every line and had learned how to swoon like aristocratic maidens. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Coach murmurs, “Fencing has aristocratic roots. But you belong here. We all do.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Before him was a blue-haired, aristocratic woman, very small, elegant, and old. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It was not big nor red, like poor ‘Petrea’s’, it was only rather flat, and all the pinching in the world could not give it an aristocratic point. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z A neatly trimmed mustache connected to a beard that covered only his chin lent him an elegant, vaguely aristocratic air. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Block out the little aristocratic professor pacing in front of the hearth and the late hour and the dogs and the shelves brimming with interesting things. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He knew that face: a long aristocratic nose, mahogany deepening to black at the muzzle. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The peasants of Europe worked essentially as low-paid slaves of an aristocratic landlord, with little control over their own destinies. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Europe was, to be sure, burdened with aristocratic legacies and gross disparities in wealth that were not present to the same degree in America. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Philip was the Student Council President and had the chiseled, immaculate, Anglican features of that aristocratic breed. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He lived the life of an aristocratic New Yorker in the squalor of Williamsburg. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The university’s genteel nickname, the Cavaliers, and its aristocratic sword-crossed coat of arms seem appropriate today. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The mix of the old aristocratic families and the hyper-rich often plays out as a none-too-subtle tug-of-war between class and money. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z His manner was aristocratic, his movements dapper and suave. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It reflected his genuine conviction that England was an inherently corrupt society, the bastion of monarchical power, aristocratic privilege, and courtly intrigue. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Unlike Burr’s distinguished bloodline, which gave his aristocratic bearing its roots and biological rationale, Hamilton’s more dashing and consistently audacious style developed as a willful personal wager against the odds of his impoverished origins. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z She and her husband both came from Japan, and her long aristocratic face was always a ghastly white. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Consequently we were not royal but snobbish, not aristocratic but class-conscious; we believed authority was cruelty to our inferiors, and education was being at school. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z My best teachers in college and graduate school, years before, had tried to prepare me for this conclusion, I think, when they discussed texts of aristocratic pastoral literature. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Big Numbers, Small Probabilities People’s facility with numbers ranges from the aristocratic to the Ramanujanian, but it’s an unfortunate fact that most are on the aristocrats’ side of our old Mainer. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It is the handsome and aristocratic young man whose eyes are directed at the artist, or at us. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In 313, just nine years after the Ptolemaic forces were first invited in by the aristocratic faction, the people were already in revolt. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z There the house lost its aristocratic bearing and the kennels, chicken coops, and servants’ quarters began. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Ah, what elegance! What aristocratic distinction! Can that really be decayed cat that I smell? With a delicate overtone of rotten camel! Ah, the gorgeous East!” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The son of a New England farmer and shoemaker was being accused of aristocratic allegiances by an owner of slaves with vast estates, much of both inherited from his wife’s side of the family. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z She was about seventy, a tiny, aristocratic- looking woman. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z I watched spellbound, as the colorful adventures of the aristocratic gods Rama and Sita, and Rama's monkey-faced devotee, Hanuman, unfurled before me. ACT gambles big on 'The Ramayana, a Hindu epic cherished by millions 2012-10-10T22:44:05Z In order to attract suitable husbands, aristocratic women were encouraged to play an instrument. The Woman at the Heart of Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight’ Sonata 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Its few pieces of shabby furniture are the castoff possessions of an aristocratic woman from whom his father bought the apartment. Bertolucci’s ‘Me and You,’ About a Struggling Adolescent 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z As to whether Ruiz wants us to see all this aristocratic bodice-ripping and histrionic piety through an ironic or political lens, I would say he leaves that up to us. Pick of the week: Rapturous 19th-century soap "Mysteries of Lisbon" 2011-08-05T01:01:00Z He allowed the yearning first theme of the slow movement to express itself fully but answered it with a clarinet solo of aristocratic restraint and worshipful simplicity. Music Review: Budapest Festival Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-01-22T23:20:20Z Emmy-winning series "Downton Abbey," about the lives of aristocratic Britons and their servants in the early 20th century, is broadcast on Britain's ITV and on public broadcaster PBS in the United States. PBS says rapper Diddy will not appear on 'Downton Abbey' 2013-05-15T23:57:19Z The Russian-born Balanchine, heterosexual and subtly aristocratic, embodied — and extended — the classical orthodoxy of ballet. Jerome Robbins, Ballet’s Mr. ‘Take It Easy, Baby,’ at 100 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z It was his inheritance as a Spaniard—the aristocratic black of Velázquez, the Catholic black of the cassock, the mysterious black of the lace mantilla, the ebullient black of the bullfighter. ‘Balenciaga in Black’ Review: Fashion Goes to the Dark Side 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Their devotion to Slowick meanwhile, hovers between that of a proletarian army in revolt against its oppressors and the legions of the undead commanded by figures of aristocratic despotism such as Dracula. "The Menu": Ralph Fiennes’ new film shows why restaurants are a ripe setting for horror 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z Among those who worked alongside Mr. Montagu, an aristocratic barrister, was Charles Cholmondeley, an employee of M15, the British counterespionage service. Books of The Times: ?Operation Mincemeat? by Ben Macintyre 2010-05-11T21:44:00Z Dapper and dashing with an aristocratic air, Plummer could have been a leading man without the talent. Christopher Plummer got a third act worth singing about 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z The poison of anti-Semitism comes in many flavors, after all, but the kind that, for instance, Drumont, in France, or Chesterton and Belloc, in Britain, had until then favored was aristocratic in pretension. Does “Mein Kampf” Remain a Dangerous Book? 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z She was 28, a brunet ingénue from English stock, raised in what she has wryly called “the most aristocratic village in the prune belt” of Northern California. At 101, a Survivor of Hollywood’s Golden Age Throws Down the Gauntlet 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z They have been in the same aristocratic family ever since and form part of the Bridegwater Collection of Old Masters that have been loaned to the National Galleries of Scotland since 1945. British galleries buy Renaissance masterpiece 2012-03-01T12:38:09Z Louis XIV also charged Le Brun with directing the complete makeover of the previously modest château of Versailles, where France's own aristocratic corruption would one day sink the royal ship of state. 'Woven Gold: Tapestries of Louis XIV': Splendid pomp and circumstance at the Getty 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z Mate-selection by aristocratic male privilege is too dodgy to gloss over; they’d have to choose each other, which takes away the whole point of the ball. Emma Watson’s Beauty and the Beast is a good start – we need more feminist fairytales 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z Revolutionary mobs toppled Bouchardon’s monumental bronze equestrian sculpture of his aristocratic patron, decked out like Emperor Marcus Aurelius while prancing on horseback atop a high perch. Edmé Bouchardon's extraordinary drawings changed the way sculpture looked 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z The Hubbard brothers, Ben and Oscar, even boast to a new business partner about their cleverness in "taking over" by marriage the plantation of Oscar's genteel, formerly aristocratic wife, Birdie. Review: Timeless greed stars in 'The Little Foxes' 2010-09-22T19:44:00Z Dour, and aristocratic in manner, he was nevertheless a lively character. An Austrian Maestro’s Career, Seen Through His Recordings 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z An aristocratic intelligence officer named Alec Burne-Jones, seeing Joe’s potential, sent him to Cambridge to learn Russian and German and channeled his smarts and criminal skills into the life of a spy. ‘The Unfortunate Englishman’: a stylish spy thriller set in postwar Berlin 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z In the New York cast, Jefferson Mays plays multiple roles, both male and female, as the eccentric members of the aristocratic D'Ysquith clan. 'A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder' to launch national tour 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z The challenges here are tailor-made for FitzHigham's raffish, aristocratic, lusciously bewhiskered stage persona. Tim FitzHigham ? review 2011-08-28T13:32:13Z The room caused a sensation and set a new standard for the vitality and relevance of American aristocratic decorating. | The Great American Designs of Tom Scheerer 2013-08-21T13:00:58Z Then, as Britain became an increasingly industrialized nation, aristocratic families needed money. ‘Downton Abbey’ and the History of Difficult Royal Visits 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z She did not sign her drawings or send invoices; her aristocratic set would have disapproved of a working woman. Antiques: The Case for a 17th-Century Female British Architect 2012-03-08T23:47:52Z The invention of a new aristocratic heroine, who chooses to march with the people, creates a tragic victim for the plot. Bolshoi Ballet: The Flames of Paris | Dance review 2010-04-01T21:30:00Z The youngest of three daughters of a shabbily aristocratic widower, Flavia lives in a rural village in post-World-War-II England, and her existence is periodically enlivened by crimes that require her unusual skills. New crime fiction by Dana Stabenow, A.D. Miller and Flavia de Luce 2011-02-10T00:32:04Z In “The Mirror and the Light,” as Cromwell grapples with aristocratic foes who want to send him to the same fate, his own inner voices clamor for attention. Review | ‘The Mirror and the Light’ is a masterful finale to Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell trilogy 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z War brought unfamiliar deprivations to the aristocratic family. The Guardian profile: Yoko Ono 2012-06-08T15:40:20Z Far from an old-fashioned aristocratic cabinet of curiosities, “the fair,” as regulars call it, can feel like an overwhelming explosion of history, beauty, charm and surprise. The Antiquarian Book Fair: From 1750s True Crime to Warhol’s Cats 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z And he cooks well, rustic yet aristocratic fare like terrines, fish soups, veal stews and roasted chickens. The Delicious World of Bruno, Chief of Police 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z In a secular, democratic society, they argue, cool is a sign of cultural democracy, a status that has to be earned, rather than passed down by an aristocratic elite. Museums Special Section: In Washington, 100 Examples of the Epitome of Cool 2014-03-19T20:36:17Z They unashamedly promote aristocratic privilege: “Drink deep, touch, feel, hold, taste, it’s all yours.” A Microsoft billionaire gives the public a rare view of his art 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z But where the usual beggars are “simple and plaintive,” these newcomers “had a distinct sort of haughtiness, almost aristocratic.” A Town Is Besieged by Children, Foreign and Violent 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Now in more than 200 countries and territories, the period drama about the lives of an aristocratic family and their servants has been a hit almost everywhere it has traveled. Change is in the air at 'Downton Abbey' 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z It is an extraordinary expression of aristocratic confidence. Downton Abbey Returns to America: Writer Julian Fellowes Tells All 2012-01-06T09:59:10Z His du Pont is at once an aristocratic enigma, a lost and tormented prisoner of privilege and a man whose unchecked power makes him dangerous in ways the film leaves unstated until the very end. The Telluride Film Festival Features ‘Mr. Turner’ 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z During the first season of , the aristocratic Crawley family and their busybody servants endured a succession crisis and the death of a Turkish houseguest. Downton Abbey Returns to America: Writer Julian Fellowes Tells All 2012-01-06T09:59:10Z Christopher Lee, the aristocratic 88-year-old actor who chilled generations as Count Dracula in a series of Hammer Studios horror classics, will receive a lifetime achievement award. 'King's Speech' takes on 'Black Swan' at UK Oscars 2011-02-13T12:08:09Z In the third, van Zweden paced a burnished Allegro, more aristocratic than fun or wild. Review: On Thanksgiving, Gratitude for a Dependable Violin 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z In “Wilde’s Women,” Eleanor Fitzsimons reminds us of the many writers, actresses, political activists, professional beauties and aristocratic ladies who helped shape the life and legend of the era’s greatest wit, esthete and sexual martyr. ‘Wilde’s Women’: the surprising force behind Oscar’s fame and success 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z The fashion house may still be seeking its emotional footing since McQueen's suicide in February but found firm stylistic ground in the aristocratic and military tradition of Savile row tailoring district and shopping street. Alexander McQueen sticks to British roots 2010-06-20T16:24:00Z “It was filled with pictures of these aristocratic rich people who’d dressed up their falcons in outfits to match their own.” | A Baroque-Folk Troubadour Takes Flight 2013-12-09T17:07:04Z A range of extended techniques, including bow whips, improvised pitches, vocal shouts and careening slides, revealed the ritualistic violence latent in the aristocratic hunt — the savagery underneath the thin veneer of civilization. German composer-clarinetist shows his virtuosity 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z Driven by fan demand, the aristocratic family and their servants return with a movie set around a royal visit to the vast Grantham country home. 'Downton Abbey' cast feeling the pressure ahead of movie 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z By standing on their hind legs, they literally prance around in fancy dresses, their odd gaits waived away as an aristocratic affectation. Thomas the Tank Engine, neocolonial fantasy: What his new international pals, and the backlash against them, signal 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z The label harks back to aristocratic prewar building names, which were often affixed to glamorous architectural showpieces to lure the upper crust. From ‘Liz’ to ‘The Jason’: The bizarre trend of fancy apartments with human names 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z This campy apparatus wryly skewers its legacy as aristocratic passenger disability. Pippa Garner at Redling Fine Art: Vehicles for clever satire 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z “It has an aristocratic air about it,” he said, adding, “I call it my Madison Avenue Victorian number.” William Greenberg Jr., Baker Who Sweetened Manhattan, Dies at 97 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z If the movie's French Riviera setting recalls "To Catch a Thief," Paradis is no Grace Kelly, and the disconnect between Juliette's aristocratic airs and her prosaic tastes taints your fantasy that she is something special. 'Heartbreaker': Hollywood sensibility in French rom-com a mismatch 2010-09-23T20:21:00Z Her pale, austerely beautiful face keeps dissolving and rehardening, between childlike openness and aristocratic opacity, gaping vulnerability and militant aggression. Theater Review: Yael Farber’s ‘Mies Julie,’ at St. Ann’s Warehouse 2012-11-13T03:00:00Z The aristocratic authors of an earlier period often felt that there was something a little common, even humiliating, about wanting to be read by others, possibly of an inferior station. The Booker steps away from being its own genre 2012-07-28T08:00:02Z This is not to say that Pugh neglects the proletarian aspects of the British Union of Fascists – on the contrary – but the extent and influence of aristocratic fascists at this time cannot be overstated. Will Self walks through Britain's flag-waving heartlands 2013-03-07T11:31:01Z Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s aristocratic parents were first cousins, and his numerous genetic defects, including bone abnormalities, are attributed to a family history of inbreeding. Toulouse-Lautrec’s Groundbreaking Prints at MoMA 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z The plot — which jumps from Tarzan’s African youth to his English aristocratic home life to Rom’s scorched-earth campaign to Williams’s gunslinging anti-slavery crusade — is far too busy for its own good. ‘The Legend of Tarzan’: Updated ape-man adventure is a jungle of film styles 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z After the storming of the Bastille, French revolutionaries banned masks and costumes, decrying the carnivalesque custom of the masquerade as both symbolic of aristocratic tyranny and a security threat. Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier – review 2013-02-27T07:59:01Z For the first 10 or 11 years of her life, she was absolutely expecting to live this sort of normal life as an aristocratic, yes as a princess, but absolutely out of the public eye. See the Trailer for the New Netflix Series About Queen Elizabeth 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Power and wealth are concentrated in the hands of aristocratic boyars. Review: ‘Aferim!’ Traverses an Unforgiving Romania in the 1800s 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z It pitted the more communalist, democratic and industrialized Northern vision of the American future against the hierarchical, aristocratic, agrarian Southern one. Southern values revived 2012-07-01T22:00:00Z "Mrs. Cazalet and Her Children Edward and Victor" is a triple portrait painting that depicts members of an aristocratic British family. Barbra Streisand donating John Singer Sargent painting to LACMA 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z ‘The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Olympics’ Few sports carry the aristocratic pedigree of crew. ‘The Boys in the Boat’: UW team vanquishes Hitler’s crew 2013-05-29T22:21:04Z Told from the perspective of a fictional amateur historian, "The Accursed" focuses on the aristocratic Slade family. Joyce Carol Oates takes on Ivy League society in new novel 2013-03-08T23:42:08Z Buffy the Vampire Slayer is the classic TV example, of course, but beyond that, take a story of bad blood between feuding aristocratic families, add teen hormones, and you’ve got Romeo and Juliet. Spring Break Is Coming: Watch the Parody School of Thrones 2013-03-12T13:10:04Z One of Goya’s main themes was social injustice, with satirical scenes of aristocratic decadence contrasting with drawings of famine and hardship in the countryside. In Spain, Santander Hopes a New Arts Center Will Reinvigorate the City 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z So it is no wonder that in the 18th century, with the decline of religious art and the rise of aristocratic tourism, Venetian painters made the city itself their theme. How Canaletto and the Venetian artists light up the National Gallery 2010-10-15T11:19:00Z Mr. Stark, who has, incongruously, been assisting at the aristocratic Glyndebourne festival this summer, has been surprised by the space’s versatility. Multi-Story Orchestra Turns a Parking Garage Into a Concert Hall 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z Westwood runway staples deconstructing formal aristocratic attire — pinstriped suiting, paper crowns, slogan patterned prints and genderless corseted gowns — remained a rallying cry against the establishment. The Best Things We Saw and Heard During London Fashion Week Men’s 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z Strafford is himself of an aristocratic Irish Protestant background, which ensures that he’s shunned by both his police superiors and the underlings who report to him — all Catholics. Review | John Banville’s new novel begins, like a game of Clue, with a body in the library 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z His rich and aristocratic characters are treated with a mixture of mocking envy and artless adulation. Disraeli: Or the Two Lives by Douglas Hurd and Edward Young – review 2013-07-17T17:05:21Z The designer also creates a vivid story line — this season an aristocratic female bandit on the run, who patched men’s coats with inserts of fur and put tailored capes over light lace dresses. Special Report: From Ethnic to Elegant 2010-02-28T18:30:00Z Whether the men are seen driven by rage or the women parade in Eve’s costume, all do so with elegance in a kind of sinister aristocratic ballet. Art: The Gloomy Brilliance of Lucas Cranach 2011-03-04T12:00:05Z So he was sent to boarding school in England, and was passed around among aristocratic rellies in the holidays, before joining the navy to fight against the Nazis who were married to his sisters. TV review: The Queen's Mother in Law; Bad Education; Gates 2012-08-21T21:35:01Z Born into an aristocratic French family in 1900, Saint-Exupéry was not a good student in school, nor were his flying skills exemplary — it’s said he had a tendency to daydream while in the air. Taking to the skies in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s ‘Wind, Sand and Stars’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z The scandal no longer lies in beatings and burnings but in the spectacle of an aristocratic woman falling in love with a lower-class man. DVDs: Thrills From British Vaults 2010-06-20T02:00:00Z The building trumpets the value of aristocratic rule loudly across the park as you drive up to it. Downton Abbey Returns to America: Writer Julian Fellowes Tells All 2012-01-06T09:59:10Z They run into an aristocratic so-and-so from Elena’s hometown up North, and find themselves invited to a formal dinner hosted by stalwarts of the old royalist order. ‘Una Vita Difficile’ Review: Life Comes at You Fast 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z A Japanese Orientalist style was not so distant from the faux aristocratic style of a Southern belle and it was popular in Paris.” Theater: In the Land of Moli?re, an Oriental 'Streetcar' 2011-02-14T16:43:52Z As for the shadowy Diaghilev himself: The book describes a childhood in Perm, near the Ural Mountains, where his aristocratic family formed a cultural outpost. Ballets Russes: Emotional and Passionate 2010-10-11T11:20:00Z She grew up in cosmopolitan comfort: Her father was a banker; her mother was from an aristocratic family. Review: In ‘Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960-1971,’ Text Messages From the Edge 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Yet the tantalizing and thought-provoking period drama chronicling a purported romance involving renowned 18th century poet and playwright Friedrich Schiller and two aristocratic sisters was a hard-sell in its homeland. 'Beloved Sisters': German period romance a tough sell even there 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z "Believing the Lie" is George's latest, and it stars the author's most famous figure, aristocratic Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley. 'Believing the Lie': a new Inspector Lynley mystery 2012-01-08T04:03:03Z Either way, there was definitely an aristocratic feel to the collection, from the dainty gilded head dressings that framed the models' demure hairdos, to the dainty little buttoned booties that adorned their feet. Summertime looks spill onto winter runway 2012-02-26T21:54:14Z To find less aristocratic sites, I contacted Esther Crain, the author of “New York City in 3D in the Gilded Age.” Regilding the Gilded Age in New York 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z That optimism paid off better for Disney than Rococo, whose aristocratic decadence helped instigate the French Revolution. Is Disney the Met’s Fairy Godmother? 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z “You can be aristocratic, without having been born into an aristocratic family.” André Leon Talley in His Own Words 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z That anxiety forms a subplot here, as Long frets about her right – as a privileged comedian with a taste for aristocratic pursuits – to speak for "the people". Josie Long – review 2012-11-08T17:26:53Z The second-era Ku Klux Klan, which at its peak in the 1920s could boast millions of adherents and real control over policy, had legions of followers in the middle and even aristocratic classes. What is “white supremacy”? A brief history of a term, and a movement, that continues to haunt America 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z Third was class conflict, as workers and a nascent socialist movement flexed their muscles against bosses and the traditional aristocratic ruling class. A grim half-century 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z So far it’s hard to imagine him in the aristocratic or royal roles of the repertory or in pure-dance roles. Dance Review: A Wild Man-Child by Way of the Bolshoi Tears Up the Met Stage 2011-06-19T22:43:45Z "She was young, very aristocratic, but completely in love with love," Holden said on "Salon Talks," "completely idealistic, completely romantic." Why the monarchy needed Diana: "She had to be a front-rank aristocrat, and she had to be a virgin" 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z At the same time, the Japanese emperors were becoming largely ceremonial, if not decadent; in reality, Japan was ruled by a succession of aristocratic clans, headed by a shogun, starting with the Fujiwara family. ‘The Tale of Genji’ and the Art It Inspired 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Today, Sealand makes money by selling aristocratic titles and hosting Internet servers. 'Prince Roy of Sealand' Roy Bates dead at 91 2012-10-10T16:34:08Z This in turn seems to have morphed into a vaguely aristocratic honorific, and before long the delightful young orderly had become the Munshi. When the Empress of India Met Her Muslim Teacher 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z I spend a lot of time talking about Anna's haughty aristocatic lover Vronsky and how the essence of the aristocratic self is to show a mastery of fear. Tolstoy's great estate 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z Even Murtagh who seems like a brute to the aristocratic circles of French society that he’s moving through is a man of surprising depth and loyalty. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 2: The Wounds We Carry 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z Thomsen, the aristocratic collaborator, might be offended by the sight of IG Farben executives “daintily picking their way past the bodies of the wounded, the unconscious, and the dead.” Book review: ‘The Zone of Interest,’ by Martin Amis He walks leaning forward a little, stooping fractionally, his head minutely bobbing: it is an aristocratic moseying or sauntering. Why I'd like to be … George Sanders 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Harnoncourt, who was born in Berlin to an aristocratic family and raised in Graz, Austria, began his career as a cellist. Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Early-Music Pioneer, Announces Retirement 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Written for performance at aristocratic gatherings, this is music of considerable charm, but no great depth. Neapolitan Flute Concertos II – review 2013-05-09T21:30:01Z In Georgian England, aristocratic men wore voluminous wigs, paled their complexions with white powder, and painted their cheeks and lips with rouge. Meet the teenage 'beauty boys' coming for the cosmetics industry | Elisabeth Sherman 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z Her imagery, often highlighted with gold leaf, is abstract and gestural but refers to Renaissance-era subjects: aristocratic or religious portraits, a rendering of St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice, Italy. Diana Al-Hadid sculptural paintings: Such beautiful decay 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z He’s 78, with a white beard and a grave, aristocratic mien. Jonny Greenwood, Radiohead?s Runaway Guitarist 2012-03-10T20:47:20Z Yoko also had to weather the disapproval of conservative, aristocratic parents when she first got together with Lennon. When Sam Taylor-Wood met Yoko Ono 2012-06-16T23:06:00Z Late Renaissance Italy being what it was, the double aristocratic murder was excused as a crime of honor, if it was regarded as a crime at all. Prince, Killer and Composer,' Gesualdo' Inspires Sound and Fury 2010-10-19T11:30:00Z After some enterprising ventures in Latin America, Maurizio DeRosa, a former partner in Sushi Nakazawa, is back in New York with this ode to Southern Italy that taps the region’s aristocratic traditions. KYU, an Eclectic Miami Transplant, Opens in NoHo 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z “But there’s a feeling like you don’t have a choice” in an increasingly aristocratic society in which one’s college is a primary determinant of status, he added. The ‘H-Bomb’ Fizzles: The Harvard Brand Takes a Hit 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z Later it became popular among the royal and aristocratic classes of Europe — Marie Antoinette regularly entertained guests at the French Court with her ornate gilded harp — and became a fixture in Victorian-era salons. How the Harp Got Hip 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z The Radlett family is the sort of crazy aristocratic family who do all these bonkers things. Why the monarchy needed Diana: "She had to be a front-rank aristocrat, and she had to be a virgin" 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z “They have this sort of aristocratic view of the great unwashed, how you get them to vote a certain way.” Jeremy Irons: ‘I have the natural tendency of a benign dictator’ 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z No one expects me to fall in love with Catullus' aristocratic mistress, even when I am writing versions of his poems to her; she's dead, whoever she was. Belief is unnecessary, but knowledge helps 2010-08-25T10:30:00Z Although acute enough to recognize his aristocratic expectations belonged to a lost era, he resented the new social order, from the money men at the top of the pyramid to the immigrants at the bottom. The Brilliant, Bitter, Unlikable Scion of an American Political Dynasty 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Her home is the luminescent force at the center of Nair’s adaptation, the embodiment of an aristocratic Islamic court culture and literary sensuality that was in decline by the time the story begins. ‘A Suitable Boy’ Finally Finds Its Perfect Match: Mira Nair 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z We are comparing jewelry: my band includes my initials in Arabic, while his bears the crest of his aristocratic family. Forget Banksy: Meet Blek Le Rat, The Father Of Stencil Graffiti 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z There lingers, even in our mercantile age, an admiration for the aristocratic ethos, the punctilio, of the duel. The literary history of duels, those absurdly formal fights to the death 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z There is also a case of mistaken identity when the aristocratic cad Tom Delamere dresses in blackface to impersonate a beloved African American servant named Sandy to perpetrate a ghastly crime. America's legacy of racial terror and Charles W. Chesnutt's "The Marrow of Tradition" 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z It’s also a dream of a code of conduct, binding mobsters together, horizontally and hierarchically, that offers a superficial air of aristocratic refinement and martial discipline to a crude and sanguinary business. Scorsese’s Achievement with “GoodFellas” 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z His bearing has the aristocratic manner Ibsen was said to possess, and his voice rumbles with majesty and authority. Review: Doug Wright’s ‘Posterity,’ a Portrait of Ibsen 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z “The most successful among them became heads of households and enjoyed financial and sexual freedoms uncommon to all but aristocratic women.” ‘Manon Lescaut’ at the Met Opera: A Courtesan in Need of Context 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z However aristocratic and privileged opera's historical pedigree might be, there is nothing in Monteverdi, Mozart, Verdi, or Puccini's works that has to tie them exclusively to the social conditions in which they were created. Love opera. Don't fall into the trappings trap 2010-05-27T21:00:00Z But Mr. Carsen fills it with rowdy activity, an attempt, it would seem, to reveal the absurdities of aristocratic pretense. Review: Renée Fleming’s Poignant Farewell to ‘Der Rosenkavalier’ at the Met 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Having experienced an aristocratic rural upbringing similar to Prince Charles’s, Diana understood life at Balmoral. How to Survive a Royal Weekend on ‘The Crown’ 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z On the other hand, Adam Cooper, who plays the Gene Kelly part in "Singin' in the Rain" at the Palace Theater, exudes an aristocratic insouciance that one associates with Astaire. ArtsBeat: He's Having a Baby: 'Birthday' in London 2012-06-29T18:30:51Z The woman depicted here was likely aristocratic, Ng said, judging by her pink dress brocaded in silver-gilt and silver-wound thread, white neck ruff and fine jewelry. The Frick Acquires Its First Renaissance Portrait of a Woman 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Giorgio is a middle-class young man who gets caught up in the circle of the Finzi-Continis, aristocratic Jews living on their verdant estate in idyllic insulation from the increasingly unfriendly world. Review: An Opera Sings of a World on the Verge of Ending 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z Horace Walpole applied ancestral coats of arms to his furniture partly out of insecurity; his family had wealth and power but not a stellar aristocratic lineage. Museums Are Trying New Things in the Bedroom 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Due to the corruption scandal, the couple was stripped of their aristocratic titles and dropped from the Royal House’s payroll. Spanish monarch’s sister and husband break up after 25 years 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z Rhys Ifans, who plays the Earl of Oxford, is a touching picture of aristocratic melancholy, his long face and hooded eyes suggesting the weariness of a decent, disappointed soul. Movie Review: ?Anonymous,? by Roland Emmerich - Review 2011-10-27T15:47:42Z Carpaccio had a broad range of patrons, both institutional and private, aristocratic and more humble. Puncturing the Myth of Carpaccio’s Waning Powers 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Jan is an American novelist who teaches university courses in creative writing and, on several of her summer breaks, rents quarters in a Tuscan palazzo owned by the combative remnants of a once-grand aristocratic family. This Year Is Complicated. Three New Novels Remind Us the Past Was No Picnic Either. 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Disraeli combatted this novel political force – the Liberal party was not a natural evolution from the old aristocratic Whig faction – with the potent ideas of a socially compassionate Conservatism and a great British empire. Cameron and Clegg: the improbable coalition 2010-05-12T15:22:00Z Charles Edwards's Aguecheek, arguably the best performance of the evening, is no mere ninny but an aristocratic manic depressive who lends a rueful sadness to the haunting line, "I was adored once too." Twelfth Night - review 2011-01-19T00:40:00Z The disharmony in the Schisa household is comically banal — an all-but-unseen sister monopolizes the bathroom; an aristocratic landlady bangs on the ceiling with a broom — until Saverio’s infidelity cranks it up to melodrama. ‘The Hand of God’ Review: A Portrait of the Cineaste as a Young Man 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z It is strange, in an age of female sound and fury, this enduring fixation on a near-silent woman who put forth the decorous veneer of an aristocratic hostess. In a New Biography of the Bouvier Women, Jealousies Rule 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z In the show’s final episode, one of the duchess’s aristocratic friends bemoans the British public’s desire to know what the upper classes are up to. A Duchess Brought Low by ‘A Very British Scandal’ 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Another work in the National Gallery, Marriage a la Mode by William Hogarth, shows an 18th-century aristocratic house in which nude art is covered by a curtain. Naked or nude? Laying bare an artistic divide 2012-11-28T16:53:35Z The aristocratic and pensive detective, still mourning the loss of his pregnant wife, returns from compassionate leave to investigate a murdered woman found dumped in a London cemetery. New in crime fiction: Michael Gruber, Elizabeth George, Robert Dugoni and Jon Talton 2010-05-05T22:33:00Z Thinking of Robert Maxwell, I suggested we make him Czech with aristocratic English pretensions. How we made: Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles on To the Manor Born 2013-04-15T16:30:09Z An old aristocratic order, at once morally flexible and rigidly traditional, is giving way to something new, and the change is bittersweet, containing both progress and tragedy. How Luchino Visconti Made History Sing 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z The imminent death of Rampling's matriarch throws an aristocratic family's dysfunction into relief in this Aussie drama, whose overstuffed story is redeemed by three watchable leads. I'm So Excited, The Eye Of The Storm, Gimme The Loot: what to see at the cinema this week 2013-05-04T05:00:12Z Now he lets this influence ripen with a new version of Chekhov’s comic drama about an aristocratic family undergoing a crisis of love and real estate. Theater Listings for Oct. 14-20 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z This approach, more than any particular issue, is a fundamental challenge to an expansive court, presidency and even, perhaps, to the aristocratic position that de Tocqueville discerned in the law. Why the American legal system is so flexible 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Mr. Wadsworth really plays up the violence of the final scene, in which an angry mob, fueled by pent-up anger and hatred, captures several aristocratic boyars and the once-feared policemen, torturing, stabbing and hanging them. Music Review: Ruthless Czar, Haunted by Doubts 2010-10-12T19:51:00Z The Art Institute of Chicago has unearthed the names of hundreds of underappreciated makers and aristocratic patrons for an exhibition that opens on Tuesday, St. Patrick’s Day: “Ireland: Crossroads of Art and Design, 1690-1840.” Irish Artifacts and Provenance 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z But it was in England that his portraits became a cultural mainstay, indelibly linked to aristocratic life. Van Dyck at the Frick, Documenting Aristocracy 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z A rich kid from a poor country, Senna became a national hero and an international celebrity without ever losing his reserved, aristocratic demeanor. "Senna": Meet the Elvis of racing drivers 2011-08-12T00:30:00Z Salzburg’s aristocratic audience is eager for starry singers, so the production also featured Anna Netrebko singing the title role for the first time. Why do music festivals matter? For an answer, America, look to Salzburg 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z To the young and very aristocratic British socialite Lady Diana Manners, these ragtime dances were part of a new "budding freedom", a sign that "Victorianism" had finally lost its grip. When flappers ruled the Earth: how dance helped women's liberation 2013-04-29T06:00:22Z Kate Valentine and Robert Murray as the lovers and Lucy Schaufer as the aristocratic secretary give performances of ardour and urgency. Aida; Elegy for Young Lovers; O Sonho 2010-05-01T23:07:00Z The drama's producers hope that the darker wartime storylines, and the aristocratic ensemble dressing down in the "we're all in it together" clothing of wartime, will not deter the fans. Downton Abbey fans should prepare to be shell-shocked 2011-07-29T19:24:50Z “The series charts the diminution of aristocratic life from its heyday to a period that we’re still living through really, and you’ve got to get every stage of that right.” ‘Downton Abbey’: Saying Farewell to All That 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Lust prevails in Renaissance Florence, with Middleton's aristocratic characters variously tricking and bribing each other into bed. John Mullan's 10 of the best: plays within plays 2012-05-25T21:55:09Z It is allied with “verismo,” a post-Romantic musical and literary movement that centered on relatively realistic characters — as opposed to the aristocratic and mythic figures previously the norm. ‘La Bohème’: Puccini’s bohemians live on, in opera and in life 2013-02-14T23:41:36Z She was born Nora Aschenbrenner, a child of World War II, in a family that was more aristocratic in behavior than in wealth. The book of Nora: The organic restaurant pioneer pens a memoir 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z With her strong features and almost aristocratic demeanour, Close excels at formidable, intelligent women who want to be in control. Glenn Close: critical acclaim built on strength of character 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z These are “the aristocratic bloodlines woven into the fabric of Washington,” McDowell writes. Review | Christina McDowell’s satire ‘The Cave Dwellers’ belongs among the essential books about Washington 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, in a parallel story, a beautiful courtesan named Angelica Neal, penniless after the death of her aristocratic patron, has decided to abandon the protection of the madam whose top attraction she once was. The Malevolent Little Mermaid: Not Your Usual Fantasy Heroine 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z The lesser activity of writing prose journals, in a phonetic Japanese alphabet, was left to aristocratic women like Lady Murasaki. Review | ‘The Tale of Genji’ is Japan’s most revered book, and likely the first novel ever. This exhibition takes us into its enigmatic world. 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z In the 19th century educated liberals regarded nationalism as an expression of popular sovereignty against transnational aristocratic elites. Classic works on the rise of populism 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z You could see it as a shallow work, a story of a rich girl from an aristocratic but debt-ridden family, looking for love. Review: ‘Arabella’ Brings Intrigue to the Munich Opera Festival 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z Born in 1923 into an aristocratic German family, he began his career as a magazine cartoonist in the 1950s. German humorist "Loriot" dies at 87 2011-08-23T11:38:09Z Mr. Weaver was often cast as an aristocratic villain. Fritz Weaver, Tony-Winning Character Actor, Dies at 90 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z Here are some examples of aristocratic immersion, no peerage required: ‘Downton Abbey’ merchandise 2013-12-31T22:34:27Z The hermit, the club hopper, the aristocratic art collector — they’re all here. David Bowie: Plagiarist, visionary or saint? 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Coral Glynn, an attractive young nurse with no family or friends, arrives at a countryside aristocratic manor to care for an ailing Mrs. Hart. Book review: "Coral Glynn" peeks behind the facade of an English manor 2012-04-19T20:15:05Z In a photographic narrative by Rachelle Mozman, one Latin American actor — the artist’s mother — plays the roles of aristocratic twin sisters, one light-skinned, one dark, as well as a family maid. Art Review: Artists Whose Vitality Flows From the Streets 2011-06-16T21:52:56Z The designer and his team evoked the decadent, opulent world depicted in Evelyn Waugh's novel about the aristocratic Marchmain family's decline between the two world wars. Peter Phillips obituary 2011-02-21T19:02:18Z Mozart – unlike most composers before him – was able to make a living independent of an institution or a single aristocratic patron, but he lived or died by what the public wanted to hear. What pop music owes to the classical masters 2013-01-24T18:54:18Z Part of this, Guillory notes, is related to the aristocratic education systems that pepper Southern history. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z Scarlatti’s Baroque serenata is a short entertainment for two voices and small musical ensemble meant to be performed in the home or garden of an aristocratic family. Christopher Williams’s Garden of Fantastical Delights 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z They opened the windows of English aristocratic life, culturally as well as literally. Titles and Troubles: American Heiresses Abroad 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z In the 1780s, Robert chronicled the breakdown of aristocratic society in images of the destruction of royalist monuments, and he was imprisoned during the French Revolution. Revisiting Hubert Robert and His Romantic Ruins 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z This revival mostly wishes to entertain, but it also wants to honor the various hues of Coward's playwriting, its mix of aristocratic banter and brittleness. Angela Lansbury keeps spirits high in 'Blithe Spirit' 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z Linda Radlett, the intensely English heroine, is the most beautiful of an eccentric aristocratic family closely modelled on Nancy Mitford's own. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford | Book review 2010-03-21T00:08:00Z New laws governed membership in a hereditary aristocratic class. Obsessed with Anne Boleyn 2012-06-18T22:01:00Z Ms. Mirren’s portrayal of this sometimes fearsome woman who doesn’t suffer fools is ultimately sympathetic; her chilly reserve and aristocratic manners camouflage a reservoir of feeling. Review: ‘Woman in Gold’ Stars Helen Mirren in Tug of War Over Artwork 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Abi, the family’s resourceful and responsible eldest daughter, manages to win a coveted slavedays placement for her family as servants for an aristocratic family. Best science fiction and fantasy books to read in February 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Here, the marriage is bohemian rather than aristocratic, but the stakes, while personal, are every bit as profound and consequential as the matters of state that drove the monarch to the microphone. Review: ‘The Danish Girl,’ About a Transgender Pioneer 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z He confided to Wegeler that he was thinking of marriage, but that the aristocratic young woman wasn’t of his station. The Woman at the Heart of Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight’ Sonata 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z In the beginning lace was made by aristocratic women for themselves — Vermeer’s well-dressed lady may have been one. Lace, That Most Coveted Textile 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z Often commissioned and admired by powerful women, their work is associated with a feminine sensibility that prevailed in aristocratic circles before French art turned strenuously masculine around the time of the revolution. Review | Édouard Manet spent his final days in excruciating pain — and creating his most thrilling art 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z The calligraphic lines of her body—the long, linear arms, the aristocratic Roman nose, the sinewy legs—became the basis for his style. Nothing To Hide: Wendy Whelan Retires 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z The granddaughter of the 11th Duke of Devonshire, Andrew Cavendish, and his wife Deborah Mitford — one of a glamorous, unconventional aristocratic family — Tennant was one of the leading British models of the 1990s. British model and fashion muse Stella Tennant dies at age 50 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z The dark-skinned, stubborn Ana flees the constraints of aristocratic life in Seville for the sugar plantation — Hacienda Los Gemelos — in Puerto Rico, with her husband and his brother, who are identical twins. A Tale Scooped From the Cauldron of History 2011-07-24T17:41:02Z As her aristocratic suitor, Mr. Snyder has a gleaming trumpet of a tenor. Review: Divine Decadence Revisited in ‘Grand Hotel’ 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z It brings back the aristocratic Crawley family, who live on the sprawling English estate Downton Abbey, and once again intersperses their dramas with those of the house staff. ‘Downton Abbey’ Movie Tops the Box Office 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z The attractive, little-known cast devotes full vigor to their roles. Csokas, liberated from his pruny-swain roles in Alice in Wonderland and The Debt, gives Barts a seedy grandeur and an aristocratic smirk. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter: Four-score and Seven Corpses 2012-06-21T13:40:09Z The nobles with their tall white wigs graciously strut, dancing the minuet with a lazy, aristocratic bearing. Mikhailovsky Ballet's 'Flames of Paris' makes rousing West Coast debut 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z He photographed peddlers, beggars, religious leaders, and a young aristocratic bride and groom named Zeng Ji Fen and Nie Ji Gui on their wedding day. Call Him an Early Adopter: Thomas Child, a 19th-Century Photographer in China 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z When the new Alnwick gardens opened, another aristocratic gardener, Lady Mary Keen, whose father is an earl, accused the duchess of “vanity gardening” and called Alnwick vulgar. At Alnwick Castle, (don’t) pick your poison in this deadly garden 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Grim realities, for Harris, lurk behind the most aristocratic facades. Eustace by SJ Harris – review 2013-03-01T17:01:01Z The aggressive opulence of 21st-century capital coexists, somewhat awkwardly, with an older, aristocratic elegance. | 'Melancholia': Lars von Trier?s ?Melancholia? - Review 2011-11-10T13:00:00Z Tory, with his faintly aristocratic James Bond manner and hilarious last name, took McKinney's side in almost gentlemanly fashion and printed her version of the story, which he now cheerfully admits was largely rubbish. "Tabloid": The beauty queen who "raped" a Mormon 2011-07-15T00:30:00Z The series has followed the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and its servants over the course of a tumultuous 12-year period, beginning with the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. 'Right time' to end 'Downton Abbey' next season, series creator says 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z And – should one be seeking further aristocratic flourishes, it might be noted that the associate producer on The Souvenir is her cousin the Baronet of Belfield. Joanna Hogg and Honor Swinton Byrne: ‘We should tell whatever stories we like’ 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z Are you hardworking, dignified or nothing more than one of the last remaining members of a decaying British aristocratic family? Downton Abbey Character Quiz 2012-01-05T21:24:10Z Certainly there are parallels — both come from aristocratic privilege, both had horrific childhoods and horrific heroin addictions, both speak in hyperfluent prose — but they go only so far. Edward St. Aubyn, Author of ?At Last,? at Peace 2012-03-14T22:08:58Z The teenage narrator of “The Debutante” finds aristocratic Britain repellent. Leonora Carrington, the surrealist storytelling genius you've never heard of 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z Or when aristocratic ladies in lacy dresses shaded their heads in pretty hats on a sunny afternoon? 2010-01-26T04:40:00Z Highest price of the night was $3.6 million for the 1735 canvas “The Reading Party,” an acutely observed scene of an elegant young woman reading aloud to two aristocratic friends in a park. Obsessed by the Present, Who’s Got Time for Old Masters? 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z The duke, whose name was George Villiers, was an elegant commoner who worked his way up to an aristocratic rank, stirring resentment and disdain among other courtiers. Newly found Rubens portrait of King James I lover unveiled in Glasgow 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z He was also, with his bald pate, Savile Row suits and aristocratic bloodlines, the most anomalous member of the Stones’ inner circle. Rupert Loewenstein, financial adviser who helped create Rolling Stones’ empire, dies at 80 The same logic held true for securing a trans-Atlantic aristocratic marriage. Titles and Troubles: American Heiresses Abroad 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z A year later, the towering 6-foot-4 actor with a voice that has been described as a “solemn, aristocratic baritone” gained international fame as the blood-sucking vampire in Hammer Films’ “Horror of Dracula.” Christopher Lee dies at 93; screen star of 'Dracula' and 'Lord of the Rings' 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z It's set in modern-day Bath and its netherworld counterpart Aquae Sulis, a place of aristocratic Regency families, oppression and magic. Science fiction – review roundup 2013-05-08T08:00:02Z He is aristocratic and solid, with a handsome head, a checked waistcoat and many scarves encircling his gravitas. T Magazine: The Aesthetes 2014-04-11T18:32:15Z The original picture seems to have been a portrait of an aristocratic woman accompanied by her female slave. Art Review: ‘African Presence in Renaissance Europe,’ at Walters Museum 2012-11-08T20:30:57Z What is lovely about this iteration of Mexican cuisine--as simple and democratic as it is complex and aristocratic--comes out of the Mexican encounter with the world at large. ‘Modern Mexican’ Steps Into the Spotlight 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Mark A. Roglán, director of the Meadows Museum, said that the Alba possessions probably rank as Europe’s greatest aristocratic collection that was never bombed, burned, looted, scattered on the market or seized by a government. A Brooklyn Show Celebrates an Inventive Mind of the Midway 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Hoitsu was of aristocratic samurai lineage but opted out of family politics by taking Buddhist vows. Art Review: Rimpa Painters at Japan Society and the Met 2012-09-27T22:19:07Z Even if we don’t like their specific choices, the core impulse to improve the world is a good one — and one that’s been conspicuously absent in other aristocratic cultures. Southern values revived 2012-07-01T22:00:00Z Yet even in commissioned portraits of aristocratic faces he concentrates on fleshy wrinkles and stretched sinews in such a way that an abstract ideal mutates into ugly reality. Franz Xaver Messerschmidt ? review 2011-01-28T15:08:00Z Note that this isn’t because of aristocratic blood, family background or race. Review | A look back at how Tarzan swung into immortality 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z She aimed to dress an aristocratic fashion risk-taker for all those parties at castles in the English countryside. The sound of NY Fashion Week: smartphones snapping 2013-02-09T23:46:04Z Maybe it’s their hair — steel gray streaked with white, brushed up and back from the crown — or their bright blue eyes, or their aristocratic noses. As Center Theatre Group turns 50, an artistic director plots the second act (Hint: Think Hollywood) 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Like other aristocratic families, they were hit hard by the Napoleonic invasion. Art Review: Metropolitan Show Reunites Goya Portraits of the Altamiras 2014-04-24T17:09:52Z Perhaps it was the overall impression of a long-established aristocratic order that made it hard to grasp the words of our young tour guide. In the Czech Republic, Moravia and Its Castles 2011-09-23T18:55:00Z With bitter irony, Collins unfolds the narrator’s “uncolored” essence, which makes her an even more enticing choice for the “Negro with aristocratic tendencies” who flatters her with his affection—until she rebels. “Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?”: Kathleen Collins’s Revelatory Short Stories 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z It's the aristocratic friend who's has fallen on hard times, eating macaroni and cheese off the best china, naively wondering why their venerable family name doesn't impress the person taking their job application at Walmart. Your rage is justified, and it's not "vituperative" 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z There are, instead, vivid, episodic bursts of narration, recounting a birthday party, the teasing of her by siblings, and Margaret’s time at court in Oxford, after the revolution interrupted her aristocratic family’s bucolic life. How Archival Fiction Upends Our View of History 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z The first, “Birthday Offering” — a ballet equivalent of June’s Diamond Jubilee royal flotilla down the Thames — is a plotless, aristocratic, ultrasophisticated vehicle for this debonair, privileged, top tier ballet company. Dance Review: ‘Birthday Offering’ and ‘Les Noces’ at Royal Ballet, London 2012-07-08T21:27:34Z You get the sense that in these bureaucratic offices, ministerial meetings and aristocratic households, everyday life is a form of theater. Movie Review: ‘Anna Karenina,’ From Joe Wright, With Keira Knightley 2012-11-15T20:25:23Z Suave, aristocratic and still in her prime, Ms. Mutter returns to Stern Auditorium with her pianist, Lambert Orkis. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z He junked the aristocratic airs that linger in Degas and shrugged off the plein-air product lines of Monet. Hating Renoir is Just a Phase 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z There’s a welcome, self-conscious wit in such metamorphoses, as when Mr. Merrick, playing a foot soldier, looks in wonder after the aristocratic fop who has just left the stage, also played by Mr. Merrick. Review: A Nose by Any Other Name in a Hudson Valley ‘Cyrano’ 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Too much inherited wealth is a bad thing in a country that was founded in opposition to aristocratic privilege. How philanthropic dynasties are exerting their power over US policy | David Callahan 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z Lady Campbell, an aristocratic Irishwoman, was also a muse of George Bernard Shaw, and in “Sixteen Self-Sketches” he quotes a newspaper gossip item that is still strangely satisfying 125 years later. | A History of Gossip 2010-12-07T16:00:00Z The imposition on aristocratic families could be even more significant than in the film. ‘Downton Abbey’ and the History of Difficult Royal Visits 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z The guests were people with no genuine claim to aristocratic ancestry. Victorian socialites who used fancy dress to excess 2013-06-11T15:58:00Z And for that high tea, aristocratic vibe, there’s the Aegon Championships at the Queen’s Club in London in June. Getting Close to the Action at the U.S. Open 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z The patriarch is Walker’s brother Thomas, an aristocratic intellectual who has conscripted the children in his household into a twisted educational experiment. The Wild, Rangy, Unclassifiable Delights of Joy Williams’s Fiction 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z The book recounts Pal Sarkozy's aristocratic upbringing in Hungary, occupied by the Nazis then the Soviets, and his escape to Paris, with a one-month stint in the Foreign Legion on his way to the capital. Sarkozy Sr.'s tell-all book counters critics 2010-03-28T22:31:00Z Horses and an aristocratic whiff, if not unforgettable art, had saved the day for Sotheby’s. Old Masters Rush In to Save the Day 2010-12-10T12:42:00Z Artists made this journey to keep up with aristocratic tastes, and Vesuvius was the perfect spectacle to portray to them, well-known to the public as well as painters. Explosive art: my top five volcano paintings 2010-04-21T14:02:00Z One of the exhibition’s highlights is a long, salonlike room lined with Goya’s likenesses of aristocratic clients and just plain friends. ‘Goya: Order and Disorder’ at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z He accumulated all this swag and notoriety in hopes of winning back Daisy Fay, the girl he left behind in Louisville, and who is now married to the aristocratic brute Tom Buchanan. Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby: From Jazz Age to Baz Age 2013-05-09T18:30:54Z The son of a Russian émigré businessman and aristocratic Jewish actor, he was packed off to boarding school in Kent at the age of eight, where he was spectacularly miserable. Stephen Poliakoff on Dancing on the Edge: 'I can come across as arrogant' 2013-01-27T18:00:01Z They combine into an aristocratic disdain for petty conventions dictated from the powerhouses of the north. Ninety and out to shock: meet the first Oscar nominated female director 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Wiley, 42, is best known for his aristocratic portraits of African-American men, including the one of President Obama that hangs in the National Portrait Gallery. Kehinde Wiley’s Times Square Monument: That’s No Robert E. Lee 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z As Mewshaw observes, “he adopted an air of aristocratic selfpossession. Acknowledging no doubts, no insecurity, never any shame or guilt, he appeared to view everyone and everything with gimlet-eyed imperturbability.” Michael Mewshaw’s ‘Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal’ 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Watching the Cullens pose and smile in their modernist digs, gathered around the piano with frozen aristocratic languor, grows tedious. Movie Review: ‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2’ Ends the Series 2012-11-15T23:24:23Z A satire about graft in an ill-managed provincial town, the play follows a panicked mayor and his cronies as they mistake an aristocratic traveler for the incognito official assigned to investigate their district. The Russian Comic Writer Who’s an Antidote to Mad Times 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z The castle provides an interesting look at rural Scottish aristocratic lifestyles and their antiquated clan system. Exploring Scotland’s majestic Isle of Skye 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z “Art museums first emerged as showcases of aristocratic wealth and never really lost that role,” she said. Did Someone With a Trust Fund Paint This? 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z In May, her hair was a bit shorter at an aristocratic wedding in Somerset, England. Scarlett Johansson debuts shorter, blonder haircut 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z In the painting he gave her a madly un-Quakerish gown copied, right down to the rose in the décolletage, from a mezzotint print of an aristocratic portrait by Joshua Reynolds. Art Review: Metropolitan Museum of Art?s New American Wing Galleries - Review 2012-01-16T04:58:27Z She accomplishes a complete about-face as a former barmaid called Doris, who is married to an aristocratic Polish officer with whom communication poses its own, comic battlefield. Theater Review: Plays That Grapple With Grief in War and Love 2011-03-22T13:00:07Z He sold the place to one of the Livingstons, an aristocratic Scottish family who ran the other half. Restaurant Review: Narcissa in the Standard East Village 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z The period drama is set in a fictional Yorkshire country house and follows the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants. Can Downton Abbey village cope? 2012-09-14T13:33:48Z They focused, Ms. Whittle said, on technical details and cultivating an aristocratic lift of the chest. Kathryn Morgan Uses Social Media as She Gears for Her Return 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z A wealthy prince in Aquitaine, Jaufré is tired of his dissolute aristocratic life and, spurred by a pilgrim’s tale, falls in love with someone he’s never met: Clémence, the Countess of Tripoli. Your Guide to a Met Opera Milestone 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z Failing to turn friendship with an aristocratic young woman into something more, a despondent Guy wills himself into a deathlike sleep, eventually awakening in a seemingly idyllic socialist future. Review | Muriel Jaeger, a trailblazing science fiction author, deserves a new look 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z His recent take on Anna Karenina was more distinctive still: he set most of it in a huge, ornate theatre – a crisp metaphor for the artificiality of Russian aristocratic life. Director Joe Wright: 'I go nuts if I'm idle' 2013-02-20T19:30:01Z His success, he claimed, was all down to the poet’s aristocratic pedigree and glamorous image. Tom Wolfe vs. John Updike, Norman Mailer and John Irving — and other timeless literary feuds 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z For many of her aristocratic contemporaries in the 1920s and 1930s, the Edwardian country house was the heart of that world. Partying, hunting, shooting 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Twin sisters from Texas set off on starkly different paths, one to an aristocratic life in Paris and the other to a convent in Colombia. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Carrington escaped her own aristocratic prison at age 20: she ran away to France with Surrealist Max Ernst, 26 years her senior. Leonora Carrington, the surrealist storytelling genius you've never heard of 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z The thing about England, he learned, was that if you were aristocratic, eccentric or artistic, you could always have a place at the table. Mr Chow restaurant opens in Las Vegas: 'The only thing Chinese is my name' 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z Towles catalogs these pleasures endlessly in the book, to the point where one suspects he somewhat shares Rostov’s nostalgia for the aristocratic era. Amor Towles: A gentleman in New York 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Diana hailed from an enormously privileged, aristocratic, old English family. Royal bride Middleton is no Diana, experts say 2011-04-07T16:33:05Z In both Paris and Venice, this Irish beauty quickly finds herself either welcoming or fending off the attentions of libertines and aristocratic gallants. Review | My plan for fending off the holiday blues? Escaping into light fiction from another era. 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z A culture of manners emerged, as the upwardly mobile middle classes approximated aristocratic values by appearing uninterested in money – superficially, at least. The wealth gap: How changing fortunes tear close friends apart 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z The residents, an extended clan of sharecroppers, grow tobacco, lentils and chickpeas on land belonging to an aristocratic family. ‘Happy as Lazzaro’ Review: This Modern Fairy Tale Is an Instant Classic 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z The orchid, once an aristocratic rarity, now a ubiquity — you can buy them at Home Depot — is still the most unnatural-looking flower of the natural world, dizzying in its opulent, adamant oddity. Seduced by Singapore’s Charismatic Orchids 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Minnie Hutton, an aristocratic Southern belle once characterized by her daughter as a lethal beauty, “was deeply, downwardly mobile,” Ms. Hutton lamented. Gillian Anderson as a Fashion Inspiration 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z The effect is unsettling and irresistible, rather like Carl Davies's set: an aristocratic domestic interior dipped in shocking pink and sultry purples. Dangerous Liaisons 2010-04-30T21:20:00Z The owners, Li Boru and Xue Wei, moved from China to New York to go to graduate school and wanted to open a restaurant that would evoke the aristocratic cooking of China’s dynastic era. A New Kind of Sichuan Restaurant for New York 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z The aristocratic and spiritual dimensions of painting were giving way to something more fashionable, more mondaine. How Hokusai’s Art Crashed Over the Modern World 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z One of the great paradoxes of modern consumerism is that these goods are mass-market signifiers of exclusivity, tokens of aristocratic populism. The Luxe Life in ‘Gatsby,’ ‘Bling Ring’ and Other Films 2013-05-16T12:00:01Z That legacy endures in the defiant aristocratic ladies of Behn’s infrequently produced 1673 comedy, who refuse to relinquish control of their romantic destinies. Theater Listings for March 14-20 2014-03-13T22:40:20Z Both Freddie Fox and Samuel West, who portray Scabius at varying stages of his life, do so with a precise sense of the nature of aristocratic sleaze. | ?Any Human Heart?: A Long Life That Peaks Quite Young 2011-02-11T23:18:14Z The set that followed was not about aristocratic aloofness, but about energy, empathy and a beaming smile. Music Review: Beyoncé’s ‘Mrs. Carter Show’ at Izod Center 2013-08-01T16:19:36Z Charlie Mortdecai, a bumbling aristocratic bon vivant and sociopath who lives beyond his means and deals in stolen art, is a vehicle for Mr. Depp to turn into a kind of Austin Powers manqué. ‘Mortdecai,’ Starring Johnny Depp 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z From an aristocratic Spanish background, Fiamma is an independent spirit who doesn’t struggle to fit in with the group and seems more or less immune to its members’ hostility when they turn on her. | 'Cracks': At Desolate Girls? School, Diving Teacher Rules Roost 2011-03-17T22:29:06Z And his posture is just as casual, which he acknowledges might offend the aristocratic character's diehard fans. 'Ripper Street' stars Macfadyen, 1880s London 2013-01-18T22:06:11Z "The body languid, dispirited, submissive. Traces of Indian ancestry and an aristocratic criollo demeanor: none of the parts added up to the whole." Valeria Luiselli's 'Faces in the Crowd' seeks poets in a city 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z In its worst forms, it gave up critiquing manliness altogether, instead simply dressing up misogyny in the garments of aristocratic virtue. When Men Wanted to Be Virile 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z When seething peasant Murrieta takes up the man-in-black’s twin role — with an aristocratic nom de guerre and mask, sword and whip — hilarity ensues. Zorro at 100: Why the original swashbuckler is still the quintessential American action hero 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z This opening up of aristocratic territory is nicely democratic, but it also contributed to the erosion of its original design. Chiswick House: 2010-06-12T23:04:00Z First, he converts the most aristocratic women of the city into whirling dervishes, gentle enough when they gambol in the mountains but capable of superhuman ferocity. Perspective | Why the literature of antiquity still matters 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z Lines like that, inevitably junked in Stratford, give us a vivid portrait of a Jacobean world in which show-off aristocratic swagger was mixed with false economy. Is it OK to rewrite classic plays? 2013-07-02T11:05:04Z Kudos both to Mr. Pickup and to the “Downton” set designers, who are every bit as meticulous with aristocratic squalor as with aristocratic splendor. ‘Downton Abbey’ Season 6, Episode 3 Recap: So Nice to See Him Again? 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z The revered Italian director Luchino Visconti was openly gay yet devoutly Catholic, ostensibly Communist yet unyieldingly aristocratic. Visconti’s Operatic Autopsy of German History, Restored Anew 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Lee often said that he identified with Count Dracula, because they were both embarrassments to an aristocratic family. Christopher Lee, British Actor Who Breathed Life Into Nightmarish Villains, Dies at 93 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z He turned out to be tall and well-mannered and elegant in his deportment, with an aristocratic bearing. The Crown writer Peter Morgan on William Goldman: 'He was just a sublime storyteller' 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z To Geoff’s ears, the Beatles’ producer was adopting the same “gentle, slightly aristocratic voice” that he had always deployed in his dealings with the Beatles. The Beatles’ struggle to finish “The White Album”: How bad did it get? 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z That diagnosis of aristocratic disdain must have been a gift to a precocious 12-year-old. In Stories From an Argentine Surrealist, Circles of Madness and Violence 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z A more aristocratic title was given to me by an American paper, which dubbed me "the Duchess of Death". Agatha Christie: why I got fed up with Poirot 2012-09-28T21:55:06Z That doesn’t seem right in a country founded in opposition to aristocratic power. How philanthropic dynasties are exerting their power over US policy | David Callahan 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z There's also a fine performance from Alexander Oliver as Lummer, the aristocratic extortionist who gradually homes in on her. Strauss: Intermezzo ? review 2011-01-13T22:45:00Z It’s a rare opportunity to see a single aristocratic family through Goya’s eyes. Art Review: Metropolitan Show Reunites Goya Portraits of the Altamiras 2014-04-24T17:09:52Z There’s a bit of Lucinda Childs in her coolly beautiful, aristocratic exterior. Dance Review: Joanna Kotze’s ‘It happened,’ at Danspace Project 2013-06-04T23:10:19Z Much has been made of the contrasting musical styles in “Cendrillon”— tender love music for the main couple, pseudo-Baroque music to suggest an aristocratic ambiance, Mendelsohnian delicacy for the fairy scenes. Opera Review: This Version of Massenet's 'Cendrillon' Fits Just Right 2011-07-12T13:00:05Z The exhibition is the final installment of a project she began in 2016 that imagines two aristocratic Nigerian families joined by marriage. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z One might expect Mr. Bowles to be uncomfortable in any other world but that of the aristocratic grandeur he loves to study. Hamish Bowles, He Was Born Dandy 2013-09-06T21:34:19Z It's also, sneakingly, a more personal story – informed by Wallop's aristocratic parents and working-class in-laws. Consumed: How Shopping Fed the Class System by Harry Wallop – review 2013-01-18T09:01:01Z The diversity is credited in part to West Java’s mountainous terrain and the historic lack of a homogenizing aristocratic court culture, he says. Indonesian puppetry and a festival of West Javanese culture come to Freer/Sackler For a fancier occasion this formula would become a pilaf with saffron, nuts and dried fruit, elevating the plain rice to aristocratic heights. Rice, Coming Off the Sidelines, Becomes a Centerpiece 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z Benjamin Grosvenor might be just 23, but he commands a stage with aristocratic ease. Review: Benjamin Grosvenor, Boy Lord of the Piano, Takes Carnegie Hall 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z She will experience true royal pomp when she receives her award at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace next year, but she is no stranger to nobility, coming from an aristocratic family. Screen queen, golf kings get royal honors 2011-12-31T00:01:41Z The picture's unknown patron, who was surely an aristocratic member of the Florentine 1%, could easily project himself into the adoring scene. Santa Barbara's 'Botticelli, Titian and Beyond' a quirky gem 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z Dread saturates Schnitzler’s novel “The Road into the Open,” whose central figure, an aristocratic composer, moves through a largely Jewish milieu with chilly detachment, embodying, in Schorske’s words, a “value vacuum.” The Schorske Century 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z "Culture is seen like some kind of aristocratic bonus" by too many politicians, instead of being intrinsic to the nation's identity, the maestro contended. Rare encore: Muti conducts audience 2011-03-13T02:13:08Z Coco Chanel used her aristocratic lovers and their connections to help build herself a business. T Magazine: Red Carpet Baggers 2012-02-15T00:23:14Z By marrying Willard, she “spurned foreign noblemen and the pick of all the aristocratic clubs of New York,” a newspaper reported in 1911. India House Artwork Inspires a New Book 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z His father, Jack Roeg, came from an aristocratic Dutch background; he had been severely injured during the first world war and worked very little as a result. Nicolas Roeg obituary 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z She was no Cinderella: Her family was aristocratic and friends of the queen. Analysis | Princess Diana died 25 years ago but endures as a role model for women 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z Its lyrical ton-sur-ton design, done mostly in a scheme of ecru, black and white, evokes the building’s aristocratic past while being resolutely modern. | Paris Bed Check 2012-04-05T17:41:04Z Universities must organize themselves so as “to nurture the aristocratic love of what is brilliant and fine.” Two Views of the Tumult on American Campuses 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Pagan struggles with being a society wife in Cairo and her aristocratic world crumbles as the times inexorably change. Shirley Conran's Lace is a feminist bonkbuster 2012-06-11T20:00:00Z As Albrecht, he’s terribly gracious about being aristocratic, and in Act 2 he’s desperately martyred. Many Giselles, but Only One Osipova 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z The androgynous collections drew inspiration from Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel "Orlando," a tale of a gender-shifting aristocratic poet, and from British interior designer Nancy Lancaster's English country house designs. Burberry inspires nostalgia, Christopher Kane elevates Crocs 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z Purcell added that for Al-Fayed, knowing the details of aristocratic and royal life through Johnson would have been “a ticket into those spaces.” ‘The Crown’: The Story of Mohamed Al-Fayed and His Valet 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z A Spanish aristocratic clan with what may be the best-preserved collection of art and other European treasures in Europe owned by a noble family is preparing to loan parts of it to a Dallas museum. A Brooklyn Show Celebrates an Inventive Mind of the Midway 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Until Mr. Mikimoto’s discovery made the organic gems available to the masses, pearls were accessories to aristocratic living. Special Report: A Cut Above: Jewelry: Mother Nature Fights Back 2010-12-10T18:40:00Z That year, Mirabeau, an aristocratic philosophe, argued that “in church men are Catholics, and in synagogue, Jews, but in all civil matters they are patriots of the same religion.” Millenniums of Tribulation 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z Runciman was not aristocratic by birth—his grandfather, a shipping magnate, had established the family fortune—but he was immensely grand and well connected. Shades of Byzantium 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Twenty-One's replacement for Stempel is Charles Van Doren, an instructor at Columbia University and the aristocratic scion of a literary family. Quiz Show takes the prize for historical accuracy 2012-12-14T11:02:00Z The aristocratic Frenchwomen Claire finds herself surrounded by overload their dresses with prints, embroidery, ruffles and other details, usually at the same time. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 3: An Unusual Lady 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z Her bearing was aristocratic, and pleasantries were brief. Paying for baby: the trouble with renting a womb | Abby Rabinowitz 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z “We’ve never had the grandest kind of English people in our movies,” Ivory said, about the stereotype of their films being aristocratic. James Ivory and the Making of a Historic Gay Love Story 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z Both his modest parents were connected to the court, which descended on this Atlantic coastline in the summer months: Balenciaga’s father driving boats for the royal family and his mother sewing for an aristocratic client. Fashion: In Spain, Finally, Homage to Balenciaga 2011-06-13T12:33:25Z The old-style model of aristocratic patronage, in which artists directly served wealthy clients, was yielding to the system that is essentially still in place today. ‘Filthy Lucre’ and the complicated relationship between artist and buyer 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z In this story of an aristocratic lady-killer, Lady Murasaki explores the concept of erotic transference: the tendency to fall for someone who resembles a lost or unattainable loved one. ‘The Tale of Genji’: The work of a brilliant widow 1,000 years ago 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Nearly blind Phoebe Batten wants to live like any ordinary aristocratic lady in London, but her overprotective brother won’t hear of it. Heroines save their heroes in the best new romance novels 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Monkhouse often consulted with Desmond FitzGerald, an aristocratic historian who filled his ancestral manor in a County Limerick village with Irish antiques. Irish Artifacts and Provenance 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Though her childhood was aristocratic, it was solitary, and Diana found the constant social pressures of royal life exhausting. How to Survive a Royal Weekend on ‘The Crown’ 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Until then, art was not so much sold as commissioned by aristocratic or clerical patrons. As Money Launderers Buy Dalís, U.S. Looks at Lifting the Veil on Art Sales 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z More than once, the aristocratic protagonists stumble upon singing peasants seemingly oblivious to the doings of their social betters. A Postmodern Period Piece From a Cinema Titan 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z That’s because author Charles Morey’s translation, receiving its West Coast premiere, is totally faithful to Beaumarchais’ narrative convolutions while giving its satire of class distinctions, economic inequity and aristocratic privilege a thoroughly modern spin. A 'Figaro' that crackles and pops at A Noise Within 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Now, as then, "Downton" is a plush, penetrating peek into the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their household servants in an English castle of a century ago. Hugh Bonneville presides on 'Downton Abbey' finale 2013-02-14T14:56:41Z The story, set in London and Eastern Europe, centers on an aristocratic Englishman who falls for a mysterious, musically gifted young woman who has recently arrived in England, the publishers said. 'Fifty Shades' author announces steamy new 'Cinderella romance' 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Extravagant tableware was de rigueur for aristocratic dining in 18th-century Europe. Small Shows at the Metropolitan Museum 2010-08-05T22:21:00Z Related: Brandy’s journey from aristocratic tipple to hip-hop star | Empire of drinks 3. How to make cocktails: follow these 10 golden rules 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Similarly, Picasso's masterpiece was sold by its aristocratic owners, the Aberconway family. Bleeding art: where have all the British philanthropists gone? 2013-07-16T15:47:26Z During the “Peasants’ War” he sided with the aristocratic establishment, proclaiming — apparently without awareness of the irony — that “nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful or devilish than a rebel.” How well do we know our heroes? A new book shows the darker side of Martin Luther 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z In my polished ferry was a mint-condition dining room of inlaid walnut paneling and fine linen, so I took lunch in aristocratic style, gazing at the terraced vineyards while sipping Swiss sauvignon blanc. Lake Geneva as Shelley and Byron Knew It 2011-05-27T19:00:27Z His aristocratic manner served him well after Yale, when he took a State Department internship in Paris, where he helped organize parties for Pamela Harriman, then the United States ambassador to France. Up Close: A-List Parties: More Taste, Less Flash 2010-12-16T05:40:03Z Viewers could assume an aristocratic background and an Oxbridgean education, but those social accoutrements mattered less than his choice in wines and guns. Skyfall: Bond and Bardem Go Boom 2012-11-09T13:00:22Z The answer: Live in Evermay, and turn Halcyon into an elegant, exclusive graduate school of sorts for social innovators — a 21st-century spin on the old-fashioned idea of aristocratic patronage. In the fanciest dorm in Washington, designs on changing the world As Hazleton notes, covering up was once a practice more commonly favored by aristocratic women to display their high status. Biography paints portrait of Muhammad as prophet, man 2013-01-17T22:06:50Z What makes us addicted instead to reruns of aristocratic futility? Girl Trouble by Carol Dyhouse – review 2013-03-15T18:59:01Z It is history imagined, history reconstructed, history recreated, celebrating a world of apparent aristocratic glory and colonial simplicity. Museum Review: Tracing Southern History From the Bottom Up 2011-08-05T18:12:02Z “It’s a funny thing, it’s a bit of relief in a way,” said Jim Carter, who plays Mr. Carson, the estate’s butler and embodiment of all aristocratic household standards. ‘Downton Abbey’: Saying Farewell to All That 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z The environment evoked a traditional triptych format used for centuries in spiritually minded, publicly displayed Western European paintings — albeit without their aristocratic or religious subject matter. John M. Miller, artist behind painstakingly painted geometric abstractions, dies at 77 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z This episode’s cornball elements are on full display in its opening scene, as Axe’s forces break up a romance between two aristocratic aliens from different races. ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 3, Episode 6 Recap: Nuts and Revolts 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z “It matters to me, because so many people say they’re organic and they’re really not,” says Pouillon, who possesses the aristocratic bearing of a woman once courted by the son of a count. The book of Nora: The organic restaurant pioneer pens a memoir 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z The aggressive aristocratic man leans in to land an almost violent kiss on the rather unreceptive lips of a woman dressed in peasant clothes, who turns her head aside. The Getty just announced its most important drawings acquisition in 20 years—and adds a 'Surprise' 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Georgiana’s maiden name was Spencer, and last week, that aristocratic family sold off a few thousand objects at Christie’s in London. Antiques: Mystery at Drayton Hall: The Hunt for a Watercolor 2010-07-15T22:01:00Z Charlie Mortdecai, a bumbling aristocratic bon vivant and sociopath who lives beyond his means and deals in stolen art, is a vehicle for Depp to turn into a kind of Austin Powers manqué. ‘Mortdecai’: It’s the bumbling, dull Johnny Depp show 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z That much is clear from the opening credits, written in a scrawling cursive script over dainty floral wallpaper to the sound of an aristocratic classical score. The Best Movies at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z It's not hard to see why 's elite might look for guidance to the aristocratic French thinker. The Future by Al Gore – review 2013-01-31T12:00:00Z Still, in this inspired scene, Mozart evokes an effect he encountered many times in aristocratic ballrooms, where he would hear the music of different dance bands mingling together. Music Review: Alan Gilbert’s ‘Philharmonic 360’ at Park Avenue Armory 2012-07-01T21:48:52Z In a curious quirk of history, a modern democracy fought modern authoritarianism in a gilded cage match of art borrowed mainly from the aristocratic culture of bygone Europe. Perspective | At 50, Kennedy Center can no longer be a cultural island 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z In Franz Ferdinand’s day, hunting was an aristocratic sport; but for him, it seemed an obsession. In the heart of Europe, Habsburg family homes offer a haunting glimpse into history 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z From that idea he developed the artistic and aristocratic Bloomsbury Group, updated in suits and jackets that were double-breasted but with a single breast-bone button. Special Report: Radical Surgery on Regular Menswear 2010-06-28T11:14:00Z On a 75-minute tour, guides share stories of former residents and describe the 150-year decline of this aristocratic town house into a tenement. Planning ahead for the Emerald Isle: What’s new in Ireland for 2020 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z World War I brought many aristocratic families to their knees, and, although they survived, they never fully regained their wealth or influence. Downton Abbey Returns to America: Writer Julian Fellowes Tells All 2012-01-06T09:59:10Z And because aristocratic mothers were distant and largely removed from childrearing, it was the British nannies who often formed extraordinary bonds with the children, sometimes rearing multiple generations of royal offspring. Motherlode: The Nanny at the Wedding 2011-04-29T17:13:44Z Undine and her mother are reliant on their masseuse and manicurist, Mrs. Heeny, to decipher the codes and hierarchies of aristocratic New York. What Edith Wharton Knew, a Century Ago, About Women and Fame in America 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z A century after the revolution, most tourists come to St. Petersburg for its resurrected aristocratic opulence. Stories of revolution in Russia’s St. Petersburg 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z Scott Thomas, that aristocratic icon of English and French cinema, has wicked fun with her role. Only God Forgives: No Absolution for Ryan Gosling 2013-07-18T09:45:42Z It earned him the reputation of a "Tory Democrat", though he dreamed of reviving aristocratic domination. Disraeli: Or the Two Lives by Douglas Hurd and Edward Young – review 2013-07-17T17:05:21Z “The dean’s leathery voice was gilded with an aristocratic affect he exhibited tastefully, like a gold watch that spends most of its time tucked under a sleeve.” A Comic Novel Reunites a Damaged Dad and His Recalcitrant Offspring 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z The aristocratic gloss of the Dining Room is a world far removed from the East Gallery’s tumult of disparate personages, social viewpoints and levels of consciousness. 2010-01-08T06:23:00Z These were aristocratic Jews, many of them priests who ran the temple and its sacrifices; among their number was the chief official, the high priest. Did Jesus think he was God? New insights on Jesus’ own self-image 2014-03-23T17:00:00Z The darkly comic production about a social climber who bumps off the members of an aristocratic family opened at the Walter Kerr Theater in New York in the fall of 2013. 'A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder' recoups on Broadway 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z The Meadows Museum in Dallas has acquired a long-forgotten portrait of a Spanish aristocratic girl from the 1760s dressed in blue ruffles, carrying a pug and clutching a doughnut-shaped pastry called a rosquilla. Call Him an Early Adopter: Thomas Child, a 19th-Century Photographer in China 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Black Labs and golden retrievers summoned ancient memories of Scottish moors and aristocratic estates, but at the end of the day, they were couch potatoes like the rest. The 1 percent are hurting dogs: Pure-breds, pedigrees and the sick politics of perfect puppies 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z That's the second of his three sons in the life-size portrait Jean as a Huntsman, striking an aristocratic pose borrowed from Velázquez. La Vie en Rose 2010-02-18T17:35:00Z It's a chance for fans around the world to revel in cinema's most beloved alcoholic aristocratic borderline-misogynist state-sponsored murderer, and there will be a raft of glitzy events to accompany it. Buy another day: join me for a budget James Bond celebration 2012-08-30T16:40:53Z The perfectly preserved facade, marble floors and wrought iron banisters transport visitors to a more aristocratic time, while the sleek interior is all modern design touches. Hotel Review: InterContinental Marseille Hôtel Dieu 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z Thersites seeks to win over the common soldiers, and to get them to desert, by blowing up the faults of their aristocratic leaders to caricaturish proportions. Trump, Troilus, and Cressida 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Weaver made his Broadway debut in 1955 in “The Chalk Garden,” Enid Bagnold’s play about the woes of an aristocratic British family. Fritz Weaver, Tony-Winning Character Actor, Dies at 90 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z Penelope’s three suitors look like stuffy, aristocratic gentleman who could have attended the premiere of this opera in 17th-century Venice. Review: Puppets Are the Stars in ‘Il Ritorno d’Ulisse’ 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z The family legacy and his aristocratic air added to his popularity. Romanian prince and actor dead at 70 2011-07-07T13:36:10Z Cherubino is long dead in this play, and the eventual reconciliation of Almaviva and his wife signals an emphasis on bourgeois family solidarity over the preservation of aristocratic bloodlines. Review: Choosing a Husband or a Lover in Dell’Arte Opera Ensemble’s ‘Rosina’ 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z By the end of the season six finale, all the men who rightly inherited their titles within the aristocratic system have been killed or committed suicide. On 'Game of Thrones,' the Meek Are Inheriting Everything 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Having passed through extreme tailoring into athleisure and then aristocratic street wear, men’s clothing is in tatters. Why Is There No Great Multibrand Men’s Store in New York? 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z In her case, this means “A Handful of Dust,” in which she is cruel and aristocratic, and “Four Weddings and a Funeral,” in which she is stoic and plummy. Kristin Scott Thomas on Playing a Different Kind of Part 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z And both tuck proto-feminist messages into gently barbed social commentary — about aristocratic fat cats, class anxiety and the entertainment industry — that still holds uncomfortably true today. Theater Review: ‘This Side of Neverland,’ at Pearl Theater 2013-05-13T21:47:10Z An Austrian national, he was born to a self-made Jewish court photographer from the provinces and an aristocratic Catholic mother who, in the eyes of society, had married beneath her station. Music: Franz Schreker?s Opera ?Der Ferne Klang? at Bard 2010-07-25T01:32:00Z His aristocratic bearing sits at times uneasily with the idea of a plebeian leader, ranged against a patrician opposition, and he tends, in moments of authority, to fracture the vocal line. Simon Boccanegra – review 2013-06-28T15:49:14Z Tolstoy was born into an aristocratic family in Russia in 1828 in Russia, and while he was orphaned young, he was raised in comfort. Forget the Jane Austen romantic comedy: These authors would make way better rom-coms 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Forget heroic smokestacks: In the early decades of the 20th century, when breakthrough technologies were making travel increasingly affordable to the masses, travel posters were casting it as a realm of aristocratic leisure. Swann Galleries Auctions Vintage Travel Posters 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," a macabre musical about a social climber who comically bumps off the members of an aristocratic family, took home the Tony for new musical on Sunday. Tony Awards 2014: 'Gentleman's Guide' wins best musical 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z And Mr. Fiennes, who often exudes an air of aristocratic reserve, is entirely persuasive as a hearty bon vivant. ‘The Invisible Woman,’ About Charles Dickens’s Mistress 2013-12-24T16:57:59Z The Whidbey Islander's books about Scotland Yard's Thomas Lynley are captivating and emotionally complex; here, still mourning his pregnant wife's death, the aristocratic detective investigates a body dumped in a London cemetery. 14 best crime novels of 2010: Tana French, John le Carr? and more 2010-12-08T23:57:00Z He’s also smitten with a vet at the London Zoo, but she fears that his aristocratic origins are too unlike her hardscrabble past for them to truly connect. Inspector Lynley returns in Elizabeth George’s ‘A Banquet of Consequences’ 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z But nearly everything about Sam Tahar’s life is a lie, and “even his manners were affected, his voice tinged with an aristocratic accent.” Six New Books, Including One by Christopher Buckley 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Anyway, before Margaret Thatcher flew into power as a Tory superhero, there was even talk of an aristocratic plot to overthrow the Labour Party by military coup. In London, the Latest ‘Richard III’ Is a Bureaucrat 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Both siblings remain aristocratic enough to maintain an air of superiority and just ironic enough to mock their Dickensian condition. ‘No. 4 Imperial Lane’: A powerful elegy for lost love and lost empire 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z And who but an aristocratic British bloke would decorate the space with chandeliers, armchairs, Oriental rugs, lacquered chests, flickering candles and other drawing-room accouterments? 36 Hours in Chiang Mai 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Americans shouldn’t relegate French cuisine to the aristocratic. I thought French cuisine was the height of precision. My mother-in-law taught me an easier way. 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z He is married to a glamorous, intelligent, aristocratic wife who has run off with one of her many lovers. Revisiting George Smiley and the British Secret Service 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z The fruitful relationship between Haydn and the aristocratic Esterhazy family, in whose employ Haydn created the bulk of his vast output, is well known. ‘Music for a Prince,’ an Artek Concert Focusing on Haydn 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z Stephen Jones is a celebrated British milliner who creates gloriously glamorous hats that are worn by fashion models on the catwalk, social swells at royal weddings and aristocrats when they are doing aristocratic things. He’s designed hats for Dior. Now, he’s created one inspired by the African American Museum. 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z In “My Uncle Napoleon,” he focuses on an aristocratic family from the Qajar dynasty, which had ruled Persia for over 100 years. Iran’s Iraj Pezeshkzad, who wrote ‘My Uncle Napoleon,’ dies 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z She was half Korean and half Argentine, and aristocratic on both sides; her family owned land outside of Buenos Aires. “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z Hunkered down in muddy trenches, the doomed scions of aristocratic families would take out their pocket editions of Housman and pine for the idealized, vanishing England they were fighting for. The enduring allure of A.E. Housman’s poetry 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z Some of the characterizations are nicely specified in dance: the twitchy White Rabbit, the frog and fish footmen whose airs are both aristocratic and animal. ‘Alice’s Adventures’ in Ballet, Love Story Added 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Against a background of revolution and restoration, Catholic mysteries and aristocratic manners, Buñuel unfolds, in images akin to Freudian X-rays, the repressed desires that social institutions and politics both embody and conceal. Movies 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z As the aristocratic Maddalena, left with nothing after the onset of the French Revolution, Ms. Racette’s soprano sounded thin, her vibrato wide enough to pull her pitch wayward. Music Review: An ‘Andrea Chénier’ Short on Star Power 2014-03-25T09:46:00Z She was young, very aristocratic, but completely in love with love, completely idealistic, completely romantic, a massive fan of romantic novels, which I think had probably formed her entire worldview. Why the monarchy needed Diana: "She had to be a front-rank aristocrat, and she had to be a virgin" 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z Aristocratic women, like Jane Fleming, would flaunt their beauty and elegance with help from masters of the genre such as Joshua Reynolds, while aristocratic men would show off their personal or professional accomplishments. When the Old Masters Were the P.R. Agents of the Rich and Powerful 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z It was nice to see Langbourne — interrupted in his champagne-pouring by Roper’s vulgar bark — shaken out of his habitual aristocratic torpor. ‘The Night Manager’ Episode 5: Is Roper Going Full Villain? 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Here, Jury confers with his aristocratic friend, Melrose Plant, who keeps a most unusual menagerie that includes a goat named Aghast, a dog named Aggro and a horse named Aggrieved. The Best Crime Novels of the Year 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Mr. Armani described a ruby red color as “aristocratic and precious.” Happy Hybrids: High Tech Meets Heritage 2013-01-16T18:46:42Z Mr. Smith said that he was inspired by a flea market jacket he bought on Portobello Road, which set him imagining how the aristocratic kids of 1970s parents would put themselves together. Special Report: Diversity and Irony 2010-02-23T18:30:00Z His portrait of Lord Home of the Hirsel was particularly apposite, with the former prime minister's elongated figure strategically placed at the edge of the canvas – the epitome of aristocratic diffidence. Avigdor Arikha obituary 2010-05-11T18:08:00Z She has large, piercing eyes, a high, aristocratic forehead and alabaster skin. | 'A Streetcar Named Desire': Small Space, Big Egos: Something Will Explode 2010-06-18T23:18:00Z But she remains, in our eyes at least, witty, self-possessed, a bit aristocratic. | 'Wings': The Shadows of an Airborne Life 2010-10-25T03:00:00Z We see home movies of her as a child, the youngest daughter of the venerable aristocratic Spencer family, and photographs of a pretty, shy teenager, as friends from her early years recount their memories. Another Look at Princess Diana, With a Notable Difference 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z Illustrations of the Ramayana and other holy texts, portraits of rajahs with horses and elephants, and love scenes both spiritual and erotic plot the development of Indian aristocratic taste over three tumultuous centuries. ‘Divine Pleasures’ Celebrates the Colors of Desire in Indian Paintings 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Heifetz touched audiences with the expressive intensity of his playing, purity of tone and almost superhuman perfection, his aristocratic elegance and authority. Jascha Heifetz's vast recorded legacy lives on 2011-06-08T13:53:00Z The British ensemble series, about a tragedy-prone aristocratic family and their fleet of servants, airs in the United States as part of the “Masterpiece” program. Emmys 2014: 'Breaking Bad,' 'True Detective' among drama series nominees 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z At a time when Hitler was seeking the blood purity of Europe, Ophüls made a bold mockery of the notion of aristocratic lineage. Max Ophüls’s “From Mayerling to Sarajevo” 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z So, unlike virtually every other gardener in Britain, I had no intention of spending my summer wandering among aristocratic roses and marvelling at the fine tilth of Lord Whatsit’s sandy carrot beds. The Stunning Grounds, and Tragic History, of the Lost Gardens of Heligan 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z But my favorite is Lake Como, offering the best mix of accessibility, scenery, sightseeing and relaxation, with a heady whiff of aristocratic old days. Nature and romance permeate in Italy’s lakes district 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z The duke, whose name was George Villiers, was an elegant commoner who worked his way up to an aristocratic rank, stirring resentment and disdain among other courtiers. Newly found Rubens portrait of King James I lover unveiled in Glasgow 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z The new film is funny and exciting, though Anderson also uses the aristocratic Eastern European setting to comment on the decline of the Old World between two wars. 'The Lego Movie' is awesome 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z It demands that its duplicitous characters — and especially the aristocratic manipulators in chief at its center — be as exquisitely arch and artificial as their environment. Review: ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’ Uses Love as a Weapon 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z Mozart subtly questioned aristocratic hierarchies; Beethoven’s sole opera is about the rescue of a political prisoner; Verdi stoked nationalistic fervor and explored the machinations of church and state. At a Moment of Racial Tumult, the Little Rock Nine Inspire an Opera 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z “Suddenly I was thrown into this world of an aristocratic English family, something I knew nothing about,” he said. Auction battles and encounters with royalty: LACMA curator looks back at 24 years of adventures 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Later, he describes a porcelain slave’s head that sits on the coffee table of his wife’s aristocratic grandmother. How Moving to France and Having Children Led a Black American to Rethink Race 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z We know there were women working in those times, and aristocratic women in those roles, but I am always amazed to see how women carved out roles for themselves then. Laura Carmichael Discusses Edith’s Evolution on ‘Downton Abbey’ 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z The apartment was given to him by a client from one of the local aristocratic families, he said, and is adorned with flowered wallpapers, dust-encrusted devotionals of saints and a Warhol-style portrait of himself. Telling Fashion’s Fortune 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z This is not one of the Straparola stories that his aristocratic successors chose to imitate. Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z Juliana, though, is eager to escape the tedium of aristocratic country life. Review | First published in 1924, ‘Still She Wished for Company’ makes for a delicious, if bittersweet, Valentine’s Day treat 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Thanks to costume designers, makeup artists and Steadman’s knack for transformation, she “becomes” the aristocratic Lane Fox, a visitor to Downton who spars with Lady Mary. Review | Best known for her role on ‘Downton Abbey,’ Catherine Steadman is making a splash as an author 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z Art, antiques, and even carriages owned by the aristocratic family of Diana, Princess of Wales, are being put on sale in a three days of auctions beginnning Tuesday. Art from Diana's family homes to go on the block 2010-07-06T22:03:00Z In retrospect that may not have been such a good idea, but the collision of Enlightenment notions of liberty and aristocratic habits of libertinism seems to have made it inevitable. Movie Review: ‘A Royal Affair,’ With Mads Mikkelsen 2012-11-08T22:32:05Z The protagonists tended to be aristocratic English children who had nannies and pony carts, or poor children whose problems disappeared when a long-lost rich relative turned up in the last chapter. Beverly Cleary, Beloved Children’s Book Author, Dies at 104 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z She was drawn to his haughty good looks, his aristocratic relatives, his social standing. The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z His humble origins and apparent lack of advanced education are factors, because the author of the plays appeared to be versed in a number of languages as well as in aristocratic habits. Mary Sidney, Shakespeare and the Authorship Question 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z After setting a torrid pace with affairs in London and Paris, where he was said to be a favorite of Marie Antoinette, that 3rd duke settled down at Knole with an aristocratic wife, Arabella Cope. In England, a trio of stately homes illuminates a bygone age 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Back in the day, no aristocratic woman swanned about unadorned. ‘Downton Abbey’ merchandise 2013-12-31T22:34:27Z Now 84 and the widow of designer David Nightingale Hicks, Lady Pamela lightheartedly reflects on the first 30 years of her aristocratic life. ‘Daughter of Empire’: life at the top of England’s aristocracy 2013-12-31T23:07:05Z Well informed, and a graceful guest, he had many real friends among the wealthy and aristocratic, who appreciated not only his intellectual distinction but his transparent integrity. My hero: Victoria Glendinning on John Gross 2011-01-15T00:06:05Z Dashing and brave, Robert de La Rochefoucauld was a member of the French Resistance who came from an aristocratic family. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z This type of aristocratic cooking was innovative, exotic and elaborate. I thought French cuisine was the height of precision. My mother-in-law taught me an easier way. 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z His campaign advisers reportedly loved it: It gave the wealthy and aristocratic Stevenson the kind of guy-next-door cred he might have otherwise lacked and cemented his legacy as a beloved liberal icon. Why does Bernie Sanders dress like that? Because he can. 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z The contradictions alone were fascinating: She could seem demure yet seductive, aristocratic yet bawdy. Taylor was an outsized presence in a petite frame 2011-03-23T22:55:09Z Both she and her sister have regularly been referred to in aristocratic circles as the “wisteria sisters” — “highly decorative, terribly fragrant and with a ferocious ability to climb,” according to The Daily Mail. Pippa Middleton Goes Out on Her Own. But She’s Not Alone. 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z But on a recent Friday, Lady Elizabeth — the orchestrator of some of Britain’s most aristocratic parties — was in her white-azalea-filled sitting room. Queen Elizabeth’s Party Planner Is Proud to Wear $35 Shoes 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z The book, first published in 1869, weighed in at more than 1,200 pages, chronicling the lives of aristocratic families affected by the French invasion of Russia in the early 19th century. BBC returns to Tolstoy's War and Peace 2013-02-18T13:19:07Z The aim is to suggest that the Almaviva family’s aristocratic culture oppresses not just the servants but also the vulnerable Countess, born into a decidedly lower class than the one she married into. Season Rescued, the Met Tackles an Oddly Resonant ‘Figaro’ 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z The tiny pooches were revered by aristocratic families and showcased in many renowned court paintings. The value of Pumpkin on "The Gilded Age," descended from a breed that's all about the good life 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z She knows about the mainly gentlemanly Yorkshire Association and the largely aristocratic Friends of the People, but not, it seems, about the far more influential reform societies of the 1790s whose members were mainly artisans. Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 by Antonia Fraser – review 2013-05-03T07:00:17Z Most dogs are transported by cage; some are veiled, as if the dog is an aristocratic matron. Crufts uncovered: ‘Dog people look like hairdressers with very small clients’ 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z His depiction of Ian's cruel frigidity is a match by Foy's sharpness, as she trades the distant stateliness she brought to "The Crown" for fumes of aristocratic entitlement. Amazon's gloomy "A Very British Scandal" divorce tale starring Claire Foy and Paul Bettany 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z Rintoul hits every note of condescension in these army officers, their well-fed, aristocratic voices steeped in vintage wine and anti-Semitism. The five best audiobooks of 2014 Hattersley's rollicking history illuminates a dynasty marked by all the contradictions of aristocratic entitlement – of both public service and ruthless pragmatism, of complacent noblesse oblige and an appetite for the new. The Devonshires by Roy Hattersley – review 2013-05-18T14:00:02Z This isn't simply a case of dredging up all those Nazi-sympathising uncles without which no English aristocratic family would be complete. The art of biography is alive and well 2013-02-15T18:10:01Z But if universities ever were truly aristocratic on Kronman’s terms, it was only because they were protected from practicality through their deep connections to wealth and power. Two Views of the Tumult on American Campuses 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z His elegant lines, to-die-for feet and aristocratic ease were not exactly the equipment of a peasant. American Ballet Theater Performs ‘Giselle’ 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z It’s divided into three styles — Italianate, French and English — and feels very proper and aristocratic. Central Park: A green island in Manhattan It turns out that six years earlier, while in the army, he had quarreled with a rich, aristocratic fellow officer and nothing less than pistols at dawn would settle the affront. Capturing the essence of Pushkin, the revered poet killed in a duel at 37 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z To compliment this smoothness, the set seemed aristocratic, if odd for an American fashion gathering. On the Runway Blog: Fashion Designers Awards Show Hits Its Stride 2013-06-04T04:42:52Z He became one of the resident stars of the Parisian intelligentsia, an elegant and aristocratic author, a hero and Nazi camp survivor. Remembering Buchenwald survivor Jorge Semprún, a key witness to the 20th century 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z People outside the literary world sometimes caricature it as a dainty, over-polite, aristocratic scene build on deference and gentility; the stereotype may grow from the old schoolyard taunt that reading is for “sissies.” Salman Rushdie digs in on the Charlie Hebdo PEN fight: “Our fellow artists were murdered for their ideas and you won’t stand up for them” 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z An unschooled tailor who worked his way up the political ladder to become a Tennessee senator, Johnson harbored a deep resentment of the aristocratic Southern planters, who viewed themselves as his betters. The First Presidential Impeachment 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z Within its small provincial society he assumed a kind of aristocratic status. Art Review: The Self-Invented Artist 2011-02-24T22:33:10Z Mr. Herheim takes complex operas and renders them more so; “Pelléas,” the enigmatic tale of a love triangle among members of an obscurely melancholy, aristocratic family, is no exception. Review: An Operatic Locavore Consumes the English Countryside 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z The colors include ultra-vivid variations on frisky tints—neon green and deep pink and aristocratic purple. Paul Manafort and the Sartorial Dilemma of the Trump-World Defendant 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z By the 1980s, as the aristocratic estates portrayed in shows such as “Downton Abbey” faded into history, there were barely 100. By Jeeves! Britain experiencing a butler boom 2013-04-13T22:00:00Z The two settings of the play, aristocratic Athens and a wooded wonderland, will be very different, she explains, "but by the end of the play the two worlds unite." A spooky, dreamy 'Midsummer' to spread its wings 2011-10-20T20:16:08Z She is elegant and charming; it’s easy to believe the denouement that reveals her to be of aristocratic birth, thus able to marry Lucien. ‘Paquita’ at the National Theater in Munich 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z Fry will voice an aristocratic deer called Lord Stag in Driftwood Bay. Stephen Fry joins children's TV cast 2014-02-03T10:38:57Z I avoided Le Misanthrope, which sends up the hypocrisies of French aristocratic society, because Martin Crimp's contemporary version, starring Keira Knightley and Damian Lewis, was pulling in audiences in London's West End. Mersey Molière 2013-02-05T18:00:47Z |
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