Now the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is Berbera's latest arriviste.
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Back to the point, though: emperors, dukes and arriviste dads are the natural subjects of sculpture.
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Their arriviste politics was matched, and boosted, by the social and cultural ambition of many rising Indians.
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He eats fast food, likes pro wrestling and has the terrible taste in interior design common to arriviste dictators.
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Evan Mecham, the governor who canceled the state's Martin Luther King holiday in 1987, was an arriviste from Utah.
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Shiv's husband, Tom (Matthew Macfadyen), is a Midwestern arriviste who works for the company and is desperate for Logan's approval.
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I empathize with those still outraged by the election of an ostensibly unqualified, erratic president with the angst of an arriviste.
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However outlandish Priestley's ideas about time, he totally nailed a future truth in his creation of this furiously vengeful arriviste bully.
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In Liverpool's eyes, Chelsea is Roman Abramovich, the team's wealthy Russian owner, and success acquired through wealth; it is arriviste and vulgar.
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But his impetuousness, arriviste arrogance and embrace of American largess made Ky the consummate carpetbagger in the eyes of conservatives and southerners.
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As the middle classes achieve the means to travel, they are denounced (by other countries) as disrespectful hicks, arriviste provincials unfit for polite society.
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Monaco seemed the most potent of European soccer's cadre of arriviste clubs, doubling down on the pattern set by Chelsea, Manchester City and Paris St.-Germain.
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The shark-tank atmosphere of the film is replaced by something that isn't quite Vaseline on the lens, but whose arriviste sheen blurs the vision almost as much.
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"Coloring Book" For the last few years, Kanye West's most visible disciple has been Drake, who mainlined his melody-first approach, his arriviste swagger, and most crucial, his emotional vulnerability.
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So inevitably it's the croissant that's seen as being in danger of degradation: the noble, labor-intensive French pastry sullied by its union with the crude, arriviste American doughnut or muffin.
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And to European eyes certain types of Mexican portraits — of nuns wearing hand-painted badges like breastplates, and arriviste urban matrons showing off their wealth — must have had a picaresque appeal.
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Getting one's likeness preserved in bronze or marble is traditionally the preserve of Roman emperors, or Renaissance dukes, or extremely tasteless arriviste dads who live in obscene mansions on The Bishops Avenue.
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Newbie tip, if you happen to gain entree to the private jet club, nothing gives away your arriviste status quicker than having to open your luggage on the tarmac to get the liquids out.
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In 1805, the Baroness Hyde de Neuville (1771-1849) chased Napoleon Bonaparte's army across Europe in order to obtain a pardon for her husband, an aristocrat accused of conspiring to assassinate the arriviste French emperor.
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In North Carolina, I was an arriviste; in New York, some part of me would always be a bumpkin, marvelling at the existence of "doorman buildings" and thinking the phrase "plus one" a little mean.
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The Barrera heirs, would-be successors and arriviste rivals — a whole indulgent younger generation named Los Hijos, characterized by wretched excess and suicidal stupidity — make for countless shifting allegiances, fake names, dispensable henchmen and other complications.
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Against any accusations of being an arriviste, I have blurted out to random Cobblers fans that I was actually at Wembley the following year, when we lost 2000-0 to Grimsby in the Division Two Playoff Final.
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But if you want a compelling case that, yes, we arriviste New Yorkers may have indeed missed the party, one has only to look to the 803 months between the beginning of 1981 and the end of 1983.
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It would be tempting to dismiss such an attitude as proof that City is, at heart, soccer's great arriviste: toying with sophistication, affecting it, but not really ready or able to appreciate the world of the genuine aesthetes.
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So, in 1985, when Indiana began reviewing art exhibitions for The Voice he appeared as something of an art arriviste to me, coming, as he did, from a background in off-off-off Broadway theatre and radical underground film.
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"With millennia of civilization, Iranians have the historical depth to ignore the absurd insults of an arriviste leader; one whose entire command of history, politics and diplomacy can be condensed into 280 characters - but even so, still superior to his juvenile royal stooge," Zarif wrote.
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Whatever the reason, she had a surprisingly successful run (surprising because when her fellow musician-cum-designer Kanye West did the same, it did not go so well; France has a healthy skepticism of the celebrity style arriviste), and on Sunday night she rode that success back into New York.
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Donald Trump, who may be the only person more fond of lavish displays of arriviste gilt than the Saudis, is bedazzled by a Saudi pledge to buy billions worth of American weapons, just as he was flattered by the Saudi sword dance and weird luminescent orb séance on his visit to the kingdom.
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Montaigne, to Desan's dauntingly erudite but sometimes jaundiced eye, was an arriviste rather than an aristocrat, who withdrew into that tower out of fear as much as out of wisdom, having ridden political waves and been knocked down by them in a time, in France, of unimaginable massacre and counter-massacre between Protestants and Catholics.
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Topics covered: the recent Taylor Swift documentary "Miss Americana," Katy Perry's career arc, press coverage of the troubled band Pinegrove, the bedroom pop singer Clairo, the Scottish pop arriviste Lewis Capaldi, the different expectations saddled upon male and female pop stars, and whether the idea of the comeback album has been all but eradicated in the age of instant-gratification streaming.
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With the museum's $610 million total price tag, its boosted ticket price ($25, $7 more than when the museum closed three years ago), its interpretative selfie station (a glorified photo booth), and its new restaurant run by the three-Michelin-star chef Corey Lee (whom Benezra calls the museum's "curator of food"), the new SFMOMA has elements that make it a brash match for an arriviste city.
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Watch: Ex-Scientology Leader and Trans Icon Kate Bornstein on What It Takes to Survive Hyper aware of their status as an arriviste civilization compared to their Greek, Etruscan, and Carthaginian neighbours —and that they'd lifted their state religion and much of their culture from the Greeks—the Romans were obsessed with the idea that Rome had been founded by survivors from the mythical city of Troy, a near Eastern city-state destroyed by Bronze Age-era Greece.
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Blackbird Vineyard also makes rosé wine called Arriviste. Arriviste is a blend of Blackbird's three signature grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet Franc. It pulls inspiration from the gypsies that winemaker Aaron Pott interacted with when living in the Saint-Émilion area of France. The wine is harvested in autumn and uses the saignée method during the winemaking process.
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Leigh Lansdown and UK arriviste Duncan Fry formed local band "The Harris Tweed Band" in 1965 which is still performing mainly in Melbourne's southern suburbs.
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He is also the author of My Friend W, a collection of his political satire published in 2005 by Arriviste Press. David Martin lives in Ottawa, Ontario with his wife Cheryl.
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Instead, the other family was designed to "...feed a mounting sense of friction," though critics noted parallels between individual Roy-Pierce pairs. Writing for The New Yorker, Rachel Syme described the Pierce family aesthetic as "shabby chic," indicating dynastic wealth, as opposed to the sleeker, arriviste fashion choices of the Roys.
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270 Powell came close to endorsing a real-life model in Denis Capel-Dunn, a lawyer and wartime lieutenant-colonel in the Intelligence Corps, who was briefly Powell's senior officer. Capel-Dunn was nicknamed "The Papal Bun", and was derided by his subordinates for his appearance and demeanour. He was described by his contemporaries as "a very fat, extremely boring, overwhelmingly ambitious arriviste. His conversations were hideously detailed and humourless".
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The Labia family, who commissioned the palazzo, were originally Catalan and bought their way into nobility in 1646, hence considered arriviste by the old Venetian aristocracy. The wars with the Ottomans had depleted the coffers of the Republic of Venice which then sold inscriptions into nobility, thus giving political clout. It has been said that they compensated their lack of ancestors by a great display of wealth.Great Houses of Europe edited by Sacheverell Sitwell.
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Ann Powers of Los Angeles Times commented that the track reveals West's true feelings on women; > His tormenters are usually untrustworthy temptresses, though occasionally > they're authority figures who judge him as a criminal trespasser or a > cultural arriviste. And songs such as the porno fantasy "Hell of a Life" and > the siren-slaying "Devil in a New Dress" (featuring the consummately macho > Ross) revive familiar mythologies about women — that they're monsters, > killers, fallen angels — in language vibrant enough to fully revive these > old stereotypes.Powers, Ann (2010-11-23).
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For Rosine, all must be perfect. The daughter is thrilled at the prospect, but her mother has no intention of letting her go to the bal. She sees the event as a last chance of wish fulfillment and her perfectionism demonstrates both her social insecurity as an arriviste and her psychological insecurity as someone trying to make the dreams of her years of poverty come true. Her teenage daughter's attending the ball would change the event, turning her into a middle-aged woman, rather than the fantasy of youth and being courted by a young lover.
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The Carolingian dynasty of East Francia had died out in the early tenth century, and its new Liudolfing king, Henry the Fowler, was seen by many as an arriviste. He needed a royal marriage for his son to establish his legitimacy, but no suitable Carolingian princesses were available. The ancient royal line of the West Saxons provided an acceptable alternative, especially as they (wrongly) claimed descent from the seventh- century king and saint, Oswald, who was venerated in Germany. In 929 or 930 Henry sent ambassadors to Æthelstan's court seeking a wife for his son, Otto, who later became Holy Roman Emperor.
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Like Moll Flanders, Thackeray's best-known work, Vanity Fair A Novel Without a Hero (1847-1848), (a title ironically derived from John Bunyan's Puritan allegory of redemption The Pilgrim's Progress(1678)), follows the career of fortune-hunting adventuress Becky Sharp. His earlier novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844) recounts the rise and fall of an Irish arriviste conniving his way into the 18th century English aristocracy. Aleko Konstantinov wrote the novel Bay Ganyo (1895) about a Bulgarian rogue of that name who does business and swindles around Europe, and returns home and gets into politics and newspaper publishing. Bay Ganyo is a well-known stereotype in Bulgaria.
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Although he is ready to do anything to achieve his goals, he spurns the advice of Vautrin (the series' dark criminal mastermind) and instead uses his own wits and charm (especially through relationships with women, such as his cousin Madame de Beauséant) to arrive at his ends. His eventual social success in the fictional world of the Comédie humaine is frequently contrasted with the tragic failure of another young parvenu in the series: Lucien de Rubempré (who accepts the aid of Vautrin and ends his life by his own hands). In French today, to refer to someone as a "Rastignac" is to call him or her an ambitious arriviste or social climber.
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In Europe, Fitzgerald wrote and published The Great Gatsby (1925), now viewed by many as his magnum opus. In spring 1924, Fitzgerald and his family moved to France, where he would begin writing his third novel, which would eventually become The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald had been planning the novel since 1923, when he told his publisher Maxwell Perkins of his plans "to write something new - something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned." Initially titled Trimalchio, an allusion to the Latin work Satyricon, the rough manuscript followed the rise of a freedman to wealth and power. During the Fitzgeralds’ sojourn in Rome in late 1924, Fitzgerald would rewrite the text several times, replacing the freedman with arriviste Jay Gatsby. Fitzgerald declined an offer of $10,000 for the serial rights, fearing it would delay the book's publication, set for April 10, 1925.
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Heseltine, who had been seen as an arriviste in his younger days, was now something of a grandee and elder statesman. In 1994 he re-emerged as a serious political player, beginning with his testimony for the Scott Report during the Arms-to-Iraq Inquiry (whose report eventually appeared in 1996). It was revealed that he had refused to sign the Public Interest Immunity Certificates (attempting to withhold evidence from the trial in 1992, on grounds of national security) as demanded by the Attorney-General Sir Nicholas Lyell, who advised him that ministers were obligated to sign such a certificate. In fact after half a dozen meetings over the course of a week, and Heseltine insisting on reading Bingham LJ's judgement in the Makanjuola case, Heseltine had agreed to sign a slightly different version of the PII which made clear his reservations.
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The Mandarin paradox is an ethical parable used to illustrate the difficulty of fulfilling moral obligations when moral punishment is unlikely or impossible, leading to moral disengagement. It has been used to underscore the fragility of ethical standards when moral agents are separated by physical, cultural, or other distance, especially as facilitated by globalization. It was first posed by French writer Chateaubriand in "The Genius of Christianity" (1802): > I ask my own heart, I put to myself this question: "If thou couldst by a > mere wish kill a fellow-creature in China, and inherit his fortune in > Europe, with the supernatural conviction that the fact would never be known, > wouldst thou consent to form such a wish?" The paradox is famously used to foreshadow the character development of the arriviste Eugène de Rastignac in Balzac's novel Père Goriot.
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He argues that he was indecisive as Chancellor, and recounts how during the Profumo Affair he once telephoned a junior civil servant to ask what he should do, as well as occasions on which he was unable to decide on the menu for an official lunch, or whether to attend a reception at the Moroccan Embassy.Jago 2015, p396, 433-4 Roy Jenkins, describing a stormy meeting Butler had with Lyndon B. Johnson, pinpointed a tendency in Butler's character in that "while Butler represented the forces of urbane, civilised superiority and Johnson the raw brashness of the insecure arriviste, it was also the case that Butler was the natural servant of the state and LBJ the natural ruler" and wrote that a similar dynamic was at work in Butler's relations with the equally domineering Winston Churchill.Jenkins, Roy, Portraits & Miniatures, Bloomsbury, London, 2011.
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He knows about the publishing business and is aware of the gap between a young author's expectations and the harsher, down-to-earth realities of a literary career. He is both jealous of the girl, because she is at the beginning of something and still has the ability to dream her future, and sympathetic, because she's young enough to be his daughter and he would like to communicate his experience to her so as to preserve her from disappointments. She is, after all, only a superficial, self-deluded arriviste. Lastly, the Japanese gentlemen's presence, and the elaborate formality with which they communicate with one another and celebrate, contrasts sharply with the ferocious discursive dispute that opposes the young woman and her fiancé, and which she wins, at least rhetorically but fails to fulfill her supposed "powers of observation" by failing to notice the presence of the Japanese gentlemen as her fiancé does.
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John Paton, after speaking from the same Independent Labour Party (ILP) platform as Hastings, came to the conclusion that Hastings gave political speeches using his skill as a lawyer to master a brief; on the train home, Hastings appeared not to have heard of the ILP.John Paton, "Left Turn" (1936), p. 164, cited in David Howell, "Hastings, Sir Patrick Gardiner (1880–1952)" in Dictionary of Labour Biography, vol. XI, Palgrave Macmillan 2003, p. 110. After an interview with Sidney and Beatrice Webb he became the Labour candidate for Wallsend in December 1920. Beatrice Webb was later to write in her diaries that Hastings was "without any sincerely held public purpose" and "an unpleasant type of clever pleader and political arriviste, who jumped into the Labour Party just before the 1922 election, when it had become clear that the Labour Party was the alternative government and it had not a single lawyer of position attached to it"."The Diary of Beatrice Webb Volume 4 1924-1943: The Wheel of Life" ed.
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The first scene—"first two syllables"—displays a Turkish lord dealing with a slaver and his odalisque before being garroted by the sultan's chief black eunuch; the second—"last two syllables"—finds a Turk, his consort, and his black slave praying at sunrise when an enormous Egyptian head enters and begins singing. The answer—Agamemnon—is then acted out by Becky's husband, while she makes her (first) appearance as Clytemnestra. After refreshments, another round begins, partially in pantomime: the first scene shows a household yawningly finishing a game of cribbage and preparing for bed; the second opens on the household bustling with activity as daybreak prompts bells ringing, arguments over receipts, collection of the chamber pots, calls for carriages, and greetings to new guests; the third closes with a ship's crew and passengers tossed about by a storm with strong winds. The answer—nightingale—is then (somewhat mistakenly) acted out by Becky in the role of a singing French marquise, recalling both Lacoste's 1705 tragic opera Philomèle and an arriviste lover and wife of Louis XIV.
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German historian Wolfgang Proske states that Rommel's chivalry only showed itself to opponents that Nazi ideology viewed as Aryan; in other cases he followed the racist principles of Nazis According to some modern scholars, he was much more complex than the figure that has been firmly established in post-war reputation. Caddick-Adams writes that Rommel was a "complicated man of many contradictions," while Beckett notes that "Rommel's myth (...) has proved remarkably resilient" and that more work is needed to put him in proper historical context. Watson opines that historians often portray Rommel as someone they want him to be, "coward ... hero, fool, villain or hypocrite," and that he seemed to be all of these things, except coward, with perhaps a naive loyalty. Hansen counters that Rommel was hardly naive, always judged military and political situations with cold objectivity, and shared a lot of characteristics with Hitler, an opinion shared by psychoanalyst and historian Geoffrey Cocks who writes that Rommel "embodies the modern synergy of technical expertise and self-promotion ... arriviste, ... professionally ambitious, adept at cultivating a mass media image ... like Hitler".
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Hydraulic engineer Augustus Jesse Bowie II, photo from late 1800s (exact date unknown), University of San Francisco Archives Augustus Jesse Bowie III was born in San Francisco, California, and generally referred to himself as Augustus Jesse Bowie Jr. He was the grandson of Dr. Augustus Jesse Bowie (Oct. 23, 1815 – July 6, 1887), a descendant of the revolutionary period Scottish loyalist and Maryland plantation owner John Bowie.The Reverend John Bowie, Tory by Lucy Lee Bowie, Maryland Historical Magazine, June 1943 Vol. 38 no. 2, pages 145-160 Dr. Bowie came to San Francisco in April 1849, lured by the booming economy of the California Gold Rush. An experienced orthopedic surgeon with the U.S. Navy as early as 1837, he set up a private practice in downtown San Francisco in 1851 and soon occupied a prominent place among San Francisco's arriviste elite. Named first surgeon at St. Mary's hospital in 1861 then Chair of Surgery in the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific in 1863, he was named to the then-new board of UC Regents in 1876.History of the Public School System of California Swett, John. San Francisco: AJ Bancroft and Company, 1895 p.
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