• He envisages a clash between the global constellation of democracies and the nouveau-riche autocracies.

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  • That has been coupled with an unprecedented rise in prosperity, particularly in the big cities, which in turn has helped spread nouveau-riche-type attitudes among the prospering classes.

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  • English soccer fans see Chelsea as a nouveau-riche upstart, while Germans refer to Bayern Munich as "FC Hollywood, " which sounds like a compliment, but actually means the club's players are a bunch of entitled, egotistic monsters.

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  • But whereas Barcelona built its Olympic village in a derelict part of its port, in Rio it will be sited, along with many events, in Barra da Tijuca, a nouveau-riche neighbourhood at the wealthiest end of the city.

    ECONOMIST: Brazil and the Olympics

  • Back then, pop-folk music and its lifestyle were associated with the mafia-dominated nouveau-riche class that sprung out of the marriage between capitalism and lawlessness in the region's nascent democracies but, over time, it crossed over into the mainstream.

    BBC: Bulgaria's chalga pop-folk: A cultural rift

  • Willian Borges da Silva, the 24-year-old Brazilian superstar known as Willian, represents a certain archetype: the one who leaves his country at a young age and moves for a big fee to one of soccer's nouveau-riche clubs in Eastern Europe.

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  • Sure enough, Mr. Hare's unhappy lovers embody England's latter-day class conflicts: Tom (Brian Mani) is a nouveau-riche Thatcherite entrepreneur with a boorish streak, while Kyra (Greta Wohlrabe) is a chastened idealist who has renounced her upper-middle-class background to teach poor children.

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  • Bentley is eager to give it to them in both old-school and nouveau-riche style: Along with a 12-cylinder engine that delivers 610 horsepower, the concept SUV sports diamond-quilted leather seats, handcrafted wood, leather and gunmetal trim, and built-in iPads for each passenger.

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  • In the once rarefied fishing village of Saint-Tropez, the 300-foot super-yachts and private jets of the new-nouveau riche were gassed up and fruit-of-the-month-vodka-stocked, the Estonian "special-events models" booked, the guest lists of bold faces edited to meet gossip-column requirements.

    WSJ: Death of a Playboy

  • Despite its ever-growing population of nouveau riche, more than 400 million Indians still live below the poverty line.

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  • The rise of China's nouveau riche has created an economic chasm between luxury-store sales clerks and customers, which can lead to awkward situations, says Andrea Bonardi, La Perla's managing director for emerging markets.

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  • As a matter of novelistic accuracy, however, this area was more likely a stand-in for the old-moneyed East Egg in the novel, while the arriviste nouveau riche estate of Gatsby was probably located across Manhasset Bay in Great Neck (West Egg).

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