arriviste

• “The supreme need of the arriviste is to be able to disown and forget those who have helped him so far.”

  Cruel and Unusual

• “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.”

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• “In many ways, he is the classical 'arriviste' in the good sense of the word.”

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• “A local in Westchester County uses the word "arriviste" in a sentence explaining how Richard Gere cut down 200 trees in the neighbourhood without permission.”

  Edmonton Sun

• “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.”

  The Huffington Post: David Finkle: Saturday Shoppers View Ralph Lauren's New Madison Avenue Mansion

• “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.”

  The Huffington Post: David Finkle: Saturday Shoppers View Ralph Lauren's New Madison Avenue Mansion

• “Yet whereas Gatsby felt pressure to hide his status as an arriviste, Combs celebrated his position as an outsider-insider — someone who appropriates elements of the culture he seeks to join without attempting to assimilate outright.”

  The End of White America?

• “Commentaries in Egypt's state-run newspapers and television channels painted Mr. ElBaradei as an out-of-touch arriviste and a puppet of Western powers.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Egypt's ElBaradei Ends Bid for Presidency, Citing Continued Autocracy

• “These polemics, which elevated abstract expressionism to a patriotic cause — and remind us that the United States has always been modernist in its politics, if never lastingly in culture — were written in what Hughes called an "American gigantism of style," and expressed, on their own, a gigantism of appetite more arriviste than imperial.”

  Newsweek: Splatter-Day Saints

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