Many " parvenus " in the United States worked their way up the social ladder, starting as poor immigrants.
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As far as most of the Bolshevik Party was concerned Trotsky was a late comer, a parvenu they never fully trusted.
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The terms parvenu and pariah were introduced at the conference by Ross Posnock, a professor of English at the University of Washington.
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More crucially, the play, under Jonathan Church's direction, emerges as a fiendishly vivid parade of aristocrats and parvenus.
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Cranbrook was a relative " parvenu "; the rich aristocrats wanted peace and so did Gladstone, at any price.
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De la Borderie argues that the hostility is partly aristocratic distaste for parvenus and partly because Landais sought an alliance with England against France.
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It's leavened by a nice comic twist : the bizarre image of a cabriolet and parvenu passenger sent flying by a bucking horse.
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Unless things go terribly awry, the Bush and Gore operations will make Nixon'72 look like parvenus when it comes to convention orchestration.
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Since the beginning of time, sumptuary laws, a sense of appropriateness, fashion and price have been used to keep parvenus in their place.
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The term " parvenu " was taken from Bernard Lazare and she regarded it as an alternative to Max Weber's term " pariah ."
