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And Maxim, suffocating as a character in the binds of his impenetrable masculinity, needs his tweedy, careless-tongued sister, Beatrice to demonstrate a female version of that particular, emotionally constipated upper-classness.

Daphne and Rebecca « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

By an inverted J curve, I mean that as income per capita in a nation has risen above about the $5,000 per person level, personal consumption has gone through the roof and middle-classness has exploded.

Get Briefed: Ken Fisher 2010

In our twenties, when success and motherhood are still before us, we could imagine that something would save us from second-classness -- either achievement, marriage or motherhood.

Lori Sokol: 'Swear' by It: Gaining Confidence With Age Lori Sokol 2010

If I had to pick one thing about TV programs about books that annoy me, it's their relentless middle-classness.

Archive 2010-01-01 2010

If middle-classness could be crushed up and mainlined intravenously, these might well be the ingredients that would go into the mix: country pubs, writers 'retreats, Buff Orpington hens, literary festivals, and a cameo from Radio 4's James Naughtie.

Tamara Drewe 2010

The features that we normally associate with middle-classness explode.

Get Briefed: Ken Fisher 2010

If I had to pick one thing about TV programs about books that annoy me, it's their relentless middle-classness.

Books on TV 2010

Unfortunately, the low-classness of the McCain ad will be drowned out by Obama's recent comment, headlining drudge right now ... that's going to be all people want to talk about unfortunately.

New McCain Ad Falsely Suggests Obama Wants Kids To Learn "About Sex Before Learning To Read" 2009

After all-I like spicy food, appreciate Guido aesthetics and despite the fact that I live in Boston and work in Cambridge, I have never bought into the upper classness of driving a Volvo on purpose and talking about "nouveau riche" as if it smelt really bad.

Srinivasan Pillay: Lessons to Learn from 'Julie and Julia' 2009

If we understand, further, how the central economic and political transformations of the colonial era served to systematically violate the peasantry's vision of social equity, we may realize how a class "of low classness" came to provide . . . the shock troops of rebellion and revolution.

Subsistence ethic as a causal factor Daniel Little 2009