arriviste

How To Use arriviste In A Sentence

• Finally at half-past three I went upstairs to dress as a grammar-school arriviste. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
• Even the arrivistes in California understood the sophistication required for a vigneron, commissioning fine architects to enhance their vineyards with beautiful buildings.
• In many ways, he is the classical 'arriviste' in the good sense of the word. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
• He stands out among the arriviste engineers who dominate the tech industry, combining aristocratic reserve with a merchant's frugality and the obsessive drive of an entrepreneur.
• Given the Marxian reduction of everything to class interests, it is obvious that a petit bourgeois arriviste such as Ms. Rodham-Clinton can neither command the allegiance of the proletariat nor enjoy the trust of the capitalists.
• They are tough, but decent, clearly not posh Labour party arrivistes, and they clearly have the Labour party in their veins.
• Jean Chretien (though now wealthy) is an outsider, an arriviste, and a rags-to-riches political scrapper.
• There's even a poem about the "arriviste" pronunciation GRIM-iss. Go west, young man, WEST!
• It must have seemed like a good idea at one time, back in the days when we didn't want any actors, divorced bounders or the kind of arriviste who had to buy his own furniture. Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk
• It might also be said that with the structure he's erected, Lauren is something of an arriviste, but if that were uttered, it would require adding that many of the mansions introduced on those soigné avenues were constructed as well by new money confidently joining the old -- like the Rhinelander mansion that's been Lauren's home-base haberdashery for men and women these last few decades. David Finkle: Saturday Shoppers View Ralph Lauren's New Madison Avenue Mansion